With Jethro Tull yesterday, Ian Anderson's character was interesting at least. But, with Supertramp, there isn't much to hang on to. For all the prog trappings, it's really just pop music. That's no slight. It's just an observation that I don't believe Supertramp are taking an artistic stance so much as a commercial stance - regardless of what the song lengths suggest. And, in that business, you've got to be catchy. I've listened to Crime of the Century three times now and remember nothing about it. Even Dreamer, which I knew previously, I now feel less familiar with. 1.5 Here is the sort of album that forces one to rethink. I have been saving for my daughter’s music lessons since the day she was born. I would like her to have piano lessons in a few years unless fate declares her for some other instrument in the meantime. Listening to Supertramp today though I thought no, piano is a terrible instrument. Listen to how annoying it is; how one-dimensional. Feeble. Plinky plonky bollocks. Isn’t guitar awful as well? Listen to Bloody Well Right - guitar solos are like the honking of a hated goose, striking chords like someone vomiting. The truth about this shambles of an instrument is at last apparent. And drums? Who would endure years of clatter in their house just for their child to acquire such a singularly unexciting skill? No. Supertramp have shown me that music is rubbish. I felt soul-stripped when I finished listening to Crime of the Century today. Can tomorrow’s music redeem my spiritual crisis? I don’t dare to hope for better piano playing - I know, for example, that Chas & Dave didn’t make the list. 1/5