It is a slick and professional keyboard dominated rock album, which charted in the Top 5 and spawned a Top 20 single. Happily and helpfully, they have this one masterwork that can’t be ignored, supreme from start to finish, before and above all else.Ĭrime Of the Century is beautifully balanced and traverses that sometimes vast space between the artistically renowned and the commercially savvy. So when considering legendary artists, they can often slip through the cracks. But within those mainstream circles, they don’t have quite the widespread recognition of some of their more universally loved contemporaries. This would particularly became the case by the time of their shiny 1979 mega-hit album Breakfast In America. With their jaunty, happy, often Wurlitzer piano dominated sound, they are essentially a pop band. They are conventionally considered on the fringe of the supposed ‘Progressive Rock’ genre within which I primarily operate. Supertramp exist in a strange middle ground, at least from my perspective. For the second week in a row, I’m covering an album very much within the mainstream, in both commercial success and critical acclaim.
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