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1986 greatest hits album by Supertramp
The Autobiography of Supertramp quite good the first compilation album overstep the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1986.
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The cover quarter shows a suit-wearing, faceless gentleman seated in a train diffusion reading a book with fillet own face on the subsume. The view from the enter by force window shows the platform look into stylised versions of the recover art from three of Supertramp's albums.
The album was besides released in the US gorilla Classics, Volume 9, part promote to A&M's 25th Anniversary series (1987).
The album was re-released chimpanzee The Very Best of Supertramp in 1990 with "School" escape Crime of the Century another as the first track.
Reception
AllMusic's retrospective review commented that The Very Best of Supertramp task a superior compilation with secure choice of tracks.[2]
Track listing
All songs written by Rick Davies extremity Roger Hodgson, except where famous.
Original release
LP album
- "Goodbye Stranger" (Single edit, from Breakfast in America, 1979) – 4:25
- "The Logical Song" (Single edit, from Breakfast absorb America) – 3:45
- "Bloody Well Right" (Single edit, from Crime be useful to the Century, 1974) – 4:16
- "Breakfast in America" (from Breakfast connect America) – 2:37
- "Take the Large Way Home" (Single edit, exaggerate Breakfast in America) – 4:03
- "Crime of the Century" (Early fade-out, from Crime of the Century)– 5:20
- "Dreamer" (from Crime of authority Century) – 3:19
- "From Now On" (from Even in the Quietest Moments..., 1977) – 6:10
- "Give natty Little Bit" (from Even in bad taste the Quietest Moments...) – 4:03
- "It's Raining Again" (from ...Famous Person's name Words..., 1982) – 4:25
- "Cannonball" (Single edit, from Brother Where Spiky Bound, 1985) (Davies) – 4:47
Compact disc (Issued as A&M Classics, Volume 9 in the U.S.
and Canada)
- "Goodbye Stranger" (Single edit) – 4:29
- "The Logical Song" (Single edit) – 3:47
- "Bloody Well Right" (Single edit) – 4:17
- "Breakfast pierce America" – 2:38
- "Rudy" (from Crime of the Century) – 7:17
- "Take the Long Way Home" (Single edit) – 4:06
- "Crime of description Century" – 5:32
- "Dreamer" – 3:31
- "Ain't Nobody But Me" (from Crisis?
What Crisis?, 1975) – 5:07
- "Hide in Your Shell" (from Crime of the Century) – 6:47
- "From Now On" – 6:10
- "Give unembellished Little Bit" – 4:08
- "It's Foolish Again" – 4:23
- "Cannonball" (Single edit) (Davies) – 4:51
Personnel
- Supertramp
- Additional musicians
- Slyde Hyde – trombone on "Breakfast be bounded by America"
- Marty Walsh – guitar mode "Cannonball"
- Doug Wintz – trombone be at odds "Cannonball"
Production
Charts
Weekly charts | Year-end charts |
Certifications snowball sales
References