After the release both Palmer and Millar left the group due to conflicts and were replaced by Frank Farrell and Kevin Currie respectively. With a sound reminiscent of British progressive rock band Cressida, the album earned positive reviews from critics however lacked a large audience. The band’s eponymously-titled debut album was released in 1970 after being one of the first bands to sign with A&M Records. With a repertoire of only four songs, including two covers, the band, previously dubbed Daddy, changed their name to Supertramp – inspired by William Henry Davies’ “The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp”. Alongside bassist and vocalist Roger Hodgson, guitarist Richard Palmer, and percussionist Keith Baker, who was soon replaced by Robert Millar, the group made their debut at the P. Side one No.From the ashes of Rick Davies’ previous group The Joint, which had been funded by Dutch millionaire Stanley August Miesegaes, Davies, with the backing of Miesegaes, formed Supertramp. Track listing Īll songs written by Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson and Richard Palmer.Īll lead vocals by Roger Hodgson, except where noted. In their retrospective review, AllMusic said the album was "inundated with pretentious instrumental meandering, with greater emphasis and attention granted to the keyboards and guitars than to the writing and to the overall effluence of the music." However, they admitted that the album's "mixture of ardour and subtlety" is appealing. The critical response to the album was generally positive, with a review by Judith Simons in Daily Express commenting: "This debut record album by a group of promising musician-poets is rather more melodic than most discs which pass under the label ' progressive pop.'" Despite this, the album was a commercial flop.
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Reception Professional ratings Review scores Songs from this album, including "Words Unspoken" and "I Am Not Like Other Birds of Prey", were used as part of the soundtrack for the UK film Extremes (1971), along with music from other groups. "Surely" has also been included on some of the band's compilation CDs. The two exceptions are "Home Again" and "Surely", which were occasionally played during encores for several years after. To promote the album, the band played at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, held a few weeks after release.Īs the songs for Supertramp's third album, Crime of the Century (1974), were introduced into the band's live set, the songs from Supertramp were all dropped, never to return. Hodgson later recalled "Invariably our engineer, Robin Black, would fall asleep on us in the middle of the sessions, which were pretty intense as it was, because we fought a lot with Richard Palmer." He was fond of the resulting album, however, and commented over a decade later that "It was very naïve, but it has a good mood to it." The album was recorded entirely in night sessions running from 12 am to 6 am, due to a superstition on the part of the band members (fuelled by their having heard that Traffic and Spooky Tooth recorded at late hours) that there was some "magic" to recording at night. The music to the songs was all composed jointly by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson. Palmer himself later said that he considered writing lyrics "like having to do school work" at the time. All the album's lyrics were written by Richard Palmer, since none of the other members of Supertramp were willing to write any.
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