03 May, 2008
Weekend Supertramp: Give A Little Bit and Dreamer
Give A Little Bit easily goes on my list of all-time favourite songs. It's a love song, but not in the hearts-and-flowers or moonlight-in-your-eye kind of way, which is probably why I loved it so much to begin with. It always struck me that this song was never really meant to be sung to your One True Love, but rather to...anyone. It's about reaching out beyond your own little world and trusting that someone out there is reaching toward you. At least I always thought that was what it was about. YMMV?
Dreamer is another of those songs that stuck with me and I sang it for days after I first heard it. (A couple of the guys on the Portland Timbers got me listening to Supertramp when the brought albums and tapes with them from England and Scotland...which makes me miss Willie Donachie and wonder what he's up to these days.) While Breakfast In America is probably Supertramp's best selling album in the United States, Crime of the Century, the album this song is on, is easily their best album.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I noticed that there are NO BARRE CHORDS in Give A Little Bit, which means I have at least a miniscule hope of learning to play it!
Labels: rock 'n' roll, Weekend Music
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