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DISCID=6d0b4409,6d0b4509
DTITLE=Supertramp / Famous Last Words
DYEAR=1982
DGENRE=Classic Rock
TTITLE0=Crazy
TTITLE1=Put On Your Old Brown Shoes
TTITLE2=It's Raining Again
TTITLE3=Bonnie
TTITLE4=Know Who You Are
TTITLE5=My Kind Of Lady
TTITLE6=C'est Le Bon
TTITLE7=Waiting So Long
TTITLE8=Don't Leave Me Now
EXTD=Originally Released 1982\nCD Edition Released February 1986\nRema
EXTD=stered Edition Released July 30, 2002\nGold CD Released N/A\n\nAM
EXTD=G EXPERT REVIEW: ...Famous Last Words... was the last album that 
EXTD=Roger Hodgson made with Supertramp before seeking a solo career, 
EXTD=and he made sure that radio would take kindly to his last hurrah 
EXTD=with the band. Sporting an airy and overly bright pop sheen, ...F
EXTD=amous Last Words... put two singles on the charts, with the poign
EXTD=ant "My Kind of Lady" peaking at number 31, and the effervescent 
EXTD=smile of "It's Raining Again" going to number 11. The album itsel
EXTD=f went Top Ten both in the U.S. and in the U.K., eventually going
EXTD= gold in America. The songs are purposely tailored for Top 40 rad
EXTD=io, delicately textured and built around overly bland and urbane 
EXTD=choruses. Hodgson's abundance of romantically inclined poetry and
EXTD= love song fluff replaces the lyrical keenness that Supertramp ha
EXTD=d produced in the past, and the instrumental proficiency that the
EXTD=y once mastered has vanished. Hodgson's English appeal and fragil
EXTD=e vocal manner works well in some places, but the album's glossy 
EXTD=sound and breezy feel is too excessive. Hodgson gave his solo alb
EXTD=um, 1984's In the Eye of the Storm, a mildly progressive feel, qu
EXTD=ite unlike his last appearance with his former group. -- Mike DeG
EXTD=agne\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThese are really the LAST Wor
EXTD=ds, November 10, 1998 \nReviewer: A music fan from Hamburg, Germa
EXTD=ny \nThis is the last Album Supertramp did before "the Voice" Rog
EXTD=er Hodgson left to his solo career. It's still kind of the old Su
EXTD=pertramp sound but one misses the spirit of the early recordings.
EXTD= \n\n"It's raining again" is already an evergreen. \n\nI wished S
EXTD=upertramp could keep in that formation to give more of that refre
EXTD=shing sound. The mixture between Rock and soft ballads is what ma
EXTD=kes up Supertramp.\n\nThe followed Album "Brother where you bound
EXTD=" lacks already 1/2 of the Supertramp sound given by roger Hodgso
EXTD=n (meaning the soft Ballads are missing). \n\nHalf.com Album Cred
EXTD=its\nPeter Henderson, Engineer\nPeter Henderson, Producer\nSupert
EXTD=ramp, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nDigitally remastered by Greg Calbi
EXTD= & Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, New York.\n\nSupertra
EXTD=mp: Roger Hodgson (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Rick Davies (vocal
EXTD=s, keyboards); John Helliwell (saxophone, keyboards); Dougie Thom
EXTD=son (bass); Bob Siebenberg (drums). \n\nAdditional personnel: Ann
EXTD= Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Claire Diament (background vocals). \n\nRe
EXTD=corded at Unicorn, Nevada City, California; The Backyard, Encino,
EXTD= California; Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California; Bill Schne
EXTD=e's Studios, North Hollywood, California. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOM
EXTD=ER REVIEW\nShadow of Breakfast, August 9, 2006 \nBy  Kid A (Bould
EXTD=er, CO)\n"Breakfast In America" is without a doubt one of the all
EXTD=-time classic albums. Beyond that and "Crime Of The Century", it'
EXTD=s easy to let the rest of Supertramp's work go unnoticed. That's 
EXTD=what happened with me. I've been listening to Crime and Breakfast
EXTD= for years while neglecting the rest of their catalog. My bad! I'
EXTD=ve recently picked up several other Supertramp albums, including 
EXTD="Famous Last Words". \n\nClearly, Supertramp were trying to disti
EXTD=nguish FLW as something other than simply a follow-up to the bloc
EXTD=kbuster Breakfast. Although the sound is unmistakably Supertramp,
EXTD= it's obvious there was an effort to strike out in different dire
EXTD=ctions to accomplish something that could build upon their previo
EXTD=us success. \n\nCheck out "Waiting So Long" for some foreshadowin
EXTD=g of the following Supertramp album, "Brother Where You Bound" wi
EXTD=th it's rich orchestration and trademark build-ups and the '50s d
EXTD=oo-wop influenced "My Kind of Lady" for an indication of these ch
EXTD=anges. Of course, there is still the classic Supertramp with song
EXTD=s like "It's Raining Again" and "Crazy" (which could easily have 
EXTD=ended up on Breakfast In America based on its sound). \n\nDespite
EXTD= hiding in the shadow of Breakfast In America, Famous Last Words 
EXTD=is still a great album in the Supertramp tradition. Consider it e
EXTD=ssential for the Supertramp fan. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
EXTD=\nsimply brilliant, April 21, 2006 \nBy  C. A. Armstrong "Charlie
EXTD=" (Perth, WA)\nI remember first playing ...Famous Last Words..., 
EXTD=around the pool table one cold, dark night at boarding school as 
EXTD=a teenager. I clearly recall my initial thoughts, that Put on you
EXTD=r old brown shoes was the only Supertramp track that I didn't lik
EXTD=e, out of every track of every album to date. A good few listens 
EXTD=later, it became one of my favourite tracks of one of my all time
EXTD= favourite albums. This album is simply brilliant, with the last 
EXTD=two songs, Waiting so long, and the prophetic Don't leave me now 
EXTD=finishing off a complete masterpiece with total awe. I literally 
EXTD=come out in goose bumps as I turn up the volume to appreciate, pa
EXTD=rticularly these last two tracks, it to their full glory. \nIf Ro
EXTD=ger Hodgson had to leave Supertramp, as he unfortunately did, he 
EXTD=could not have left on a higher note. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER R
EXTD=EVIEW\nHodgson's farewell to Supertramp, November 29, 2005 \nBy  
EXTD=Terrence Reardon "The Pink Panther of classic... (Florida)\nSuper
EXTD=tramp's eighth album entitled Famous Last Words was released in O
EXTD=ctober of 1982. \nThe Famous Last Words album was Supertramp's lo
EXTD=ng awaited studio follow-up to 1979's chart-topping 15 million pl
EXTD=us seller Breakfast In America. It turns out, Famous Last Words w
EXTD=as also the last album with original guitarist/vocalist Roger Hod
EXTD=gson(whom also did some keyboards) who would leave the band in 19
EXTD=83 after the Famous Last Words tour. \nTensions between Roger and
EXTD= Rick Davies(keyboards/vocals) during the recording sessions were
EXTD= brutal to say the least. They fought over musical, creative and 
EXTD=personal directions during the sessions for Famous Last Words. \n
EXTD=The album was mainly recorded at Roger's house in Nevada City as 
EXTD=he didn't want to leave his wife and then 3-year old daughter and
EXTD= infant son behind. Rick recorded most of his vocal parts at his 
EXTD=home studio The Backyard Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Enci
EXTD=no. \nFamous Last Words also marked the first time which member s
EXTD=ang and wrote each track. \nRoger Hodgson has five tracks on FLW 
EXTD=starting with the up number Crazy which got some extensive airpla
EXTD=y on rock radio when released, the beautiful acoustic numbers C'e
EXTD=st Le Bon and Know Who You Are, the lyrically sad It's Raining Ag
EXTD=ain and the haunting closer Don't Leave Me Now with one of Hodgso
EXTD=n's best guitar solos ever. \nThe album's biggest hit was the up-
EXTD=tempo breakup song It's Raining Again which hit #11 in the US in 
EXTD=late 1982 and is a great song to lament over the break-up of a lo
EXTD=ved one and featured one of John Helliwell's best tenor sax solos
EXTD= ever recorded. Its corresponding video depicted a hapless soul l
EXTD=osing love and trying to find love(the band members had very smal
EXTD=l cameo appearances with John as a sax playing busker, bass playe
EXTD=r Dougie Thomson as a Greyhound bus driver, Roger as a passenger 
EXTD=on the bus and keyboardist Rick Davies and drummer Bob Siebenberg
EXTD= as rednecks). \nSpeaking of Davies' contributions, his were the 
EXTD=soulful Put on Your Old Brown Shoes(with Ann and Nancy Wilson of 
EXTD=Heart on backing vocals), the Billy Joel-ish sounding ballad Bonn
EXTD=ie which is a great song with some great piano work from Davies, 
EXTD=the 50s-ish sounding number My Kind of Lady and the haunting yet 
EXTD=atmospheric six and a half minute piece Waiting So Long which is 
EXTD=Rick's masterpiece on the album. \nMy Kind of Lady was the album'
EXTD=s other hit peaking at #31 here in the US and who can forget the 
EXTD=video with the lads dressed as a 50s rock group and doo wop group
EXTD= without their beards and long hair which they all got rid of(Hel
EXTD=liwell and Davies would grow beards back permanently whilst Siebe
EXTD=nberg and Thomson kept the clean-shaven look(although Siebenberg 
EXTD=was clean shaven pretty much on every album sleeve) and Hodgson h
EXTD=as had beards off and on(grew back in 1983 than shaved off again 
EXTD=in 1984 and grew back in late 1990s and shaved off again permanen
EXTD=tly in 2002) since the video). John Helliwell's sax and occasiona
EXTD=l keyboards are in fine tow as is Dougie's bass playing and the d
EXTD=rumming of Bob Siebenberg's(Famous Last Words was the first time 
EXTD=Bob spelled his last name the proper way after spelling it C. Ben
EXTD=berg for years). \nFamous Last Words peaked at #5 on the Billboar
EXTD=d chart and went Platinum although it should have been bigger but
EXTD= with New Wave heisting the charts it was impossible. \nThis albu
EXTD=m sounds better today with the remastering that Greg Calbi and Ja
EXTD=y Messina did in 2002. \nHighly recommended! \n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM C
EXTD=USTOMER REVIEW\nDon't cut the rope of this equilibrist !(see slee
EXTD=ve), September 27, 2005 \nBy  Gustavo D. "GDG" (Rio de Janeiro , 
EXTD=Brazil)\nThis is a magnificent masterpiece (1982). Every song is 
EXTD=a treasure. The albums from Crime of the Century to this one befo
EXTD=re Roger Hodgson's departure (aiming to going on solo)are worthwh
EXTD=ile,but "Famous last words" is my number one. \nIt contains my on
EXTD=e of my all-time favourite Supertramp songs: It's raining again, 
EXTD=that was a hit (the others are A soapbox Opera from "Crisis? What
EXTD= Crisis?" and If everyone was listening from "Crime of the Centur
EXTD=y"). \nIn general, the frequent use of keys instrument(organ,pian
EXTD=o or keyboard)is a trademark of this band in my opinion,but this 
EXTD=record was focused on piano. Roger Hodgson with the exception of 
EXTD="My kind of lady" didn't use the falsetto here. \nI don't know if
EXTD= the cd's booklet shows it, because I own it in vinyl: the group 
EXTD=members as equilibrists on colourful ropes. (Curious) \n\nThe oth
EXTD=er tracks: \n\nCrazy: "I'll sing you little song that makes you f
EXTD=eel good", it really makes me feel good. It's incredibly catchy, 
EXTD=espacially at the end of the chorus were Roger sings almost like 
EXTD=this: b biou da ta,b biou da ta....(I'm only immitating).Great 
EXTD=opener. \n\nPut down your old brown shoes: Roger and Richard Davi
EXTD=es sing together in this track. The rhythm is clutching. It will 
EXTD=make you \nget up from your chair and clap with them. \n\nBonnie:
EXTD= Rick Davies sings for Bonnie,the beloved woman of the title. No 
EXTD=comments: excellent composition. \n\nKnow who you are: The slowes
EXTD=t. We can hear a sad vocal by Hodgson. It's sweet. The lyrics giv
EXTD=e advice to a person for releasing the bright side of the persona
EXTD=lity. \n\nMy kind of lady: It was another hit and it still plays 
EXTD=on the radio. Roger and Rick share the vocals and the halfs of th
EXTD=e song are sung on different tones. The higher notes of the saxop
EXTD=hone start the change. Proficient song. \n\nC'est le bon: As catc
EXTD=hy as the opener with Roger's touch.This is so strong and marvell
EXTD=ous.... \n"C'est le bon, sailing on and on ; C'est le bon ,sailin
EXTD=g on and on...." It has use of acoustic guitar (as we can see in 
EXTD=Give a little bit from "even in the quietest moments") and air in
EXTD=strumets different from sax. \n\nWaiting so long: An insteresting
EXTD= piece sung by Davies mainly. The ending features some guitar sol
EXTD=os (slow). \n\nDon't leave me now: Roger takes the vocal here. Th
EXTD=e same note combo is repeated on piano throughout the track, but 
EXTD=I like it and think it's beautiful. The lyrics are clear: Don't l
EXTD=eave me alone in this crazy world , for his lover. \n\nThe whole 
EXTD=album is majestic, but my favourites are songs 1, 3 ,6, 7, and 9.
EXTD= \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA "DARK ALBUM" ~ or is it just
EXTD= the album cover?, April 20, 2003 \nBy  chris banez lim "Crutchea
EXTD=d" (Philippines)\nThis albulm quite resemble a very dark atmosphe
EXTD=re indeed. The last SUPERTRAMP lp to ever have Roger Hodgson befo
EXTD=re he'd gone out from the band to pursue his solo venture, (thus 
EXTD=what is perhaps symbolically denoted by the vinyl disc's artwork 
EXTD=where a scissor is used to cut a rope as with the album cover, in
EXTD=cluding the inner sleeve where the band members are depicted as b
EXTD=alancing themselves walking on thin lines) -it carries Hodgson's 
EXTD=last and final hit single with the band "It's Raining Again", alo
EXTD=ng with his seemingly autobiographical "C'est Le Von"* - which so
EXTD=rt of serves as his swansong with the group (and for me is one of
EXTD= the best songs ever written by Hodgson, and one of my all-time f
EXTD=avourite songs by SUPERTRAMP) that seems to echo the ongoing fric
EXTD=tion with his collaborator within the band- Rick Davies, who appe
EXTD=ars to counter the latter song himself with his own written track
EXTD= "Waiting So Long".\nAs for his other contributions in Famous Las
EXTD=t Words, Davies' role plays to sing some playful tunes, being bot
EXTD=h he and Hodgson coming down to the point of turning into a corro
EXTD=borative stance to sing their own works (kinda lot like what turn
EXTD=ed out for the tandem of Lennon/McCartney during the Beatles' fin
EXTD=al years), but still wasn't spared from the gloomy feel that this
EXTD= album has; that apart from the situation going on within the ban
EXTD=d during in the time of its recording - it may have been given al
EXTD=l likely too well due to the combined production work of Pete Hen
EXTD=derson and the concert sound provided by Russell Pope.\nPerhaps s
EXTD=tricken with an after-movie daze, Rick Davies' "Bonnie" written i
EXTD=n the perspective of 'Clyde' (well not exactly- just kinda) appar
EXTD=ently could've come cheesy, but it turned out fine, and it's quit
EXTD=e an alright tune too. However, Hodgson's "Don't Leave Me Now" se
EXTD=rving as the closer to the album, is perhaps one of their most pa
EXTD=ssable tracks. \nFrom it's opening song "Crazy" (which (pardon me
EXTD= for saying so) sounded quite a bit like a post-disco Abba song (
EXTD=sic)), the tracks in this album never differ that far from carryi
EXTD=ng the gloomy lyrics (mainly Hodgson's) which the band have banne
EXTD=red from their previous albums such as CRIME OF THE CENTURY (w/c 
EXTD=have the 'space-rock' schtick "Dreamer") and EVEN IN THE QUIETEST
EXTD= MOMMENT (w/c contains their hit "Give A Little Bit" along with i
EXTD=ts impressive title track, plus the 'epic' rock-opera "Fool's Ove
EXTD=rture"). \nOn the disc's insert, the 9 songs' printed lyrics are 
EXTD=colour-coded: Davies' songs (totalling four tracks) are printed y
EXTD=ellow, while Hodgson's (a total of five songs) are on white.\n\nA
EXTD=lthough some have disagreed that the album had an 'ironic' title 
EXTD=because after this album's release, Rick Davies went on carrying 
EXTD=the name SUPERTRAMP without co-founding member Roger Hodgson (and
EXTD= much later on without the other band members as well (a lot like
EXTD= what Tony Iommi similarly did with BLACK SABBATH)) and though no
EXTD=t up to the full level of the Beatles' LET IT BE -being the last 
EXTD=of what we could have from SUPERTRAMP's classic line-up of Hodgso
EXTD=n, Davies, John Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, and Bob Siebenberg - F
EXTD=AMOUS LAST WORDS, in a way, have indeed quite have lived up to it
EXTD=s title.\n\nRate: 7 out of 10\n\n*HEART's front women twins Ann a
EXTD=nd Nancy Wilson appeared here as backup-vocal guests, (along with
EXTD= Davies' "Put On Your Old Brown Shoes" - w/c gives us a peep of h
EXTD=ow he would sound like dominating the band years later). \n\n\nAM
EXTD=AZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nFarewell, Roger Hodgson, August 2, 2002
EXTD= \nBy  Alan Caylow (USA)\nHow does a band follow up a mega-smash 
EXTD=album? Simple: they just follow it up. 1979's "Breakfast In Ameri
EXTD=ca" was such a gargantuan success all over the place for Supertra
EXTD=mp, that, after the world tour in support of the album, the band 
EXTD=took some well-deserved rest for a couple of years before re-grou
EXTD=ping for their next disc. However, one of the band's key members,
EXTD= singer/songwriter Roger Hodgson, wasn't so sure about his future
EXTD= with the group, and the next album, 1982's "Famous Last Words," 
EXTD=would be his last album with the band (hence the title?). As Hodg
EXTD=son's swan song with the group, "Famous Last Words" certainly has
EXTD= an element of sadness attached to it, and although the album did
EXTD= not signal the end of Supertramp, it did signal the end of an er
EXTD=a. It was nowhere near as commercially successful as "Breakfast I
EXTD=n America" (how could it have been?), but "Famous Last Words" is 
EXTD=still an excellent, heartfelt album filled with the high quality 
EXTD=mix of pop, jazz, & rock that this great band are famous for. Hod
EXTD=gson's opener, "Crazy," is a great piano-thumper, while co-leader
EXTD= Rick Davies' "Put On Your Old Brown Shoes" is an excellent shuff
EXTD=ler to clap along to. Hodgson's "It's Raining Again" is a very ni
EXTD=ce, uplifting song (and a Top 20 hit single), and "Bonnie" is a g
EXTD=reat showcase number for Davies. Next up is Hodgson's haunting, a
EXTD=chingly beautiful "Know Who You Are," one of the very best songs 
EXTD=he has ever written. If this gorgeous number doesn't bring a tear
EXTD= to your eye, then there must be something wrong with you. Davies
EXTD= then picks things up with the great 50's fun of "My Kind Of Lady
EXTD=," followed by Hodgson's majestic "C'est Le Bon" (featuring Ann &
EXTD= Nancy Wilson of Heart on background vocals), and finally, for a 
EXTD=powerful one-two punch of dramatic Supertramp rock, there's the d
EXTD=ouble-header of Davies' "Waiting So Long," and Hodgson's grand fi
EXTD=nale---and, judging by the lyrics, his farewell to the band---"Do
EXTD=n't Leave Me Now."After the tour for "Famous Last Words," Roger H
EXTD=odgson left Supertramp, apparently because he & Davies could no l
EXTD=onger agree on the band's musical direction (Hodgson wanted the g
EXTD=roup to stay more pop, Davies wanted the group to be more jazzy).
EXTD= Since then, Rick Davies continues to helm Supertramp on his own,
EXTD= and the band has since recorded four great albums, starting with
EXTD= 1985's "Brother Where You Bound," and continues to tour. Hodgson
EXTD= has also recorded four fine solo albums since his departure from
EXTD= the group, and he recently went on tour with Ringo Starr, so bot
EXTD=h camps are doing just fine. While Hodgson may not be interested 
EXTD=in returning to Supertramp (and he has said as such), we can be g
EXTD=rateful of the terrific music he did make with the band---seven a
EXTD=lbums worth, in fact, as well as the live double-album, "Paris." 
EXTD="Famous Last Words" is a fond farewell to Roger Hodgson, and a lo
EXTD=vely album to close out his time with Supertramp. A definite must
EXTD=-buy. :-) 
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