Editing Even in the Quietest Moments... (section)

==Background and recording==
<blockquote>I think it was Roger who wanted to get out of Los Angeles to do a record. At the time, the sky was the limit, so we decided to record at the [[Caribou Ranch]], on a mountaintop outside of [[Denver]]. What we didn't realize was that the thin air in the mountains makes your voice go weird. It also made it hard for [[John Helliwell|John]] [Helliwell] to play the sax. So we ended up finishing it back in L.A. at the [[Record Plant]]. – [[Rick Davies]], ''[[Retrospectacle – The Supertramp Anthology]]'' CD booklet (2005)</blockquote>

Though all the songs are credited as being written jointly by Rick Davies and [[Roger Hodgson]], Davies wrote "Lover Boy", "Downstream", and "From Now On" by himself, and Hodgson in turn wrote "[[Give a Little Bit]]", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "[[Babaji (song)|Babaji]]", and "Fool's Overture" unaided.<ref name="Melhuish">{{cite book |last=Melhuish |first=Martin |title=The Supertramp Book |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=Toronto, Canada |year=1986 |pages=119–137 |isbn=0-9691272-2-7}}</ref>

Davies said of "Lover Boy" that "I was inspired by advertisements in men's magazines telling you how to pick up women. You know, you send away for it and it's guaranteed not to fail. If you haven't slept with at least five women in two weeks, you can get your money back." [[Bob Siebenberg]] recounted that "Rick had been working on 'Lover Boy' for quite a while and finally came up with the long middle section. I just heard that as a really slow, really solid sort of beat, just to give the song dynamics underneath it all, because the song itself is really powerful and it needed something really solid underneath it."<ref name="Melhuish"/>

Most of "Even in the Quietest Moments" was written during the soundcheck for a show at the [[Tivoli Gardens]] in [[Copenhagen]]. Davies and Hodgson worked out the various parts of the song with Hodgson using an [[Oberheim]] and a Solina string synthesiser and Davies at the [[drum kit]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Melhuish |first=Martin |title=The Supertramp Book |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=Toronto, Canada |year=1986 |page=111 |isbn=0-9691272-2-7}}</ref> Davies commented on the music: "It starts off in a very standard melody thing and then it notches onto a sort of one chord progression or perhaps we should call it a digression. It's a thing where there's hundreds of sounds coming in and going out, a whole collage thing."<ref name="Melhuish"/> Hodgson said of the lyrics: "It's kind of a dual love song – it could be to a girl or it could be to God."<ref name="Melhuish"/> Gary Graff of ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' rated "Even in the Quietest Moments" as Supertramp's fourth-best song.<ref name=graff>{{cite web |last=Graff |first=Gary |title=Supertramp's 10 Best Songs: Critic's Picks |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/supertramp-songs-best-hits-list-7997371/ |publisher=Billboard |date=10 October 2017 |access-date=16 June 2022}}</ref>

"Downstream" is performed solely by Davies on vocal and piano, which were recorded together in one take. Siebenberg has described the song as his favourite on the album "because it's so personal and so pure".<ref name="Melhuish"/>

Graff rated "From Now On" as Supertramp's eighth-best song, highlighting John Helliwell's [[saxophone]] solo and the call-and-response singalong at the end.<ref name=graff/>

"Fool's Overture" had the working title of "The String Machine Epic", and according to John Helliwell: "It came primarily from a few melodies Roger worked out on the string machine thing we use on stage."<ref name="Melhuish"/> Written and sung by guitarist/keyboardist Roger Hodgson – who took five years to compose it –<ref>Statement by Hodgson at the Starlite Festival in Marbella in 2015</ref> the song is a collage of progressive instrumentation and sound samples. Hodgson stated that the song's lyrics are essentially meaningless, explaining: "I like being vague and yet saying enough to set people's imaginations running riot."<ref name="Melhuish"/> He also said:{{blockquote|It was very magical the way it came together. It was actually three separate pieces of music that I had for a few years and then one day they all just came together in what I think is a magnificent, kind of epic piece of music.<ref name=hodgson>{{cite web |last=Hodgson |first=Roger |title=Supertramp's Roger Hodgson: the 10 best songs I've written |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/supertramps-roger-hodgson-the-10-best-songs-ive-written-composed-and-sung |work=Prog |publisher=Louder Sound |date=20 March 2023 |access-date=23 March 2023}}</ref>}} First are excerpts of [[Winston Churchill]]'s famous 4 June 1940 House of Commons speech regarding Britain's involvement in the Second World War ([[We shall fight on the beaches|"Never Surrender"]]), followed by sounds of police cars and bells from London's famous [[Westminster chime]] [[Big Ben]] clock tower. The [[flageolet]]-sounding instrument plays an excerpt from [[Gustav Holst]]'s "Venus", from his orchestral suite ''[[The Planets]]''.<ref name=ucr/> There is also a reading of the first verse of [[William Blake]]'s poem "[[And did those feet in ancient time]]" (more commonly known as "Jerusalem"), ended by a short sample of the band's song "[[Dreamer (Supertramp song)|Dreamer]]".<ref name=ucr/> ''Ultimate Classic Rock'' critic Nick DeRiso rated it as Supertramp's seventh-best song.<ref name=ucr>{{cite web |last=DeRiso |first=Nick |title=Top 10 Supertramp Songs |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/supertramp-songs/ |publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock |access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref> Hodgson rated it as one of the 10 best songs he has written.<ref name=hodgson/>