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Crime Of The Century
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Track Listings
1 | School |
2 | Bloody Well Right |
3 | Hide in Your Shell |
4 | Asylum |
5 | Dreamer |
6 | Rudy |
7 | If Everyone Was Listening |
8 | Crime of the Century |
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Digitally remastered edition of this 1974 album. This 40th anniversary celebration features the remastered original album, mastered and cut by Ray Staff at Air Studios.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 12 x 12.6 x 1 inches; 8.32 ounces
- Manufacturer : A&M
- Item model number : 30702890
- Original Release Date : 2014
- Date First Available : October 29, 2014
- Label : A&M
- ASIN : B00OJU1OJI
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #949 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #372 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
- #416 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Although my favorite two songs by Supertramp might be located on their 1977 Even In The Quietest Moments and another one on 1975 Crises? What Crisis? I consider this album from 1974, Crime Of The Century as their most even album overall. This was as close to a progressive rock concept album as Supertramp was ever going to get. The action of this play might appear to be insanity. However, beneath the surface the real concept was to lead the listeners into believing the above and to open their eyes within the last songs to the fact that most of us are the actors, our world is the stage and the lack of love is the reason (for this show).
My favorite songs of this album are: Crime Of The Century, If Everyone Was Listening, Hide In Your Shell and School. If Everyone Was Listening is starting to explain the concept of this album to us. I find this song musically powerful in the typical Supertramp way, with plenty of quiet and loud parts intermixed. Lyrically it tells us that perhaps being proper citizens does not make us human beings in its full meaning. Crime Of The Century is excellent musically, with a middle instrumental symphonic section on par with the one we can find in Fool's Overture or A Soapbox Opera. This is my favorite song of this album and its words (especially by now in 2009) sound to me like a prophecy so clear to see. We do have ourselves to blame for the direction our world has taken. We are running to get there faster and faster but we are loosing clear vision of where we are heading, more and more. We have become perfect consumers of gadgets and reality shows, to the point where we - the ones in the driver seat of this global tour bus... on a national level (and hello England) have paid with our freedom for what we think we need. We are maxed out on our credit cards, are mortgages are under water and...what have we got to show for it? What tremendous experiences have we gone through in the last decades that make that debt worthwhile? Are our children smarter and happier that they were 25 years ago? Have we invested the money into their future? Greed (hello New York and London) and stupidity (hello Hollywood) has taken us for a ride on a global and personal level. The lyrics of Hide In Your Shell are spectacular. On the surface this song might appear to be addressing some poor thing we feel sorry for, but let's get a bit deeper into it and all of a sudden Hide In Your Shell could be addressed to all of us walking across these fields of life with our guard on, expecting the worst from the ones we pass by. Well, but that is what we are supposed to do, right? Local media is full of horror stories about psychopaths and perverts and criminals, and we do have the duty to protect ourselves and our loved ones, and teach our kids to stay away from harm. Well, yes...and no...because such attitude develops the space we are in. Perhaps focusing on cause more than effect could start changing the latter. Some of the simplest but strongest lessens in my life I have learned in my Sunday school when I was a little boy... You can't expect people to trust you if you don't trust them; open your heart to others and they may open theirs to you; give someone something for nothing if you can, so perhaps they will do the same and we can start improving our status quo. Looking at this song from such prospective all of a sudden is so much more meaningful. School starts this album and I have always loved the music of this song and find it very powerful. This song is addressed straight to the young, and rightfully so. They are our only chance...we are way to far gone and our credibility is gone. My favorite songs of Supertramp are the following: Babaji, Lord Is It Mine, Fool's Overture, The Meaning, If Everyone Was Listening, A Soapbox Opera, Even In The Quietest Moments, Breakfast In America, School, Give A Little Bit, Child Of Vision, Hide In Your Shell, Two Of Us, Gone Hollywood, Crime Of The Century.
I bought this about 45 days ago, but am only now getting around to writing a review, and I have to say I think it's better than Breakfast. For one thing I enjoy every song on the album (Casual Conversations did nothing for me), and for another, the songs transition so perfectly into one another. Some specific thoughts on each of the songs:
School: Always makes me think of America's education system, especially when you get teachers more focused on getting the material out there than being engaging, which, IMO causes a lot of the disconnect.
Bloody Well Right: Honestly, i think of it as being a simple reminder that if you want to change things, whining about it isn't going to do it.
Hide in your Shell: A reminder that there are always those willing to help you?
Asylum: Reminds me of several studies that showed that you can be declared insane and not decalred sane until they decide you're fixed, even if you were never insane to begin with
Dreamer: A reminder to act on your dreams.
Rudy: All about one very messed up individual.
If everyone was listening: I'm not sure what it's going for, but it's a really good song.
Crime of the centruy: Media sensationalism?
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Reviewed in Mexico on December 28, 2023