Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?
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Artist: SupertrampEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-06-11
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Easy Does It
- Sister Moonshine
- Ain't Nobody But Me
- A Soapbox Opera
- Another Man's Woman
- Lady
- Poor Boy
- Just A Normal Day
- The Meaning
- Two Of Us
Free Music Notes for Crisis? What Crisis?
Free Music Review: Unlike So Many Remasters, Most of the Dynamic Range Has Been Preserved
Hit: 5 Stars
It just breaks my heart that so many remasters cater to the inferior dynamics of mp3 when a physical redbook compact disc is capable of so much more. And this is exactly what I hear when I listen to the remastered versions of Crime of the Century, Even in the Quietest Moments, and Breakfast in America. It's as if the remastering engineers have completely removed the low and even the mid-bass frequencies and then manipulated the remaining upper bass frequencies to create the illusion that the full audible spectrum is still present. And that's fine for those consumers who enjoy their music on portable players or while driving since those playback devices are generally incapable of reproducing the missing low and mid-bass, but it is really, really frustrating to people like myself who have assembled home systems for the sole purpose of representing the full audible spectrum. Thankfully, I can take some solace in the fact that "Crisis? What Crisis?" appears to have dodged this all too common marketing bullet. (Note to the powers that be: If you want to capitalize on the music download market, then, at the very least, understand that an mp3 is a completely different product from a redbook compact disc!)
"Crisis? What Crisis?" is probably Supertramp's most underated album. My guess is that it just didn't take with most casual fans, and the downside of riding the crest of a big hit like "Crime of the Century" is that you accummulate a lot of casual fans who, quite innocently, cannot fathom where an artist actually came from in the first place. Because there are few, if any, big hits on this album, it typically gets unfairly dismissed. I mean, this album has one of the most intriguing openings, Easy Does It, of any album I have _ever_ heard and that's coming from a huge fan of The Alan Parsons Project who were renown for striking overtures!
A close listening will reveal all manner of melody in songs like Lady and Sister Moonshine, deft musicianship in Poor Boy and The Meaning, and stellar production choices in the epic A Soapbox Opera, but just not the sort of thing one would typically hear on commercial radio. Because it is so atmospheric at times, perhaps much of this music behaves more like a movie soundtrack than a typical rock, even progressive rock, album.
But the botton line is this: if you like Supertramp in general, then give Crisis a good second look. Like Brother Where You Bound, Crisis is part of the essential Supertramp cannon. More often than not, it strikes me as said cannon's unsung hero.
Crisis? What Crisis? Poster
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing packaged in a paper sleeve. Universal. 2008.Classic Rock Music CDs
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