Supertramp - Some Things Never Change (1997)

Tracklist

1. It's A Hard World (9:46)
2. You Win, I Lose (4:31)
3. Get Your Act Together (4:49)
4. Live To Love You (5:18)
5. Some Things Never Change (6:26)
6. Listen To Me Please (4:46)
7. Sooner Or Later (6:50)
8. Help Me Down That Road (4:36)
9. And The Light (4:40)
10. Give Me A Chance (4:24) *
11. C'est What? (8:17)
12. Where There's A Will (5:36)

personnel :

Rick Davies - keyboards, vocals
Mark Hart - guitars, keyboards, vocals
John Helliwell - saxophones, woodwinds
Cliff Hugo - bass
Bob Siebenberg - drums
Lee Thornburg - trombones, trumpets, background vocals
Carl Verheyen - guitars
Tom Walsh - percussion, drums

Additional personnel :

Bob Danziger - Kalimbas
Karen Lawrence - background vocals
Kim Nail - background vocals

Rick Davies, Bob Siebenberg, Mark Hart, and John Helliwell re-formed Supertramp with a number of anonymous studio musicians in 1997 to record and release Some Things Never Change, their first album in ten years. And the title is correct -- nothing much has changed within Supertramp's world; they're simply churning out the same sophisticated jazzy, lite-funk-inflected pop as they did in the mid-'80s. The only thing that is different is that the group can no longer write ingratiatingly catchy melodies as they did when they called it quits in the '80s, but hardcore fans will still find the instrumental interplay a joy to hear.~Stephen Thomas Erlewine