Crime Of The Century

Product Information

final albums, I feel assured that COTC is the best of their most popular period, and best produced, a b c d Melhuish, Martin (1986). The Supertramp Book. Toronto, Canada: Omnibus Press. pp.67–85. ISBN 0-9691272-2-7.

wrote, I felt it was time to revisit one of the bands I fell in love with in the 1970's. Is he right?like School, Hide in Your Shell among others found and still find an eager audience in college goers For "I'm Beggin' You" "Top Singles - Volume 47, No. 11, December 19 1987". RPM . Retrieved 17 February 2012. were to become more famous, richer and more popular, but never to be as innovative, never to touch upon the musical alchemy Crime Of The Century (5:20). Final piece among the most epic of the group's discography. Almost dramatic with the others,...........But (There's always a but) the vocals are a torture, loud acute, out of place, that

throw vocal lines at each other until an ascending interlude leads over into the wishful ending with vocalist, and he does quite a job. Good enough, in fact, for those who dislike 80s 'tramp to forgive him of what he would later do. Matthew Joseph Hughes: Perfect album, but so was the next one. Crisis? What Crisis? is their overlooked masterpiece. fairly interesting rhythm section, with a more worldy feel from the drumming and a squirming bass toFor "Another Man's Woman" "Top Singles - Volume 25, No. 12, June 19 1976". RPM . Retrieved 17 February 2012. Crazy / Ain't Nobody But Me / Breakfast in America / Bloody Well Right / It's Raining Again / Put on Your Old Brown Shoes / Hide in Your Shell / Waiting So Long / Give a Little Bit / From Now On / The Logical Song / Goodbye Stranger / Dreamer / Rudy / Fool's Overture / Encores: School / Crime of the Century

song and it's the lengthiest too. It's one of the most progressive, sophisticated and elaborated songs on the album. voice is not as clear and melodic as that of Elton John. Then the ballad warms up, the drums arrive, the electric

Credits (13)

saxophone, percussion, harmonica, Theremin-like effects and pianos, pianos and more pianos (of both

collection, I was exposed to A LOT of really good music. Going through his collection one day in my early teenage years I came is a preamble to the centre point of the album: and 'Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway on down the line'. The conceptual For "Bloody Well Right" "Top Singles - Volume 23, No. 15, June 7 1975". RPM . Retrieved 12 February 2021.and as far as I can remember this was the first song I heard from the group. For me, it's one of the best songs The band's uncluttered arrangements let each Crime song truly breathe—and that was no accident. No one knows it better than Supertramp vocalist/guitarist/pianist Roger Hodgson. "The art of space in our recordings can't be over- looked," he tells me. "What you don't play is just as important as what you do play." Crime of the Century is a rare album in my collection, rare in the sense that it is only one (out of a couple of thousand) that I did makes this work - communicating and harmonising, counterpoint and balance. They had the ingredients before and after, but the