The way they change up The beat & the direction of the song and keep you wondering what’s coming up next and then perfectly blend it out at the end is pure talent. This band was a blessing for us back in the 70s.
I would say Breakfast is the best w/ this as the second ! I have both albums and bought them when they came out (1974 and 1979) ... and would listen to Breakfast, all the time ! But the choice is subjective ... and I would say, it's like trying to compare two paintings that are both masterpieces ! Regardless, this band is genius any way you slice it !
I have to agree with you, but E J Smith made an excellent point when saying that it is like comparing two paintings that are masterpieces. For me though, although Breakfast is a great album, Crime is without any question their greatest achievement, yes Breakfast would come second, but it's Crime that wins the race by some distance! 😉
I used to play this driving to work. Picked up a coworker one morning, younger than I, he never heard of Supertramp and fell in love with them. I had to buy him the CD.
One of the few bands that produced a live album in Paris that sounded as clean and sharp as the studio versions. Always thought provoking in lyrics and music.
Definitely a group worthy of a deep-dive. Supertramp, in their prime, & even beyond it were so different, deep, listenable & maybe they didn't get ALL the props they truly deserved. Loved this band. Highly suggest: "Even In the Quietest Moments." Haunting song. But so much of their work does just that: "HAUNTS." Loved the enthusiasm of your reactions. Figures Real Musicians would appreciate them!
My two favorite songs by them are “give a little bit“ and “my kind of lady“ those two songs will take it in a totally different direction and the saxophone work in them is unbelievable.
Early 70s. The thing you will soon learn about SUPERTRAMP is their SUPERIOR Production Values, on a par with the likes of PINK FLOYD. Some of the most sumptuous, lush sound recordings ever put to vinyl. Of particular note is the Album "Even In The Quietest Moments", which features a piano on top of a snowy mountain peak on the Album Cover. One of the quietest places you'll ever experience is being alone on top of a wind-free, snow-laden mountain top. You'll only hear your own heartbeat as the snow deeply absorbs all other sound waves present. The Sound Quality of EITQM is so pure, it was re-released as an "AUDIOPHILE" Version. It cost $25Bucks in 1977 Dollars, when a regular vinyl LP sold for about $3! Specially prepared Vinyl that is STAMPED Twice in the Press for DEEP RESONANCE & ENHANCED CLARITY. SUPERTRAMP was a true "SUPERGROUP" of the 70s that ruled FM Radio and performed to SOLD-OUT Arenas, Stadiums & Concert Halls W🌐RLDWIDE! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦✌🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
@@SightAfterDark I very much enjoy your channel, comments and observations. Keep it up, you deserve a MUCH LARGER following, and I'm certain that you will achieve that over time. Cheers! >from REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
A good friend of mine had this album on cassette tape and played the heck out of it on our way to work back in 1979. It was a crummy job, but I was always in a good mood after hearing Supertramp. Positively righteous album, start to finish.
I have researched the year Supertramp did this song "SCHOOL". It was 1974, I was 13. My music-history 'til then was Beatles and so on, OK BUT at the age of 10/11 the household-family-music was dominated by GERMAN SCHLAGER! (A simply waste of tones and rhythms!) I was injured with needles full of simpliest kind of music... - ...until I heard THIS SONG on the radio! ("BFBS"!!!) And I asked myself: "is THIS the landing of the extraterrestrials???" The sound was at far away from my curcumstancing hear - I was upset! And FROM THIS MOMENT ON it was all about me to understand Rock- and Soul-Music! For Heaven's Sake!!!
...one name not mentioned so far is mr ken scott - producer extraordinaire - who worked alongside sir george martin with the beatles and who produced 'hunky dory', 'ziggy stardust' & 'aladdin sane' for bowie. "crime of the century" is real 'state of the art' sound' for 1974 - such a great sounding record - it had the audiophiles breathless with delight! this is going to be a trip, guys!!
Indeed, Ken Scott, John Helliwell, Bob S., Doug Thompson is genius stacked on Genius. The creativity of the group took precedence over that genius. The other child prodigy no one mentions much Rick Davies never tooted his own horn. He did let out that he once got a job as an organist and had to fake it. Roger Hodgson? Well, he is a genius. But that's not the point is it? Supertramp's songs came from a total creative synergy greater than the genius of each member added up. Suffering to tolerate the other genius is the most important factor in making the boring square round. Indeed, Roger Hodgson off by himself could never reproduce that Supertramp magic. Meanwhile, I always felt Rick D. was burdened with advancing it.
They say in transferring the album to compact disk, they screwed up a lot of that genius buried by Ken Scott in the original album. Like all those little whistles buried in the piano interlude in the song School. Then again, I was privileged in getting to listen to that album on a pair of Yamaha 1000 speakers powered by Mc Intosh amps. Come to think of it, I think most only think they like that album while never truly hearing it.
My gramps would have kicked this little dude's butt. The best speakers ever built were those huge horns used in the silent movie houses. What? Like we played our amps through the opened mouths of horses. "Wheenie!" Cried the horses as the soul of the music poured out their opened mouths streaming from cables that they had inserted up their asses.
I used to work at a retail stereo sales store and this song was always playing on the stereos in the shop. It felt very revolutionary back then and it’s still a great song.
Yeah, there were pedals then, just not as much variation as now. The 'slow' start ceases to feel slow if we think about this less as a 'song' in the rock sense, and more like music in the classical sense. Then expectation goes away and you're left to go on the ride. You might want to consider doing another hit of theirs that is performed live. Then you can see how they do what they do. On stage they were a bit like The Doobie Brothers without all the positivity. It's like a bunch of talented session musicians formed a band.
John Helliwell told of going back to England to attend school to learn how to really play the saxophone during the bands long break between 1987 and 1997. A lot of the other students in class with him were there because of his own playing. John Helliwell did a sequence of interesting interviews.
I love you guys reaction to Crime of the Century. Supertramp's songs are so complex that I could see you thinking you knew how the song was going to next but each time your faces said WTF. A wonderful musical journey.
I always felt that the harmonica sounded like a train whistle off in the distance. And this song, as well as some others on this album, sound like a train getting up speed as the music builds up.
"I feel like I'm in a Clint Eastwood movie" Actually this came from the spaghetti western that doesn't have Clint Eastwood but has Charles Bronson playing a harmonica at the beginning and end or something that sounds like this it's called Once Upon a Time in the West .
it adds to the drama of course. I love the children screams just when the sustained guitar is at its highest volume before the band sets in. Very dramatic effect.
@@stevedotwood - so many great elements to this song: the harmonica open, the build up, the scream transition, that GLORIOUS piano solo, another build up, the wacka-wacka guitars, soooo tasty.
In the 70s I had fuzz, MXR phase 90 and wah-wah. Hendrix had Maestro fuzz, Vox wah, Uni-vibe, Octavia made for him by Roger Mayer A great start to what will likely prove an epic journey! 👍😘🎶💞💃
a superb album that never dates and i never tire of.A beautiful mix of melodies,lyrics,detail and a production that is almost a reference on how to produce an album of detail and dynamics.Puts todays production to shame nearly 50 years on.A classic album that all should own.Their best work ever
Albums often impress at first and then for some time they continue to be a favourite. Then sometimes after several listenings they become less impressive, not so with a few albums, Crime definitely one of them, it's got that certain 'something' that makes it stand out from the crowd. It's just a perfect album! I've got hundreds of albums, if l could only keep five, Crime would definitely be one of them.
Heppa. Just found you. This album came to me in the 70s. This is their heaviest album but the following 3-5 albums are great as well. Big Supertramp fan here, like Genesis until 1977.... will follow you on this journey (though I’m one month late) Progressive pop; Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies, John Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, and of course on drums Bob Siebenberg (or Bob C. Benberg)
When I listend to this song at the first time there was no record-player in my household. I just got to go to the open library in my hometown (Herne, in the Ruhrgebiet, in the middle of Europe), where this Masterpiece was archived (next to "Autobahn" by "Kraftwerk", by the way... :o)) And there i heard it first IN STEREO!!! STEREO, you know?! Those were the times. Today we're all googled and at handy-times MY Youth was STONE-AGED!
Booster - Chorus - Flanger - Phaser - Fuzz - tube screamer - Wahwah. Delay, Echo and EQ weren't available then if I remember well, in stompboxes that is. They were availabe in effect units, like a tape-echo which was a huge device and you could see the tape moving in loops beneath the transparent lid. (I'm talking about the 80's really)
I consider Supertramp my 70's band, many good memories including this gem. In 1979 their album Breakfast in America hit the United States as the # 1 album for 6 weeks. This song and Rudy both longer playing songs are so unique and are found on their Crime of the Century LP. My all time favorite by Supertramp is Take the Long Way Home with Logical song a close second.
Supertramp has been part of my life since 1970 and this album was truly there coming of age when it was released, and went on to a long and exciting career. As for pedals like today NO is the answer.. Now listen to more like Fools Overture , Sister Moonshine and many other iconic songs of theirs.
There’s a worldwide shortage of heavy(ish) guitar sounds and good piano playing in the same song. Only a few bands supply it - Elton John, Steely Dan, and Supertramp among them. School has it.
When I listen to this song or to the Pink Floyd one, I see 6 years old little kids, walking to school - and don't want to! And at school there are disaffected adults, they were only able to destruct childs hope, illusions and imagination at all. They destroy all of the future within the kids. SCHOOL isn't good! And the "heavy piano part" seems to me like a bit of despair - it sounds like... ...little tear dropping
There were plenty of pedals available during this time. The delays were analog tape, the phaser was prevalent, flangers, wahs, fuzz, talk boxes and distortion pedals were being used. Look at "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd released in 1973. "Crime of the Century" was released a year later in 1974.
I don't know how you sat so still through this song. LOL I"m 64 years old but I'm 18 when I hear this. But if this song makes you want to go back to school, you didn't get the message. LOL Good reaction.
"School," like "The Logical Song" (another of their classics) is a statement against indoctrination of social normatives; against the oppressive, fall-in-line attitude that stifles the individual's existential realization.
The first chord of the next song "Bloody Well Right" begins without a gap and could have been the final chord of "School" - and the first line of "Bloody Well Right" is "So you think your schooling's phony..."
They had pretty much all the same guitar accessories back then. Check out 'Do you feel like we do' by Peter Frampton- 'Frampton Comes Alive'. Mid 70s rock! Some of the best guitar you'll ever hear!
The musicianship in this song is great, but the lyrics seem to be talking about how traditional schooling, at least in those days, stifled creativity and individualism in kids. I think that's what Roger was singing about.
OMG guys, they had tons of pedals in the 70s and 60s. Univibe, Echoplex, phase shifters, flangers, Leslie speakers, Heil talk box, millions of great fuzz pedals, treble boosters, envelop followers (auto-wah), guitar synthesizers, tremolos, chorus, and yes the wah pedal. Oh and treble boosters.
If a fair amount of music can be seen as amusement park rides for your mind, this is a sweet , corkscrew roller-coaster ride complete with that chain pull to the top of that first hill. Also, if you don't have large bass drivers, your missing something towards the end.
In my music revival comes after Frank Zappa - whoever want's to note (nobody, I know!) - SUPERTRAMP! (FEELING MUSIC is LED ZEPPELIN at all - but this is BRAIN-MUSIC, sorry) The mostly underestimated Band ever is SUPERTRAMP!!! (...lot of exclamation marks, vou know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Everyone of us knows and reminds that teacher's repressions... - and any other adult did also! His or her authorization was their age. Children were nothing.
NO! (Clint Eastwood-Thing) I am the evil (never loved by nobody) "know-it-all"-guy, but what's spinning around your head is the movie "Once Upon a Time in the West" (in german: "Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod") and the music of ENIO MORRICONE ("The HARP")... Sorry for this...
Supertramp was a created band...They did not organically form..Svengali and wealthy was backing a dutch band that maybe took advantage of his money..So he pulled the pin and backed Davies who auditioned members to join what become supertramp....Frank zappa gave Hendrix his first wah wah..or cry baby.
Please react to the most famous Dutch band ever, only excisted for 5 years, but still wicked and epic, so please listen to Doe Maar- Is Dit Alles(Is This All)
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I tried....still don't like it LOL! I agree that it was unpredictable but the stop/start nature of the song doesnt really do it for me. I like that uptempo part but then it's gone in an instant haha. The next song is awesome
If you can't hear John Helliwell's little whistles and subtle spinning percussion with a vibra-slap during the frollicking piano interlude, you aren't truly listening to this album. Sorry.
This is a fantastic album. Some really powerful songs on this one. The musicianship is top knotch.
Excited to hear the rest!
My fav Supertramp album. Not even close.
Yes, from the days when bands were made up of top knotch musicians.
The way they change up The beat & the direction of the song and keep you wondering what’s coming up next and then perfectly blend it out at the end is pure talent. This band was a blessing for us back in the 70s.
The production on this album is amazing. One of the best sounding records of the decade.
Hell yeah. Great production!
Yes, Ken Scott helped make this album one of the best ever!
It's rarely mentioned but the drumming on this album is superb 👌
Very true. Thanks for watching David!
this album rocked my world as a kid! my favourite by Supertramp
Looking forward to hearing the rest!
Their best album, although Breakfast In America is a close second. Looking forward to this one!
I would say Breakfast is the best w/ this as the second !
I have both albums and bought them when they came out (1974 and 1979) ...
and would listen to Breakfast, all the time !
But the choice is subjective ... and I would say, it's like trying to compare two paintings that are both masterpieces !
Regardless, this band is genius any way you slice it !
I agre with you nr1C.O.T.C.no2 breakfast in America.
I'm place Even in the Quietest Moments as second.
I have to agree with you, but E J Smith made an excellent point when saying that it is like comparing two paintings that are masterpieces. For me though, although Breakfast is a great album, Crime is without any question their greatest achievement, yes Breakfast would come second, but it's Crime that wins the race by some distance! 😉
The second best is Crises What Crises
I used to play this driving to work. Picked up a coworker one morning, younger than I, he never heard of Supertramp and fell in love with them. I had to buy him the CD.
An audiophile's dream,this whole album.
STILL used as a reference,along with Steely Dan,in top level hifi showrooms to test high end equipment.
We can see why!
One of the few bands that produced a live album in Paris that sounded as clean and sharp as the studio versions. Always thought provoking in lyrics and music.
Absolutley. Thanks for watching Larry!
Supertramp! The best!
Definitely a group worthy of a deep-dive. Supertramp, in their prime, & even beyond it were so different, deep, listenable & maybe they didn't get ALL the props they truly deserved. Loved this band. Highly suggest: "Even In the Quietest Moments." Haunting song. But so much of their work does just that: "HAUNTS." Loved the enthusiasm of your reactions. Figures Real Musicians would appreciate them!
Hell yeah! Looking forward to hearing the rest of this album!
Sight After Dark is now my favorite reaction channel. They do not interrupt the song. Respectful and not annoying.
Thanks! We appreciate you ❤️!
@@SightAfterDark 😊
You guys are going to enjoy this album and I'll have a lot of fun watching you take it all in.
Thanks for watching!
This entire album is one of THE best of ALL TIME. This song is amazing!
Supertramp's Magnum Opus! This whole record!
My two favorite songs by them are “give a little bit“ and “my kind of lady“ those two songs will take it in a totally different direction and the saxophone work in them is unbelievable.
Early 70s.
The thing you will soon learn about SUPERTRAMP is their SUPERIOR Production Values, on a par with
the likes of PINK FLOYD.
Some of the most sumptuous, lush sound recordings ever put to vinyl.
Of particular note is the Album "Even In The Quietest Moments", which features a piano on top of a snowy mountain peak on the Album Cover.
One of the quietest places you'll ever experience is being alone on top of a wind-free, snow-laden mountain top. You'll only hear your own heartbeat as the snow deeply absorbs all other sound waves present.
The Sound Quality of EITQM is so pure, it was re-released as an "AUDIOPHILE" Version.
It cost $25Bucks in 1977 Dollars, when a regular vinyl LP sold for about $3!
Specially prepared Vinyl that is STAMPED Twice in the Press for DEEP RESONANCE & ENHANCED CLARITY.
SUPERTRAMP was a true "SUPERGROUP" of the 70s that ruled FM Radio and performed to SOLD-OUT Arenas, Stadiums & Concert Halls W🌐RLDWIDE!
🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦✌🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Woah! That’s intense! We can definitely tell that their recordings are of top-notch quality. Thanks for watching Cheri!
@@SightAfterDark I very much enjoy your channel, comments and observations. Keep it up, you deserve a MUCH LARGER following, and I'm certain that you will achieve that over time.
Cheers! >from REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
A good friend of mine had this album on cassette tape and played the heck out of it on our way to work back in 1979. It was a crummy job, but I was always in a good mood after hearing Supertramp. Positively righteous album, start to finish.
Awesome memory ray! Thanks for sharing!
These guys killed it in concert!! They sound just like this!! Epic Fire!🔥🔥🔥🔥
I have researched the year Supertramp did this song "SCHOOL".
It was 1974, I was 13.
My music-history 'til then was Beatles and so on, OK
BUT at the age of 10/11 the household-family-music was dominated by GERMAN SCHLAGER! (A simply waste of tones and rhythms!)
I was injured with needles full of simpliest kind of music... - ...until I heard THIS SONG on the radio! ("BFBS"!!!)
And I asked myself: "is THIS the landing of the extraterrestrials???"
The sound was at far away from my curcumstancing hear - I was upset!
And FROM THIS MOMENT ON it was all about me to understand Rock- and Soul-Music! For Heaven's Sake!!!
...one name not mentioned so far is mr ken scott - producer extraordinaire - who worked alongside sir george martin with the beatles and who produced 'hunky dory', 'ziggy stardust' & 'aladdin sane' for bowie. "crime of the century" is real 'state of the art' sound' for 1974 - such a great sounding record - it had the audiophiles breathless with delight! this is going to be a trip, guys!!
Shoutout to Ken! And shoutout to you Ian!
Indeed, Ken Scott, John Helliwell, Bob S., Doug Thompson is genius stacked on Genius. The creativity of the group took precedence over that genius.
The other child prodigy no one mentions much Rick Davies never tooted his own horn. He did let out that he once got a job as an organist and had to fake it.
Roger Hodgson? Well, he is a genius. But that's not the point is it?
Supertramp's songs came from a total creative synergy greater than the genius of each member added up. Suffering to tolerate the other genius is the most important factor in making the boring square round.
Indeed, Roger Hodgson off by himself could never reproduce that Supertramp magic. Meanwhile, I always felt Rick D. was burdened with advancing it.
They say in transferring the album to compact disk, they screwed up a lot of that genius buried by Ken Scott in the original album. Like all those little whistles buried in the piano interlude in the song School.
Then again, I was privileged in getting to listen to that album on a pair of Yamaha 1000 speakers powered by Mc Intosh amps.
Come to think of it, I think most only think they like that album while never truly hearing it.
You can't deny a great producer/sound engineer. Even Dark Side Of The Moon wouldn't be that great without Alan Parsons.
The clarinet in this song!!! Not an instrument you will find in other pop/rock music. I love that sweet sound.
Helliwell does not get enough credit for his contributions on the wind instruments!
Gotta love it!
My gramps would have kicked this little dude's butt. The best speakers ever built were those huge horns used in the silent movie houses. What? Like we played our amps through the opened mouths of horses.
"Wheenie!" Cried the horses as the soul of the music poured out their opened mouths streaming from cables that they had inserted up their asses.
@@doplinger1 As well as the organ, piano, and other assorted instruments.
No clarinet on this song. Roger Hodgson does on his live performances, substitutes the electric guitar parts with it.
SO many good songs that bring back the old rock radio days. I really miss them too.
I used to work at a retail stereo sales store and this song was always playing on the stereos in the shop. It felt very revolutionary back then and it’s still a great song.
Hell yeah!
Yeah, there were pedals then, just not as much variation as now. The 'slow' start ceases to feel slow if we think about this less as a 'song' in the rock sense, and more like music in the classical sense. Then expectation goes away and you're left to go on the ride. You might want to consider doing another hit of theirs that is performed live. Then you can see how they do what they do. On stage they were a bit like The Doobie Brothers without all the positivity. It's like a bunch of talented session musicians formed a band.
Awesome! Thanks so much for watching!
John Helliwell told of going back to England to attend school to learn how to really play the saxophone during the bands long break between 1987 and 1997. A lot of the other students in class with him were there because of his own playing. John Helliwell did a sequence of interesting interviews.
I love you guys reaction to Crime of the Century. Supertramp's songs are so complex that I could see you thinking you knew how the song was going to next but each time your faces said WTF. A wonderful musical journey.
Totally. Thanks Dave!
I always felt that the harmonica sounded like a train whistle off in the distance. And this song, as well as some others on this album, sound like a train getting up speed as the music builds up.
"I feel like I'm in a Clint Eastwood movie" Actually this came from the spaghetti western that doesn't have Clint Eastwood but has Charles Bronson playing a harmonica at the beginning and end or something that sounds like this it's called Once Upon a Time in the West .
Directed by the legendary Sergio Leone
it adds to the drama of course. I love the children screams just when the sustained guitar is at its highest volume before the band sets in. Very dramatic effect.
@@SightAfterDark Music by the Maestro Ennio Morricone
@@stevedotwood - so many great elements to this song: the harmonica open, the build up, the scream transition, that GLORIOUS piano solo, another build up, the wacka-wacka guitars, soooo tasty.
I'm 48, used to listen to this with my brother and my father before they passed. Great times
Sorry for your losses
Good memories, listening to good music.
In the 70s I had fuzz, MXR phase 90 and wah-wah. Hendrix had Maestro fuzz, Vox wah, Uni-vibe, Octavia made for him by Roger Mayer
A great start to what will likely prove an epic journey! 👍😘🎶💞💃
Hell yeah! Looking forward to it!
a superb album that never dates and i never tire of.A beautiful mix of melodies,lyrics,detail and a production that is almost a reference on how to produce an album of detail and dynamics.Puts todays production to shame nearly 50 years on.A classic album that all should own.Their best work ever
We're loving it so far! Thanks Ian!
Albums often impress at first and then for some time they continue to be a favourite. Then sometimes after several listenings they become less impressive, not so with a few albums, Crime definitely one of them, it's got that certain 'something' that makes it stand out from the crowd. It's just a perfect album! I've got hundreds of albums, if l could only keep five, Crime would definitely be one of them.
Heppa. Just found you. This album came to me in the 70s. This is their heaviest album but the following 3-5 albums are great as well. Big Supertramp fan here, like Genesis until 1977.... will follow you on this journey (though I’m one month late) Progressive pop; Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies, John Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, and of course on drums Bob Siebenberg (or Bob C. Benberg)
When I listend to this song at the first time there was no record-player in my household. I just got to go to the open library in my hometown (Herne, in the Ruhrgebiet, in the middle of Europe), where this Masterpiece was archived (next to "Autobahn" by "Kraftwerk", by the way... :o)) And there i heard it first IN STEREO!!! STEREO, you know?!
Those were the times.
Today we're all googled and at handy-times
MY Youth was STONE-AGED!
😆great!
There were pedals in the 70s. Distortion, phase shifter, and others.
Got it. Thanks Jim!
Booster - Chorus - Flanger - Phaser - Fuzz - tube screamer - Wahwah. Delay, Echo and EQ weren't available then if I remember well, in stompboxes that is. They were availabe in effect units, like a tape-echo which was a huge device and you could see the tape moving in loops beneath the transparent lid. (I'm talking about the 80's really)
SO... you two are doing the entire "Crime Of The Century" album.... This is going to be "EPIC"
I consider Supertramp my 70's band, many good memories including this gem. In 1979 their album Breakfast in America hit the United States as the # 1 album for 6 weeks. This song and Rudy both longer playing songs are so unique and are found on their Crime of the Century LP. My all time favorite by Supertramp is Take the Long Way Home with Logical song a close second.
Hell yeah! Looking forward to hearing more supertramp!
I've got hundreds of albums, if l could only keep five, Crime would be one of them, no question!
Supertramp has been part of my life since 1970 and this album was truly there coming of age when it was released, and went on to a long and exciting career. As for pedals like today NO is the answer..
Now listen to more like Fools Overture , Sister Moonshine and many other iconic songs of theirs.
I feel old... nobody I know doesn't know Crime Of The Century
You make us feel young 😄
This is my favorite song. Well produced.
Its a great one! Thanks for watching!
Far and away my favorite song on this album.
There’s a worldwide shortage of heavy(ish) guitar sounds and good piano playing in the same song. Only a few bands supply it - Elton John, Steely Dan, and Supertramp among them. School has it.
Truth!
When I listen to this song or to the Pink Floyd one, I see 6 years old little kids, walking to school - and don't want to!
And at school there are disaffected adults, they were only able to destruct childs hope, illusions and imagination at all.
They destroy all of the future within the kids.
SCHOOL isn't good!
And the "heavy piano part" seems to me like a bit of despair - it sounds like...
...little tear dropping
This band got me through high school.
Simply Super.....Tramp 🤩🤩🤩
There were plenty of pedals available during this time. The delays were analog tape, the phaser was prevalent, flangers, wahs, fuzz, talk boxes and distortion pedals were being used. Look at "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd released in 1973. "Crime of the Century" was released a year later in 1974.
I don't know how you sat so still through this song. LOL I"m 64 years old but I'm 18 when I hear this. But if this song makes you want to go back to school, you didn't get the message. LOL Good reaction.
☺️don’t mind me, I’m a robot. Thanks for watching!
"School," like "The Logical Song" (another of their classics) is a statement against indoctrination of social normatives; against the oppressive, fall-in-line attitude that stifles the individual's existential realization.
Well said friend
The first chord of the next song "Bloody Well Right" begins without a gap and could have been the final chord of "School" - and the first line of "Bloody Well Right" is "So you think your schooling's phony..."
dont forget the fade out harmonica at the end of the title track is the one that starts School
Nice
They had pretty much all the same guitar accessories back then. Check out 'Do you feel like we do' by Peter Frampton- 'Frampton Comes Alive'. Mid 70s rock! Some of the best guitar you'll ever hear!
The musicianship in this song is great, but the lyrics seem to be talking about how traditional schooling, at least in those days, stifled creativity and individualism in kids. I think that's what Roger was singing about.
Makes sense! Definitely agree with your interpretation
It's a song FOR THE KIDS!!! Even like PINK FLOYD "Another Brick in the Wall"!
This song always reminds me of the old Genesis ... with Gabriel
One of the best album openers ever, along with Beach Boys-Wouldn't It Be Nice and Stones-Sympathy for the Devil...
Absolutely! Thanks for watching David!
Do it Again isn't too bad either! 😉
Simply amazing !isn't it?
I can't wait!! DO IT NOW!!! :D :D :D
😃
Playground noises can't be an intro to slow and boring. That little girl screams and triggers one of the best drops ever!
Hell yeah!
OMG guys, they had tons of pedals in the 70s and 60s. Univibe, Echoplex, phase shifters, flangers, Leslie speakers, Heil talk box, millions of great fuzz pedals, treble boosters, envelop followers (auto-wah), guitar synthesizers, tremolos, chorus, and yes the wah pedal. Oh and treble boosters.
Lol gotcha. We had no idea the timeline of pedals!
Watch the live in Paris video see how good they are live
The pedals of today is to get the tones of yesterday and yes they had effects in the day. Supertramp musical geniuses.
Hell yeah! Thanks for watching Steve!
End of sixties and seventies there was the Wha Wha , the Fuzz, the echoes tremolo pedal
It's Roger 12 strings accoustic guitar
If a fair amount of music can be seen as amusement park rides for your mind, this is a sweet , corkscrew roller-coaster ride complete with that chain pull to the top of that first hill.
Also, if you don't have large bass drivers, your missing something towards the end.
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves!
This song has a sick bass line.
Hell yeah it does!
Supertramp, "Rudy" . Lots of guessing!
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Yahoo y'all have been hitting my favs Steely Dan, Supertramp, Lil Stevie Wonder! Add Some Beatles, Pink Floyd and Yes you'll 6 of my top ten😀✌🤘
Glad you’ve enjoyed Lucas!
You should have way more subscribers.
We’re not worried about it. All things in time 🙂
If you want to hear more bass and piano combo then the zenith would be The band Renaissance And Ashes Are Burning!
Awesome! Thanks!
LISTEN TO THE WORDS!!
KILLER Song😮😅😊
The songs fades directly into Bloody Well Right. The proper way to listen is to play ALL of side one at once
Thanks
Supertramp is the best
In my music revival comes after Frank Zappa - whoever want's to note (nobody, I know!) - SUPERTRAMP!
(FEELING MUSIC is LED ZEPPELIN at all - but this is BRAIN-MUSIC, sorry)
The mostly underestimated Band ever is SUPERTRAMP!!!
(...lot of exclamation marks, vou know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Is that your air con making such a nice.. BTW, Supertaramp are a unique sound.. and well worth a listen..
Yes and yes
"The Logical Song," is one of, if not their best song. Hope you're able to listen to it.
Sure we’ll get to it someday! Thanks for watching!
So good ❤️❤️❤️
Right! THUMBS UP!
This my favorite track
Some albums just have songs. This one, much like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, had meditations.
Truth! Thanks for watching William!
Everyone of us knows and reminds that teacher's repressions... - and any other adult did also! His or her authorization was their age. Children were nothing.
Greatness
NO! (Clint Eastwood-Thing)
I am the evil (never loved by nobody) "know-it-all"-guy, but what's spinning around your head is the movie "Once Upon a Time in the West" (in german: "Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod") and the music of ENIO MORRICONE ("The HARP")...
Sorry for this...
Best ever!!!
Sifa!!!
I am an educator! That's all!
FREE THE KIDS!
stomp boxes galore. Not multi-pedals though
Makes sense
Yes, be like, 'Jonny Too Good'.
Yeahhh
Check out “Take the Long Way home” by Supertramp
A little bit more "Once Upon a Time in the West" then Clint Eastwood... But I' m still a shitty Know-it-all and don't like myself.
SO LET'S GO ON!
Supertramp was a created band...They did not organically form..Svengali and wealthy was backing a dutch band that maybe took advantage of his money..So he pulled the pin and backed Davies who auditioned members to join what become supertramp....Frank zappa gave Hendrix his first wah wah..or cry baby.
Really?
Next song in the same theme: "Back to School Boogie" by Jon & Vangelis.
Thanks!
School's Out by Alice Cooper LOL. Great tune!
❤🎉
Thanks for watching!
You should stack your records vertically
Thanks Mike
classic album upon it's release...just sayin':)
Excited to hear the rest!
This song influenced pink Floyd’s the wall album
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Regarding the lyrics, this is basically an anti-school song. I suppose Roger Hodgson didn't enjoy his school days.
Lol who likes school anyway?
Please react to the most famous Dutch band ever, only excisted for 5 years, but still wicked and epic, so please listen to Doe Maar- Is Dit Alles(Is This All)
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can't lesson with that noise in the back ground.
I tried....still don't like it LOL!
I agree that it was unpredictable but the stop/start nature of the song doesnt really do it for me. I like that uptempo part but then it's gone in an instant haha.
The next song is awesome
Lol we appreciate you giving it a try Tim 😂
If you can't hear John Helliwell's little whistles and subtle spinning percussion with a vibra-slap during the frollicking piano interlude, you aren't truly listening to this album.
Sorry.
Real: Clint. I like 'Dirty Harry' a lot more, because he wouldn't be a Trump-One. Did he???