I hate that "Dreamer, dreamer/Now you put your hands in your head/Oh no!" song.

I like Supertramp enough but "Dreamer" ("head in your hands" obv) never did all that much for me. "Hide In Your Shell" is almost as good as "School" though. And, yeah, I don't hate it but the Gym Class Heroes/Patrick Stump takeoff on "Breakfast In America" is pretty pointless aside from introducing people to the original. I don't know what it is with Supertramp lately, between that and the "Give a Little Bit" cover. I heard them both at the gym this week.

No way, but I do actually like that keyboard part.

There's just this pretense to topicality in Supertramp that is SO fey and cloying, don't you think? I mean, "The Logical Song" is appalling.

"head in your hands" obv

No, it's "hands in your head" first and then he turns it around to "Now, you've got your head in your hands."

Jesus fuck I know too much about Supertramp's career arc, ask me about the Rodger Hodgson solo work sometime why don'tcha, or better yet shoot me in the brain

Maybe it's more true of later Supertramp, but it seems to me that even in "Dreamer" I'm hearing something closer to that fey Cat Stevens sentimentality. I don't know how much I hear that in classic prog.

better than any rem song of the last 10 years ;-)
(*does little 'matics on one's 'tihtic fingres*)
That's since 1997? Sorry wink dude, yer wronk.

Cat Stevens? Well, yeah, "Matthew & Son", I guess.

how is the logical song "topical" exactly? cliche maybe. especially in the 70's when pink floyd and the punkers were all going on about the man and the machine.

Now they're planning the crime of the century
Well what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
It's well worth a fee
So roll up and see
And they rape the universe
How they've gone from bad to worse
Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
Rip off the masks and let's see.
But that's no right - oh no, what's the story?
There's you and there's me
That can't be right

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I can't hear that song without memories of a miserable year in Lancaster.

why oh why has the Fall not covered "It's Raining Again," ftw