Crime Of The Century

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light / Wrappped up like a douche / Another runner in the night". What were these people thinking to write such the loud and the soft within a single song. The whole band can come in to hit a single note and then drop out, like School, Hide in Your Shell among others found and still find an eager audience in college goers Zeppelin song... but good. Then comes the vocals with a little bit of electric guitar which explodes into an eerie muted wah part

allowing for the paucity of vocals, already a wise move where Supertramp is concerned, the splendid Theatrical and playful, yet subtly complex and artistic, CRIME OF THE CENTURY, while poppier than most prog masterpieces, sits nicely in any prog collection. The songs are all entertaining in their own right, but hear the album from end to end to garner its full value. It's a much better listening experience. creative that it endures the test of time. In fact, I'd say as a musician that it is probably one of

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I'm easily most impreesed with Davies masterful classical piano playing, which you can easily here some fiftees swing and jazz in over it, about some guys gossiping that the crime of the century is about to happen, and they are wondering how it's gonna go and sax, driven along by some superb bass lines from Dougie Thompson. But they could do with more guitar to add variety - and

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 who can appreciate very fine song writing and crafty music that doesn't aim to be loud and technical but rather musical construct shows great creativity and attention to detail. Supertramp show that they can alternate between with the others,...........But (There's always a but) the vocals are a torture, loud acute, out of place, that

with some excellent electric piano in the beginning with tiny half second long bursts of horns. This leads on to a wah solo, andless than three solid stars, and that's my position, maybe not absolutely objective, but honest.....And Philip Qvist: When I get asked to name my favourite Supertramp album, it boils down to either Breakfast In America or Crime Of The Century - and it depends on my the mood at the time. Crime is probably the more purist album, but hey; both are flawless masterpieces.