Reviews (page 11 of 13)
Kinda goofy. It's alright. 6/10
Prog rock Bloody well right Keys/synth 70s
oh, right (bloody well right!)...THAT album. nice to hear the rest of it beyond just that one single.
It was good but not mind blowing.
Vocals are a bit precious. It's just blah. Not for me. A lot of white 70s rock in this book.
Average... 3 Stars
I generally liked the tone of the album, but found myself only replaying the first track, ,'School', over any of the others.
Daorinha, achei q seria tipo synthpop ou sla new wave kkkkk eh prog se pá, de primeira nao muito se sobressaiu... Tirando os saxofones, a última música eh a melhor
Ok
good
Again, good listen but nothing amazing
V good
Couldn't ever tell if I liked it or thought it was hokey.
Mellow, middle of the road listen. Not something I'd listen to regularly, but I liked the transition in \"School.\"
A little surprised by how much I liked this one.
Mystical whimsy. Rudy was the best song on here.
Cool, but not wow.
What a weird little album. Very 1970s. I'm struggling to find much to say about it, despite the fact that I'm enjoying it. The pianos are excellent and always mixed in well. It's very cinematic, but for that reason this album also sort of fades into the background. At times it sounds like a more poppy Pink Floyd. 3/5
ja nice niet baanbrekend gewoon wel prima! 3/5
Meh
A not bad record.
Weird but cool. May revisit as it’s got a lot going on.
good
i liked "rudy" (its a little bit long i think i would appreciate an amended version more but its still pretty good). otherwise a very decent proggy yacht rock album. i think both genres have been done better by other artists.
4/30 An excellently produced musical. Standout Tracks: School, Rudy, Crime of the Century
I've never liked the Supertramp songs I've heard on the radio, too squeaky clean or something. ESPECIALLY that dreamer song. The rest of the album isn't too bad though, just the poppier end of 70s prog I guess. 3/5.
It's good!
Art rock, progressive rock, pop.
8 songs and 44 minutes??? I began each song kind of liking them but by the end of the 5-6 minutes I was so done.
Macht mich müde.
Nah
I like a couple of the songs, not in love with the album tho
My expectations may have been too high for this one... It was just kind of background noise to me with nothing really standing out.
4/10
This is of my era and they were heavily played on the radio, but for some reason I've never liked Supertramp.
A prog-pop album. It meanders a bit. 2 Star
Not for me I fear
Immediately forgettable
i kinda zoned out listening to it but towards the end i think something was cool.
Not great. Boring
Mukavan omanlaista settiä ja parissa biisissä on ihan ideaakin, mutta joku kuitenkin tökkii eikä sitten kuitenkaan ihan lähde lentoon.
Supertramp is a top squeaker band, beating out Styx and Bee Gees, tied with Yes but not as good as Rush. Crime of the Century does have their top song with "Bloody Well Right." "Dreamer" and "Ruby" are some good supporters but the album doesn't quite nail it. Some too long tracks got boring. Cool album cover gets this 2.49 stars.
Crime Of The Century started out promising but doesn't have the juice to back it up for 45 minutes. I found School and Bloody Well Right to be the best songs so it opened with a bang but had diminishing returns as you get through the rest of it. It's not a bad album, just merely mediocre after the first couple songs. Not much to take away from this one when it was said and done. 2.44 stars
Not bad and creatively interesting but also not really for me
Supertramp was one of the first bands I discovered through friends and loved in my early teens. I remember really liking this album but I'm really not sure why when I hear it now. I like both of their voices but the rest of it not so much.
Meh
Had a strong closer track but overall was not too intrigued by this. 5/10
These are interesting songs but they take so long to start. Every time a minute and although this was a progressive rock nuance im not sure these songs are worth it. Not a fan of the voice either.
Ever wondered "Hey what if Queen sounded like shit?", wonder no further.
Glad it’s over
i really don't know what to expect the only supertramp songs i know are breakfast in america (thanks patrick stump) and the logical song nothing really stood out to me other than the outro of the last track, all the songs blended into each other, was mostly bored while listening, might just be bc its not what i usually listen to but would probably not listen again
Asylum great. Definitely heard a couple of these before, not much hit.
Not enjoyable!
Not something I would have picked to listen to but I did enjoy it
The homies love this so I will not document my negativity towards this fully, however I truly did not enjoy this
Twas ok. Fun instrumental but I wouldn’t listen again. Would give 2.5 stars if that was an option
5/10 - Felt very 70s and like a less fun Pink Floyd.
I tried, but I just found it painfully average :/
I don't mind the proggy song structures if the musical textures are interesting, but here the textures are too pop/yacht rock for me. There is more grit in the lyrics than the music. I think I had previously mistaken Dreamer for ELO and I hadn't realised I already knew School. That was my favourite song here, or at the least the first four minutes of it were.
Final song is maybe the best thing on here, but otherwise I thought this was pretty uninteresting. I probably prefer Breakfast In America (which I appreciate is a more commercial pick)
I’m not immune to a few Supertramp songs but this is pretty dull.
I super did not connect with this album. 5/10, a solid meh.
I'm not a prog hater, but it needs to be something that really stands out for one reason of another. This just doesn't. It's pleasant enough to listen to, and obviously they are talented musicians, but it just does nothing for me. Inoffensive background music is the best description I could give this.
First 4 songs sound the same, then it hits you with the pure dogshit that is "Dreamer". Supertramp found the brown note in 1974 and used it to create "Dreamer".
This was fine or whatever, not something you MUST listen, especially when Supertramp has a better album out there. It's fine for one listen thorugh but wouldn't dive in again any time soon.
For me it was very ordinary record sounds like typical mild rock album of 70s. Quite a lot of major chord progressions. I don’t really like this kind of music.
Moody, soft listening
Not bad - certainly better than Donald Trump - but nothing amazing either.
Embarrassingly, I was yesterday years old when I realised that Supertramp are not an American soul/funk band, as I had always believed before for some reason. I rather wish they had been though. I already knew that I don't like prog when it's pretentious and complex. Now I know that I also don't like it when it has a cheesy pop sensibility. Nothing on here grabbed me at all, although I did realise that I'd actually heard 'Dreamer' before without knowing it was by them.
2.25 - A few good songs. Mostly just okay. My biggest takeaway is that Supertramp and Superchunk are different bands.
alla låtar låter likadant och jag är uttråkad
Esto fue un completo descubrimiento para mi porque no sabía absolutamente nada sobre este álbum. No destaco ninguna canción en especial, porque siento que individualmente ninguna funciona mucho, como compilado si lo hacen, pero igual lo encuentro un poco pretencioso. A Camilo le gustaría
I have nothing to contribute to the world of music hobbyists and journalism. My perspective is severely limited. I'm picky, stubborn, and there's likely thousands of "classic" albums that I have never heard before. I did this project to broaden my tastes. An attempt to understand myself and my tastes better, and to be able to articulate why I like or don't like something. Today, on album #4, I encounter my first obstacle: why do I really dislike Crime of the Century? It feels unfair to say something as dismissive as "I don't like prog rock." Even if I added a stipulation and said "I don't like 70's prog rock" that still doesn't get to the heart of it. I still enjoy some Pink Floyd, and I love Roundabout by Yes, which is quintessential 70's prog rock. So what's going on here? Am I unable to get into its musical theater stylings? Do I not like the thin sound of the keyboards? It's hard to say exactly what turned me off from the album, but from the beginning, nothing even turned me on. I wasn't sold. I found Dreamer more obnoxious than anything. In fact, I found a good chunk of the album obnoxious. The album as a whole is not bland, boring, or offensive, and I'm not inclined to call it anything particularly mean. But in the course of any music hobbyist's life, there comes a time. A time when you have to admit to yourself...you don't like (most) 70's prog rock.
I am a bigger fan of their later album, Breakfast in America, so this wasn’t a pleasant listening experience in the slightest. But I will not give it a one because it is still more listenable than most albums.
Too many repetitive rock albums in a row
Some good bits but mostly a lot of progging about for not much payoff
Failed to really capture my attention. The sounds faded into the background and felt rather repetitive. Inoffensive but a tad dull.
Dullness of the century.
I don’t know anything on this. It was fine I guess.
Music may have happened, but not engaging music that I was bothered absorbing.
Supertramp has good songs! This album contains one of them. Top track: “Bloody Well Right”
--School...piano melody is solid --Bloody Well Right...one of the most boring "classics" from the 70s. sax is fun --Hide in Your Shell...not interesting or "prog" enough to be seven minutes long --Asylum...see "Hide..." --Dreamer...the synths are okay, I guess --Rudy...was offsides. introduces some heaviness which I appreciate. another seven minute epic but I feel like this one justifies its length more than "Hide..." and "Asylum" --If Everyone Was Listening...(sigh) pretty but boring --Crime of the Century...some fun interplay between sax, piano, and strings but not really a song
Lot of these albums seem similar. Does the 1001 albums guy have 70's nostalgia? This was all 'meh' for me, except the epic outro in the last song, which bumped it from 2 to 2.49!
Bloody Well Right var en banger, men annars är det en oerhört svag samling låtar. Det är så många låtar häri som låter som att de kommer från en rockopera eller ett konceptalbum, men nope! Inget sånt i sikte... Och liksom, låtar som "School" och "Rudy" gör sig verkligen inte ens lite som standalone-låtar.
This is like if the most uninteresting bar band you ever heard decided to try their hand at prog rock one day. Just bland and direction less all around, to the point where I can't even tell what the band's intention was here.
It was alright, I guess. Needed more sax tbh.
pretty average + boring but has some listenable on background tracks
Ok album. I think I need to listen to this another time as the first time just flew by me. There were interesting things and sounds that worked well.
I could not get through this. Generic 70s rock
Estuvo ok. No soy muy fan del rock definitivamente. Musicalmente interesante pero nada que me haya volado la cabeza y querido guardar.
Hat mich leider sehr enttäuscht.. hatte irgendwie Erwartungen, weil ich hier und da schonmal was von der Band gehört habe.
Ich hatte mehr erwartet, insgesamt ist mir das deutlich zu sprunghaft und drüber - erinnert teilweise im negativen Sinne an Queen.
2/5 - This may be teaching me that I'm not the biggest fan of prog rock. This was... Fine? No real interest in listening to it again.
least annoying Supertramp album I guess
Not forme
I thought the album as a whole was decentish but a couple of songs were a bit grating. The songs School and Dreamer were both pretty good so this offset the rating a bit
The first song in the Album "School" was so good that got me hyped up for the rest of the album, was so disappointed to be bored
Wasn’t a huge fan. Pretty songs, kind of Elton John esque. The last song was better than the rest of the album
Qué buenas canciones son los singles de Supertramp, escuchar un disco completo, somnoliento como en este caso.
This gets off to a strong start with "School" and "Bloody Well Right" but then deflates like a balloon. It just seems like Pink Floyd lite. Part of it was that I was listening on a plane and the constant back and forth of soft to loud didn't work well in that environment. Still, many of these songs are forgettable and go nowhere. And, if there's a concept to it, it was lost on me. I love their album "Breakfast in America" and that's the one that should be on this list.
Felt like I should've liked this one more than I did, ticks a lot of the same boxes of stuff I usually go for. Just didnt click, found it often pretty boring. Too many different ideas at once or something, felt unfocused. Good musicianship but not for me
Imagine the scene. You're a hard bitten cop. You've had a long hard career. You've done your time. It's your last week on the job. You get a call that fills you with dread. Some lunatic has gone off the deep end and is holding a small aprtment block hostage. He's already a few hours in, thratening all sorts. It's your job to sort it out. Quite frankly, you're out of shits to give. You want this done quick. You know exactly what to do. You call in the truck with the big speakers. It pulls up in front of the buidling. You pause for a second. What you're about to do is going to end spectacularly ... you're just not sure if that's good or bad. Yet. Playing 'Crime of the Ceuntry' - which is an ironic title, come to think of it - at maximum volume for hours on end is going to impact an already unhinged man's mind. He will either last a few plays and take the whole building down, probably literally. Or he is going to be on the phone demianding the refomation of the band and a personal performance. Let's face it, it's probably the former. But I refer you to the earlier number of shits given. Either way the end will be quick. 2 points.
You see glimpses of what they become, but still raw
Tästä(kään) ei jäänyt oikein mitään mieleen.
1: Dreamer 2: Bloody Well Right 3: If Everyone was Listening
Rather bland. 5/10
Bloody Well Right is fun. Everything else is awful - goopy, overly-dramatic, 70's Air Supply crap.
2 stars Forgettable. I had heard “Bloody Well Right” years ago and thought it was annoying. I think I would mix “Dreamer” up with The Who’s “A Quick One.” But yeah, I overall couldn’t care for it.
Bootleg led zeppelin. Maybe will listen more but not hugely interested
It's ok, instrumentals are very nice
A few good tracks but for the most part bland and boring.
Not my favorite album I liked the different elements you don’t hear too often such as snapping and keyboard heavy songs but it’s just not my style. Saved none.
Not a genre I enjoy
An album full of wannabe epic tracks that ultimately come off as pretty boring. The whole time I was wishing this was Breakfast in America instead. Dreamer is the only standout and saves this from being a one star album.
Rubbish
Didn't really care to much for this although some of the arrangements were decent.
A lot of half songs and stop-starts. More of a jam session than an album. Impressive but not very enjoyable to listen to.
I don’t care for prog-rock.
It's ok.
I think British 60s/70s rock just may not be my jam. Why is every song 8 minutes long though?? I don’t have the attention span or appreciation for that. Again, I feel like uncultured swine for not appreciating this album more but at least I’m consistent I guess?
The reason I signed up for this in the first place was to broaden my horizons and discover gems I didn't know existed. I've heard so much about Supertramp over the years so thought I was in for a real treat. Sadly this album fell WELL short of my expectations. Just boring, bad singing, nothing going on. Not a fan.
proc je vetsina unavailable?? hudbou pripominajici bowieho (asylum) a queeny, not bad, neco jsem uz slysela, ale do playlistu to nejde..
Great name, great album cover and I can see how this album would have sold well when it was released because it would have piqued my interest in a record shop. Unfortunately, I would have got it home and spun it up to ultimately be underwhelmed. It's prog-rock, but with a heavy emphasis on the prog. The opening track was pretty good, if a little soft. There was evidence of a little more bite here and there, for example the heavier bridge of 'Bloody Well Right', which got me momentarily excited before it dropped back into a Elton-Johnesque prog-pop blend. Generally far too soft for me. I'd like more rock with my prog, please.
It was okay
Just a bit too proggy for me, but I did smile at the thought of an American trying to make it all the way through ‘Bloody Well Right’.
i’ve gotta be real sports fans: idk if i’m a big fan of prog rock. this is not bad, but it’s not for me.
Raspberry ripple. Veins of great taste running through mostly bland and homogeneous vanilla stuff. It became background music after 3 songs. Dreamer came and went and I was gone again before the end.
Too slow to warrant a band name like Supertramp. It’s fine, but not what I was expecting. Kinda boring
It was just okay… the first half just… existed… Dreamer reeled me in a bit for the latter half but it just wasn’t my jam. Some really neat music and sound at times but overall didn’t keep my attention / focus.
More piano-centric Pink Floyd meet Bee Gees vibes. Enjoyed a few songs
Meh2
This was better than I expected, but I’ve never liked Supertramp. Good for what it is, but not really for me.
Sometimes Brit Pop sounds like a parade of silliness. This is one of those times. I tried to find merit...there are some good parts that felt "out of this world" but mainly it sounded like a trite cacophony of arrangements that have been done before 74 and were over-done after 74.
dictionary definition of MOR
I can hear what they’re trying to achieve, but I’m sure there were better examples of this genre of music in the 70’s. “If everyone was listening” and “crime of the century” hold their own though
As much as I wish Prog Rock hit harder for me, it seems that none of it is really able to quench my thirst I have for the genre, even with a staple like Supertramp's Crime of the Century. This album is very grand and bold as are many Prog Rock albums, but Crime of the Century feels different as it also have some very theatrical elements I feel aren't as prominent in the genre around this time as many would have you believe. Crime of the Century feels a bit cheesy if you ask me but has some really cool elements all over this project that definitely jived with my likings but as a general album I struggled to full connect to the music at hand. I believe Hide in Your Shell was by far my favorite track here and then again I felt like I could barely get by with liking it. I enjoy some of Supertramp's other work but I really don't get what didn't work here. Oh well life goes on a guess....
not my vibe, the album itself was pretty good
Long songs(8 songs, 45 minutes), I didn’t really enjoy the execution of the lyrics. I think this album would have been just as good if it were solely instrumental. Bloody Well Right made me feel like Tom Cruise in Risky Business dancing in his underwear, so +1 for that. Overall, definitely not Supertramp’s best work, but I would listen again while walking down the street alone at 2:30 in the morning (asylum would eat). Sidenote: Background vocals genuinely scared me multiple times. 2.4 stars.
i’m not super impressed by this album. not incredibly interesting, no songs that i feel compelled to listen to again really. maybe just not my thing. i want to find it interesting because of the prog vibes, but it’s just kind of a bland album to me.
I don’t quite understand why this album is so revered. It did nothing for me, sadly.
I get why people like this and the album is made really well but it’s just not for me
On the one hand, they're good at making music. On the other, the music they make kind of sucks. On a third, mysterious hand that came out of nowhere, a lot of later bands CLEARLY stole riffs and sounds from here (and made songs I like more). Unfortunately, the first band that came to mind was The Eagles, who are also talented musicians who make music that sucks. The second was Madness. And then... the Rocky Horror Picture Show. So you lose some, you win some, and on this album I think I'm losing a lot more than I'm winning. Talk about wearing out its welcome, I actually skipped Asylum once it hit minute 5. The long and short of it is that you should probably have heard this album but also probably not more than once if you were born in the '80s or later.
Supertramp has always puzzled me. While they make some really good songs, I’ve always had them pegged as a not-as-serious band. Their big hits, while thoroughly enjoyable, are a bit gimmicky. Sort of tongue-in-cheek. That being said, this is a decent album but I prefer their album Breakfast in America.
Too cheesy for my tastes. The sort of thing that gave prog-rock a bad name.
Musical ketamine. And not in a good way.
I just didn’t vibe with a lot of the sounds on here. Like there’s some good moments but for me it just didn’t connect. The dreamer part triggered some memory however can’t say I loved it.
I like some of Supertramp hit songs but I'd never listened to this album before. While listeting, I got Pink Floyd vibes, yacht or soft rock vibes and so on. I feel like I'm listeting to a bad blend of my favorite musics by Steely Dan or Pink Floyed or Led Zeppelin or some other 70s bands. They took all of this great music and put it in a blender and you get this very strange, inconsistent mix with unpredictable quality. I can't find it interesting and exciting because of this strange mix. If I want to listen yacht rock, I'll play yacht rock. If I want Pink Floyd, I'll play Pink Floyd. But not this. It has little of everything, but nothing special and outstanding. And songs are fucking too long. 2/5 —————————————— Liked: — Hide In Your Shell
Blech. How the hell did this end up on here? I mean, it's aptly named, so perhaps it was a lark by the 1001 author?
I don’t totally hate Supertramp and their prog pop sensibility. They have some singles that I like, but I’m not revisiting this album. Meh.
A struggle to get through. Like a mix of pink floyd, king crimson, and ass-suckage.
Closed with its best three minutes, title track was top. Not sure why this didn’t really work for me overall though. Liked it when it toned back but felt a little derivative of Queen when they ramped up intensity
I like their hits the most, but I can leave the rest of the album.
I dont like that every track is made up of 17 tiny songlets. I have no idea what track Im listening to or how far in it I am. Also exceptionally 70s
Didn’t do much to grasp my attention
Fine but boring, wouldn’t revisit
Unremarkable but listenable
My parents had this CD when I was growing up, so I've heard it before. It's been about 20 years since the last time I checked it out, so I thought I might appreciate it more. Nah, still the same weird avant-garde yacht rock I remembered. Not terrible, but I don't like it.
This might be more impressive, but Breakfast in America has all the bops. I should get into prog maybe.
Mid 2
Starts off fun, peaks at track 2 and then just becomes quite annoying.
It's fine. Very theatrical. This genre doesn't resonate with me.
I was originally going to compare this to a 70s musical meatloaf (lower case "m"). It's got elements of Pink Floyd, Genesis, Zeppelin, Bowie, even Bread - not so much as influence but straight up sections in a song before switching modes. It's certainly sound nice. But in the end it'snot very satisfying. So less meatloaf - which consists of throwing a bunch of stuff in a bowl of grond beef and baking it. In the end it make be overcooked but you know you've eaten something. This i was just left feeling like I wasn't sure what I was supposed to feel. Songs start to go somewhere and then don't. Some songs even sound nice - in the moment. So it's more KFC Famous Bowl then meatloaf.
It was fine, pretty standard 70s rock. Nothing that really stood out to me, nothing I’ve ever really revisit.
Bland. Uninteresting music. Not for me.
Very dynamic remaster. I love the production quality as it sounds and feels like microphones in a room capturing real humans on real instruments.
Wasn’t terrible but don’t think I’d listen to it again
Thought I would like this more! Very meh.
Just not my thing
Cheese
Sort of epic/psychadelic rock, reminds me of Pink Floyd a bit. Kinda mid, banging sax solo in "Crime of the Century". 3/10
Okay but nothing special
A mixture of prog and pop that would work better if it wasn't so stuck to certain definitions of both of those genres. Its idea of prog is long songs that jump between ideas, and its idea of pop is big choruses. These make for strange bedfellows; most of these songs start out as quiet and piano-driven before bursting abruptly into the choruses. The slow parts are uninspired and forgettable. The choruses are the best thing about the album: the horns on "Hide In Your Shell," the groove on "Rudy," the climax on the title track. Given the overwrought lyrics and unnecessary prog passages it feels like this was trying to be more than it needed to be - it could have just been a good pop album. As it is, the pop parts are the only thing saving it from getting a 1. (Granted, "Dreamer" is the one song that sticks to just being pop, and it's the most obnoxious, so maybe that's not true.)
Nope
4/10 I didn't want to be bored today, but here we are. 10-13-2025
This was probably pretty interesting stuff to the meat and potatoes crowd back in the day, but it's pretty boring now. I'm also not much of a Supertramp fan, so I'm biased. I've always found their vocalists' voices to be really grating. Plus the tunes are just boring soft rock that was let to get out of hand.
At its best it sounds like bad The Who.
meus sogros foram num cover de supertramp em cachoeira do campo eu fiquei curioso e fui escutar n achei bom de primeira de segunda eu tive certeza
I enjoyed the first few songs and then my interest tapered off as the album went on. But I liked it more than I expected to.
Once again, I'm surprised by how little I liked the album. I am, of course, familiar with all the big singles from Supertramp. I know I've heard parts of Breakfast In America and liked it. This one, though, didn't like it. Opening with a song about not liking school was kind of an eye roll right away. Things didn't seem to get much better from there. "Dreamer" is still a classic, but wasn't enough to save the album.
Supertramp never really did anything for me, I have known people who absolutely love them. In 2025, Supertramp still does nothing for me.
I tried to like this one, but I couldn't really get into it. It's a proper example of Brit prog rock from the early '70s... and I can see how it might have influenced others... but I simply didn't find it enjoyable. I think they hit a better stride 5 years later with the "Logical Song" era, frankly. They're finding their footing here, but they're also waffling about. The riffs are experimental and there's some soaring bits in there, but at no point was I wowed by it. I'm rather particular about vocalists, and I didn't look forward to the singing at any point during the album. I give it credit for effort, for the time it was produced in, but I think I've been spoiled by bands from later eras that try to do the same thing, but better.
Etter første gjennomhøring har jeg ikke egentlig lyst til å høre gjennom en gang til. Overfladisk og kjedelig. Noen fengende riff og soloer, men samlet sett forglemmelig og på en måte litt flaut. Ville ikke høre flere ganger.
Plodding and kind of boring. Maybe I'd feel differently if I was sitting on my porch smoking a fat one.
perusmeininkiä hitaanlaisesta hoilotuksesta
The biggest hit, School, was somewhat annoying and not that great. I'm familiar with Breakfast In America, which I prefer to this album. Not really my style
Crime of Supertramp: far too cheesy, unserious music discordant with the subject matter. And the songwriting is not good enough to pass it off as "urggg Bri'ish humour".
I've heard enough supertramp hits to know what an album would sound like. It didn't disappoint. Or rather it did a little.
Standouts School
Gives me Queen vibes
(38/100)
Sounds like Sherbet doing pink Floyd covers. I appreciate this is "good music" but it's not music I like. Not offensive but I won't be listening to it again
I feel that prog rock is so much effort (musically) for such little payoff (in terms of spark and feeling). This is album is no exception.
Aside from the iconic songs from Breakfast in America (notably "Goodbye Stranger," which I LOVE), I know next to nothing about Supertramp. There's a throwaway line in High Fidelity where John Cusack dismisses his ex's new boyfriend as a "Supertramp fan." I didn't even know they were British. This isn't grabby like Breakfast in America, but definitely offers a peek into their proggier early days. Not my thing, but a worthwhile listen.
Found this a bit boring after a while. Some of the songs were too long and Roger Hodgson’s voice started to annoy me after a few tracks.
This was a a surprising miss for me. I love classic rock and have enjoyed the supertramp and have enjoyed the few songs of theirs I have heard but this left me kinda blah. I can't even really put my finger on why. I may have to go back at another time and give it a second chance.
I think the instrumental bits were the best part of this album, but besides that (and I don’t typically use this word when describing albums) I thought the album as a whole was a bit weird. Like—I kept picturing the Muppets Show for some reason during these songs. Like, that kind of weird. If that makes any sense.
No soul. Orchestral arrangements not earned. I don’t ever want to hear these songs again.
None of the album really caught on for me.
it was okay, very 70’s sounding
Otro disco que musicalmente esta ok pero que no me llama la atención ni un poco, me faltaban 2 o 3 temas y lo deje porque me aburrió
Boring
Good, but very boring.
Kind of weak Some interesting sounds at times but like others said, it’s prog lite, or yacht prog, or like if Chicago tried to be cool and failed spectacularly
The first song surprised me, and I thought I was in store for an unexpected listen. But as it dragged on, I was disappointed. The Supertramp keyboard sound gets old.
To quote Lard: 70s Rock Must Die. I have always found prog rock/aor/this stuff boring. Unsurprisingly, I find this boring too. The band are great composers and musicians (so they get one additional star) but they should have learnt how to finish songs succinctly, rather than endless fadeouts after the next additional jazz odyssey. Please don't let there be more Supertramp in this list. 45 minutes of my life I won't get back, which felt like 4.5 hours.
The real "Crime of the Century" is that this album filled with generic lite-prog 70s rock is on this list over a different Supertramp album, Breakfast in America (which is at least a 4). Much like with Foo Fighters, the guide got this artist wrong and could've given them much better representation.
it's okay. i'm not gonna go out of my way to save this and listen to it more often.
For some reason I can't get it out my head that Supertramp are a 90s band, I think I've saved them in the same bit of my brain as Supergrass. With this incorrect assumption I was impressed that they'd pulled off this homage to Pink Floyd, it's not my thing but they'd really nailed the sound of the time. In actual fact it's just a band ripping off dark side of the moon which was released a year before. Consequently it had a lot of the issues I have with Floyd (dad rock with the bass turned up too high), though it was fairly listenable for one spin.
This was ok in parts, I just find it all a bit bland. Not interesting, unique, or good enough for this list. I knew dreamer, but I couldn't have told you it was supertramp. Think there were better tracks. 2.5ish for me. Think other bands have done it much better
Y'a yink du Styx pis du Supertramp. Jesse tu es HORS du band!
it's good but probably won't think about it again, dunno that this warrants being on this list
I love the instrumentals.
Kind of boring, it was fine.
No Logical Song :( Not a lot of fun and funky anything here, really.
Has good elements to it. But it lacks the humor and melody of early 10cc, the popcrsft of Roxy Music, and the muscle of King Crimson. More Yes than those bands, not a positive for me
Grest
Seemed farcical at best
I dont love prog rock. But apparently I don't love prog light either.
Super tramp was the nickname Len Houmous gave his 21st wife, Barbara. 2.4 2/8 Bloody Well Right
Though I'm included to say the 70s is the best decade for music based on my experience with this project so far, it also offers stuff like this. The soft, edgeless rock sound of this record that was prevalent in this period is just fundamentally intolerable to me.
The Crime of the Century is including this album on the 1001 list. Presumably Breakfast in America is coming later so I guess we're doing two Supertramp albums. I came to this primed to enjoy this album because the song Goodbye Stranger is a banger so I was rather disappointed for what was mostly an unforgivingly boring album full of songs that are escalators to nowhere. I'll start with a two because it's not gratingly terrible like Tommy but I reserve the right to revise this down to a one at a later date.
Sorry, I just find this super cheesy.
this was ok I suppose. Nothing at all stuck out but I didn’t hate it. It’s music.
Supertramp never really was a group that did much for me. The standouts if you want to call it that were "Bloody Well Right" and "Dreamer".
It's non-offensive and non-interesting
I wonder if Dan Bejar digs Supertramp. Probably.
Never been very drawn to Supertramp, and nothing in this album led me to regret that sentiment.
As luck would have it, just two or three weeks ago I decided I needed to listen to the whole of Supertramp’s classic album “Breakfast in America,” because I never had. If that’s on the list, that’ll be a 4/5 debate when it comes up. But bad luck for this album, I think, because I was expecting another collection of non-stop bangers and this ain’t it. Just okay.
Downcast. Theatrical. Sincere. Prog is the lowest genre, it smothers music in musicianship. This is near the top of prog, for what it's worth. "The nicest of the damned", in the words of a band not on this list. The songs with the good melodies are also from the ridiculous singer.
Listened in the truck via Amazon music. Soundscape was awesome but songs were not. Highlights were the guitar and key sounds.
Wrong (wrong), you're bloody well wrong, you got a bloody right to say this was a PASS
Not a big fan of yacht prog.
There’s nothing that tries so hard and yet does so little as 70s prog
The album that saved Supertramp...a couple of strong singles but the album is a bit boring. It may have been seen as great in the early 1970s, but by 2025 it's just nostalgia. An annoying example of prog-light pop.
Everything that sucks about 70s music distilled into one album
Totally uninteresting, but not actively bad
Good musicianship but a bit too cheesy for my taste
PRE-LISTENING: I am very vaguely familiar with the music of Supertramp but cannot imagine that this truly is an album I need to listen to before I die. I don't recognize any of the song titles but we shall see if any of it sounds familiar... LISTENING: The opening track ("School") does not sound even remotely familiar. Wikipedia says it was released as a single and was kind of a hit, which is wild to me. Wikipedia calls Track 2 ("Bloody Well Right") their "breakthrough hit" and again it doesn't sound remotely familiar. I have MAYBE heard "Dreamer" before? (Or more likely, it just sounds like generic Supertramp to me.) POST-LISTEN: Absolutely not an album anyone NEEDS to listen to.
While the album is undeniably Supertramp, it is a a certain showing of their progression toward Breakfast in America. It sounds more like a refinement, a demo album, than a noteworthy album.
Really liked the opening track and the piano solo but the rest of the tracks not something id revist maybe bloody well right. However not a bad album just felt the other tracks were flat & I see the effort put into this album with the different melodies and drum patterns just it didnt do it for me.
É incrível como eles forçaram esse piano em todas as músicas e ele não se encaixa em nenhuma.
Some good vocal parts. Some nice instrumentals at times. Periods where not a lot seemed to happen, and songs on the longer side. Not a huge fan overall.
Of it's time not sure if they wanted to be a prog band or more pop. Some good songs on it even the ones that reminded me of genesis
Not memorable but fine. 2 stars
Perfectly cromulent radio psych rock but nothing stands out enough for me to be ranked any higher.
ruined by classic rock radio
This was a tedious listen. I have no idea how it made the list.
I listened to this while I was running and I don’t remember feeling anything (positive or negative) about it.
Nice, but nothing that really grabbed me and made me want to listen.
It’s okay. Kind of hokey 70’s dad band. Not totally my jam
Meh. Not for me.Bloody Well Right is the best song. Asylum is an interesting song. Musically they great musicians its just not my bag.
Good production and instruments, but boring songs.
I'm a fan of prog rock, some of my favourite bands are prog rock bands. However, I found this album slow and boring.
Very Tommy-esque (derogatory). Last song was a banger tho
4/10
It's really late as I'm listening to this so I'm honestly not expecting much. Gonna try to be as objective as possible despite the non ideal hour. Supertramp is a band I know of from their "Breakfast in America" album which came out a few years after this. Expecting something very 1970's. Hoping for some catchy tunes and an accessible experience. School Cinematic opening. Promises something dramatic. Seems to be building up to something in the first verse. Kinda proggy. A dynamic track with some complexity to it, has a lot of really distinct parts and passages that are characterized by entirely different compositions. None of the verses repeat a single melody and the tempo changes a lot throughout the track. Love the extended piano passage. Interesting track, though perhaps a bit too ambitious, feels a bit unfocused. Decent. 3.5/5 Bloody Well Right Jazzy opening. The keys create a groove all on their own. Has some edge to it with the heavy distortion on the guitars. The at times yachty vocals don't really do much for me. Theres a certain underlying blues feeling to the track, it seems to hide under layers of instrumentation. Feels like it's missing something, though I can't quite place what it is. Fine. 3/5 Hide In Your Shell Sleepy vibe from the keys. I don't love the vocals, they a bit underdeveloped. The instrumental is a bit too loud, especially the bass. Extremely 1970's. Comes across as cheesy and dated, and not in a charming way. A bit lame. Does not have enough going for it to justify being almost seven minutes long. The climax of the song just comes of as wailing and desperate with unconvincing backing vocals to go with it. Did not like. 2/5 Asylum The first verse reminds me of a melodramatic B-list musical. Terrible mixing. Very jarring drop in volume. The sound is very empty and hollow, the variations in volume does not help with this, genuinely just makes the song distracting. I don't like the vocals at all, feels like a raving madman on an especially bad bender trying to start a fight with the instrumental. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Dreamer Wow that's annoying. Sounds like a children's song at times. The keys in the background add nothing positive to the track. I can't see the intention behind this song, is it supposed to be inspiring? I feel like I'm being mocked by some irritating toddler. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Rudy The piano intro is pleasant. It's not entirely terrible. There are some pretty cool guitar riffs, and at points the vocals come through a few memorable melodic lines. The bassline is also pretty consistently good. Though the first half of the song meanders a lot, dragging you along through a boring journey. It starts picking up later on bringing a pretty dynamic conclusion to the whole ordeal with a more energetic climax before wrapping up with a decent enough conclusion. Suffers from the first half being stretched too thin. Average. 2.5/5 If Everyone Was Listening Fairly dramatic with a hint of theatricality in the performance. Suits the lyrics well. Love the flute. The violin also adds a nice dramatic effect. Decent. 3.5/5 Crime of the Century I don't buy it. Attempys to be dramatic, but it feels a bit manifactured. The guitar solo however is quite good. I enjoy the atmosphere set up by the dueling piano notes and the bass. Has the potential to grow on me. Is a pretty okay closer. Decent. 3.5/5 That was a bit mediocre if I'm being honest. Some songs sorta worked, but there was also plenty of unflattering melodramatic slop, which while not being directly out of ideas came off as goofy and lame. Some songs were overly long, slow and grating. Possessing unpleasant vocals and strange production choices that made them difficult to listen to. It's not entirely hopeless however, as many of the ideas present in the instrumentation were well executed. There's some good guitars, well paced piano passages and strongly implemented moments of flute and violin. The drums were also mostly fine, providing power and intensity to some tracks, but I feel like they sometimes were victims of some not great mixing where they sounded a bit hollow. The proggier more experimental tracks were probably the highlight on here, with a dynamic sound and some fresh ideas. Otherwise a lot of this album strays into yacht rock territory where the slow, calculated songs offer little of value. 2/5 Fave track. School Least fave track. Dreamer
I mean, fine. Another one that just didn’t really hit for me, but there’s nothing wrong with it. Some cool moments that made me think of Elton John or something, but probably not a band I’ll revisit. Asylum was my favourite track.
I'd never heard any pre-Breakfast in America (not on this list, shockingly) Supertramp, and you can see the roots of the irritating earworms in among the noodly prog. But all in all, no thanks.
Maybe this was amazing in it's time, but listening now it's like a mix of Elton John Piano and David Bowie. The only song that really stuck out was Dreamer, but that might be because it was in a movie?
Boring as hell
Not a fan of prog rock in general, but find it especially torturous when it gets theatrical and this album went there. It wasn't even that long of an album and I kept checking how much time was left only to learn I was on the 3rd song.
Honestly, it feels like if someone tried to redo 60s Who songs in a 70s prog style.
Not my thing
I really don’t care much for this record, but I do think ‘School’ is a cool way to kick it off.
Ok, but nothing outstanding or that memorable beside a couple of the hits. 5/10
Overall kinda meh. Had some good parts but it kept tricking me before switching it up. Not bad compared to most other albums so far though.
There must be a reason I didn’t have Supertramp in my music collection. Two songs are okayish - the rest didn’t age well.
4/7/25. Interesting but just okay. Doesn't stack up to the other progressive records of the era for me, but still a good listen.
formulewerk
Meh. It's ok. Not really something I'd reach for again.
Not my kinda jam
Good sound. One hit.
Well. This is certainly an album. With musical instruments such as guitar, piano and drums. And with lyrics. Which are sung. With a human voice. It glided right past me. Granted, my eyes glaze over as soon as I read the word "prog", but there's really nothing here that I found particularly interesting or memorable or noteworthy.
Hit and mostly miss yacht rock
Good weird, but no Goodbye Stranger
Neither here nor there. Some enjoyable tunes, but nothing memorable.
Steely Dan meets David Bowie or Yes in all the wrong ways. Not for me.
I feel like this is an album that can only be enjoyed in soft times. It's like, too whimsical to be enjoyed in 2025.
A nice sound, and some interesting structure, but nothing really popped for me, or made me say wow.
the songwriting is trite. meh.
These songs come off as so cheesy.
another MEH!
Some cool stuff going on here and there. Don’t have much of an opinion
Had never listened enough to to know they are progish. A couple of nice songs but not super
A melange of Pink Floyd, the Who, Elton John, and a pinch of saxophone. I only knew “Breakfast in America” and “Bloody Well Right” by this band before I listened to this album. I was pleasantly surprised, though I can’t imagine revisiting it.
Not great. Not terrible.
2/5
Average … pleasant enough but won’t listen again.
Bloody well right is a banger, and overall the album has all what you hear of super tramp, but besides bloody well right nothing really speaks to me. Just a solid rock album, but I'd rather listen to the other supertramp album =D
Meh.
This is so 70s. Every song is bigger than it needs to be. There’s nothing outstanding except for the tracks where they chose to sing like a Monty Python character for no reason. No thanks.
Supertramp isn’t my jam. It’s a decent album but their music has always felt cheesy to me. Just not a fan. Middle of the road on the tolerance scale.
Not terrible but not my thing
never been a fan of supertramp and listening to this don’t change my mind. i found this album tedious... the music is mostly boring and the singer’s voice is annoying.
I like Breakfast in America. I didn’t care for this one.
School is a classic song, rest pretty average...
goofy asl…..prog lite
ELO without the juice? (not saying much) i'm generally not one for the prog pop style unless the songwriting is super compelling & i just don't find that to be the case here. the consistent 5:30+ minute song length doesn't do this any favors either. appropriately synthy & spacey but there isn't much that sticks out past a couple vocal moments. excited for Brunch in Tanzania or whatever its called
Not a huge fan, felt like a he musical equivalent of twiddling your thumbs, it was just kinda boring
Without Dreamer and Bloody Well Right this album would rate even lower on my scale. I’m not even sure those songs are even that good but they have a strong nostalgia factor from the radio as a youth. They would have been old even then but were still on our limited options for rock radio stations. I’ll be happy to stumble along those two tracks in later years for the same reasons but I would not seek out anything more from this album or the album as a whole.