Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Great album released Sept 13 1974. Crime of the Century:
https://youtu.be/RipUQs1Rl0w

Live version of If Everyone was Listening:
https://youtu.be/zdfbYkKPwrE

1987 video for School:
https://youtu.be/_rZ6SexrGZc

Well you can scratch that off my list of albums to get one day.
(I only have Breakfast in America from them, and it's been in my Top 10 since then)

Last time I look at you memes.

Thankx

Why? Didn't like the links or the meme?
I'm just trying to make something interesting and all i'm good for with memes is politics and barely at that. Don't let that dissuade you from checking out a strong album, a little less poppy than Breakfast but just as good, man.

Naah, just joshing, it was her face that ruined it.
Although am I the only one waiting for someone to tack that mug onto a Steven Hawkings pic, or is that way too low?

I actually ended up listening to it later on YT anyway. Only part way through, because it was late and then I needed to transfer stuff from this crazy tablet to a new one then it was off to bed.

Back then I was more into Punk and underground indie stuff, so that was an unusually polished one amongst the rawer stuff I oft listened to. The again, I was big on Kate Bush then, so not everything was grating the ears.

Great times, when everything sounded good, even Disco (in retrospect, haha).

Yeah, that would be a good meme, with that pic.

There was so much good 70's music. Recently got into Genesis, especially Foxtrot. Actually, it's pretty sad that i'd probably listen to some disco over today's music.

It would seem way crass to some, but fact is, if it wasn't for his unfortunate condition, no one would have given a crap about him. Not saying that makes it worthwhile, it's just that who cares about that stuff other than physicists? Buying a book to decorate the coffee table and impress friends at cocktail parties is just hypocrisy. The only thing those people care about is looking like a good little bleeding heart.

I've been menaing to check out Gabriel era Genesis. Can't believe that a band that sucked so bad in the 80s used to be good.

Back in the Death To Disco days, I liked KC & The Sunshine Band. They just somehow sounded good to me back then, and I still like them now. The rest grew on me.

What sucks for today's kiddos is the crap that played in the background wherever they went that they get to get misty about when they get older is Beiber and Lady Caca. And that crap IS crap.

I listened to Melanie's "Brand New Key" the other day, and that cheesy

That's never been an interest so i have no idea how brilliant he was or wasn't. I'm more surprised about how long he lived. 50 years with ALS. Lou Gehrig must be fuming. The meme was a Louis C.K. joke I thought was good.

Banks was always a great guitarist but the 80's were a result of Phil Collins cheese taking over. I haven't heard that much early Genesis but it was way more inspired with Gabriel then later on. But bands usually peter out the longer they keep going.

Can't get into disco but at least it had musicianship. I think the tripe of today, the poppy crap, works off like 6 templates that have proven to be commercially successful. I've gradually lost interest playing guitar because there's nothing new I want to learn.

haha, that voice.

Me neither, but even when put in layman's terms, it's what I call "silly science." Basically Physicists ran out of real ideas to whip up new numbers for and earn a paycheck, so they make up nonsense with no basis in reality other than sheer boredom and too much time, caffeine, and quite possibly extra doses of certain pharmaceutical substances taken without consulting a physician first. String theory, multi universes, additional dimensions, and the next 'smallest particle ever' that they will finally create if they keep pressing the button on the super collider enough times.

If the 80s had a poster child for everything that went wrong with it, it would probably be Phil Collins.

Disco utilized a pool of the same top notch session players, much like Motown did. Sure, that and producers and all that lent a certain artiface to it, but skill is skill, and having the decency to at least die while it was still in its heyday, what we have to look back at was part of the atmosphere, and nowhere near as bad as the pablum we have today.
Imagine if Hendrix and Joplin DIDN'T die? They too would have put out the mandatory Disco tune or two and we'd be lamenting today about why they now suck. Then again, maybe not, as Neil Young can attest to, but still. Would have been a joy to see how long the babes would still swoon as Morrison's face turned into a challenger to the moon for circumference and his poetry blossomed into the depths of fleeting illusions....

There's new stuff in the underground. But the place to go is always back, back into that old timey acoustic stuff, when the real McCoy was happening.

Yes, I see psychiatry like that too, in a way.

Ha, my father was a huge Phil Collins fan and I was subjected to a wide variety of album covers, always his sweaty head front and center. I laugh when think how Plant and Page bitched he ruined their Live Aid (I think) appearance for them with his drumming.

Yes, true. Niles Rodgers was a great musician that spanned genres. At least I could respect music I may not have been fond of but still respect it's musicianship. I just saw some tape of Roy Clark after he died. Man, can he play guitar.

I do wonder about Hendrix. I think you're right, probably would have followed Neil's path. Probably jazzier but revitalized around 91-94. Hendrix with a locking temolo system would be something to hear. Or he could have been a Roky Erickson with all the chemicals he took.

I find alot of the old Robert Johnson, Blind Willie, Mississippi John Hurt or even old Dylan more powerful than loud 'heavy music'. Something about a single person playing and filling out the sound like a Robert Johnson where it sounds like more than one guitarist. Great post!

... and that cheesy loopy song still sounds awesome.

lol