The other day I was discussing the date around which Mount Maunganui finally got FM radio. It turns out it was 1984.
And with that marvel of the modern age we got… Led Zeppelin, loads of Phil Collins, and these guys.
There’s a chance I actually bought this album when I got back from the US, sometime around late ’89 or early ’90.
Either way, looking back. It is both catchy AND bloody awful. That FM brought conformity and more to our small town. Better than endless Meatloaf though.
2 August, 2009 at 2:38 am
the “best of” collection of supertramp is fantastic! i just got it a couple of years ago. maybe it helps to have grown up with it for an extra smattering of nostalgia.
2 August, 2009 at 1:09 pm
i walked into moore wilsons (local market) this morning and was immediately regaled by “the first cut is the deepest”.
i knew ALL the words.
3 August, 2009 at 6:15 am
i just finished singing “love you more than i can say” to violet. i had no choice. oliver had left it blaring on his cd player. we stopped short of “rosanna”.
3 August, 2009 at 8:11 am
man… i actually quite likely toto as a youngster.
“there’s some rains down in aahaahaaffricaa”
4 August, 2009 at 6:40 pm
*Coughs* I think I was first seriously exposed to Supertramp while doing a language exchange to Germany in 1984. Like you say though, better than Meatloaf.