What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

I love Crisis? What Crisis? – it comes a very close second to Crime of the Century, for me (difficult to surpass the latter – one of the most brilliant albums ever made, in my view) and these are the two I choose to listen to most often. It’s interesting that on CWC, it’s quite easy to discern who wrote which track and that already, Hodgson and Davies were heading in different directions, and yet IMHO it still all makes for a most satisfying listen. Rick Davies’ piano work is nothing less than genius on “Another Man’s Woman”, and the other great tracks I’d single out are “Soapbox Opera”, “Aint Nobody but Me” and “Sister Moonshine”. Third, I’d choose Even in the Quietest Moments and then Breakfast in America. Paris goes with me to the island because I would never not want to be able to hear Supertramp, they did such an amazing job live, with all those real instruments (poor roadies) and because it contains elements of all four of the abovementioned albums.

As always - to each their own.

Agree 100% about CWC - and the 'Paris' version of 'A Soapbox Opera' is nothing short of magnificent as is 'Fools Overture' - just listen to the audience's response.