Supertramp's lyrics have always been a treat, no matter how devastatingly serious the message could be sometimes. They were philosophers with an incredible musical talent. Good old days of music. True words, convincing music.

I have a son who was in your boat with this track. When he first heard me play it he was like “this is a techno song”. He doesn’t listen to the techno version anymore but loves the original.

A pop Classic. SuperTramp have such a playful way in their music while singing about topics which can be serious or inspiring.

This song is pure perfection.

They were masters of song arrangement and orchestrating instrumental layers.

As the English say, I'm gobsmacked JP hasn't done this song years ago. Prog-pop classic. That guitar lick in the chorus always gave my 14-y.o. self the chills.

Man, this is the sound of my childhood. Breakfast in America and their Live in Paris double album were huge sellers here in France. For years on. Breakfast in America is still the fourth best selling album of all time in our country. Those sounds, those songs, they were ubiquitous, and The Logical Song most of all.

A message that resonated with me as a teenager and helped determine that I would never fit in with the conventional, practical and responsible world. Those words still make my skin crawl. Great songwriting.

The song that made me a fan. The perfect pop song.

"Breakfast In America" is such a masterpiece album! I like how nuances in the sound quality just pop out at you throughout the playback. A great selection from 1979.

Greetings from Canada. "D- D- D- digital- one, two, three, five." Peace, love and bellbottoms

I didn't know Roger wrote this about uncertainy in school - an interesting coincidence, because in '79 or '80, Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" was also a single climbing the charts, and also expresses protest to the rigorous English boarding schools, and how thought control is stifling the student's individuality.

Great album . “Child of Vision” is awesome .

What a great band . Went to Paris to see them live in 1979

Amazing album. Pure nostalgia for me.

The songs of my youth felt so joyful and light. Maybe not the intent of their story, but man these tunes and ELO and Boston all around that time could really make you smile. Feeling for you JP - looking at that 103 degrees forecast on your screen for Saturday… ick.

The lyrics hit home so much in this digital prison of a world

At 4:37, the sound is from Mattel Football, an old-school handheld electronic device. When I was in fourth grade, every boy was obsessed with the game and had one. The equivalent to your generation might be Gameboy.

Hi JP. DP from UK. One of my favourite Supertramp songs, and this is the side of the band I prefer - Pop, Pop, Pop Musik. Classy instrumentation, infectious melody, and Roger has one of the great voices. This was their biggest hit. P.S. my song ref Pop Musik is by M.

I've followed Supertramp from Crime of the Century all the way to Brother Where You Bound. All top albums. I remember working at a bakery for vacation work when Breakfast in America was released. There was a guy who had a 90 minute cassette filled with just this song and playing it on repeat for weeks! Still like the song a lot though. After the break with the band Hodgson released a couple of nice solo albums of which the first one (In the Eye of the Storm) was the best to my ears. Still play their albums every once in a while (there are so many choices available these days).

This song was the soundtrack of me burning out at workplace, helped me try and keep things at bay (I'm much better now). So rich lyrically and musically... I never was too fond of prog rock but Supertramp always won me over!

Supertramp's exclusion is the main proof you need to regard the RnRHoF as a joke.

Keep it up, you'll exhaust my childhood eventually. Excellent appreciation, as always, much appreciated!

Such a great album. The songwriting and musicality is top notch. Looking forward to Goodbye Stranger.

"Breakfast in a America" is one of my favorite albums of all time. This is such a great song! Love the saxes on this tune. I went out bought their other albums after listening to this album sending me on the Supertramp highway journey.

"A completely sensational track" - bang on, JP!!

When I was in high school in Toronto, Canada (I’m 61), the biggest acts were Supertramp and Bruce Springsteen.

Great reaction. It’s amazing how a pop/rock song can say so much in just a few minutes, and it’s timeless in its message.

Supertramp's music is always very satisfying.

Hugs from Brazil >>>

First, for the first time in a while! Woo! Listening to the Supertramp version is very... logical. 😊

Thank you Justin for continuing this, a classic, you won't regret this!

Soundtrack to many a bottle of wine being opened on a Friday night!

(Even In The Quietest Moments) Is A Great Song from SuperTramp to Listen To and Do A Reaction/Review Of ASAP 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 🎼(Don’t You Let The Sun Fade Away) 🎼(Don’t You Let The Sun Disappear)

Terrific song from a terrific album. Check out the whole album!

Roger just has so much soul, has to come out!

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible Logical, oh responsible, practical And then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am I said, watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable! Oh take it, take it, take it, yeah But at night, when all the world's asleep The questions run so deep For such a simple man Won't you please (Oh won't you tell me) Please tell me what we've learned (Can you hear me) I know it sounds absurd (Oh won't you help me) Please tell me who I am Who I am Who I am Who I am 'Cause I was feeling so logical D-d-d-d-d-d-digital One, two, three, five Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah Ooh it's getting unbelievable, yeah

Somehow I always imagine a second voice harmonizing with the lead vocal all the way with some adjustments to fit the chords.

Ahhh, takes me back to the summer of '79 and my freshman year in high school.

This song charted when I was 12, my sister 15. That summer, for whatever reason, it always seemed like we were eating tuna sandwiches when tbis came on the radio. Ever since, we have called this “The Tuna Fish Song”. Coincidentally, they had an album called “You can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish.”

Surprised you have not done this song yet it is wonderful love you

Always a happy day when dropping by Just JP :)

It's a fantastic track!! Great band!!

Who also smiled at the Mattel electronics football sound after the lyric "Digital"?

a Gen X kids clarion call , a sound effect only boys born in the 70s can spot: the final bleeping sound effect in the song right after "dependable..." is from the 1977 Mattel electronic football toy. Light years before Gameboys.

A brilliant song! So great to see you dig into it! I will venture that any cover you heard wasn't nearly as good.

Love Supertramp! Unfortunately I'm at work but looking forward to listening to your reaction later. I agree that you should react to "Even In The Quietest Moments" which is a beautiful song with deep lyrics. I love Roger's composing.

Supertramp songs are just so amazingly and lovingly constructed no matter whether they were led by Rodger or Rick. If you do no more from this album though you have to do ‘Child of Vision’.

Conform...that is the word

One of my favorite reactors... One of my favorite songs... This is going to be great.

One of my desert island bands. It is only logical.

NICE!!

Helliwell was on the whistle just before the first sax solo

One, a hundred, a thousand, "Even In the Quietest Moments", it's still a Bloody Marvelous time for me, now for breakfast in Connecticut!😊.🎷,🎹.🔔🎶,🔥.✌&❤.

You should try the first Supertramp album. The eponymous album with the flower head on the cover. It is so different that you could ask if it is the same band. Sounds more like Barclay James Harvest than to even their second album Indelibly Stamped (the one with the tits on the cover).

Best album of 1979. I know it sounds absurd.

Well, it's good to know that both JP and I another JP heard Scooter's sampling of this song first. I do not feel so alone anymore. :D Both versions are great. For the vocal vs sax in the coda, I think you are looking for the word chase. In jazz, you often have a chase between say a solo instrument and the drums. Could be that.

A big hit from a big, big album. Not my favourite from it, but still a goody. It was huuuge, and that work from Supertramp's not-so-secret weapon, John Helliwell's sax, was perfect. The lyrics follow on the theme from earlier Supertramp songs like "School" and "Bloody Well Right". BTW, you'll also probably know that album's title track, because it was used a few years back as the basis for a hip-hop hit by Gym Class Heroes.

It totally blows my mind that Scooter (from Germany like myself) are known in the US! Just like it blows my mind that it"s possible for someone to know _their_ version but not the original one of this song! 🤯 😅

I've successfully karaoked this multiple times

lyrics today resonated deep as i've just returned from work~break in Hostile, no, Hostel Sterile City, where every thang was To The Second and when not Why Not!!? Good to be Back home in my Secret Garden of Childhood Security Reality Memory Chip

This ear worm infected me for years in the 1980s, great song, but very infectious.

I remember eagerly awaiting this album and playing it for the first time, l certainly wasn't disappointed! Crime of the Century is a 10/10 Breakfast is a 9.5/10. Many bands would have loved to have recorded two albums as good as those two.

A Supertramp song with no sax!

Right, next you need to do "From a logical point of view" by Robert Mitchum. Yes, that Robert Mitchum, and no, you will not believe your ears when you hear this work of genius.

Prefab Sprout Jordan:the comeback album reaction pleaseee

The Meaning by Supertramp.

Maybe Quantum Jump Neighbours? Rock on 🔊🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹

You're younger than I expected. Proof: you heard of the Scooter cover before the original. 😂😂😂

brilliant

Goodbye Stranger next!

I was a bit surprised you hadn't heard this version.

More horsie bell JP!!

The word you were searching for was "conform."

Dang it, now I can’t unhear the techno trance Scooter version I just looked up! May need some chamomile just to calm down my heart rate.

This came out when I was in 7th grade. It was deeply uncool. I secretly liked it, even though we were into punk rock. Don't tell anyone!

1979

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Do you live in a cave not having heard of half of these songs 😮

There's a vocal style I don't listen to anymore. Queen, Styx, Supertramp for example. Used to like them. They just fell away. (gave this a view. it's been decades)

I don’t consider “respectable” a positive word. Respectable is not based on your own impulses and morals; it’s based on putting on a mask a suit, erasing your individuality in favour of what you think the group will like best. It’s the people who attack POC or queers for being loud when we protest. “You should be respectable and work within the system.” Nope, respectability politics will only get you so far. Throw it away; be outrageous and, above all, true to yourself.

It's a decent pop song, but I don't need to hear it again.

Techno version 🤢 Toget is superb, lyrics are great - another track from my youth.