I dont care what anyone says...this is my favorite Supertramp album. I could listen to it on repeat all day.

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with that :)

This song elevates Crisis What Crisis to one of Supertramp's best. I absolutely ADORE this song. One of Supertramp's epic-level songs. This song flows beautifully from a lovely, contemplative beauty to a hell of a groove to end it. Another reason why I'm on board the Roger Hodgson train. Brilliant. A suggestion: GUIDED BY VOICES: "Space Gun," "The Best of Jill Hives," or "Enemy"...

The repetitive "if you know what the meaning is" at the end is like a mantra. Love this album.

@frankpentangeli7945

Жыл бұрын

YES!!!

Roger's determined and passionate search for the answer to life was apparently in this wonderful album.

Another album that keeps on giving. I liked it.

I love this tune. It's my favorite. Sister. Moonshine is up there too. Roger has such a great voice.

What a great old song of supertramp Loved it!! What a great band

What an incredible song, on an incredible album! My favourite Supertramp album. Simply beautiful!

I was 16 in 1975 when the album, 'Crisis? What Crisis?' was released so it holds special meaning to me. It is my favorite Supertramp record, just slightly more than the previous album COTC. "The Meaning" is a metaphoric song that each listener is to draw their own meaning from.... Also, 1975 was the first time I saw Supertramp in concert in Milwaukee (the second was 1977, SECOND ROW). From what I recall from that first concert, they played all of COTC and Crisis? at the show. And because they were extremely popular in Milwaukee, they added a second concert the same night because the first sold out.

For me the explanation could be "What is the meaning of life ?" and I precisely appreciate the repetition of "If you know what the meaning is". Oh! by the way, Dougie Thomson is a very underrated bass player !

@jlbaker2000

Жыл бұрын

It IS about the meaning of life.

I love the feeling of nostalgia that this song conveys and how it flows in crencendo until the end, repetitive choruses? yup but I like it! "The Meaning" is an appetizer, or intro, to what's to come on the fantastic upcoming album "Even In The Quietest Moments".

loving this and the whole album back in 1977 - i was just 15 and about to start to a completely unknown universe - Genesis was my next step back in these days, but i still love Supertramp for showing me the direction. They are surely great!

Roger Hodgson has said that many of his songs are spiritual in nature and dealing with God and the meaning of life, but he writes them in a way so that you can interpret them however you choose.

I like how this song expresses inquisitively about "the meaning", and how the musical key and score puts an urgency on finding the answer to the question, even though the song doesn't provide it.

I like Supertramp and I liked this track. I haven't tried to delve deeply into the lyrics, but my impression is of someone urging for a search for meaning in life whilst wondering whether there is any meaning. Supertramp are one of those bands that forged their own distinctive sound, can't be mistaken for anyone else.

Wonderful reaction JP 👍 Love Supertramp, always have and always will.

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

Ty Sandy!

The next and last song of the album “Two of us” is a very simple yet so poignant ballad that makes me weep.

Always am put in mind of The Cure, with this song

I just love this song. And I love it whenever Supertramp gets on a repetitive groove in their music (I am easily seduced by repetition, having been enamored by it as a kid when I discovered "Hey Jude" and "Bolero", not to mention the minimalist movement within classical music). As to this song, the repetition helps to emphasize the urgency of the singer in asking what the meaning is. The final song after this song is often dismissed as a throwaway, but I think it's lovely and sort of answers this song. I await your reaction to the final song on this album! I really enjoy your exploring Supertramp.

@TheReaperMan275

Жыл бұрын

I'm also on board for the repetitive groove, if it's done right. Only the good bands can pull it off in such a way to make you really feel something. Such as with Bush "Comedown" where he repeats the line "this cloud, this cloud, this cloud, this cloud..." I love that sort of stuff!😎

"...if you wanna get high" pretty sure that is NOT a reference to drugs, but rather a simple way of saying, 'to achieve the highest level of happiness you can', a higher state of happiness. Anyway, that's how I see it.

@-davidolivares

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

This was a song never heard and it was brilliant,

@1:10 Heard this song many times since 1975, and NEVER heard the "why are we here?" bit. Kind of strange that I missed it so many times, but you caught it on the first listen.

The final track, "Two of Us" at least partially answers the question of "The Meaning", as well as being a beautiful song in its own right.

For me, the repetitions are the coolest and most important thing about the song.

The song can only ask the profound question, it is up to the listener to seek their own answer. This song almost got the cops called on me. I was blasting it out of my boombox while walking around Atlantic City near the Boardwalk back around 1980. Some old guy clearly was disturbed by the question, as he must have had no clue how to answer.

I follow your channel mostly for Supertramp and Prefab Sprout

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

Ty :)

This and A Soapbox Opera are my favourite songs from Crisis? What Crisis? 🥰🥰🥰

@keithjones7390

Жыл бұрын

For me A Soap Box Opera has been my favourite track from Crisis...since l first heard the album. The album as a whole hasn't stood the test of time like Crime...which to me hasn't been surpassed even by Breakfast.....or Even in the Quietest Moments which many fans regard as their best work.

Lovely song. The last closer "Two Of Us" is a gem, as well.

SuperTramp were soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good ! Peace and Love :)

WHAT'S UPPPPPPPPP!!!😊😊😊

I can't wait until you do "Even in the quietest moments." My personal favourite Supertramp album. I know that you've already done "Fools overture" but there are so many superb tracks on it, like most Supertramp albums. Also, which I may have mentioned before, I'd love to hear you do a reaction/analysis of "Music" by John Miles from his 1976 album "Rebel" which was produced by Alan Parsons.

GREAT MUSICAL EAR CANDY JUSTIN!😊 I NEVER REALIZED YOU WEREN'T FINISHED WITH THIS ALBUM, WOWWWW! 😊

The musicianship from the selections you’ve picked from the past 8 days has been solid. I’ve enjoyed the listening experiences (except the ambient and emo pop).

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear it Jay, ty :)

The "repetitiveness" is meant-"Meaning" to drive home the zoan-like(Buddhist) mantra-like quality of it's title theme! - Jmo, not holy writ. 😁 Once too on 1st listens was baffled a little on the repetitions. ~ Love your take on it, & honesty JP!

P.S. Just listened to here again. Is a sonic masterpiece of a song imho! The lyrics are great, but somewhat confusing in a linear way, but the emotive power of the images are astounding, once again inho. ~ Full disclosure: I'm a big poetry lover, so often the meaning is felt, rather than spelled out. ~ I feel the emotive words more so that the meaning(s) of the particular meaning(s) I guess. Not to say that aren't many clues in the thoughts expressed. ~ To finish: The meaning imo is that there is a meaning, but many of us can't see it. I think is the real meaning behind The Meaning. My two cents worth anyway? 😉

I think in part, The Meaning, is answered in the next song, well, it suggests one.

It's rare I get to watch you listening to something that's new to me too. So it's nice. I need to pick up this album.

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

Happy you enjoyed :)

If you look at the album’s title, Crisis……..What Crisis?………This track would be a follow up question. I find the album very relevant. Today’s world seems to be one crisis after another…….and in the midst of it all…..why are all searching for meaning and purpose. Supertramp, like Kansas, had a lot of deep songs, that really made you think. I love it.

I’m only commenting that i want more XTC

@HippoYnYGlaw

Жыл бұрын

not a massive fanboy but I'd be interested to hear the early LPs for Justin to compare his impressions of "Punk"and new wave. (I have a mental block with A Partidge's Voice unfortunately but I think the singles are top notch tunesmithery)

I wish so much that you would review Lord Is It Mine from the Breakfast in America album. Thank you.

The last song on the album is a lovely little gem from Roger Hodgson, titled "Two of Us". A very poignant album closer.

Agree with many of the comments I see below. The meaning of 'The meaning' is a bit ambiguous. Referring back to the album cover and title, 'Crisis, what crisis', the concept is that many go through their life blissfully unaware of what is happening outside the bubble they call their home, whether that be environmentally, interpersonally, or whatever the case. It is a good follow on to the earlier concept album, Crime of the Century. I saw them in Indy at Market Square Arena and once in St. Louis at the Checkerdome. ......Both of which are now long gone. Such a magical time was 1980, but also one of political unrest, economic malaise, hostages in Iran.........Jimmy Carter. Supertramp came from the UK after the Beatles and the Stones and captured broad social themes relevant then and remain so to this day. Their commentary and sheer musical genius was brilliance in my opinion.

Great song, I just wish there was less sax more guitar with Supertramp at times.

The Meaning? It's 42 of course. 😆 But seriously; what a brilliant song. It causes me to reflect every time I hear it. One of Supertramp's finest imo.

Crr-oi-saw JP. This? He sounds like a manic Soprano Roger Waters but you'll have to wait til The Wall for proof. BTW, the media used - be it computer with stereo speakers or dysfynctional iphone 5s HAS SUCH an influence on my opinion of these songs- especially sonically crafted clarinet trance dance 70s drones like this one. Life is a Battle already won , and I trust God in his mercy & grace. Why not try , um let's see, Jackie Leven's The Garden , from the Valley of 1994. The Mystery of Love is Greater then the Mystery of Death, his debut solo LP. You'll love it. Mojo Magazine shed light on his hyperbolic stories. Still, a great singer he was.

I was thinking clarinet

@HippoYnYGlaw

Жыл бұрын

et moi, that's wot i wrote 2! :>)

There are some killer grooves on the album.

Just a thought, could this be talking about one’s complacency, and the shallowness of material items? Other than some squeaky vocals at the beginning, and a bit of repetitiveness later on, it was a pretty good tune.

Great deep cut,,, Why not give Pavlov's Dog another try with the song JULIA?? A combined 1 Million KZread VIEWS! I would never guide you wrong!

roger hodgson doing one of his introspective, spiritual songs....

As song writers and musicians I'm sure they were always dealing with "the meaning". Whether from critics, or self imposed pressure to create it within their songs

If I was not so Moody. If I were not so Blue. I'd say The Meaning, is a Question, that changes from me to you.War, famine, disease and humans destructive devices. Leads one to say, just anther day and Crisis What Crisis? Peace.

In the fade out, I can hear a quietly repeated backing vocal: "The meaning is nothing", which is subtly blended with the bass line.

@macacofeliz9021

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKuJr8-hqb2Tm5s.html

Have a listento Chris Rea (The road to Hell Fuĺl version). Chris Rea *Auberge (Full Version)

This is the only Supertramp video so far that I haven't been tempted to abandon within the first five minutes of the track starting. (I've never actually abandoned previous tracks, despite the huge temptation, but have left them playing in the background while I get on with something 100x more engaging, always with the hope that something in that particular song will bring me back.) (Hasn't happened so far.) If only someone had sent them a memo after this was recorded, something along the lines of "More of this, less of that other crap."

@HippoYnYGlaw

Жыл бұрын

A Warm critical put-down.... You'll love Even in the Quietest Moments, their next LP. It kept me calm when required!

@AriadneJC

Жыл бұрын

@@Katehowe3010 "Growing"? This track almost (note: ALMOST) swung me the opposite way! I've thoroughly hated all of the Supertramp tracks played on the channel so far. I've always dissented when it comes to them! This track, however, nearly made me think there might be something interesting there after all. Nearly did. So I'll be a little more receptive to any further tracks by them, but only to add clarification to what took place here.

@AriadneJC

Жыл бұрын

@@HippoYnYGlaw Everything by this band right up until this track started has been bland. I'm looking for something that will make me perk up my ears and go "Ooh... what's that?" not to be put further into a MOR-induced sleep!

@HippoYnYGlaw

Жыл бұрын

@@AriadneJC that’s a tall order for this band, as I’ve investigated their later discography with little evidence of wot made EITQMoments special. It’s a snowy sunshine lp with enough contrast and beautiful tunes to keep you on yer toes. Alternatively tell jp to dig out Spilt Milk by Jellyfish from 1994. A fabulous analogue sonic extravaganza... 👍

Lyrically it the last great hippy album

I'm a huge Supertramp fan but as an atheist I find it difficult to buy into some of Hodgsons lyrics.

Hate to be pedantic, but most of the time here Helliwell is playing a clarinet.

It's a variation on *A Soapbox Opera* , I think? Or at least some parts of it are?

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

Once again *Justin Hawkins Rides Again* rode somewhere good again. Your friend, _Björk_ has been at it again. *atopos* is the result kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3p4lM-On9HOZdY.html

Why ARE we here?

I see it's been an hour. Just in case you've been and gone and might miss this, here it is again: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3p4lM-On9HOZdY.html

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

If you don't know which Justin Hawkins - he sings for *The Darkness* and they think *Rock 'n Roll Deserves to Die* kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4Bkxs2Ad8LWZ7g.html (That link up there is Björk, though. The Justin stuff refers to the original post I've decided it's too lethally hazardous to add "replies" to.)

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

Completely different topic. Maybe indigenous pop music is on the way back round these parts. (Maybe I'm just being unreasonably optimistic - won't be the last time I committed that sin. It just looks like there are a lot of adverts with this style of music in them lately, so it might be something the ad people are "pushing" instead of following.) This kind of music: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hHh-prpmdtixeMY.html *Juluka - Jwanasïbeki* (I think it's professional video made to look like Johnny Clegg's mom went and got some Super 8 of him dancing on the mine dumps when he was a kid - only he was big and hairy already by the time this was made.) If you listen the right way, you can hear the name of the song translates as "Johannesburg". (Anyway, I hope those adverts I saw are the signs of a trend. American-based music is OK - even great in other contexts - but it's no replacement for Umbaqanga - just like English shouldn't be a replacement for Zulu - as seems to have happened with some of my neighbours' kids. It's not difficult to learn several languages if you learn them young. Learn them really young, and you can learn almost as many as you like, even.)

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

You might want to "play a little lottery", and see if your click doesn't nudge *R.E.S* over the 400K mark, and make it finally fully mainstream. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYKY0LGNpqrIerQ.html (Justin Hawkins favourite song of theirs. Also he who calls himself Tantacrul on music theory KZread's.) The "RES" part is apparently a reference to The Residents, and The Act of Being Polite. They borrowed the little riff from it. I thought Tim made the video, but they paid some art students to do it, and he was apparently a very exacting producer - which they appreciated, rather than resented, by the sound of it. Maybe I'll go get the Sterbus cover of that RES song.

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

*The Act of Being Polite* kzread.info/dash/bejne/Ym2Ira2BY5XVorw.html (I think the original had more "RES" in it. If not, I've got the wrong song. Might not find the right one.)

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

*One Minute Movies* kzread.info/dash/bejne/oo2qo6uqldutiqg.html

The album should have closed with this song, my only nitpick about the album( Two Of Us, the closing song, couldn't match the intensity of The Meaning, it leaves a bit of disappointment). Great composition, superb production/engineering/musicianship per usual with Supertramp, John Helliwell the real star here, just going OFF...Roger Hodgson on vocals a close second

I've never glommed onto this band, maybe it's the thin vocals or the overuse of saxophone. I can imagine teens being titillated by the lyrics about getting high but like you I find this repetitive. Instead of repeating the words over and over why not turn it into an echo instead, the words spoken into a void with no reply? It would have sounded better to my ears.

Enough of Supertramp. What's the fascination?

Good album, but not as good as the one before it! 😒