Crime Of The Century

This album sounds like a band with the potential to do some pretty amazing stuff, but this specific album is not there yet. There a elements to it that I really enjoy, and if they leaned into them more, it make for a solid album. It’s a good debut album. They clearly define their distinct sound and have some original concepts going. Only main issue for me is that the production doesn’t sound to hot, but other than that, it’s great. 4/5

Very powerful album, starts strong and.continues strong. Supertramp are like a hidden gem for me, underrated and unknown generally these days. 5/5

Own on Vinyl

day 25. this was just ok for me, interesting enough that I might come back to it (or at least revisit Supertramp another time), but not standing out enough to me that it'll be top of mind. I went back and tried to listen to some of the tracks again to remember what my favorites were, and I'm still struggling to remember what they sounded like, oops. faves - School, Crime of the Century, Asylum 3/5

Enjoyable! Pero not sticking

It's a strong 5 for me! I love the mix of genres. It has the grandeur and instrumental variety of a British pop album (eg. Elton John or The Beatles), but also very funky. I haven't really gotten into most of the tracks yet, but it's been very pleasant background hearing. Bloody Well Right is my favorite track!

Likes about 1/2 of it

great!

I liked it quite a bit. The great side of Prog and Art Rock. Good listen.

I had no idea Supertramp we’re so middle of the road. For some reason I thought they were ‘edgier’. It’s all ok. Not stunning but ok.

Got me started on prog rock during the pandemic. Rick and Morty-esque decades before Rick and Morty was a thing. Damn near perfect.

Pleasant but pretty dull, Dreamer is the only track that sticks in my head, the rest is just background

Nice blend of prog and pop, I'm glad this was on the list. As someone who likes prog, I'd somehow overlooked them.

If I could give 6 stars this album would deserve it. It’s a god damn masterpiece. Song writing and emotive performances at their finest

Solid from start to finish.

BIG BAG BOOM, NICE TO LISTEN. SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE TE COVER. BIG SURPRISE. THE LAST PART OF THE FISRT TRACK MAKE ME TEAR A LITTLE. *3.8 / 5

Not my kind of music

there’s something bittersweet about this sound but there’s also something shitty about it

Helt aight

Classic debut! A unique combination of being catchy, bombastic, swinging, rocking and quite a bit more.

Kringe of the Century

It's an okay album but a lot of the ideas they hit were done better by Yes and Billy Joel in my opinion. I did really enjoy Asylum and Hide In Your Shell, though.

Enjoyed it, over the top but not ridiculous

Not bad boys spitting some facts

School: I liked this song by the second listen. The piano chords and harmonica are called back on in Crime of the Century, and I really like that. Bloody Well Right: told me that Supertramp is British. I understand why this was their US break through song. Hide In Your Shell: not memorable. Asylum: a bop; can see myself crying while listening in the future. Dreamer: by far my favorite song on the album. They wrote it for me. Rudy: also written for me; I love not being sophisticated and getting on trains. If Everyone Was Listening: Immediately: send in the clowns. I would choose this song over Send in the Clowns every time. Crime of the Century: Pretty good. No clowns mentioned. Did a very good job building on my emotions. The building of instruments over the piano motif is always a good way to get me going. And ending the song with a harmonica callback to School? Golden, genius.

This album had a lot of aspects that I liked, but was never able to pull them together into a single song that I would choose to listen to again. Asylum was probably the closest, but there was still something about it that just had me wanting it to be over. The piano was good, guitar was decent at times, and I enjoyed some of the ethereal extended jams, but never enough to be sad when they were over.

I do sense the artistry and it is well performed but I dislike this album. Everything is so washed out with reverb it sounds like mush to me. While I was listening to it I had an itch to listen to Elton John for some reason.

Quite enjoyable. Fun fact Supertramp is the first band my parents saw together…cute!

Liked but didn't fall in love, maybe needed to sit with it longer

Such a great album! Two in a row that I have on vinyl. This one is just perfect from start to finish. All great songs, no filler.

Bloodywell right!!! Enjoyed this thoroughly a few times this weekend.

Putting the ‘super’ in Supertramp

Pretty fun album, definitely a classic. No bad songs really. Any time I felt like a song was dragging a bit they'd move to another part that is awesome and would bring me right back in - prog rock stuff, I guess. Favourite songs are School and Crime of the Century. Bloody Well Right hold up even though I've hears it a million times in the past. Love me some tasteful Wurlitzer.

I wrote off Supertramp as a youngster because I don't like Dreamer and I thought it was basically what their sound was. I'm glad I was forced to listen to an actual album by them! Their sound is so much more than the goofy high pitched soft pop Dreamer bit, as iconic as I find it to be. They know how to rock, they're good instrumentalists, this was a good album. I'm wondering if this is their best album because it has all the songs I know off hand by them. Highlights include Bloody Well Right and the moment in Hide in your Shell where the pre-chorus transitions to the chorus with "Don't let your...".

Probably of more than one century, tbf. Bland, lifeless, soul-less.

A little too clever, a little too knowing. But when it comes down to it, this is just dull music. It's hardly rock 'n' roll, is it? There's some half decent melodies in here like Hide In Your Shell. But it's not enough to bring me back. Dreamer is a great song btw.

They got the pizzazzz. A lust for life. Solid work.

Alright

Proggy and wholesome I'd say. Slightly put off as its Jeremy Clarksons fave album but it throws a lot of tunes on this album. Solid 3

I think I would like this more on a relisten.

sits in a strange middle ground between the prog punk of the stranglers and more straight 70s rock. Not terrible but not great either. Best tracks: school, bloody well right, asylum

Got my foot tapping and head nodding from the off, but lyrically it didn't do anything particularly for me, as while it was relatable it felt to obvious and on the nose. The softer moments were forgettable and it was only really when everything kicked in that i was really enjoying.

relatively short, pretty good, it was some fun classic rock.

One of my favourite 70s records! Supertramp was so so good, can’t honestly say a bad thing about them. It’s got two great singles. But truthfully, those as far from the best, as this is a very strong album and doesn’t fall flat! 9,5 out of 10

Loved it

It was pretty good but I was expecting better

Great keyboards, expansive songwriting, theatrical. Cowboy Bebop took/shared some inspiration from the first and last songs. School and Asylum highlights. Sort of similar to Pink Floyd.

ugh. pretentious British drivel. bloody well right is especially annoying. idk.

7/10 or 7.5/10, very good but probably not top 3 in the Supertramp collection. Most songs on this album are very good in themselves, and they work together nicely to create a pretty good sound for the album. Even the weaker songs are not bad, and still remain consistent with the album's sound

The is album combines a lot of genres I like — jazz rock, prog, funk — but I don’t know, I didn’t quite buy it. The songs change tone pretty drastically and the changes often feel forced. Maybe multiple listens will reveal how these structures are actually brilliant and a perfect fit for each song? I’m not convinced. “Bloody Well Right” is a good example of this. It sound like a mash-up of Chicago, Pink Floyd and Steely Dan. But it’s not as good as any of those bands and I’m not persuaded that they needed to be put together like this. “If Everyone Was Listening” almost worked for me. This album cover is pretty bad but I did look at Supertramp’s other album covers and they have some gems. This is the only bad one.

Really interesting start to an album. I kind of hate the girl's scream at 1:44 in the first track right before the break. It really pulls me out of the listening experience but at the same time I kind of love it because I think the inverse could be true too. For me, I don't really often have kids hanging outside of my windows at 9:50am on a Monday so the yell was surprising. But for someone else this could be an interesting element that really pulled them into the music. Very interesting dichotomy. The song itself is really cool, and the production is amazingly crisp for 1974. I had to check that I was listening to the actual original recording and not a modern day remaster. I have been listening to a remaster. Whoops. I felt this was pretty alright. The rest of the album kind of goes by pretty quickly and without too much that I enjoyed or disliked. I'm going to give this a 3 but it could easily lean more towards a 2.

A lot of snobbery around Supertramp - simply great tunes and always deliver. That opening with the Piano from school to bloody well right is simply superb. They're definetly an album band rather than a singles band which is why the spotify generation doesn't get on with them.

9/10

fantastic. 5 stars.

Was expecting to like it more than I did.

Great album. "School" and "Crime Of The Century" are brilliant compositions.

I enjoyed much more than I thought I would! 70’s vibes for sure. I do not like prog or much English stuff but I really enjoyed this!

Excellent! Very good

Banger

This is really good!

classic rock. i cant distinguish it from its counter parts of the era. it had groove and splash. it was dynamic at times. i can dig it. a bit.

Supertramp’s third album found its way to me just after I’d turned eighteen. I was insecure and aloof as many eighteen year olds tend to be, and always in search of a prog rock track from the 1970’s to clumsily apply to my life. So it came to pass that while my generation were brooding to “Take Me To Church” or partying to “1989”, one of my alienated teenage anthems became “Hide in Your Shell.” It still grips me from beginning to end: the melancholy intro; the mounting drama; forlorn lyrics like “too frightening, the fires becoming colder; too beautiful to think you’re growing older”; the climactic end with Hodgson’s vocals cracking under the strain, the saxophone bursting in to reprise the chorus melody. A top tier track. The band were perhaps the best to capture loneliness, alienation and despair through Wurlitzer soft-rock, and “Hide in Your Shell” is just one version of it. Across the rest of “Crime of the Century”, we hear various takes on similar ideas, stringing together the loosest of concept albums. The magnificent opener, “School”, examines the roots of isolation (with one of my favourite piano solos in rock), while “Bloody Well Right” touches on the damage done by the UK’s class system. Lyrically, “Asylum” seems to be aping Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” from the previous year, and is a little clunky, but the cathartic explosion of sound in the choruses more than makes up for it. And then we have “Dreamer”: an idealist’s downfall set to an insistently catchy (perhaps to the point of irritating for some, but not for me) keyboard-led pop single. After this high watermark, the album does lose a little steam. “Rudy”, for all its grand pretensions to be an emotional centrepiece, is overlong and lacks the same payoff (narrative or musical) as many of the other longer tracks on here. I was never overly fond of “If Everyone Was Listening”, and I’m even less so now. The extended metaphor of actors and jesters on stage in a dying performance feels a little corny, and the pace really drags. But things are brought back with the epic “Crime of the Century”: quiet emotional verses, huge final build introducing the band (and an orchestra) back into the mix one by one. Musically, it’s consistently great: the saxophone and Wurlitzers are surprisingly tolerable and Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies’ interchanged vocals and songwriting aspire to Lennon-McCartney levels of distinct personalities, with some success. I’m being harsh on it for the weaker spots and to temper my own personal bias, but it’s a 9/10 record any day of the week.

I thoroughly enjoyed this album. My expectations for this album (and Supertramp as group) were both subverted and affirmed as the album was more “rock” and “jam” heavy than I had expected, but also was thickly layered with the bands signature synths. The dense and varied instrumentation always provided something new to listen for. The jazzy piano and saxophone combo proved enthralling. 8/10

Really sneaky newcomer to my pantheon of favorites! I thought it was pretty good on first listen, but then I've kept coming back to it

Really good album. Love Supertramp, love electric pianos, what more can you say. Baffles me how they are not more highly regarded. The album might not contain the songs their most famous for, but it's definitely one of their best still. Some songs stand out more than other, but it's one of the rare albums where I actually think every song is good. No song sound like the other either.

Man i liked this album. The opening harmonica was a good intro to what to come. I enjoyed the more progressive rock songs and the piano riffs. The closing track "Crime of the Centruary" especially has a nice progression. I thought when starting to listen i only knew "Dreamer" but I'm pretty sure I've heard "School" and "Bloody well right" as well. The album is a perfect blend of progressive rock, pianos, saxophones and pop. I think i will have to give this one a 5 which I think is the first 5 I've given to an album I haven't heard before. Time will see if my opinion stays when I get more familiar with all the songs.

Great

It was alright. Feels like an album that might grow on me. On the other hand I don’t feel I need this in my life. I’ll take along some songs I liked for further listening, school, ruby and the title track.

Heard before. Has some really good songs, especially If Everyone Was Listening. Keep thinking of someone who showed us Bloody Well Right as part of his fave songs of the year. Mom likes this band. + Bloody Well Right + Asylum + Dreamer + Rudy + If Everyone Was Listening

An underrated band that had great music.

Awesome album with a ton of great choruses and instrumentation. Not a bad song on the album to me. I assume it was adventurous for the time and I believe it paid off and it sounds great to this day. 9.5/10

Love the use of the saxophone and that they kept the album short and tight. Great time.

Overall I didnt love this album on first listen. I didn’t hate it either, it just wasn’t really the vibe I wanted tonight. I had been meaning to check them out so I’m glad I did, and I might revisit this album. I didn’t expect as much piano, although the little beeps and boops were expected. Alot of the songs felt too long, and didnt really captivate me, and it sounded like a muppets musical at times. I got up to Asylum and stopped there. I didn’t hate this experience, but didn’t love it

I struggled with this one. Got 4 songs in and turned it off. I just don't like Supertramp.

Ah the Tramp are always good for some very familiar, cheesy, sax-heavy proggy tunes. Enough iconic ones on here to warrant a 4.

Good, but nothing spectacular.

I used to really enjoy Supertramp, but something about them these days feels to me very... tingy, or something to that effect. Like pop music with not a lot of backbone to it. Don't get me wrong, the best part is the songwriting for sure, but the vocals overlaying everything isn't my favorite. High rating from me however because the songs themselves slap. FUCK YEAH SUPERTRAMP!!!

The kind of prog that I don’t really like. It’s okay, but I don’t see why this would be included over some more unique prog (prog metal maybe?).

Smooth yet expansive sound with lots of great instrumentation. All songs are listenable yet have some of depth. Still, I don't think I would put this on much again. It's distinctive and well-made, yet not totally for me. Best song: Bloody Well Right

This is another album on constant rotation at every house party back in the day. It still sounds decent. The keyboard melodies carry the tunes. Fortunately I don’t listen to the stations that play 70s stuff over and over again so it hasn’t worn out it’s welcome.

One of the live music highlights of my youth was when Supertramp played to a packed house at the Sudbury Arena to promote this album! They started with “School” and ended with “Crime of the Century”. As a side note, Santana played around the same time – other than that, we saw a lot of April Wine and The Stampeders. “School” was my favourite back in the day, with the intro, the piano solo and the proggy changes of pace. “Bloody Well Right” and “Dreamer” were made for radio, but still decent. Listening to most of this for the first time in ??? long, I’m blown away by the rest of the album, especially the arrangements, the way the songs build, the use of strings at just the right moment, the sax solos that start just a few seconds before the song fades out, the depth of the lyrics and of course the two lead vocalists. A great album! A unique sound then and now.

I recently posted about how Talking Heads had an incredible streak of four consecutive brilliant albums and I think Supertramp can be included in that conversation also, with Crime of the Century kicking it off, then followed by Crisis, what crisis?, Even in the quietest moments and then Breakfast in America. All four albums have several truly memorable tracks, but for some reason it seems that only this album made the cut for this list, truly the crime of the century, boomtish! Wiki labels them a prog band but I think they are probably the least proggy of the big British bands, being much more accessible to mainstream audiences than say early Yes or Genesis. So to account for the sinful omission of their other albums that feature truly great songs such as: Take the long way home, Breakfast in America, Even in the quietest moments, Fool's overture and Babaji, this one gets a slight bump up to 5 stars.

I'm willing to give this another listen, but I wasn't terribly impressed with this one. There were sections where it was very quiet and then very loud. Also it felt like something was missing during certain parts. Overall, eh it's okay.

Piano prog rock! This wasn't too bad, actually. Too poppy for my sensibilities, but some very interesting sounds

This is a lot weirder than I had expected.

Non male...

Decent 70s rock

Una maravilla. En cuanto empezó la primer canción, me encantó, tanto así que quise prestarle atención absoluta y, por primera vez, puse atención en la letra. El álbum es muy arriesgado en muchas cosas y, no se cómo lo hizo, pero está excelentemente conseguido. Cada una de las canciones es única y creo que no pude haber escogido un mejor álbum para empezar a fijarme en la letra porque, al menos de forma personal, me pareció increíble lo que decían, sin excepción. Por último, me atrevería a decir que el álbum entero es perfecto, del principio al final. Probablemente sea el álbum que más me ah gustado la primera vez que lo escuché y espero que se quede así.

Low end 4

Vähän Yesmäistä progia, mutta vähemmän teknistä ja vähemmän progia. Aivan kelpoa mutta mikään kappale ei oikein iskenyt

This is superb from beginning to end. Supertramp are a hard group to pigeonhole, somewhere between progressive and West Coast FM. Every song on this album is memorable, and the musicianship is first rate.

Decent album with great singles. 3.5/5

So… I kind of like Supertramp? Maybe not love, their vocals still kind of annoy me, but the songwriting is solid, some of the best rock-meets-jazz this side of Steely Dan. I like how the sax and even harmonicas are employed in various tracks, in particular. C+

Kind of a boring album I have to say. The singles are good the rest is forgettable... disappointed!

Trudde eg skulle lika da bedre

excellent

Unusually enjoyable prog rock. Pretty theatrical album but done well. Bloody well right is brilliant.

not my favourite. some good songs though! probably a 2.7

When I was young, I was convinced this epitomised American MOR. So I was pretty gobsmacked when I found out they were English. I still think they sound like American MOR. I also feel like some of the songs would have fit right into an episode of Glee. Even though, turns out, not one Supertramp song turned up in the show. A couple of songs are iconic. And really easy to listen to. I knew the singles but some songs drag a bit. Although I love that harmonica intro. Decent album - Bloody Well Right!

I knew their hits but had never listened to a whole album. I was prepared to rate this a two because of the two songs I recognized and liked. I had dinner with a friend, who was extolling supertramp’s virtues and we listened to the album together. She is a little older than me and remembers loving them (and smoking lots of weed) so, while listening with her I leaned in and could see this being something I might have rated a 4 if given time. However, as we all discuss with this project, time is something we don’t have so I will split it down the middle and call it a 3.

Love the obvious hits on this one, and I also loved a number of other cuts ("Rudy" is great). Maybe not really a 4-star, more like 3.5, I was feeling this one as I listened and rounded up. I do like this fusion of jazz and pop — kind of like prog light?

I never heard any Supertramp beyond the hits. This was cool. I dug the interplay between the two singers. Can't say much of it stuck with me, but it intrigued me enough that i'll give this a second listen at some point. Still not a fan of Dreamer, though. Wait... is Breakfast in America not on this list? How does that make sense?

A couple great bangers but otherwise I was a bit bored

A good album for sure, if not a great one. But it is certainly strange they picked this, rather than certified pop bangarang Breakfast in America. Maybe they find the waitress as creepy as I do.

A good album, maybe a touch forgettable in some places and a little bit lacking in others. Not bad by any means.

This album introduced me to Supertramp. I knew Dreamer and Bloody Well Right from our local station KOKZ 105.7. Great band !!!

Heavy Pink Floyd vibes on the first track School which melts into a funky jazzy breakdown of interludes. Great start to an album. Then Bloody Well Right throws you right into the fun and quirky Supertramp that you’re used to. It’s wild how melodic this band can be while also still throwing the theatrical instrumentals of a Steely Dan, or the magic of a Styx rock anthem. Broad generalizations, but I can really understand how much of an inspiration these guys must have been to others exploring their sound. There are multiple Jams then the album mellows out for the middle section, which I don’t mind. Problem is that it ends with a proper saxy showdown, and that is enough for me to ask myself why have I never listened to this album before? Beauty.

Fantastic album, enjoyed from start to finish

Solid album throughout with some amazing highs. Very interesting sounds are used very well, and the many layers in the tracks adds a lot. A great example of quality prog

Front to back this blew me away, very proggy mixes of King Crimson Rush Beatles etc, I'm on my fourth listen in the past 24 hours already

3.5

I do like the keyboard parts in this. Pretty cool album overall even though I am not a huge prog rock fan.

So many good songs

Me encanta este album (ONB) Que buenos recuerdos escuchar a Supertramp y que buen rollo para empezar la semana(PSP) Soy fans (LNB) estaba deseando poner un 5 estrellitas

Excellent prog rock.

Takes me back... to a time... before I was born

4 starz

If you put everything 70s in a blender, this is what you get. Maybe with an extra touch of Steely Dan and Chicago. It's all played, recorded and arranged very well. Almost too well. Most of the songs are good, but longer than they should have been (especially Rudy). You keep listening, because they have so many changes and something interesting might come up. Despite all the changes it sounds coherent, unlike a lot of their contemporaries. They have two singers. The one who sings the most and the best songs has an annoying voice. Favorite song: dreamer

10/10 proggy as fuck in the best way possible

A solid prog rock outing. It's not quite what I thought Supertramp was for some reason

Buen discazo

Not as self indulgent as I was expecting and a few decent tunes. 3

Not a classic. 4/10.

Coming up as I did in the 70s and 80s, I used to get REALLY into a few specific bands, to the point where I bought most of the band's albums, even the less popular ones, and knew every track, even the obscure ones. The Beatles were the first, and then as I got older it was The Doors, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, and Jethro Tull. During my freshman year at college, I started appreciating Supertramp and for a while I thought they may be my next big obsession. They seemed interesting and somewhat popular but not through-the-roof popular. Then one day I was talking to my girlfriend's roommate, whose name was Marilyn, and I mentioned something about getting into Supertramp. Turns out she was a huge Supertramp fan. Well, I didn't really like Marilyn very much and, if I'm being honest, I kind of looked down on her taste a bit, and I soon moved on from Supertramp without diving any deeper. Although my reason wasn't very good, in hindsight I think it was the right decision for me. I like Supertramp, and I appreciate the musicianship and all, but I don't think they fit my style as much as some of those other bands. All that to say, 3 stars.

At first I was surprised that a non Breakfast in America supertramp album was on this list but by the third song it had surpassed 75% of the other prog rock albums I’ve gotten so far. Bloody well right was my fav

I am not a fan of the harmonica. It grates on my ears, so this record does not start out well for me. The opening School is a bit pedestrian despite my fondness for 70s critiques of formal education as a means of socialization. The lyrics would've benefited from dropping some Paulo Freire or early Michel Foucault references. I'm not a fan of that keyboard / piano in the track either. Centering on the piano helps me understand what one of my main issues with this record seems to be. I'm not into the instrumentation in a lot of the songs. The keys and horns here distract me. Bloody Well Right. Sure. Okay. By the end of this record I was thinking this is much more Pink Floyd influenced than I had known Supertramp to be. TIL, I guess.

Great album, sound and ambient like psicodelic near to Pink Floyd or The Doors albums. Love it!

6th February 2023 Listened in the morning while working from home. Out for Thai at giggling squid for Jess bday and test drive BMW X1. I like the spacey themes, but prefer the more down to earth songs. 3.5 if I could.

Album was good - i liked a few tracks on it. Overall, it's not really my thing though but very well produced.

FFS .. all those songs were on 1 album! Amazing.

Slept like a baby

it wasnt bad, nor good 2.5/5 run of the mill, kinda funky in the start but was a bit boring towards the end

what i know of supertramp is their catchy hits! i knew a few songs here beforehand (i wasn't even aware i knew "bloody well right"!), but crime of the century is missing that catchy earworm aspect that makes supertramp so fun to listen to. so while it's far from bad, crime of the century shows supertramp was definitely working up to their usual sound. they were more progressive here than their big later hits, so much so that i felt that this was an off brand pink floyd. and the horns popping up or the harmonica opening a song? not bad at all.

This was a funny one. This is not the Supertramp sound I am used to, but I still found myself knowing a few of these songs, just without knowing that it was Supertramp. This was a decent album, but not a favorite. There were times when this felt a little Led Zeppelin, a little Pink Floyd, and even a little Electric Light Orchestra. But the album didn’t outdo or compare to any of the aforementioned bands. And that’s really probably why this album didn’t full take off for me: I kept comparing it to other bands and never found myself particularly impressed.

Just not for me.

Theatrical. While the album kept a linear tone the entire album, I love how they decided to take every song in this album and put a theatrical mood to them, like a concept album.

Some prog rock banger fun

Usually prog and pop don’t mix, but Supertramp have found a way to combine them to generally favorable results. Some of the songs on the B-side are a bit too long, though.

Masterpiece

Está ok, pero no muchas canciones destacan. De hecho, la mayoría suenan un poco a relleno.

Progre pero con feeling,. Favoritos: School, Bloody Well Right, Dreamer

I recognize the melody in the first song. No idea where from. It's VERY 70s. Lots of wasted time. Then right in the middle, the singer sounds like the bad lip reading guy from Star Wars. I recognize this came out pre memes. But I couldn't help but laugh. This isn't good.

"Dreamer" is the only song I recognized but I have to say this album was just alright; not a huge fan of some of the bad singing. 7/10.

Steely Dan >

"School" is a strong start to this album, with an aggressive groove befitting the 1970s. The inspiration of blues and jazz are on full display here during the instrument-only interludes, and then shift almost suddenly to the more rock-elements when vocals are included. It is as though the genres take turns when playing their songs rather than being a blend of them. It creates a break in the attention for each song that honestly is well-received here. "Bloody Well Right" the second track, is a fine example of this. Having been contemporaries, it is difficult not to acknowledge similarities between Supertramp and Pink Floyd. This album in particular, Supertramp has much more variety of instruments where Pink Floyd was a bit more linear as a rock band. Overall, this album is a great experience and lends credence to their deserved place in the discussion of all-time great bands of the 70s.

Eh, it was ok. Not great.

Some of these songs had a spunk to them a little bit of spook to them but it honestly was just a filler for me. I know this album is pretty well known but it wasn’t spectacular for me: It felt and sounded like any normal album. There’s nothing wrong with it, I just wouldn’t go out of my way to listen again.

I'm a kid of the 70s so I enjoyed seeing this album cover today - but I can't always connect with Supertramp. I don't dislike them at all, and in fact the recipe seems to all be there for me: multiple instruments, multiple vocalists, excellent sounding records, dynamics, non cookie-cutter songwriting. And their best is truly great (looking forward to the inevitable "Breakfast In America" which is an alltime great record) even on this album: "School" is a really different kind of opener - creepy and dark; think Pink Floyd before The Wall. "Dreamer" is just a lovely song - I love the vocal interplay, the unique piano arrangement. And I almost forgot to mention the very British cut "Bloody Well Right" - love the ridiculously long and fantastic intro with solos on Rhodes keyboard and guitar before any vocals. No songs are bad here. But I just can't fully connect to the album as a whole. I think I'm being more harsh on this than most because I want to love it but "only" like it :P For the most part I find it harder to connect on most of their longer/more progressive songs (e.g. "Hide In Your Shell" "Crime of the Century" "Asylum" "Rudy") - maybe in the end for me they were a really good melodic rock band that excelled at interesting/catchy singles and were for the most part best staying in that lane. It's a 3.5 for me that despite skilled musicianship and great singles I'm rounding down knowing that I really only end up connecting with half the album. 7/10 3 stars.

Having only known Supertramps later hits & Brrakfast in America, I wasn't expecting much from this. I enjoyed the jourmey & listen.

Loved this. So much range. So much piano.

I liked and I enjoyed. In my head, Supertramp are a bit of a jokey band and I have absolutely no grounds for that except possibly their name. It’s a little too close to Super Trooper.

eh i guess so

Fine

Piano parts were wonderful, was not impressed with anything else. Breakfast in America was a much more impressive album.

I thought it was pretty cool for them to name their band after your mom.

School heel mooi nummer. Jammer dat ze daar meebeginnen heb hem daarna beetje uitgezeten voor mijn gevoel. Supertramp niet voor herhaling vatbaar maar ze krijgen er wel drie voor school

Nog een auto-vakantie-album!! Na Mike Oldfield kwam Supertramp (of Boston, maar die zal ook vast nog voorbij komen). Ik kan alles van voor tot eind meezingen en zie mezelf weer maar 2 keer mogen plassen tijdens 13 uur in de auto onderweg naar zuid-Frankrijk: magisch!!! 3,5 sterren want luister het zelf niet meer maar vind het heerlijke muziek nu ik het zo weer terugluister

Leuk album, luisterde wel oké weg. De stem en zang werd soms wat vervelend, maar alsnog prima. Nummers waren goed opgebouwd en veel originaliteit

I only knew a couple of songs on this album and the stuff I didn't know was okay, I guess.

I was familiar with Supertramp, but less familiar with their early prog rock. 'Breakfast in America' is obviously their most well known album, but this is a super solid, enjoyable prog rock album. The songs blend together nicely and the lead singer's voice is unique and brings an interesting sound to the album. Nothing too over the top to turn me off like with some prog rock, I can see myself coming back to this again and again.

I had never heard this band before. Had fun listening to this one. Great sounding 70’s record. I especially like the drum sound. I love this kind of 70’s power pop/ rock it it reminded me of Wings, Queen, Harry Nilsson, Elton John. The songs and instrumental are great but I don’t love the sound of the lead vocal like I do with those other bands. 3.5

Really weird and creative album. Not something I’d listen to but interesting. Some of the more dramatic moments almost remind me of queen. Asylum is like queen meets Pink Floyd.

I really enjoyed this album. Maybe the first new British rock band I liked. Rudy and If Everyone Was Listening were the best. Would listen again!

pwetty kwel

I wasn't a fan of breakfast in America, so my bar was low, but it was actually a pretty good album. It's not far off from pink Floyd's the wall.

nice British musicc

Supertramp I snt on my usual listening list. I pictured it as silly love ballads. Clearly I was wrong.

mega spoko, zwłaszcza Hide In Your Shell

Didn’t think I would but I really liked it

10/10

Better than mediocre but not 4 stars

HL: “Bloody Well Right”, “Dreamer”, “Hide in Your Shell”, “Asylum” I’ll swing towards a 4 for this one, I admit to having my parents’ Supertramp Greatest Hits CD playing in the car on at least one occasion. There’s a shared sense of theatrics + pomp with Queen, ELO, Styx, etc, with a little less glam and a little more jazz. Nothing to get overly excited about, but I like it well enough. December 8 2022

Didn’t think I would enjoy it as much as I did. Had peaks and troughs though. Peaks were at beginning and end for me

Naff.

Album nie sluchany, a brzmiacy jednak mocno znajomo, bo grane jest mocno progresowo i w dodatku po brytyjsku, wiec mocno whoowe wajby, az dziwne ze wczesniej nie trafilem na nic od Supertrampa, crime of the century jest ich trzecim studyjnym krazkiem z 74, nagrywany w piecoosobowym skladzie, gdzie wokal byl dzielony pomiedzy Rickiem Daviesem i Rogerem Hodgsonem, ktory byli rowniez autorami trakow calej plyty, muzycznie pierwszy udzielal sie na organach i synthach oraz okazjonalnej harmonijce, ktora uderza zwlaszcza na openingowym school, drugi pan podobnie rowniez klawiszowe instrumenty oraz gitara, reszta skladu to John Anthony Helliwell na klarnetach i saksie, Thomson na basie i Siebenberg drumujacy, w takim skladzie stworzyli cos co brzmi jak polaczenie the who z tworczoscia yes, na 44 minutach zmiescili 8 trakow, ktore wyraznie byly pisane przez dwoch roznych autorow z niewielkimi miejscami kolabowymi, co najbardziej mnie urzeklo w tym nagraniu to czystosc z jaka slychac poszczegolne instrumenty, na sluchawkach z zamknietymi oczami mozna sie poczuc jakby sie bylo sie w samym srodku akcji, ktora jak przystalo na progresywne rokowanie, nawet w dosc popularnie brzmiacej formie jest pelna naglych zwrotow, wzlotow i upadkow oraz roznorakich dzwiekow niezlistowanych w instrumentalach, bo jakies gongi, czy szoutowe sample sie trafiaja, na plejke dodam jeden utwor Hodgsona i jeden od Davisa, openingowe school i bloody well right, a caly krazek leci do biblioteczki, bo czuje ze jeszcze cos poszperam w ich dyskografii

Catchy, knew some of the songs, others were similar so it was enjoyable

I went in expecting I’d like this one, but it left zero impression on me. It wasn’t bad but I don’t remember it at all and I listened twice

This is an interesting situation for me, as my streaming service of choice does not have this album in full, so I had to go out of my way to watch a YouTube video with the full thing. Sadly, this is a little disappointing. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's good, but I had pretty high expectations, as I quite enjoy what I've heard from Supertramp (and that's more than just The Logical Song, I swear), but this was just an alright album. Perhaps it was my inability to listen at a higher streaming quality, but it felt often like something that was almost there, but often went in the wrong direction for my tastes. Again, still above average, but I was hoping to walk away with an eye opening prog experience, especially after the suprise that was Selling England By the Pound, but it just felt like decent music, and nothing more.

I forgot how good this album is.

I really liked this album. I didn't realize how many songs I know by Supertramp and actually ended up listening to a whole second album by them. Will definitely listen again.

I was rockin w this

This album is simply incredible! All songs are a vibe and everything is so polished. Solos of Harmonica and Synth mix perfectly with guitars and voice and creates a master piece

Nice album to listen to... Great pop and songs mix well together. I don't take away anything special except for son synth use that wew nice... Would gladly listen to it again, but fogetable 3.5/5

this album kinda caught me by surprise and I am pleased because it was a great listen.

I enjoyed this quite thoroughly, however I do have to compare this directly to Breakfast In America, and this isn't that. Not a jab, most albums can't be that, but this still does stand as a solid effort from the band. I'll have to listen to it again in the future, it seems like a record that would benefit from repeat listens. 3.5/5

Dig that crazy organ.

Quality popular music

Bastante agradable.

Pretty good yacht Rocky album. Really liked “Bloody Well Right”. Not my favorite Supertramp album but I enjoyed it.

Die orchestrale Art der Songs ist sehr geil. Gerne mehr davon!

Very Pink Floyd-y, I like it

Best Song: Bloody Well Right. Iconic vocal track that still has the weird, jazzy qualities of the rest of the album. Worst Song: Asylum. Although the theatricality is part of Supertramp's appeal, songs like this swing too hard into actually sounding like theater, which feels one step too far. Overall: Supertramp has a very idiosyncratic sound, and that can become tiresome after an entire album. I like the diverse use of instrumentals, and the nearly-whiny vocals, but sometimes the tracks here come off as grandiose without being all that grand.

Supertramp was one of those bands that had some amazing hits, but the rest of their catalog isn't worth listening to.

Enjoyed the arrangements on this one, lots of movement and instruments. Impressive but forgettable

4.0

Nothing incredibly special. Some songs are well put together, but some seem like they don’t really have a purpose and act as long fillers with background instrumentals.

The hits were awesome, the rest of the songs were not that memorable to me

Many great memories listening to this album under headphones. Their best imo.

Me aburrió muchísimo

El renaixement creatiu que va fer la banda des dels seus dos primers discos a aquest tercer és un dels grans misteris de la història del rock. Dos discos de rock pausat, interessant però genèric, evolucionen en un rock mig progressiu mig dur amb melodies que no s'obliden i cançons tan perfectes com 'Hide in Your Shell' o 'School'. 50 anys després, el nom de la banda s'ha oblidat una mica, però el que van fer amb 'Crime of the Century' i les seves 4 obres posteriors és a l'abast de poquíssims artistes

7/10

Artful, prog pop. With playful melodies, unique instrumentation, duel lead singers and interesting lyrics.

This was fine, got a tad bored halfway

Supertramp is one of those bands that you had to be there when the album was released and you had to be into the band in order to appreciate the whole album. And the whole "reminiscent of the times thing." Supertramp wasn't one of my favorite bands back then but I did appreciate what they did. The two hits dreamer and bloody well right got a lot of radio playing and are the two standouts on the album in my opinion. I would much prefer their greatest hits collection.

I enjoyed this one, but not enough to want to listen to it again. I added Bloody Well Right and Dreamer to my playlist, because they’re fantastic and I remember my parents playing them a lot growing up. But otherwise the album isn’t anything special.

ummmm. ok. im an adventurous sort. I have no memory of this album though

Didn't blow me away, but it was pretty good

Really enjoyed this!

I really didn’t expect this but I really resonated with some of the lyrics in quite a strange way and the songs themselves were great especially: Opener school which starts off as very slow but then expands into full on funk. Hide in your shell probably made me think the most about a certain time in my life so that one came across as quite beautiful. Asylum again has amazing lyrics and it ends on this theatrical close which is perfect to end side one. If everyone was listening has the best chorus with thundering drums juxtaposed with a pretty piano. Crime of the century is a great album closer ending on this amazing instrumental so theatrical. I loved this so much 5/5.

Not feeling this exactly. Sometimes sounds like a musical, but not a good one. Moments of fun, but a hard listen.

The songs are good, but the sound is a bit tinny. Maybe it's my speakers. Maybe I don't know what music should sound like.

Seems like a bit more fun, but still cerebral pink floyd-esque era band. The tracks are strong and have a varied tone/energy that keeps them engaging. Well enjoyed.

Loved as expected

Dreamers. Great tune. They have better songs. 2.5

I’m so frustrated that this is the Supertramp album that we get first. Breakfast in America is one of my all-time favorites and kicks the ever loving teeth out of Crime of the Century but here we are. 4.5 Anyway, with that said this is still a very good album in its own right. It still has a lot of the themes of anxiety in youth and change, like in BiA, but it feels like they haven’t committed to it yet. This album is a good example of music is the space between the notes. Every time it would start to lose me all of the bullshit would drop out and it would starting building to a grand catharsis. Almost like it was on purpose. Musically, lyrically and thematically this still hits hard, despite not having any well-known heavy hitters on it. I already own on vinyl. That’s how I listened to this one.

3 An enjoyable rock opera-sounding album that wasn’t actually a rock opera (though I think that might just be called “prog rock”). School was a really fun opener that set the stage for the sound of the rest of the album well. From there, I enjoyed the twists and turns taken, with there being a few really cool moments along the way (I loved when Asylum got all explosive near the end). Not a ton of specific standout moments as a whole though, and I kind of wish all the songs were connected through a more clear sense of narrative or theme like a rock opera. As is, it feels a bit disjointed and lacking in a sense of specific identity. Still, a fun listen, and I look forward to listening to Breakfast in America from here (assuming that made the list if this did?)

Enjoyable. Dreamer is a banger!

Solidly enjoyable.

Man, supertramp is really good, a fact I often forget

Kinda fun, but nothing special.

Not gonna rank individual songs anymore starting here because that is draining. While I think this album is great I don't think I will find myself going back to it. Still worth a listen while chilling.

Seen as their transition from prog / synth rock to their more familiar sound with the addition of the Hammond piano Crime of the Century lays down the tracks for the amazing Breakfast in America album that will launch them beyond the stratosphere. Good album, not my favorite, by it has that distinctive Supertramp sound that is still such a guilty pleasure. 3.5/5.

Pretty classic.

I dig indeeed

I love Dreamer especially but I enjoyed the whole album. Apart from that one track it doesn’t deserve 4* so high 3*

Underwhelming

Heerlijk album!

Didn’t get into it.

Once again I had low expectations for this album however I wasn’t amazed The intstrumentals were next and this album really took my mind on a journey School, Rudy, crime of the century and dreamer stood out for me What a great album Happy to be getting into this genre

Prima, goede melodie

School - Let's be honest, another brick in the wall did this better Notes keep getting deleted Favourite tracks: bloody well right, asylum Rudy- just a bit dull If everyone was listening - wow what an original metaphor /s Crime of the century- outro is fine l guess This is a blah album 2/5

This feels like peak 70s rock. It started really well, but the last half of the album is weird opera style. Everyone wants to be Pink Floyd, but it doesn't work for them.

pretty good! wasn’t really my style, but it wasn’t bad.

Although I like and Prefer Breakfast In America, this is still an interesting experience. Where that album is packed with more hits or songs that went on to be more well known in the pop culture sense, this album is maybe more cohesive, the songs a bit more adventurous and complex. Good album, I think this one a grows on you with a few listens.

Pretty good, but parts were very busy and muddled

2.5 stars. Piano heavy, decent.

This was a decent prog rock album that featured some great musicianship and sprawling suite like songs. Supertramp often features more theatrical pop like song elements that are punctuated by hard hitting prog rock guitar lines and exploratory passages that lend the songs an arresting quality that rewards close listening. This style of writing works well for them and though it is not as good as Pink Floyd or Yes! at their prime, it still resonates.

pretty perfect album for me

I very much liked this album

1st song: 5/5 2nd Song: 3.5/5 3rd Song: 3.5/5 4th Song: 5/5 5th Song: 2.5/5 6th Song: 5/5 7th Song: 5/5 8th Song: 4/5 (would be 5/5 if there was more vocals)

Fun listen, nothing spectacular in my honest opinion

Yeah, not bad. I wish I had a Dutch millionaire supporting me for a few years. Stand out tracks: School, Bloody Well Right.

Absolute masterpiece in every sense of the word.

Cool sound, nothing really too exciting for me, though.

Good, but nothing really stands out.

It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great. Right in the middle, or a little above average. It starts out with a great vibe, just as the album progressed I zoned out a bit.

Was very surprised to see this one described as a commercial success 70s synth music hahaha Prog rock is always so absurd Feels like it was written for Broadway None of these songs have any sort of normal structure Dreamer almost smacks

Supertramp is a great band, so I was super excited for this record. I've listened to breakfast in america and really liked that album but its full of major hits, whereas this one is full of unknowns for me. Although some of these are good this sounds like a band looking for its sound. They found it later but not on this album. 3/10

A lot going on here. Like the last track a lot

Fine album with some classic songs. Not really my thing though.

I get the hype around it and I think I would use it while I'm studying, but I would not actively listen to it. I usually prefer songs with a harder beat for that. It does, however, imerse you and I like that in an album, you feel a sense of continuity.

Good stuff. Definitely better than expected.

This is a great album and reminds me of my teenage years listening at Grant’s whacked off our heads. RIP mate

Prog for people who think Billy Joel “rocks”.

I’ve never listened to an album this old! This felt experimental, old school, rock and soul all at once. The genre often changed during the course of a single song. The band (?) definitely played around with sounds and effects. Loved the sax. Some songs left me a little confused and unsure about their meaning. But three I definitely liked: Hide In Your Shell, Rudy (!!), Crime Of The Century. The first two with really good lyrics. The second one especially I related to a lot sadly but it’s a perfect song to dedicate to someone in a way — deep but not in an obvious way, still original. The third one with few lyrics but the sound, the beat is quite good and interesting and powerful.

Never liked Supertramp but this has some charm to it. It sounds very of its time - all the 70s prog hallmarks but also has some great vocal melodies.

En av de råeste åpningene på album jeg kjenner til. Bloody well right så bloody weell tight. 5/7. det som er nytt for meg, er at sangene på dette albumet faktisk kommer fra ett og samme album, og hvor gode de blir når man hører de i kronologisk rekkefølge. Dette albumet er sinnsykt bra. Skal høres igjen. Og igjen.

pretty good

This sounds like Elton John meets Queen, with harmonies and spatial audio play...

Def one of the more underrated 70s band imo. I usually don't like the more "artsy" type of rock but something about Supertramp & the way they mix melody, piano riffs & guitar breakdowns somehow connects with me. I have a couple records of theirs on vinyl but need to keep a look out for this record because "School" & "Rudy" were adds to my Spotify.

every time the same: great musicians, good sounds, but boring in the end

Pretty good. Not great, not terrible. Few good songs on there but no standouts

Great album all around.

Interesting band - feels like they'd have been insufferable art wankers at the time, but there's a few fun songs on here

My knowledge of Supertramp began and ended with Breakfast in America, which my sister owned on LP when it came out, and I listened to a lot. It was interesting to listen to this and discern the more-art-than-pop roots.

Une merveille, la composition, les genres, les voix, tuerie

Great album.

I've heard some of Supertramp's music before but this was my first time listening to Crime Of The Century. From this album, I've heard "Bloody Well Right" and "Dreamer". I was surprised that the other tracks sounded somewhat different than what I am used to from Supertramp. I know that lots of folks like Supertramp, but I'm not sure I found the draw towards their music. The album was okay, but I don't need more of what was offered. Once was enough for now. 3 stars = okay.

Classic prog/ pop rock cross over. Super dry production. 4/5 for the genre 3/5 for personal taste. Essentially watered down prog.

Some high points on this album, but some bland bits too. Definitely a 70s sounds palate, bit of prog rock, ballad etc. Almost gave it a 4 but ultimately decided Better music albums from the mid 70s.

This was a fun listen. Crisply produced prog rock. I could hear a little Pink Floyd in here at times.

I had never heard this and actually enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought I would. I'm not sure I'm ever going to seek it out, but it was far more enjoyable than some of the other albums I've discovered this week.

A little on the poppier side than I generally like my prog but still really fantastic stuff. Great melodies and production.

Iconic opening. Reminds me of being 21 and filing data.

as an infant I was a huge fan of supertramp or so I'm told. I like this album altough I think it should've brougth more familiar sounds, maybe it was just breakfast in america...

Fun in places, but not something I'd be sad to never hear again.

One of the best albums ever

Interesante

Man with a harmonica! Thought this was good.

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Aujourd'hui, mon employeur a annoncé que nous devions commencer à venir travailler régulièrement dans les bureaux de l'entreprise. Cela pose un gros problème, car je passe depuis plusieurs mois mon temps de travail a écouter les albums de Robert depuis mon domicile pendant mes journées de travail. J'ai donc posé un ultimatum à mon employeur: je ne serai présent dans les bureaux qu'en échange de l'installation d'une gigantesque enceinte de 5m par 4 derrière mon poste de travail. Mon patron, circonspect, n'a pour l'instant pas donné suite.

Progressive rock, 1974. The track "School", the best of the whole album, opens this record in the most interesting way possibile and there are also a few other moments on this record where superlative music is played. On the other hand, although the rest of the LP is really solid, it is not enough to be a masterpiece.

Piano heavy 70s spacey rock. Pretty good+ and I like “Bloody Well Right”, but still only average.

Like Rush's weirder English cousin.

Grandioso demais

Great album with good horns and bloody well right is a great novelty song

It feels like Supertramp understands that the cardinal sin of prog rock is excess. It's not as if they're completely innocent of this charge, but there aren't any 13-minute monster tracks that make you wonder why a producer didn't stop the madness. They get in, do their thing, and change direction before you get super tired of it. Best track: School

'Dreamer' is een plezierig nummer dat wat blijft hangen. De rest is wat in en uit. Oké album

One of my father's favourite bands when i was growing up. Though he didn't ever really play much music in the house, if he did, Supertramp would be played at some point.

Not. My. Bag.

😍😍

Not worth my time

Amazing

Good album, one of my mom’s favourites.

I'm a fan of this genre which is fortunate because it does have it's moments. This album has some highs but also some bland wallpaper moments (similar to 10cc). Accomplished musicianship, lots of sounds, experimental bits and random lyrics which occasionally click but often don't. Still, the good bits outweigh the bland so I like this.

Not much of a fan. Breakfast in America provided some nice nostalgic pop horror though.

This became so much better through headphones. There was so much depth in audio headspace. “Bloody Well Right” is one of my favorite songs I love, but forget about. I always remember “Dreamer” to be a lot poppier than it is (I love when the main melody comes back under a heavier arrangement at the end). The vocals are mixed a little low throughout for me, but to great effect to bring you in for the more intimate moments. Supertramp’s multiple lead vocalists work to great effect.

I know a bit of Supertramp and knew a couple songs on here already. I’ve listened through it before, but this time I gave it more focus. It’s so quintessentially 70s. I love the instrumentation and how it builds throughout the album to culminate at the finale which is also the title track. While it sometimes feels like the lyrics take a backseat to the instrumentation, they come together to make this a memorable album. I’m not surprised this was the breakout album for Supertramp and the one that cemented their sound and influence in the pop genre.

Doesn't do much for me. Dreamer is catchy but none of the other songs really pull me in. The mixture of prog and pop is worthy of recognition but their later album Breakfast in America is better in almost every way.

DNF