Even In The Quietest Moments

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-04-09 rating:
I Love It So Much.
This album is a masterpiece! Likely "Breakfast In America" here you find brilliant songs. Here Roger and Rick contest to resolve who makes better, and they both get perfect masterpieces and touching songs, perfectly, Rick with your jazzy moods and Roger with your rock/pop moods!!! They really get a amazing care in it. Who gets more is ours. A great arrangement, long length songs and perfect lyrics. All songs sounds remarkable like the excellent "Lover Boy", and unusual and astonishing like the masterpice "Fool's Overture" (this track is 10:52 length and is a great progressive rock, with strong presence of synths in electrifying sequences, remembering some like Alan Parsons Project). br /If you don't own this, the time is now. I know you won't regret about this.

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review by: date: 2007-10-26 rating:
Classic Supertramp.
Well what can I say that hasn't already been said about this amazing group. I absolutely love this album. In my mind, it's a great one to sing-a-long to. And after a few listens, it just so happens to end up as one of my favourite albums. br / br /Opening up with the lively and catchy classic tune, "Give A Little Bit", Quietest Moments starts with a a lovely piano phrase. The song is a belter. Then it moves on to "Lover Boy" which I think is a pretty good track although the ending is superb. Just when you thought the track came to an end, they start back with '...He's gotta have a good time in the city, he's gotta have a good time every night...' Great stuff. I think that the title track is terrific with a beautiful judged opening of bird song melting into the piano riff. "Downstream" is a gorgeous ballad which when listened to brings a lump to the throat. "Babaji" is a fun track which starts off with a lovely piano opening. "From Now On" is a great track where towards the end the piano links nicely with the wind instruments and the choir for the chorus. And finally we get to the epic track that is "Fool's Overture". A fantastic blend of keyboards, percussion, wind instruments and the usual excellent vocals. br / br /I think that my favourite track on here is 'From Now On' but that's if I were given a choice. I haven't so I'll choose all five tracks. This is one of those polished and superb albums that come along every once in a while. This one was made during their heyday though I dare say they're finished because on this evidence, they're near the top of the tree already and have been there for the last 30 odd years. They're right where they're supposed to be leading the way with their catchy tunes and making some great music.

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review by: prontoi85a date: 2005-04-14 rating:
Ture Talent Supertramp
Well these artists are just brilliant, they were out in the 70s yet they are still popular today, they really did play the instruments then, not like today using electronic equipment to reproduce the sound. Supertramp had to write, play, and sing at the same time and that's what sets the artist of yesteryear and stands them apart from today's artist.brNot that all artist today are bad, because they aren't and they do produce good music, but hey! Listen to this group and appreciate the good music and talent.

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review by: date: 2005-04-08 rating:
More Brilliance
The third album in that timeless four album run from this band (1974-79) when they could do No Wrong. It opens with the timeless classic 'Give A Little Bit' and had the rest of the album stayed at this level we would probably be talking about the greatest album of all time. It doesn't....quite. But the dip in quality is pretty minimal. Only the second track leaves something to be desired. 'Lover Boy' is not exactly bad Supertramp but in this company it sinks pretty much without trace. The title track is Roger Hodgson at his mysterious spiritual best. You are never sure which God he is singing to, but it hardly seems to matter. It is an immensely moving song. 'Downstream' is one of Rick Davies' best piano ballads. Wonderful chords, and a great lyric. Heartfelt and to use that word again....moving. 'Babaji' finds Roger again in happy mood and the melody is outstanding. It perhaps goes on a minute too long to be classified as a Supertramp classic, but that first minute....is nothing short of fantastic. 'From Now On' is one of Rick Davies' three best ever songs in my opinion. It is utterly brilliant. It's a shame that no live version can match the studio original as it positvely cries out for thousands of fans to chant those great lines 'Guess I'll always have to be....living in a fantasy.' Which they never did for some reason. The piano playing and musicianship here is of course as usual of the highest quality. Then the finale 'Fool's Overture' is so brilliant that one is again simply lost for words. This song has a wonderfully melodic and beautiful verse and then crescendos into a wonderful climax of tuneful keyboards and quite brilliant backing vocals. Listening to this track you are quite entitled to think this band were indeed touched by a Great Power. There is also a wonderful reference to the Blue Meanies, those infamous Anti-Music baddies from the Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine'. But ah! Those opening lines: 'Hist-o-ry recalls how great the fall can be'.....Quite brilliant. brAs is this entire album bar one track. And that's a pretty good percentage. The follow up to this would be the stupendous 'Breakfast In America' album (1979). But here on this album they shine pretty damn brightly.


review by: date: 2004-08-25 rating:
One of the Best
This album, although shorter than some, is one of the finest albums that the band has produced. It is a great pity that the two major songwriters had to split, because they should be teaching this stuff in schools! From the first two bars in "Give a little bit" to the final seconds in "Fools Overture" this album enthralls all. To all kids out there, throw away all that "processed cheese" that goes for music today, and get your ears into this. Listen to some real musicians!

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