Crime Of The Century

Hay buenas rolas definitivamente, pero éste album no se me hizo nada especial.

I've never heard this but it sounds very familiar. Not my style.

I was ambivalent to this but the piano ending to Crime of the Century (last song) was beautiful.

Not a bad album, can see why people like this

Nothing especially stood out for me on this album. The music didn’t capture my imagination. I found it a bit of a chore. It’s possible prog rock isn’t really my thing.

Wasn’t looking forward to this but wasn’t actually bad, inoffensive 70’s prog rock.

Pleasant enough background music. Disagree on a must listen.

I guess I can more or less definitively say I don’t really like prog? That’s one good thing to have come out of all of this, at least. I’m giving this two because they at least have an ear for a hook, and when it wasn’t interminable twiddling, there was some catchy, bouncy, and kind of fun-sounding stuff. At least these fellas seem to have a bit of a sense of humour about the whole venture. Gotta count for something.

Not really my bag.

Sounds like someone was listening to a lot of Dark Side of the Moon. Fits neatly in the proggy realm of Pink Floyd and Steely Dan, which isn't entirely my cup of tea, though I can appreciate the intricacy. I feel like it's almost oppressively "playful" in the sense that every song has it's own peculiar production and instrumental choices and look-at-me performances undergirded by a white blues aesthetic that does not appeal to me that much, personally. In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, "All I ever do is try, try try." Favourite track: "Dreamer" or "Asylum" up until about 5:45 when it just goes off the rails, man.

Some good moments and really liked the final track but nothing stuck with me and wouldn’t have a desire to explore more

not great

Okay. 1 or two good songs.

4.5

Really didn't like this as much as I expected, not a huge fan of the vocals.

Meh

Yeah, it’s music I guess.

When I struggle to think of memorable features of an album the day after listening it was probably generic 70s pop stuff.

Fucking hate Supertramp

Meh, didn't really get into, like a few songs. 2/5

Det är precis sånt här jag hittade i min pappas vinylsamling när jag ville hitta tidiga Led Zeppelin och Black Sabbath. Det är bara något med ljudbilden som är så jävla tråkigt.

Progressive art rock, psykedelisk, pop

Boring.

found it boring as hell + vocals don't work for me tbh

Ok

One of the most forgettable things I’ve ever heard

I hate that there is no song architecture, just a constant battle between singer, keyboard/organ and guitar

Bloody Well WRONG (god damn this band is annoying).

It must have been so easy to make music in the 70s when this pedestrian shit passed for good.

This was the most forgettable album I’ve ever listened to. I honestly don’t remember a thing about it.

I wasn’t a huge fan as I don’t like this genre.

No gustó

Kinda sounded like elton john was their idol and tried really hard to sound similar. eh

Meh

Including this really felt like some sort of sick joke.

Not a fan. Barely made it past the first 2 tracks—interesting sound and aesthetic though.

This sounds like someone took left-over scraps from Steely Dan and Pink Floyd and squished it together to make a sad creation meant for people that hate music.

Not for me. 1/5

No

Worst yet. Get this off the list.

If 70s brown was a sound, It would be this.

One of the songs Hide in your shell really reminded me of the song Fairy of Shampoo covered by TxT. I do not quite know if I like this album it is quite boring and it reminds me of queens music like the ensemble chorus in the background. Actually maybe that might me the first few songs Hide in your shell is a bop. It reminds of Space Odessey.

Not for me

ugh... just awful twaddle

Not my thing, although I'll avoid the temptation to say it's a musical crime

#6 British slang, identifiable intonation of the 60s and 70s, folksy, jaunty piano, sounded all over the place. Does this album know what it wants to be?

In the mid 70’s these guys and their girlfriends moved into a house directly above my cousins’ vacation cabin. They would cut through the property to swim on the Yuba river. My cousins said they were super chill. Five for being nice to my family. One for the music.

I just had a strange thought: that's the first time I've listened to this album and not been stoned. Maybe I needed to go back to old 70's habits and light up a Camberwell Carrot to properly appreciate this again. I have a nod of acknowledgement to Rick Davies, but I loathe Roger Hodgson's stuff, and to be honest back in the day 13 year old me did too. I cut my hair in 1978 and went looking for straight legged pants. I then frisbeed my Supertramp records into the Hills Hoist and never looked back.

It’s not often I have nothing positive to say about an album, yet here we are. A weird disjointed theatrical 70s mess. Not a fan!

Unfortunately, this album and artist aren't my type. I didn't understand why this album is essential.

Accurate album title.

Man, I've always hated Supertramp, so I was pleased to see that this album was at least only 8 tracks long. Thought jesus, do these 8 songs ever go on. Partly it's that I can't stand the dude's voice. And then there's the music, which I mostly can't stand. Plus the lyrics, which are already bad but sound even dumber with that nasal voice... "You're bloody well right." I don't hate progressive rock all the time--some of it is good. This is an example of how things went wrong. Essentially if you had to synthesize everything I hated about mainstream mid-to late-70s rock in one band, it would be Supertramp. In fact, this is probably the exact moment when the 70s went from good to bad. The real Crime of the Century is having to listen to this misplaced Pink Floyd influence.

Nearly interesting Progressive Rock but stays a boring meandering mess.

I grew up in the 80s, when the 1970s were commonly held to be the absolute nadir of popular taste. As time wore on, drawn by the allure of the forbidden, I came to love some stigmatized genres characteristic of the 70s and shed my prejudices against the decade. But as I was listening to Supertramp's shitty attempts at bluesy melisma while reading on wikipedia that this was the sound of them SUCCESSFULLY aiming for a commercial breakthrough, I came to realize that the adults of my early childhood were right. The 70s really did suck.

q: what if a 70s easy listening band did prog rock a: i would not enjoy it for a single second

Now i’m all for a bit of harmonica but the introduction to this album is taking it too far. Aside from from that the tune (eventually) is jolly enough but the singer’s vocal grate on me. Bloody well right continues the pointless intro issue. Already being to get tedious. When the tune (again eventually) arrives i dont think there’s any doubt, if there ever was, what decade this album is from. This is just slow boring drivel.

I don't like supertramp

Hated the first song, far too Pink Floyd like, felt a bit more charitable towards song 3 Hide in your Shell. Asylum is very Elton John. Given up by Rudy, really not enjoying this album, just not for me.

Unremarkable

A really good record… for forty seconds.

Prog rock sucks. A better project for this album would be deciding who is worse, Supertramp or Rush. The only good Supertramp song is Goodbye Stranger. This is awful music, Hide In Your Shell could be titled Representative Awful Supertramp Song and it would be more accurate. Listening to an entire album of this is making me like Goodbye Stranger less because it sounds too much like the rest of this. How can some of these albums keep getting worse when they start out so terribly. Dreamer is the hit and it is awful. I guess the lesson this album teaches is that things can always get worse. Crime of the Century is like the worst Pink Floyd cover band you can imagine. 70s dad rock Floyd...no one is filling a planetarium to see a laser light show for that. Even the album cover looks like a Pink Floyd ripoff.

1. zchool - 1.5 2. bloody - 1.5 3. zhell - 0 4. azylum - 1 5. dreamer- 1.5 6. rudy - 1 7. liztening - 1.5 8. crime - 1

Not my type of music

Their 3rd album. Rock / Prog. Struggled with this one. I'm just not into this type of prig stuff. They're a tight band and it's well produced but meh.

no redeeming qualities

Nope. Never liked them.

I'm not a supertramp fan in general... I don't enjoy the singles at all. Dreamer specifically is a stain upon this earth that i hope is someday scrubbed away. Turns out I also don't like the deep cuts. This album felt like a mix of shitty The Wall-era Pink Floyd and shitty Elton John. The nicest thing I have to say about it is that occasionally there's a cool instrumental passage like the piano bit in the middle of School. I swear I've heard it in a movie and it's just an awesome little piano interlude rammed in the middle of a shitty song. I wish it was it's own song. I swear this is probably the album that upset angry teens in the 70s so much that they decided to invent punk to try and kill it. Why won't it die?

PRE LISTEN: Not entirely sure what to expect. I know very few Supertramp songs. LISTEN: Kinda hard to pinpoint what’s going on, but I like it alright. The vocalist has more interesting a voice than I had remembered.

Did not enjoy.

Craptastic

Cheeky, needy, full of cliches

no me gusta el rock me aburrio

Didn't move a single fiber in me...

Very 1974. Lumpy, bitty, and dull.

Another keyboard driven “prog” album. Nothing new here. This one sounds like a poor mix of Pink Floyd and Yes. This territory has been covered already. Nothing to see here, move along…

Magari non un 1/5 ma rispetto agli altri senza dubbio.

Thanks remind me why I hate prog rock

I would rather be smacked in the head with a rock than have to listen to this tripe again.

Look, I tried… alright? My heart sank when this popped up, but in the spirit of things I thought I ought to give it a go. I don’t like any of the Supertramp that I’ve heard over the years, but I hadn’t heard this album. So… who knows? I knew. This is bloody awful. So polite and smug and dull and plodding and… polite. Ugh. I even hate the cover. Some poor sods were 14 when this came out and so were at the age where this became ‘their music’ and they can’t separate it from that nostalgic wash of primary cultural value. I pity them. Alan Partridge never mentions liking Supertramp, by my recollection. But you can bet he does. Just not enough to even mention it. The sound of washing the car on a bank holiday Monday. In tiny shorts and a shirt you wear for work. Horrible.

Music for people who don’t really like music.

Not for me and the quality of the production seems inconsistent and rough at times. It took me out of the listening experience.

It isn't a good 70s album. I hadn't heard of this album before, and rightly so, it seems.

The first 3.5 minutes of "Rudy" didn't suck. That's the nicest thing I have to say about this one.

I've known Supertramp peripherally forever and never cared about them at all. I actually can't stand the radio songs. Looks like I don't like the rest either. Ever notice how that Take a look at my girlfriend song has the same intro as Don't Speak by No Doubt?

Not my kind of favorit Music

Yuck!

Thx. No, thx.

usual music preference towards metal, classical, electronic, and rap. 4. Supertramp - Crime of the Century: Not for me. 0/10.

Dreamer is a great track, apart from that I didnt really enjoy the album at all. This is not one I would listen to again.

Proggy pop combined with big dumb 70s rock, so: big synthy riffs and spaceship tones. Having the electric piano at the forefront makes for a kind of showtune feel. Like a copy of the more annoying side of David Bowie. All the maximalist tendencies but little of the creative energy, and done on the cheap. They sound like a filler band on one of those compilations they used to advertise on TV like "ALL THE RADIO HITS OF THE 70s YOU KNOW AND LOVE!!!! (except for the good ones)"

Everything on this album has been done better later sometimes by the same band. Honestly don't understand how this made the list

This album is definitely a crime of the century.

Weird and not in a fun way. These dorks took too much acid.

80s prog rock - had a bit of a pop tilt to it, wasn't a huge fan.

meh

1 Star (2/15)

Like Alexander Supertramp, this album ought to get lost in the Alaskan wilderness for good

Nope.

Crime of the Century is the only name for it

i absolutely loathe the 1970s.

Not a fan

Just no. Id rather not, ty, please god no.

Heard the title song Crime of the Century. Sounds like Queen but angrier, occasionally.

No

Not a fan. Thought the couple of songs I had heard previously were OK but this listen showed me that they are self indulgent rubbish.

As a band who specializes in a more radio format of prog rock, bordering on AOR, this sounded like a merely decent result until I heard the first song, is it me, or did everything sound the same? All the songs were quiet, started off with a keyboard/piano solo, and all built up to a climax which had no actual result whatsoever. I also realized that one of the singers had a falsetto that resembled more of the voice of a British cartoon parrot than anything. Oh well, I guess the solo in Crime of the Century was nice. Highlights: The solo, at least the band was trying Faults: Everything Else

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

Slept like a baby

Just not for me.

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

Naff.

Me aburrió muchísimo

That album was so bland for me…nothing stood out and it was a slog to get through

This is not the small area of prog I can tolerate. Hide In Your Shell was alright but otherwise I don't get on with the meandering storytelling.

Yeah this bass track is sick, let’s add the worst fucking singing you’ve heard in your life. There isn’t a song on here that another artist hasn’t made a better version of. Kids Bop: Pink Floyd

Terrible, terrible...

1.75

Nothing that I would want to listen to again. I recognized Dreamer.

Not for me

Extremely boring. Okay 70s music, I'm just not into 70s music at all

1/19/21

Not bad

track list notes 1. school: unique track. had range, funky as hell. love the piano

No me gustó

Some really good turn up the volume style songs. Obviously Kashmir is a classic. A good album overall