Is it just me. I think they had one great album 10 years after they were founded. Then nothing. It was great and had lots of hits. But nothing before or after. They are Britain’s Meatloaf.
They had a great string. First couple of albums were shaky but once the hit Crime of the Century they figured out what they were (a heavily prog influenced pop band). Crisis What Crisis is really good (slight step back from Crime but not much)), Even in the Quietest Moments is excellent, Breakfast in America is of course transcendent. Famous Last Words is really good again. Brother Where You Bound really misses Hodgson’s pop sensibility, it’s got some really good stuff (Cannonball) but gets meanders quite a bit, if you merged that with Hodgson’s first solo album Eye of the Storm you’ve got another great Supertramp album.
And Meatloaf had plenty of good stuff. Bat is lightning in a bottle and you can’t do that twice. But he had a good catalog.