The promo video was directed by Steve Barron and depicted a caveman who goes from his home to modern day Grand Junction, CO to see the band rehearsing the song on stage. Near the LP version's fade-out, the brass play a citation of the Jazz tune Topsy. On the flip side of the 12-inch release is a 10-minute instrumental version of the song. It also crossed over to the dance charts, peaking at number nine. The track became Supertramp's last US Top 40 single to date, peaking at number 28 on the Billboard singles charts in July 1985. The lyrics to the song may have been seen as a veiled message to former member Roger Hodgson but Davies revealed in a French radio interview that they were inspired by a less than perfect concert promoter whom he refused to name. Davies stated in an interview "I did it simply to see if it could be done". "Cannonball" was written and sung by keyboardist Rick Davies entirely in the chord of G minor. " Cannonball" is the opening track from Supertramp's 1985 album Brother Where You Bound. Side one No.4: 47 (single version) 7:38 (album version) 7:42 (12-inch Direct-To-Disc"Audiophile"Version) 10:00 (12-inch Instrumental version) Track listing Īll songs written by Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson and Richard Palmer.Īll lead vocals by Roger Hodgson, except where noted. In their retrospective review, AllMusic said the album was "inundated with pretentious instrumental meandering, with greater emphasis and attention granted to the keyboards and guitars than to the writing and to the overall effluence of the music." However, they admitted that the album's "mixture of ardour and subtlety" is appealing. The critical response to the album was generally positive, with a review by Judith Simons in Daily Express commenting: "This debut record album by a group of promising musician-poets is rather more melodic than most discs which pass under the label ' progressive pop.'" Despite this, the album was a commercial flop.
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Reception Professional ratings Review scores Songs from this album, including "Words Unspoken" and "I Am Not Like Other Birds of Prey", were used as part of the soundtrack for the UK film Extremes (1971), along with music from other groups. "Surely" has also been included on some of the band's compilation CDs. The two exceptions are "Home Again" and "Surely", which were occasionally played during encores for several years after. To promote the album, the band played at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, held a few weeks after release.Īs the songs for Supertramp's third album, Crime of the Century (1974), were introduced into the band's live set, the songs from Supertramp were all dropped, never to return. Hodgson later recalled "Invariably our engineer, Robin Black, would fall asleep on us in the middle of the sessions, which were pretty intense as it was, because we fought a lot with Richard Palmer." He was fond of the resulting album, however, and commented over a decade later that "It was very naïve, but it has a good mood to it." The album was recorded entirely in night sessions running from 12 am to 6 am, due to a superstition on the part of the band members (fuelled by their having heard that Traffic and Spooky Tooth recorded at late hours) that there was some "magic" to recording at night. The music to the songs was all composed jointly by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson. Palmer himself later said that he considered writing lyrics "like having to do school work" at the time. All the album's lyrics were written by Richard Palmer, since none of the other members of Supertramp were willing to write any.
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