Supertramp - Free As A Bird (1987)

(......and in an alternate universe.....) Following the massive success of their last album 'Sleeping With The Enemy', which gained praise from both critics and fans alike as their best work in years, Supertramp had the unenviable task of recording a follow-up that didn't disappoint. Roger Hodgson had written some songs which were fairly similar to the ones that he'd contributed to the previous album, but Rick Davies wanted to have a more modern sound on the album by using drum machines and computers, and so they had to compromise and split the recording between Hodgson's more organic sound and Davies' modern direction. Despite this mixture of styles the resultant album worked surprisingly well, although it was to be the last for a while, as the band broke up shortly after it's release in 1987.  

Track listing

01 Puppet Dance
02 You Can Never Tell With Friends
03 Desert Love
04 Thing For You
05 Hai Hai
06 It Doesn't Matter
07 Free As A Bird
08 You Make Me Love You
09 An Awful Thing To Waste