Even in the Quietest Moments ...

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Even in the Quietest Moments ...
Studio album by Supertramp

Publication
(s)

April 1977

admission

November 1976 - January 1977

Label (s) A&M Records

Format (s)

LP , MC and CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

7th

running time

43:41 (CD)

occupation

production

Supertramp

Studio (s)

chronology
Crisis? What Crisis?
(1975) 		Even in the Quietest Moments ... Breakfast in America
(1979)

Even in the Quietest Moments ... is the fifth studio - album of the British Pop - / rock band Supertramp and the name of a song that plate. As with the previous album Crisis? What Crisis? , which was released in 1975, the group acted in their classic lineup when the album was recorded  - for the third time in the band's career. It was released in April 1977 and was very successful.

description

For the recording of the LP Even in the Quietest Moments ... the group Supertramp came together (for the third time) in their successful line-up: Rick Davies (keyboards, vocals), John Helliwell (wind instruments, vocals), Roger Hodgson (guitars, keyboards, Vocals), Bob Siebenberg (drums, percussion) and Dougie Thomson (bass guitar). The band was still active as a quintet . Gary Mielke ( Oberheim -Programming) supported them.

Even in the Quietest Moments ... was the first Supertramp album that was created together with sound engineer Peter Henderson, who also supported the band on the next two very successful studio albums. It became Supertramp's first gold album within a few months (500,000 copies sold).

All songs were composed and written by Davies and Hodgson, who each sang their own works. Outstanding songs on the record are Hodgson's single hit Give a Little Bit , which secured the group's commercial breakthrough in the United States and which became the standard in the band and later in Hodgson's concert program, the almost eleven-minute epic also written by him Fool's Overture and Davies's From Now On , which became the standard on Supertramp's live programming.

What is striking about this album is that the Wurlitzer 200A , the other trademark of Supertramp, was not used.

With a few songs from the album Even in the Quietest Moments ... and those from the previous albums in their luggage, the band went on tour, which did not result in a live album. Almost two years after the record, the album Breakfast in America was released .

Song list

The album Even in the Quietest Moments ... (Original: LP "A&M 394 634-1") contains seven songs. The specified lengths refer to a CD version ("A&M 394 634-2") of the album, which is 43:41 minutes long. On the original vinyl record (LP), songs 1 to 4 are on the A side and 5 to 7 are on the B side.

  1. Give a Little Bit - 4:09 - (Hodgson)
  2. Lover Boy - 6:53 - (Davies)
  3. Even in the Quietest Moments - 6:29 - (Hodgson)
  4. Downstream - 4:04 - (Davies)
  5. Babaji - 4:52 - (Hodgson)
  6. From Now On - 6:22 - (Davies)
  7. Fool's Overture - 10:52 - (Hodgson)

occupation

The band

Additional staff:

admission

The album Even in the Quietest Moments… was recorded and mixed in the United States from November 1976 to January 1977 in these recording studios : Caribou Studios (near Nederland , Rocky Mountains , Colorado ) and Record Planet ( Los Angeles , California ).

production

Charts

album

The album Even in the Quietest Moments ... was placed in the UK and US album charts ( Billboard ) in the top 20 and in Germany in the top 30.

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1977 Even in the Quietest Moments ...
A&M Records 		DE14 (34 weeks)
DE 		- - UK12 (22 weeks)
UK 		US16 (49 weeks)
US
Released April 1977
Sales: + 1,260,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Singles

The song Give a Little Bit , written by Roger Hodgson, was selected as a single , which placed in the US singles charts in the top 20 and in the UK and German charts in the top 30.

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1977 Give a Little Bit
Even in the Quietest Moments ... 		DE29 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - UK29 (9 weeks)
UK 		US15 (18 weeks)
US
B-side: downstream

As a further singles Babaji appeared with From Now On as the second song and From Now On with the Dreamer from the studio album Crime of the Century (1974) as the second song. Both singles did not achieve any noteworthy chart positions.

New releases

In 1997 and 2002, revised new editions of the album Even in the Quietest Moments ... were released by the label "A&M Records" , the recordings of which come from the original tapes. The little books are based on the design (with lyrics) of the original CD.

Recording and production:

  • Remastering - Sterling Sound ( Manhattan , New York City ) - Greg Calbi and Jay Messina
  • Remastering oversight - Bill Levenson
  • Artistic direction - Vartan
  • Cover design - Mike Diehl
  • Production coordination - Beth stamp

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b chart sources: