Supertramp - Crime of the Century
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Free Music Review: Supertramp's Best Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Supertramp's Crime of the Century album is the best album that Supertramp ever produced. Much like Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon; Crime of the Century is a dark introspective look at life. Crime of the Century produced 2 hit songs; Bloody Well Right and Dreamer that got a lot of FM radio play in the early-mid 70's. In 1978 Supertramp produced the much more commercial album Breakfast in America.
If you are going to own one Supertramp album it should be Crime of the Century
Free Music Review: A classic of British Rock!
Hit: 4 Stars
Back in the mid 1970s, the launch of "Crime of the Century" was a question for Rock music fans. Another "Progressive" group? An alternative answer to Symphonic Rock? Together with ingenious lyrics and the use of keyboards, sax and even harmonica, this British band issued a series of successful albums.
The first one to consider, obviously, is this "Crime of the Century". To be noticed: first CD reissues captured the mid-to-low sound quality of the LP version. Luckily, people at A&M/Universal Music decided to reissue a remastered version. No extra tracks, no additional features, but the sound quality has been improved.
If you want to remind the best times of Rock music (the 70s), get this album, as well as "Breakfast in America" and "Even In The Quietest Moments".
Free Music Review: Supertramp- Crime of the Century
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the finest albums recorded by Supertramp. Once again they take you to a place of inner harmony and solitude. Such a worthwhile compilation of artistry.Free Music Review: The first true Supertramp offering over 30 years later
Hit: 5 Stars
When English rockers Supertramp released their third album Crime of the Century in October of 1974, the band had been together for almost four years and went through hardships before recording this album.
The only holdovers from the original Supertramp lineup in 1969 were the two main songwriters and vocalists, guitarist and occasional keyboard player Roger Hodgson and keyboard player Rick Davies. After releasing two failed received albums 1970's self-titled and 1971's Indelibly Stamped, Supertramp called it quits.
Then in late 1973, Hodgson and Davies reformed the group which featured fellow Englishman John Helliwell on saxophones, woodwinds and occasional keyboards (he would also bring along his excellent sense of humor to the band), a Scotsman named Dougie Thomson on bass guitar and drummer Bob C. Benberg (real spelling of last name is Siebenberg), whom hailed from Southern California, USA.
The new lineup of the band went into Ramport Studios (owned by The Who) with co-producer Ken Scott (whom had worked with artists like David Bowie, Elton John and The Beatles) and created their first masterpiece which also spawned a single "Land Ho" b/w "Summer Romance" which would not appear on an album until 2005's 2-disc Retrospectacle.
Crime kicks off with Hodgson's "School" with a classic Hodgson guitar riff and the haunting harmonica by Davies and complete with school kids playing and was a radio staple. Next is Davies' "Bloody Well Right" which has a memorable chorus and was Supertramp's first American Top 40 hit in the spring of 1975. "Hide in Your Shell" is next and my favorite Hodgson track on this album and has a synth effect played by a saw with a violin bow and a beautiful melody and vocal from Hodgson. The first half concludes with my favorite Davies track on Crime entitled "Asylum", which is about the character of Rudy going insane and complete with cuckoo clocks at the end and Davies saying he's mad mad mad and the music is haunting.
Side two (the second half) kicks off with "Dreamer", which was Supertramp's first UK Top 20 hit and a classic Hodgson track. Next, is the album's tour-de-force "Rudy", which is a classic Rick Davies composition and you feel like you are on a train with this song. "If Anyone Was Listening" is next and has a Beatles kind of vibe to it since Hodgson was a Beatles nut and a nice ballad. The album concludes with the title track which had Davies' blues and jazz influences and the lyrics summed up the album in a nutshell.
Crime of the Century was the beginning of the classic Supertramp era and was the first album for the band to hit the US Top 40 and eventually went Gold (it would hit Gold after the success of Even in the Quietest Moments in 1977).
Today, this album stills holds up 31 years after its release, especially with the remastering superbly done by Greg Calbi and Supertramp engineer Jay Messina, whom painstakingly remastered this album in 2002.
Free Music Review: Awsome CD but what about a 5.1 mix
Hit: 5 Stars
This has been one of my favorite Supertramp Cd's. I wish someone would make a 5.1 mix of this cd, that would be awsome. The Cd Crime of the Century was made for surround sound. I can't beleive that it has not been released as that yet. I'll be waiting.