 Crime of the Century (1974) [ larger cover art ] |
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I can see you in the morning when you go to school,
Don't forget your books, you know you've got to learn the golden rule,
Teacher tells you stop your play and get on with your work
And be like Johnnie – too-good, well don't you know he never shirks
– he's coming along!
After School is over you're playing in the park
Don't be out too late, don't let it get too dark
They tell you not to hang around and learn what life's about
And grow up just like them – won't let you work it out
– and you're full of doubt
''Don't do this and don't do that
What are they trying to do? ''
– Make a good boy of you
''Do they know where it's at?''
Don't criticise, they're old and wise
Do as they tell you to
Don't want the devil to
Come and put out your eyes
Maybe I'm mistaken expecting you to fight
Or maybe I'm just crazy, I don't know wrong from right
But while I am still living I've just got this to say
It's always up to you if you want to be that
want to see that
want to see it that way
– you're coming along!
| mojcamojca77 (Idrija) | Posted: May 15, 2013 - 23:36 Super Supertramp  |
| lattalo (Beartooths) | Posted: Apr 14, 2013 - 16:29 This song is still sooo good!!!! |
| sportskid (Earth) | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 12:42 The pinnacle song of their collection. A true volume turner.............. |
| markg063 (Massachusetts) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 06:54 I remember being in junior high and my friend's brother came back from college with this album and said we "had" to listen to this. Damn, we loved this. Good to hear the old Supertramp. Great memories of running to his room to listen to it after school.... |
| Zeito (Sieur du Lhut) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 06:51 I've never heard this on the local Clear Channel classic dreck station. Pretty cool. |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Mar 09, 2013 - 00:49 Damn. Thought I was getting some classic The The at the start. Instead I am still waiting for this song to start - oop there it goes. Not really for me and it keeps stopping again. |
| midigitguy (Paradise, California) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 11:50 Great read about making of this and lots of other excellent music.. By Ken Scott (with the prolific Bobby Owsinski), engineer/producer extraordinaire... click here DO remember to link to it via RP! |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 11:46 Grammarcop wrote: My original sentence said: "I think I'm glad I went to school in North America." I'm sorry if you did not understand that. Next ... time ... I'll ... try ... to ... write ... more ... slowly. Thank you. I can only read a little at a time. |
| 3Dave (Paradise, California) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 11:45 Nice little extra intro by Bill today...very cool... although I must admit "their later works" i.e. "Breakfast in America" are, of course, what then had me back tracking to albums like this one. But yes this whole album was the peak of what Roger and Rick could achieve. When I saw them in concert and that harmonica started?... sends a chill even now... see my journal entry. |
| cmarcan (Nanaimo, BC) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 11:40 One of the albums I totallly wore out then I was a kid. Had a million skips and I still kept playing it. |
| ansugon (Mirkwood) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 11:40 "...it stands head and shoulders above their later work..." Well said, Bill, well said. |
| Papasmeg (Lille France) | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 12:54 Live this was the most outstanding ST song. Still think its stood the test of time. 9 for me. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 12:50 Expecting to see Bronson or Eastwood any second now. |
| philinnz (Wellington, New Zealand) | Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 18:31 Lets  Turn up the volume!!! - |
| Kokoloco53 (Southeastern Arizona) | Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 15:41 Hadn't heard this one in ages, though have their awesome album Even in the Quietest Moments. First time I heard this was at a friend's in Flagstaff Arizona who worked at a Circles record store and bought all kinds of stuff. Billy D also turned me onto my first listen of Genesis, Trick of the Tail?, I didn't appreciate that music until later as well. Great stuff. |
| ziakut (Right Here) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 10:26 This wonderful band kind of got swallowed up by A.M. radio during the 'Breakfast In America' days. This album, though it predates BIA...is absolutely what I really appreciate about this band. Most who were introduced to this band from their more popular tunes...never got to hear this amazing stuff. It's too bad, but kudos to RP for bringing it back to life. |
| Carl (The Summit City) | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 10:15 I regret not appreciating ST in the day; although I was aware of them, I didn't pay enough attention and lacked the control over the music I heard then compared with now. Thanks again, Bill & Rebecca, for RP! |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...near the netherlands) | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 10:12 ...wow....38yrs.old....was 10 when it came out,..buyed it first time with 12........8->9.........for the memories......  ............ |
| TJS (Bradley, Il) | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 06:33 The piano break in this song is pure magic. |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 06:31 pffffff....!!!! |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 17:32 Great song! Just recently my daughter (aged 10) asked me whether this song is from Pink Floyd, which, in a way, could be very much so! Turn up the volume   !! (Oh, oops, its half pas two in the morning here: excuse me, neighbours  !) |
| merkin_muffley (Down the rabbit hole.....) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 10:33 I love Supertramp and one of the number of bands i would have really liked to see live. Won't happen now as Roger Hodgson has disappeared up his own back passage. The album Paris was always on my turntable back in the day, actually i have no Supertramp on CD, entire catalogue on vinyl. |
| Flipmode (Spartanburg, SC) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 10:27 bulleminan wrote: The intro is sooo much Ennio Morricone Nice reference. The old spaghetti western. |
| Grammarcop (i've successfully infiltrated the 1% without being detected!) | Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 09:26 oldsaxon wrote: Maybe, but he did it poorly. For someone called "'grammarcop" I'd have expected a clearer sentence :) Oh! and by the way. Ontario is not in America. My original sentence said: "I think I'm glad I went to school in North America." I'm sorry if you did not understand that. Next ... time ... I'll ... try ... to ... write ... more ... slowly. |
| redtex (The Third Coast) | Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 09:13 Rush is my nemisis. smackiepipe wrote: Guns 'n' Roses does that to me. I think they make my heart beat out of rhythm. I can handle the 'tramp, though. |
| bulleminan (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 00:30 The intro is sooo much Ennio Morricone |
| Bobert_ParkCity (Actually, No longer in Park City Utah) | Posted: Jul 05, 2012 - 22:39 May be my favorite Supertramp, tho the whole album is killer. They did a tour with a mad film of a train careering down the tracks for Rudy ("Rudy took a train to nowhere..."). Love it and it brings back days of the Mobile Fidelity Masters. My poor bleeding ears. |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 03:25 LifeIsMusic wrote: Absolutely!!! Especially when the piano really lets loose! Yeah, the piano solo and ensuing final is pure brilliance. I was daft when I gave this a 9. There, sorted. |
| bushrat (Chainsaw Ridge) | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 17:56 RedGuitar wrote: It always bothers me when the U.S. is referred to as America. If I remember my 4th grade geography, there is North America and South America. Canada is in North America, therefore Ontario IS in (North) America. I have it on good authority that people from Ontario prefer to be referred to as Canadian ;) |
| PopKombo (Up Against the San Gabriels) | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 17:54 akiml wrote: I have never been able to listen to this band. This is one of the few musical aversions that i have. I have to leave the room if one of their songs comes on, otherwise I start to feel ill. I on the other hand love to listen to early Supertramp. This song is a wonderful example of the best off their early albums. Thanks RP. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 09:33 akiml wrote: I have never been able to listen to this band. This is one of the few musical aversions that i have. I have to leave the room if one of their songs comes on, otherwise I start to feel ill. Guns 'n' Roses does that to me. I think they make my heart beat out of rhythm. I can handle the 'tramp, though. |
| Kimbolini (Vancouver Island, Canada) | Posted: Apr 01, 2012 - 16:39 Brings back more great memories... really love the piano and the vocals in this. |
| akiml (Cambridge, MA) | Posted: Apr 01, 2012 - 16:37 I have never been able to listen to this band. This is one of the few musical aversions that i have. I have to leave the room if one of their songs comes on, otherwise I start to feel ill. |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 12:29 oldsaxon wrote: Maybe, but he did it poorly. For someone called "'grammarcop" I'd have expected a clearer sentence :) Oh! and by the way. Ontario is not in America. It always bothers me when the U.S. is referred to as America. If I remember my 4th grade geography, there is North America and South America. Canada is in North America, therefore Ontario IS in (North) America. |
| LifeIsMusic | Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 11:49 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: Great song: I always turn up the volume when this song is played! Absolutely!!! Especially when the piano really lets loose! |
| justsomeone (Between a rock and a hard place) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 07:28 Grammarcop wrote: Interesting how the Brits sing about their school days. Contrast this song, "Another Brick in the Wall" (Pink Floyd), "David Watts" (The Kinks), and "Playground" (XTC) to "Be True to Your School" (The Beach Boys), "Rock and Roll High School" (The Ramones) and "Grade 9" (Bare Naked Ladies). I think I'm glad I went to school in North America. Don't forget "The Headmaster Ritual" (The Smiths) in that list: Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools He does the military two-step I wanna go home, I don't want to stay Mid-week on the playing fields I wanna go home, I don't wanna stay Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools He does the military two-step I want to go home, I don't want to stay Please excuse me from gym I want to go home, I don't want to stay |
| kcar | Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 00:16 A fine time for the "Psd" button to not work. Arggh. |
| noladq (Berthoud, Co) | Posted: Jan 29, 2012 - 08:01 I have to admit, I get bored with a lot of music from this era that I listened to over and over as a teenager (no more Zeppelin for me..). But this song I am very glad to hear. It still sounds interesting to me. |
| Nadine (Germany) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 02:34 this is so good for the ears... |
| Stratocaster (Bermuda) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 02:31 Classic, classic, classic! Man, they put out some good music. Today at the office, the iPod will be set to Supertramp. |
| jcjoh | Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 19:17 Haven't heard ST in a while; oh how I've missed them. |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 19:16 some great music going on tonight |
| oldsaxon (United Kingdom) | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 13:42 xtalman wrote: Need to read better. He asked to compare the Brit songs to the American songs. Maybe, but he did it poorly. For someone called "'grammarcop" I'd have expected a clearer sentence :) Oh! and by the way. Ontario is not in America. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 13:39 Lyrical themes similar to the Logical song. I need to dig into these guys more. They are of my prime music awakening era but I never explored beyond the radio songs. Ohh- here comes a great PJ song. |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (below sea-level, N52°22', E4°52') | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 13:38 Great song: I always turn up the volume when this song is played! |
| San_Antonio_Jon (San Antonio) | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 13:34 Dating myself but this was the first cassette I ever bought |
| galste (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Dec 25, 2011 - 11:41 Bill, thanks for reminding me how much I loved this album. Saw them perform this album live at MSG. Downloaded the whole album after I heard this on RP... brought back great memories... Thanks! |
| LifeIsMusic | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 08:44 Lovin' Supertramp!  Great song! |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 05:28 Ha! Remember seeing them play this live at http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-75.html. It is now hot-wired into my brain as a reminder of good times. |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 00:37 nice boogie........ |