The Autobiography of Supertramp
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| Greatest hits album by Supertramp | ||||
| Released | July 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1974-1985 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, pop rock, art rock | |||
| Length | 47:10 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Ken Scott, Peter Henderson, David Kershenbaum, Supertramp | |||
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The Autobiography of Supertramp is the first greatest hits album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1986.
As Supertramp's first greatest hits album, The Autobiography of Supertramp contains a compilation of the most popular songs from the albums Crime of the Century, Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America, ...Famous Last Words..., and Brother Where You Bound. The CD version and the 2001 remaster also include a song from Crisis? What Crisis?. The album Paris is completely unrepresented, despite its including the hit live version of "Dreamer".
The cover art shows a suit-wearing, faceless man seated in a train carriage reading a book with his own face on the cover. The view from the train window shows the platform with stylised versions of the cover art from three of Supertramp's albums.
The album was also released in the US as Classics Volume 9, part of A&M's 25th Anniversary series (1987). That version of the album includes the extra tracks listed below as part of the 2001 re-release, with the exception of "School" and no single edits.
The album was re-released as The Very Best of Supertramp in 1990 in the US with digitally remastered sound and a bonus track "School" as the first track instead of "Goodbye Stranger" which follows afterwards. It also contains the album versions of the songs "Goodbye Stranger" and "Cannonball", whereas the original release uses the edited versions from the singles instead.
Allmusic's retrospective review commented that The Very Best of Supertramp is a superior compilation with its choice of tracks.
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