best of in America

One of the best album covers of all time in my opinion. This unforgettable illustration marvel of design and imagination (we could also say "staging" the image so striking in his lifetime appearance and film) contains the greatest success of Supertramp, an album that contains the best pop songs of the group, namely "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", "Take The Long Way Home" (my favorite song of the group) or "Breakfast In America" ​​mega-hits that everyone knows almost , and continue to move frequently on the airwaves today. The true classics of pop music. Other securities, also excellent, have also been (and still are) part, although less systematically, programming FM stations, like "Oh Darling" or "Child Of Vision".
This drive to American all perfection (recorded in Los Angeles), winner of two Grammy Awards in 1980, is the most popular of the group and by far his biggest selling, and even if he is not the favorite of those who preferred a little less classical compositions that contained the first four or five albums, this is for me a great drive "pop FM", shiny, smooth, bright, catchy and inspired from one end to the other, come all long by the famous iconic Wurlitzer electric piano Supertramp, more than ever raised / colorful welcome to wind instruments like saxophone, trombone, tuba, clarinet (John Helliwell to maneuver, completed by Slyde Hyde, additional musician) and general color (like his brilliant cover) much more optimistic than most other albums of the group, even if the osmosis between the two leaders Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies is cracking more and more, the musical differences ( one being more attracted to pop melodies more or less traditional and the other by a more jazzy pop) will eventually get the better of their collaboration which ends just after the next album, "... famous last words ... "album which also will sign the real end of Supertramp ...