Supertramp

One of favorite bands of all time. Glad another finds "Soapbox Opera" special. Crime of the Century was the album gold standard to test dynamics in my local hifi shop in the mid-70's. This music began my quest as an audiophile and drove me to purchase my first quality piece of gear - a brand new Marantz 2275. Luckily, I saw Supertramp at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1974 where they performed the Crime album in its sequential entirety live. I still remember near the end of the show as that title cut began, the auditorium went even darker showing a large video behind the band of the cosmos coming toward you "Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory? Rip off the masks and let's see" and in the vast distance one begins to make out the tiny image of hands gripping a set of jail bars while the striking piano riffs and pounding drums assault the audience as the gripping hands coming slowly closer and closer view until they eventually take up the screen. It blew me away. I saw them a few years later at the Great Western Forum on their Breakfast tour. Also great. I remember Elton John and Alice Cooper joining in on the Hide in Your Shell finale. Never really did care much for the Logical song, but there are so many others I really enjoy such as Asylum, If Everyone Was Listening, Fool's Overture, etc. I do wish the boys would get along and tour again - they are better together.

Crime of the century is a masterpiece and I have been jamming it in my car off and on for the past few months. Even in the quietest moments has some good material but lacks the overall quality of crime.

Bianchi,
Your post makes no sense.

"Crime of the Century" and "Breakfast in America" belong to a category I'd label as perfect. And they sound absolutely amazing.

I'm glad to hear that Supertramp fans like other records outside of the two I mentioned. I thought Crime and Breakfast were the only two worth having. I'll look for the other records mentioned in this thread.

They were great from the start but I do agree with the OP. The Paris album is imo a maturation where they got it just right on the prior Breakfast tunes. Definitely one of the 10 best of all time bands.

I've always enjoyed Crisis, What Crisis? and Even in the Quietest Moments. Maybe all cuts aren't as polished and brilliant as Breakfast or Crime but still excellent and fresh. They have not been so over played on the radio. Sonics are excellent on both. No doubt about that. I have 3 versions of the albums original lp, first generation cd, and cd reissues. I'd rank them this way for SQ.
MFSL LP Crime of Century
Then all 4 regular issue LPs
Original CD releases
CD Reissues

It is not that the reissues sound bad, they sound fine, I just think the original CDs are truer to the original CDs.