Live version from Paris is a must, Roger Hodgson's guitar is 🔥. The star of this version is Ken Scott's production/engineering , along with Rick Davies' singing and songwriting
Yes, this is a masterpiece! I've been saying for some time that this is the greatest rock song ever about sanity and insanity, about the pain and about the demarcations and silences that society sets up (or sometimes imposes) between "us and them".
Actually there were a couple of parts that Roger sang: _Hello, good morning, how are you? Oh, what a lovely afternoon! You know I nearly missed my train,_ etc. And if you let the song run for just one more second, as an added bonus, you would have heard a cuckoo clock, which is hilarious!
As a young teen Crime of the century was my favourite album by far and if I had to choose Asylum my favourite song off the album. Played that album a LOT. Best listened to with closed eyes and let yourself be fully immersed. Glad to see you get it.
I recommend Roger Hodgson's solo album "In The Eye Of The Storm" (1984). The whole album is amazing. And if you don't have time for the whole album, definitely all the odd numbers on this album.
Excellent - “compression and release” is a concept that Frank Lloyd Wright used in his architecture, moving from a smaller confined area into a grand, open area, very effective, and it’s the same common theme in Supertramp music!
Supertramp is truly one of a kind creatively. Even though I've known this song for 50 years, it never fails to captivate me. And once again I'm taken into the world of this unfortunate wretch. Is Jimmy Creem really our narrator as he jumps back and forth between first and third person references ? Was he mad when he was committed - or did the asylum cause the cheese to slide off his cracker ? This song and Elton's "Madman Across The Water" were recorded within a year of each other, but I know of no direct connection other than genius.
thanks Brandon, for bringing back those magical days... into the future 😇 ...after the Beatles' decease, the world of popular music took a deep breath, to then explode into a creativity, never seen before (and maybe after) with its absolute high point in 1973/74, where ProgRock master pieces were raining down on us from all directions on a weekly base... Just a year before 'Crime', Pink Floyd published their 'Dark Side', and its influence is easy to spot, in terms of 'Asylum' the theme of mental sanity... Rick and Roger were bubbling with ideas, and produced the staggering number of 42 demo tracks for this album... 🌈
Crime of the Century was my fist Supertramp album (as a cassette and with no song titles on it, I just got it from a school friend and it took some time to find out what album and group it was - no internet in the early 80s :D) together with the early Chris de Burgh albums my gateway to Art and Prog Rock where I am still rooted til today. It is one of the best albums ever produced and a real rival to Dark Side of the Moon in that regard. While others played Bach and Mozart in school piano lessons I played Supertramp and Chris de Burgh and later Pink Floyd and Jean Michel Jarre.
I've known the album since I was around ten or eleven years old - my brother recorded it to one of his cassette tapes from the LP belonging to one of our cousins (along with much of "Even in the Quietest Moments") - I later made a new rip myself, to a HQ Maxell tape, the best kind you could get at the time - and a couple years later I bought a copy of the LP. These are songs we grew up with and recognized as superb work even then. I'm still as impressed by them more than forty years later! ❤
Cracking reaction. Love Supertramp like you and although both Rick and Roger are superb I do have a soft spot for Rick and his songs ‘Oh , what a lovely afternoon..’
Masterpiece about madness. Gorgeous arrangements and melodies. You missed the Cuckoo cry at the very end, which could be a reference to the movie Fly over a cuckoo's nest. But the movie was realeased one year later.
It was a common saying in UK that if someone’s mental faculties were a bit suspect they were described as ‘a bit cuckoo’ so it could have come from that.
Agree that this is a masterpiece, musically and lyrically. Very dramatic, and everything Rick Davies dos in this song is carried by personal insight born out of deep conviction Yes, the parallels to "Cuckoo's Nest" are fairly clear, the song is also probably influenced by R.D. Laing and his 1960s criticism of conventional psychiatry.
Great song for you to finish up the album. Is this your first Supertramp album that you’ve completed?? They have such a great discography! Have a great weekend bud! 😊
It is my first to be completed...but coming close on a few, especially "Even in the Quietest.." And someone needs to slap me for not reacting to anything from "Free As A Bird" yet!! Thanks, I'll be somewhat "out of town", but will try to check in here in the comments section. My first 2 day break in a long time! Of course the videos will still come 😁 Have a great weekend too!
What is madness? Maybe there is no such thing as madness. For the madman, it is the others who are mad. Aren't we each someone else's fool? Conclusion: Is he really mad? Final answer: "He's mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad"/Not quite right (not quite right)". And the one who was called the "king's fool", wasn't he in fact the wisest and most lucid man in the court? SUPERTRAMP, always imperial! Thank you.
I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years Been over the edge for yonks ... I've always been mad I know I've been mad like the most of us have Very hard to explain why you're mad Even if you're not mad
Great review as always, thanks Brandon. I think this whole album is influenced by the the whole social situation that existed in the 70's, nevertheless it produced some outstanding music.
• I missed it, but my hearing has crumbled over time, but at the end of this track or the beginning of the next, very quiet, there's a single "cuckoo" sound. • Love it that Roger sings some of the lines. Their call-and-response is very much a trademark. • Funny how you mention Elton John, since I compare this song to Madman Across the Water. Many shared elements, including people "visiting" the asylum (look at him he's so insane) (they haunt me and they taunt me in my cage). You could hardly ask for a closer parallel. • I never thought of Jimmy Cream as being the protagonist, since the singer refers to him in the third person. Then again the narrative person bounces in and out of the voice of the insane person. "Will he take a sailboat ride?" refers in the third person. "They haunt me and they taunt me in my cage" very firmly has the insane person in the first person. But it occurs to me -- this kind of slippage is exactly what you'd expect from an insane person, for at least certain kinds of insanity!
Hello! Wow, Roger sang here? Is that why I thought Rick sounded like Roger haha? Yes, I just saw your old comment about Madman ATW. I demand a song mashup! Need to explore the lyrics more for sure. Hope you had a Bat-tastic Halloween!! 🧛♂️
The opening and closing flower/insanity song! Thanks for watching! 🥰
Live version from Paris is a must, Roger Hodgson's guitar is 🔥.
The star of this version is Ken Scott's production/engineering , along with Rick Davies' singing and songwriting
I really must do that whole Paris album... Yup, Rick hit another musical home run here. Have a great night!
👍👑☮️🙏😎
Yes, this is a masterpiece! I've been saying for some time that this is the greatest rock song ever about sanity and insanity, about the pain and about the demarcations and silences that society sets up (or sometimes imposes) between "us and them".
A very sophisticated song and band. All the cool people like Supertramp. I stand behind that.
Usually preferred Hodgson's vocals but this is a GREAT track from (for me) one of the greatest albums ever.
Yeah, I had that album. Great work by Supertramp!
Can't wait to hear the album straight through! Maybe tomorrow on my drive home...
A perfect reaction...
(Sigh) Wow. 😊
Aw, thank you so much Patrick! I do try hard to make good videos 😊
Great song from a great album! 👌😎👍 I've heard it MANY times and it never gets old! 🥰
Actually there were a couple of parts that Roger sang: _Hello, good morning, how are you? Oh, what a lovely afternoon! You know I nearly missed my train,_ etc. And if you let the song run for just one more second, as an added bonus, you would have heard a cuckoo clock, which is hilarious!
This is one of Rick's best songs. Throughout the song he goes from calm to desperation at the end with the band following him..
Forgot to mention that every time i play this album i have to listen to it in its entirety. Masterpiece!!!👍😎
As a young teen Crime of the century was my favourite album by far and if I had to choose Asylum my favourite song off the album. Played that album a LOT. Best listened to with closed eyes and let yourself be fully immersed. Glad to see you get it.
I recommend Roger Hodgson's solo album "In The Eye Of The Storm" (1984). The whole album is amazing. And if you don't have time for the whole album, definitely all the odd numbers on this album.
FYI, I did react to "Had A Dream" already! I'm sure I'll do more from him...Thanks
These guys were absolute masters.
They created their own sound, Like
no other. Just like The Beatles or
Pink Floyd.
Excellent - “compression and release” is a concept that Frank Lloyd Wright used in his architecture, moving from a smaller confined area into a grand, open area, very effective, and it’s the same common theme in Supertramp music!
I joined this song with madman across the water, they wrk together in a set.
Such a great Album and a really good song. Congrats, now you can listen to the whole Album end to end like the rest of us…..
Supertramp is truly one of a kind creatively. Even though I've known this song for 50 years, it never fails to captivate me. And once again I'm taken into the world of this unfortunate wretch. Is Jimmy Creem really our narrator as he jumps back and forth between first and third person references ? Was he mad when he was committed - or did the asylum cause the cheese to slide off his cracker ? This song and Elton's "Madman Across The Water" were recorded within a year of each other, but I know of no direct connection other than genius.
Very cool song on many levels. ✨️🎶✨️
thanks Brandon, for bringing back those magical days... into the future 😇
...after the Beatles' decease, the world of popular music took a deep breath, to then explode into a creativity, never seen before (and maybe after) with its absolute high point in 1973/74, where ProgRock master pieces were raining down on us from all directions on a weekly base...
Just a year before 'Crime', Pink Floyd published their 'Dark Side', and its influence is easy to spot, in terms of 'Asylum' the theme of mental sanity... Rick and Roger were bubbling with ideas, and produced the staggering number of 42 demo tracks for this album... 🌈
More genius music by Supertramp. Another cinematic masterpiece.
"Cinematic" is a perfect word for it.
Cinematic for sure! I should have known haha. Thanks for dropping by and for being first to comment tonight! 🥇
Crime of the Century was my fist Supertramp album (as a cassette and with no song titles on it, I just got it from a school friend and it took some time to find out what album and group it was - no internet in the early 80s :D) together with the early Chris de Burgh albums my gateway to Art and Prog Rock where I am still rooted til today. It is one of the best albums ever produced and a real rival to Dark Side of the Moon in that regard. While others played Bach and Mozart in school piano lessons I played Supertramp and Chris de Burgh and later Pink Floyd and Jean Michel Jarre.
I've known the album since I was around ten or eleven years old - my brother recorded it to one of his cassette tapes from the LP belonging to one of our cousins (along with much of "Even in the Quietest Moments") - I later made a new rip myself, to a HQ Maxell tape, the best kind you could get at the time - and a couple years later I bought a copy of the LP. These are songs we grew up with and recognized as superb work even then. I'm still as impressed by them more than forty years later! ❤
Cracking reaction. Love Supertramp like you and although both Rick and Roger are superb I do have a soft spot for Rick and his songs ‘Oh , what a lovely afternoon..’
Hey Brandon! One of my favorites from Crime. Incredible song! Enjoy my friend. 👍☮️😎
Masterpiece about madness. Gorgeous arrangements and melodies.
You missed the Cuckoo cry at the very end, which could be a reference to the movie Fly over a cuckoo's nest. But the movie was realeased one year later.
It was a common saying in UK that if someone’s mental faculties were a bit suspect they were described as ‘a bit cuckoo’ so it could have come from that.
Agree that this is a masterpiece, musically and lyrically. Very dramatic, and everything Rick Davies dos in this song is carried by personal insight born out of deep conviction
Yes, the parallels to "Cuckoo's Nest" are fairly clear, the song is also probably influenced by R.D. Laing and his 1960s criticism of conventional psychiatry.
Great song for you to finish up the album. Is this your first Supertramp album that you’ve completed?? They have such a great discography! Have a great weekend bud! 😊
It is my first to be completed...but coming close on a few, especially "Even in the Quietest.." And someone needs to slap me for not reacting to anything from "Free As A Bird" yet!! Thanks, I'll be somewhat "out of town", but will try to check in here in the comments section. My first 2 day break in a long time! Of course the videos will still come 😁 Have a great weekend too!
@@retroreactions.... "I'm Beggin' You" literally and figuratively from "Free As A Bird".
What is madness? Maybe there is no such thing as madness. For the madman, it is the others who are mad. Aren't we each someone else's fool? Conclusion: Is he really mad?
Final answer: "He's mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad"/Not quite right (not quite right)".
And the one who was called the "king's fool", wasn't he in fact the wisest and most lucid man in the court?
SUPERTRAMP, always imperial! Thank you.
I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years
Been over the edge for yonks
...
I've always been mad
I know I've been mad like the most of us have
Very hard to explain why you're mad
Even if you're not mad
Love this one! Some different flavor, musically and lyrically. Thanks for the visit bud!
@@sourisvoleur4854 indeed - 'Dark Side' is a lot about madness and death... the lunatic is on the grass....
Great review as always, thanks Brandon.
I think this whole album is influenced by the the whole social situation that existed in the 70's, nevertheless it produced some outstanding music.
• I missed it, but my hearing has crumbled over time, but at the end of this track or the beginning of the next, very quiet, there's a single "cuckoo" sound.
• Love it that Roger sings some of the lines. Their call-and-response is very much a trademark.
• Funny how you mention Elton John, since I compare this song to Madman Across the Water. Many shared elements, including people "visiting" the asylum (look at him he's so insane) (they haunt me and they taunt me in my cage). You could hardly ask for a closer parallel.
• I never thought of Jimmy Cream as being the protagonist, since the singer refers to him in the third person. Then again the narrative person bounces in and out of the voice of the insane person. "Will he take a sailboat ride?" refers in the third person. "They haunt me and they taunt me in my cage" very firmly has the insane person in the first person. But it occurs to me -- this kind of slippage is exactly what you'd expect from an insane person, for at least certain kinds of insanity!
Hello! Wow, Roger sang here? Is that why I thought Rick sounded like Roger haha? Yes, I just saw your old comment about Madman ATW. I demand a song mashup! Need to explore the lyrics more for sure. Hope you had a Bat-tastic Halloween!! 🧛♂️
@@retroreactions.... Roger sings "Hello, good morning, how are you?" and other lines in that section.
If you play it right out to the very end, you will hear a cuckoo clock which ends the song
Time for more Chris rea
His turn should be coming soon! Hopefully in November...
Lumea a trecut repede cu vederea această capodoperă Supertramp,căci devenea o oglindă prea incomodă...
Not sure if ypu got the cuckoo at the end of the piano fade