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  • Release Date: 10/18/2005
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 8,193
  • Label: A&M
  • UPC: 602498858141

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Retrospectacle: The Supertramp Anthology

Disc 1
1LISTENSurely Edit 1:03
2LISTENYour Poppa Don't Mind 2:59
3LISTENLand Ho 3:54
4LISTENSummer Romance 2:51
5LISTENSchool 5:34
6LISTENBloody Well Right 4:32
7LISTENDreamer 3:31
8LISTENRudy 7:18
9LISTENCrime of the Century 5:34
10LISTENSister Moonshine 5:18
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Disc 2
1LISTENGone Hollywood 5:20
2LISTENThe Logical Song 4:08
3LISTENGoodbye Stranger 5:48
4LISTENBreakfast in America 2:39
5LISTENOh Darling 3:49
6LISTENTake the Long Way Home 5:00
7LISTENYou Started Laughing 4:02
8LISTENIt's Raining Again 4:24
9LISTENMy Kind of Lady 5:14
10LISTENDon't Leave Me Now 6:20
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Editorial Reviews

Considering their career spanned close to 30 years, it's amazing how condensed most people's vision of Supertramp has become. Or maybe not. Few listeners, after all, would disagree that their prime period encompassed the mere six or so years that divided Crime Of The Century (their third album) from Breakfast In America (their sixth), and that the pile of vinyl on either side of that is more or less padding. Certainly Retrospectacle has no problem with that scenario. A completist's eye for affairs does permit the first two albums to enjoy a quick look-in, with one song apiece; and similar treatment is meted out to the seven albums that took the band through the '80s and beyond. The meat of the moment, however, arrives with "Land Ho," the first vinyl manifestation of the so-called "classic" 'tramp lineup, and a lost 45 from early 1974. And, from thereon in, it's all plain sailing -- five songs from Crime of the Century, four apiece from Crisis? What Crisis and Even in the Quietest Moments. . ., and a whopping six from Breakfast in America, all selected to depict the band at the peak of its creative and musical powers -- the haunted harp that opens "School," the staccato percussion that powers "Lady," the lurid harmonies of "From Now On," and on to the sheer illogical madness of "The Logical Song" -- in fact, the only weakness here is the substitution of a live "You Started Laughing" for the vastly superior studio B-side. That aside, though, Retrospectacle tells its story with as much panache as the best of Supertramp could ever demand. Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

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November 19, 2005: Supertramp hits the mark with their offering of a two-disc greatest hits set "Retrospectacle." Besides all the radio-ready hits of the songs from their two most popular American studio efforts, "Crime of the Century" ("Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer") and "Breakfast in America" ("The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger"), the oft-overlooked LPs, including among them, one song each from their pre-fame days (an edited version of "Surely" from their 1970 self-titled LP and "Your Poppa Don't Mind" from 1971's "Indelibly Stamped") as well as the rare early 1974 UK-only non-LP single "Land Ho" (here represented as the 1975 remix) and its B-side "Summer Romance". The Hodgson-led period closes with "Don't Leave Me Now" from 1982's "... Famous Last Words...", which also gave us the hits "It's Raining Again" and "My Kind of Lady". The post-Hodgson period is not well represented, as only one song each from the albums of this era are included here: "Cannonball" from 1985's "Brother Where You Bound", "Free as a Bird" from the same-titled album from 1987, "You Win, I Lose" from the band's 1997 comeback CD "Some Things Never Change", a live 9-minute-plus take of the 1975 Crisis album track "Another Man's Woman" from their 1999 live CD "It Was the Best of Times" and "Over You" from 2002's "Slow Motion". Despite this eventual shortcoming, this anthology is still better than the single-CD "The Very Best of Supertramp" for the aforementioned inclusion of "Land Ho" and other 'non-hit' album gems.