SUPERTRAMP - "CRIME OF THE CENTURY" (reaction)
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2021
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classic, in my opinion. crime of the century is one of the best albums of it's genre"!
For sure!
I'm from Milwaukee, this album was released in September of '74, the beginning of my senior year of high school. This album was a huge hit in Milwaukee, for some reason - more so than anywhere else in the US. There were actually rumors around the country that Supertramp was from Milwaukee. I think this was their best album, others sold more but they sort of became more commercial. This one seemed to me to come more from their soul, just extremely well constructed. Saw them live in Milwaukee shortly after the release of this album, in a smaller venue - a theater with something like 1,500 to 2,000 seats. A great, great show! Thanks for doing this album, a favorite of mine for sure!
Sounds awesome! Shoutout to the city of Milwaukee and Giannis Antetokounmpo ;)
You've got a couple of years on me but the question is, have you still got the original vinyl record stashed away? Mine is a treasured possession along with a few others that have survived the last 40 odd years.
Saw this live Leeds Uni in '75 - my hair stood on end - Joan Armatrading was support act.
I agree! I used to listen to Milwaukee area radio station WZMF back then and they introduced me to Supertramp's music. I was living in Illinois at the time.
Sorry guys Supertramp is from England.
1975 summer i was on a Supertramp Concert here in Hamburg . This was the last Song in the Concert. That was a fantastic kick out after 2 hours of great music
hope you heard the harmonica at the end as it fades.its the harmonica that starts the first track School.glad you got to hear this work of art
When you listen without distraction to the very end, you hear it, genius...
Glad we did this too! Thanks Ian!
I cant wait for this ! another epic end song like Child Of Vision And Fools Overture . They often extend their songs live , especialy when Rick gets carried away on the piano , every live version of Another Man`s Woman is different as he just jams . Rick Davis is the Dave Gilmour of the piano . Incidently when Roger Hodgson left the group the title song of Supertramps 1st album , Brother Where You Bound is 16 minuets long and Dave Gilmour plays guitar on it !
Amazing! Shoutout to Dave!
Child Of Vision is one of the greatest songs ever written.
MASTERFUL! As a collective, these cats could've taught a masterclass on Rock Music with Depth! If it's not taught at universities, then damn it, it SHOULD be! #SupertrampIsAllDat
Agreed!
It's all my youth. Almost 50 years old and I still have the same chills.❤❤❤
A tip for listening to some of that era's prog rock (specifically this album) - lights out, lying down, in the dark. Full immersion to the sonic space. Preferable with a good turntable and some Sennheisers - really enhances the experience
Saw this live in 75 - Leeds Uni England - my hair stood on end - Joan Armatrading was support act
Supertramp is in my top 5 all time groups and this song is in my top 5 of their songs. This was the perfect ending to this amazing album. Thank you.😍
Thanks for watching Raymond!
@@SightAfterDark I actually saw Supertramp perform the, “Crime of the Century” album, in concert back in 1975) can’t remember the exact date) it was their first time in North America. They had a multi level stage, an amazing light show, including a large circular screen and the sound was unbelievable. They actually brought the studio sound engineer with them to mix sound for these concerts. They also had an acting troop that preformed during some of the songs, like “Rudy”. I was an incredible night.
I bought this album in 1975 and loved it. Then bought Crisis? What Crisis? And later Even in the Quietest Moments. What a trilogy of great music. Love listing to you youngsters enjoy the music from Old Fartsville, where I grew up. 😀
Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Genesis, Supertramp, Todd Rundgren, Allan Holdsworth, Gong, Steve Hillage, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulz, Bruford, UK, Brand X, Steely Dan, Greenslade, The Groundhogs, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, Vangelis, to name but a few.
A true masterpiece! Just like most of Supertramp's songs!
Picture this.
1975. First date with my wife to be was a Supertramp concert. The only songs we heard before hand were Dreamer which got a lot of airplay, at least in Montreal, School, Rudy and sometimes Asylum. The group played this album chronologically.
When this song started the screen behind the band showed the outer space starfield at rest. When the extended finale started the stars started to move towards us. Remember, this was before computers and screen savers. The only other thing that resembled it was from Star Trek's opening credits.
Then, a bright light at the center started to grow, as if we were getting nearer to a star. Right at the climax the light in the center became recognizable as the hands gripping the prison bars - the album cover - and then the forward motion stopped.
Spine tingling chills - and a forever memory.
It is freaky that you pictured a version of this while listening to this gem! Kudos!
We still catch Roger Hodgson's show every year when his tour stops in Ontario, and we both still love this old music. It doesn't get stale for us.
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😄great description Marc, thanks!
This is one of those tracks that really gets me. The instrumental sections just say so much without lyrics. Truly expressive musicianship
Indeed!
When you look up " how to close an album"...this is the first entry...epic masterpiece is an understatement. Also, their concert closer...the live version from the " Paris " album is slightly different( synths instead of strings), but still epic. Glad you appreciated this, and Supertramp too...the singer here, the " grit " guy, is Rick Davies...the high pitched guy is Roger Hodgson
Epic indeed! Thanks Michael!
A quote from someone online: "People who aren't pleased with something are shut down, told to be quiet, and in the end, driven to insanity, by the big corporations and/or governments. That is the 'Crime of the Century' ."
It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave. Keep on thinking free.😊
Love that! Extremely relevant today
this title is so appropriate! considering society is dealing with the biggest scam-demic/ plan-demic/ fraud-demic in years"!
@@synergyhowacquisition3821 it started in the early '90s but people en mass didn't believe the Crime of the last Century. So they had to come up with The Crime of the 21st Century.
@@plantfeeder6677 peace fam, I feel you. thx for that comment.
A Live performance had a dualing sax & trumpet at the end. You're in tune w them
Saw them in 77! They sound just like their albums! Memorizing FIRE!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Outstanding album. Supertramp is one of my favourite of all time
Rick Dave's first sings from the abyss, Roger then plays his guitar from the abyss, the percussion then dumps falling epically into the abyss, the keyboards then establish a repetitive round and round hell that can't be escaped from, the strings join in with the doom, then the sax, and finally the trailing off of the harmonica.
Always exit early leaving them with wanting more!
Always leave em wanting more!
Thanks you two for your reactions to the tracks on this amazing LP! I will comment more when you do your wrap up that you mentioned, but please put more of their albums up for a chance to be reacted to if voted by your patreons! I really enjoyed watching and listening to all of your reactions on this one!! Peace!!!
Thanks for watching! We're glad you've enjoyed :)
Rick Davies is the singer on this one. I have read that the album is a loose concept of a disillusioned you man (Rudy) looking at events in the world and of not knowing how to find his place in it and discovering that he himself shares responsibility for problems he perceives. The cover itself tells the story of someone who has a whole universe of possibilities, ......and yearns to escape the cage of his own construct. Many layers to unpack here, and one needs to listen to the entire album to appreciate the brilliance of these men. After fifty years, their work is as relevant today as it was then. A pretty good working definition of genius.
Amazing! Thanks for adding your input!
Saw Super tramp in concert in California in 1977. First heard this album in college a few years earlier in Tasmania. Their best in my opinion. Glad you like them. Greetings from Tassie. Like your reviews!
Thanks so much! Appreciate you!
I once saw a van with that album cover painted all over it. Never forgot that awesome vehicle, and awesome album.
That sounds awesome
forgot how much I love the way Roger's almost grating discordant piano playing slowly drifts into the background while all the other instruments take turns bowing at the end of the show.
Rick is on the piano.
@@corchem I know Roger did the lead guitar opening.... and Rick does most of the piano/keyboards on the album...
but someone told me Roger was on boards for the closing title track.... maybe both of them.... guess it wasn't electric piano....so dunno but thx for the info.
@@JuandeFucaU Can't say I know for sure, certainly in live concert it is Rick, and it is Rick's song, so it just seems most likely that it would be Rick.
One of my favorite albums ever
Genesis , A Trick Of The Tail from 1976, is a great album , before they went all commersial and was the 1st album Phil Colins took over on lead vocals . The Non -remastered version
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Thanks Mark!
Who noticed the violin imitating the sound of a siren?
SUPERTRAM;-And the most tragic thing is that the youth of today do not know these wonders. Is not true ?
Classic !! Best album of 1974 !! Luv, Supertramp !! Listen to "Live in Paris" !!
In 1991 I remarried and my wife was a single mother during the 70s so couldn't afford to go to concerts so what an adventure we had at the start of our relationship by revisiting all the bands concerts in Toronto starting with Supertramp, then Chicago, Moody Blues, Steely Dan, Styx, Kansas, ELO, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Roger Waters, Boston, and many others and now I get to enjoy them with you guys. Keep our generation music alive and thanks for doing so.
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Crisis, What Crisis? Next please lol✌❤🤘!!...
Check out a group called Them doing a song called "Gloria" ! they had a young singer named Van Morrison... and were part of the British invasion...... a time I was right in the middle of! Yes I am ancient ... I remember Mod Clothes from Carnaby Street and wearing the first bellbottoms !!
G-L-O-R-I-A!
Yout wo are just such great Reactors Thank You I Love how you two Love This Great Music..... i live in Colorado in the mountains and two years ago Mywife and I took a trip to New York and we stayed in Long Island City at the Boro Hotel and we Loved the energy of New York. You two are awesome. Thanks for the great videos.....
We appreciate you!
I said the song and ending were epic, it seemed like you loved it. AND YES, I get the same feeling of drifting into space as the song takes you away... Funny how it is so repetitive, yet you don't want it to end!
I think the song is about how the powers that be control us through lust and greed - consumerism. Then cleverly points out that it is us, because after all we buy the good, we are all part of the problem. That is my guess...
Good points! Epic indeed!
Supertramp always recorded very high quality audio albums, the album Crime of the Century has always even been used by HiFi nerds on their expensive HiFi equipment's . I think the song Give a Little Bit from the next album is also used in commercials today/recently which I think was US postal office or some similar company shipping stuff in Us, maybe Amazon.
wow... just found out Bloody Well Right is on the Cruella movie soundtrack....
according to my recommendations at least.....
still not likely to watch it but.....
good to know the kids will get to hear some Supertramp.
Couple of years ago someone sampled? And sped up the Logical Song. Heard it thru my nieces.
@@brucecullenward7106 sounds like an ill logical song to me... hopefully it wasn't on SpongeBob SquarePants or sumfink.
LMAO "Still not likely to watch"
Breakfast in America was one those go too eight tracks I. The day glad your experiencing them one of those boston like bands a cupola albums then out
I will never hear this song without you! Really!!!
I just searched for it... :o)
"that was good, damn". In essence, nothing else to add. This band is awesome, and this song one of their top. thanks for the review.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching!
takes me instantly back to my buddy headcases bedroom listening to his older brothers records. think we were 11 or 12
and it already had us hooked. love it and thanks for doing the whole album! Cheers :D
Thanks for watching!
I never thought that Supertramp was unrated but when l think back to the 70's when all this great music was coming out at us at the same time, well it was difficult to pay attention to all of it at once, nevertheless Supertramp has always been in my top 10✌🤩
Classic! A super track on a super album by a super group!
We are all guilty, no escape
Criminal... just criminal! 😮😏😁
:O
The saxophone seems to be in the forefront, but I see it differently. I hear each instrument doing their own thing all at the same time. The strings, piano, violin. They all kept going on and on. When each instrument was introduced, it became the forefront and never left. You just need to hear what you want to at the momemt.
Good point! Thanks Mike!
Very much enjoyed your Supertramp sessions. Next Up?
One of the seminal "Concept Albums" of all time was THE BEATLES "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" It changed the music scene & the World forever! TEASER: Somewhere in those grooves lies the longest single struck note in Recording History!!
Ha! Interesting enough nobody has suggested that yet. Pretty sure we've both heard it. We just finished our next album poll on Patreon, and the winner was apostrophe by Frank Zappa.
Maybe Sgt. Peppers will come up next time!
@@SightAfterDark I'll look forward to that. ZAPPA was a genius, and a perfectionist. Like James Brown, Zappa would $Fine$ his musicians for missing a single note while performing in concert!
Another enjoyable listen-along.
Indeed!
Watch their 1979 concert in Paris!! You won't regret it!!
One of the best albums ever produced
I've seen "The Tramp" LIVE 4 times.... nuf said.
Nice!
This is the track I want for my funeral. Perfect ending.
concept albums.
as we used to say back in the day. "oh man, what a concept"
Thanks for another great reaction.
For sure! Thanks so much for watching Bug vs Windshield!
3:34 exactly! That's the guitar slide break out face I make all the time! Nasty
Gotta do it!
Fabolous sampled the piano in his amazing hit Breathe. At 3:14 is a good example.
Thanks for the info!
@@SightAfterDark you're welcome.
I wonder what it would have sounded like if they used a piccolo instead of a saxophone....
haha as long as its them it would probably sound great
Curious, haven't heard this in years, am I hearing 4/4, 12/8 & 6/4 all kind of wonderfully blended together? Cool. Thanks
Something like that!
Love Bob C Benberg’s slow burn on the drums throughout this song. The controlled gentle rolls, the pocket drumming, traditional grip. He is so tasteful with his drumming- never a show-off. Peace from Toronto!
@@mikewoodrow5878 Agree Mike, his ghost notes are perfection, love the traditional grip comment! love watching drummers who use it, Levon Helm stands out, Stewart too of course. Peace from Cincinnati!
Hell no! It has to be the sax! that is an incredible way to close the album. I don't think any other instrument would work, maybe a good guitar solo, but the sax, that works! Crime of the Century was the album that introduced me to Supertramp, I still listen to it regularly. Fools Overture is also an epic track that you should check out. I also love the last three tracks on Famous Last Words, they go together and work really well, to my ears anyway. Nice review guys!
Thanks so much! Appreciate you watching!
I suspect that Supertramp may well be up there with a whole raft of bands/performers/artists/creators who can be considered "most underrated"... To pinpoint "why" would be even more impossible now than it was back then!!
I guess it boils down to "sometimes there are just somethings that just don't seem to make sense; but they just are"... though, just as with most things there are often clues that can fill in at least a comprehensive enough picture, that some conclusions may be able to be made - such as the effect even back then of "preconceived notions" of what rock or prog or goth or punk or whatever flavour the so-called experts would determine new music fell into without any question by enough listeners of whether those so-called 'experts' actually even knew how to play an instrument themselves.
Thus, there were times bands like Supertramp were not 'discovered' by some of us young folk back then by listening to the radio or reading the music press, but more by our network of friends who didn't mind exposing themselves to new music, or sometimes simply because the album art indicated 'something different'! There wasn't any digital media or social networking back when these bands made their first releases like there has been since the turn of the Century. Sometimes, albums like Crime Of The Century reached different parts of the world long after they were released in the land of their creation; especially if they weren't backed by the "big labels" or had amazing PR managers. It was a different - and no doubt harder to conceive of from a younger persons perspective today; time back then.
But the music that came from then, is not only part of everyone on planet Earth's history - it's also a whole palette of sounds, approaches to co-ordinating the noises we humans make with the tools we've honed over centuries for just that purpose (even if you could use some as weapons if needed!!) into aural waves that can "speak to us" (even if that "us" just happens to be a rare few rather than every last one!), that can be learnt from, copied, played with or improved, tossed aside as folly or admired for what it was and is while moving on from it.
Keep up the excellent work guys!! 👍👍 That's applicable to both your music and your reviews!! 🙂
Thanks so much! We appreciate your perspective and kind words :)
Sifa: Saxophone?! !!!!!!!!!!! It's a well done Sax, isn't it?!
Oh yeah!
I hope your patrons vote for Supertramp's Crisis What Crisis album
Apostrophe by Frank Zappa won the latest poll. After that, who knows!?
@@SightAfterDark That's a wild crazy album. Good luck with it. I'd say there are only 4 Supertramp albums worth hearing all of the songs. Crime of the Century, Crisis What Crises, Even in the Quietest Moments, and Breakfast in America.
@@greenbluemonkey personally I'd add Brother Where You Bound. After a couple of attempts at MOR (one successful and one slightly less so) they go back to their Prog roots (I think the title track is definitely up there with Fool's Overture, Supper's Ready and Nine Feet Underground as ultimate Prog Rock album closers).
Thanks .... Please don't be over....
Sax has that haunting sound....
See you around!
Thanks for watching David!
@@SightAfterDark as always... My pleasure...
saw them Cobo Hall Detroit Breakfast in America tour best stage show EVER In the Quietest Moments is a good album to react to
Thanks!
IMHO…
On the eighth day after creation, when God was done resting, He created Supertramp. The band to which all others must be compared.
i enjoy your insights on albums
i have a suggestion,do a critique on cocorosie,the band is basically 2 sisters and other musicians,critics have labeled them freak folk,the band is contemporary,by far my favorite music
I've watched enough of your reaction videos to know you'd appreciate the Dixie Dregs - Night of the Living Dregs. If I had to pick a single introductory track it would be either Punk Sandwich or The Bash but really, the whole album is outstanding from end to end. Much love and respect -J-
Steve Morse is great - I saw him once open solo for McLaughlin, Dimeola and Di Lucia, and he stole the show hands-down, imo -most I'm not at all familiar with, but I hope they do pick at least some to react to.
Thanks John! Appreciate you watching!
I have the LP. Rare.
Happy The Man also on the list of unexpected sax!
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Foxy lady!
Great Albums??? (here is a bakers dozen suggestions...plus a bonus option)
*"Back In Black"* by *AC/DC.* (1980)
*"Hemispheres"* by *Rush.* (1978)
*"Breakfast In America"* (also) by *Supertramp,* of course. (1979)
*"Desolation Boulevard"* by *Sweet.* (1974)
*"Who Cares?"* by *Goddo.* (1978)
*"Sports"* by *Huey Lewis And The News.* (1983)
*"Gordon"* by *The Bare Naked Ladies* (1992)
*"Moondance"* by *Van Morrison.* (1970)
*"News Of The World"* by *Queen.* (1977)
*"British Steel"* by *Judas Priest.* (1980)
*"Flying Colors"* by *Trooper.* (1979) (their best of album, *Hot Shots* is also a good choice)
*"The Black Parade"* by *My Chemical Romance* (2006)
*"Streets: A Rock Opera"* by *Savatage.* (1991)
*"The Last Waltz"* by *The Band.* (the documentary directed by Martin Scorsese is your best bet) (album AND doc both released in 1978)
Thanks Tim! We’ve actually done a parts of a lot of these already!
All songs from breakfast in America is a banger. Next "School"
This one?
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@@SightAfterDark yes. Great react
Yeah, you gotta listen to Fool's Overture. Vocals are by the higher voiced singer Roger Hodgson, rather than the gritty voice of Rick Davies, but it's a cinematic trip.
Sounds great! Thanks!
This song has all... guitar. Sax, piano, strings.... but the drums..... Ben C. Benberg!!! Song is way too short as all tracks on this album but there are longer live version of this specific song wherr you get a bit more... Sax!! and the final note at 5:35... giving the release of the entire album.
Great reaction by you two
Thanks so much!
You guys would probably benefit from David Sylvian's 'Songs from the Beehive'.
Talk about your Flugelhorn - baby!
Thanks Ian!
I went to an early Supertamp concert in Manchester UK back in 1975 just after the release of their signature album Crime of the Century, and followed them since then. I disagree with this couples view on the bands respective singers. Roger Hodgson (higher voice) is THE real voice of Supertramp. Rick Davis is the lead singer in this track (Crime of the Century) and is excellent too. But Roger has that ethereal and dreamy quality, that truly elevates the band. To be honest I don’t think this couple quite gets them
an amazing album...engineered by Ken Scott (Pink Floyd, the Beatles so on and so forth) way ahead for the arrangements and production...Peace
It sounds amazing!
Not knowing if you have showcased it or not...PLEASE listen to David Bowies "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (and "Hunky Dory") both of which are Ken Scotts genius from behind the recording console, the latter being recorded at Trident Studios in London, at the time arguably the best recording in the world. Peace
Don't skip Asylum
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What if they used a tuba instead of the harmonica ?
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HELLO. I'm back again....................
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could be an oboe?...just sayin';)
Was thinking that too as I watched Sight's "insights" (pardon the pun) post their listen... Horns - too my ear at least; would have been to 'stark': but, another reed/woodwind instrument seemed like it could fit. It's just that the sax solo at the end of the track is just as much of a tangy sauce dollop laid on top of already perfectly selected ingredients, that have been carefully prepared; cooked with love and skill, yet knowing there's still one last 'touch' that will make the memory of the feast linger even long after the sound has left the ears, just as the taste has left the tongue.
Well said!
This is Rick Davies all the way at his best
People must now the enemy. Banksters...
La tia es muy sosaaaaa.... Parece que no tiene sangre en las venas... La música HAY QUE SENTIRLA, no sólo escucharla....
A tí y no por mi. ☺️es mi canal. Da le ordenes en si propio