Supertramp Crime of the Century ... 27 ?

I'll confess that it is in my top 20. I do revisit it every so often to make sure that it deserves to rank so highly and each time that I play it I realise how good it is.

Bloody well Right to sayyyyyyy.....

I like Supertramp ok but Crime of the Century never did anything for me. Even In the Quietest Moments should be up there!

Eh, why not?  It's a pretty good album.  I've heard worse, some of which might actually outrank it in the Top 100 at any given moment.  In a sense, it's a perfect representation of prog's influence on a pretty good rock band and therefore, given that niche, may be perfectly placed.  If not, don't worry, won't be there long.

Crime of the Century is not pop

kingfriso wrote: I one Supertramp record should be part of the PA top 100 it would be 'Crisis, what crisis?". Ít's still a total mistery why Crime of the Century is so highly regarded. It's a kind of pop album..

I find it heavily intriguing how would could hear Crime as "kind of pop" and not Crisis?, as I think they're both similar.

If anything, Crisis? is more apt to be labeled pop than Crime, I would think----and Supertramp aren't pop at all, really. They just incorporate pop-accessibility into their works, and I would hesitate to lump them in with other artists that are labeled pop.

I one Supertramp record should be part of the PA top 100 it would be 'Crisis, what crisis?". Ít's still a total mistery why Crime of the Century is so highly regarded. It's a kind of pop album..

I would probably place it higher.

I think Crime of the Century is a pretty good album, but 27 is very high... way too high I think.

ClemofNazareth wrote: TerLJack wrote: You should have one more choice for those of us who think it should be rated higher!   Exactly.  At one point Crime of the Century was in the Top-10 for a while (so was Wishbone Ash's 'Argus' for that matter).  In both cases they are brilliant albums that deserve the recognition IMHO.    Whether they are 'prog enough' or not is really a moot point - their association to progressive music is well enough established that all but the most dogmatic of listeners at least think they're prog.

I haven't thought of myself as one of the most dogmatic listeners, and yet I don't think of Supertramp as Prog (though I'd likely be apt to describe some of their music that way to some people, and do attribute various prog traits to their music).  I do associate the band with the Prog movement, but it's more proggy than prog for me.  It's not that I think others are wrong and I'm right.  Prog can be a nebulous construct.  I don't have a problem with it in a prog category, cause I think it has enough in common with progressive rock acts for it, but I still don't think of Supertramp as Prog-proper.  I think of it as Art Rock and Classic Rock.  Nomencalture is a funny old game though, and different people have different biases/ look for, or hear different qualities, and make differet associations.  Some music that I think of as Prog (in a greater sense of the word) and suitable for the archives, others dismiss as unsuitable and non-Prog (which is a stronger statement than somewhat prog etc.).  And others that I think are Prog Related others say have nothing to with Prog (I'm very inclusive when it comes to "related").

My pathetic haypenny.