Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp (Compilation) (1990)

Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp (Compilation) (1990)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "School"   5:36

2. "Goodbye Stranger"   5:48

3. "The Logical Song"   4:10

4. "Bloody Well Right"   4:33

5. "Breakfast in America"   2:40

6. "Rudy"   7:19

7. "Take the Long Way Home"   5:08

8. "Crime of the Century"   5:32

9. "Dreamer"   3:31

10. "Ain't Nobody But Me"   5:10

11. "Hide in Your Shell"   6:50

12. "From Now On"   6:19

13. "Give a Little Bit"   4:09

14. "It's Raining Again"   4:27

15. "Cannonball"   7:38

The cassette version also included "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Sister Moonshine" and "Free as a Bird".

Supertramp Band Members / Musicians

Bob Siebenberg – drums, percussion

Roger Hodgson – vocals, keyboard, guitar (except on "Cannonball")

John Anthony Helliwell – saxophone, clarinets, vocals

Dougie Thomson – bass guitar

Rick Davies – vocals, keyboard, harmonica, melodica

Christine Helliwell – backing vocals on "Hide in Your Shell"

Vicky Siebenberg – backing vocals on "Hide in Your Shell"

Scott Gorham – backing vocals on "Hide in Your Shell"

Jake Beddoe – saw on "Hide in Your Shell"

Ken Scott – water gong on "Crime of the Century"

Slyde Hyde – trombone, tuba on "Breakfast in America"

Marty Walsh – guitar on "Cannonball"

Doug Wintz – trombone on "Cannonball"

Original release:

Producers: Ken Scott and Supertramp

Engineers: Ken Scott, John Jansen, Peter Henderson, Russel Pope, Norman Hall

String arrangements: Richard Hewson

Cover Illustration: Greg Wray

Art direction and design: Norman Moore

The Very Best of Supertramp is a greatest hits album by the English rock band Supertramp, originally released by A&M Records in June 1990.

The compilation is basically a new version of the Autobiography/Classics Vol. 9 CD with the additional song "School" inserted as track 1. Furthermore, all songs are featured in their full-length album versions. The cover depicts the grate from the cover of Crime of the Century, the hand carrying the glass from the cover of Breakfast in America and the orange umbrella from Crisis? What Crisis?.