Slow Motion (Supertramp album)

Slow Motion
Studio album by Supertramp
Released 23 April 2002
Recorded 2001–02
Genre Progressive rock
Length 50:07
Label EMI
Silver Cab (US/Canada)
Producer Rick Davies, Mark Hart, Jay Messina
Supertramp chronology

Is Everybody Listening?
(2001)		 Slow Motion
(2002)		 Retrospectacle – The Supertramp Anthology
(2005)

Slow Motion is the eleventh album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 2002 and their most recent studio album. In North America, it was only available via mail-order from the band's website, released on their own label.

The song "Goldrush" was actually written in the early 1970s under the first Supertramp line-up, and was used as the opening number in all their shows prior to Crime of the Century.[1] The band had tried to record it on several previous occasions, but had never before been able to recreate it in the studio to their satisfaction.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Allmusic wrote that the songs and blending of styles are brilliant, but that what would otherwise have been an outstanding album was spoiled by shoddy production.[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Rick Davies, except where noted.

  1. "Slow Motion" – 3:50
  2. "Little By Little" – 4:30
  3. "Broken Hearted" – 4:28
  4. "Over You" – 5:06
  5. "Tenth Avenue Breakdown" – 8:57
  6. "A Sting in the Tail" – 5:17
  7. "Bee in Your Bonnet" – 6:27
  8. "Goldrush" (Rick Davies, Richard Palmer-James) – 3:06
  9. "Dead Man's Blues" – 8:26

Personnel

Production

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (2002) Position
Austrian Albums Chart[3] 18
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[4] 31
Dutch Albums Chart[5] 83
French SNEP Albums Chart[6] 8
German Media Control Albums Chart[7] 17
Spanish Albums Chart[8] 34
Swiss Albums Chart[9] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (2002) Position
French Albums Chart[10] 118
Swiss Albums Chart[11] 88

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Sales/shipments
France (SNEP)[12] Gold 113,400[13]
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[14] Gold 20,000x

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Melhuish, Martin (1986). The Supertramp Book. Toronto, Canada: Omnibus Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-9691272-2-7.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Slow Motion (Supertramp album) at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "Supertramp – Slow Motion – austriancharts.at" (ASP). Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "ultratop.be Supertramp – Slow Motion" (ASP). Hung Medien (in French). Ultratop. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl Supertramp – Slow Motion" (ASP). Hung Medien (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "lescharts.com Supertramp – Slow Motion" (ASP). lescharts.com (in French). SNEP. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Album Search: Supertramp – Slow Motion" (ASP) (in German). Media Control. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  8. ↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  9. ↑ "Supertramp – Slow Motion – hitparade.ch" (ASP). Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  10. ↑ "Classement Albums - année 2002". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (in French). Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "Hitparade.ch - Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2002" (ASP). Swiss Music Charts (in Swedish). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  12. ↑ "French album certifications – Supertramp – Slow Motion" (in French). InfoDisc. Retrieved 1 June 2012. Select SUPERTRAMP and click OK
  13. ↑ "Les Albums Or". infodisc.fr. SNEP. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  14. ↑ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Supertramp; 'Slow Motion')". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 June 2012.