studied this song nearly as much as the others. The title song and closer is obviously the one that has progressive written all The album was re-issued by German audiophile label Speaker's Corner in 1999, as a 180gram vinyl LP. [32] It has none of the dynamic range compression applied to the A&M remastered CD versions. [ citation needed] Hide In Your Shell? Don't we all? But this was different, not introspective, it's reaching out a friendly hand; 'if I can help you just electric piano has a crunch that doesn't come across on the radio, and the helium vocals don't seem so high after all, the chukka- School / Ain't Nobody But Me / The Logical Song / Goodbye Stranger / Sister Moonshine / Oh Darling / Hide in Your Shell / From Now On / Child of Vision / Even in the Quietest Moments / A Soapbox Opera / Asylum / Give a Little Bit / Bloody Well Right / Breakfast in America / Dreamer / Rudy / If Everyone Was Listening / Another Man's Woman / Fool's Overture / Encores: Two of Us / Crime of the Century

School / Slow Motion / Over You / Bloody Well Right / Tenth Avenue Breakdown / Cannonball / Sooner or Later / Free as a Bird / Downstream / Asylum / Give a Little Bit / From Now On / Take the Long Way Home / Another Man's Woman / The Logical Song / Goodbye Stranger / Encores: Broken Hearted / Rudy / Crime of the Century Firstly the great prog debate - is it or isn't it? The answer is definitely yes - it's classic arty prog, full of keyboards observation, a comment, not a game of Simon Says 'Well, can you put your hands on your head, oh no!' There's a depth, the Hodgson and Davies both stated that communication within the group was at a peak during the recording of this album, while drummer Siebenberg stated that he thought it was this album on which the band hit its "artistic peak". [16] And due to a mere whim rather than any real interest Crime of the Century worked itself up to beingpoignant mini-epic: strings, tubular bells, acoustic piano, saxophone, guitar, the kitchen sink. The side ends. Emotionally

choirs are still a bit too acute for my taste, they are quite enjoyable, this proves a song doesn't need to probably said no on both counts. It was 1974, I was 17 and I was like that then. To say I looked perplexed would just about sum The two Supertramp albums I have, this and Crisis? What Crisis?, are surprisingly interesting. MostFor "Free as a Bird" "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 47, No. 9, December 05 1987". RPM . Retrieved 15 December 2008. Crime of the Century (liner notes). Supertramp. A&M Records. 1974. 88 122 XOT. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) performance on this album could be compared in a sense to early King Crimson (i.e. Court, Wake of Poseidon) but not buy myself or have bought on my behalf with my prior knowledge. It was given to me by someone who just thought I

the world is a stage and Rudy merely a player? And if so, then he's only on Act II, a long way from the final scene, but when Despite this fact, "School" and "Crime of the Century", don't deserve to be included in album rated with You Started Laughing / Gone Hollywood / Put on Your Old Brown Shoes / Ain't Nobody But Me / Breakfast in America / Cannonball / Poor Boy / From Now On / Give A Little Bit / Downstream / Asylum (occasionally) / Rudy / It's Raining Again / Another Man's Woman / Take the Long Way Home / Bloody Well Right / The Logical Song / Goodbye Stranger / Encores: Don't You Lie to Me (occasionally) / School / Dreamer / Crime of the Century or gambit that you could pinpoint as uniquely Supertramp. While yet the music does not really soundOn the In the Studio with Redbeard episode devoted to the album, Hodgson stated that "Rudy" was the character on the album and was seen as somewhat autobiographical of Davies' life at the time. [ citation needed] The sound of the train in "Rudy" was recorded at London Paddington station, while the crowd noises in the song were taken from Leicester Square. [8] brilliant piece of vinyl everything came in place. I cannot stress just how brilliant an album this is. From the very beginning of the first towards a jaunty pop segment but then dropping abruptly into sparsity and quietude again. It's very well arranged together with a loose concept (schooling and its results...) and good lyrics to produce an extremely