Supertramp- School

[@tommack9395]

"Crime of The Century" was Supertramp's masterpiece... it covered so much territory and sound. People forget Supertramp were a prog-rock band.

[@silvertube52]

Some people define prog too narrowly. It doesn't always have to be long songs with a lot of Mellotron.

[@cantstandsnomore]

"Crime of The Century" is Supertramp's masterpiece!

[@Derideo]

I agree, this song is a powerful indictment of big pharma.

[@normc62]

Ah, yes... another rabbit hole to explore :) While their playlist is not as extensive as RUSH, it is certainly full of excellent songs. Nearly every song on every album is playable. You are in for a treat.

[@kentnottingham9635]

Well if every song on every album isn’t extensive. Love Rush and a big fan of both. Lots of Supertramp and also GREAT Roger Hodgson solo albums

[@WdyWP]

Oh yes!! Another great band from the days when I was growing up! Supertramp was another of my favorite bands. Unique and unto themselves.

[@jornspirit]

..great introduction to them and opener of the album... if you love this song, you'll love the rest as well 💖

[@watrandy99]

Logical Song!!! A must listen if you are digging into Supertramp.

[@Ilikeryche]

That and about 20 other songs, like Fools Overture.

[@jeggy7447]

You are going to absolutely love Supertramp !

[@williamdemerchant7295]

You're "Bloody Well Right". Imo, Crime of the Century was their best album. I love how School dropped into Bloody Well Right on the record.

[@Ilikeryche]

@@williamdemerchant7295 It's a tough call for me between Breakfast in America and Crime of the century.

[@jeggy7447]

"Crime of the Century" song I consider their Masterpiece !!!

[@patrickwouters6568]

For me, "Rudy" is my favourite

[@Alberto_1965_BR]

Great! Supertramp is fantastic. One of my top five bands!

[@WardHuzina]

Glad you found Supertramp. Lots of great songs. Enjoy.

[@ChrisJones-we4in]

Wow yet another trip down memory lane to my childhood. Supertramp are fabulous and their catalog is full of gems. Top notch compositions and musicianship at play using all manner of instrumentation. Many of their songs take you on a journey and really pique your interest and are really smooth on the ear. I feel sure that a few of their songs you will know but didn't know it was a Supertramp song.

[@danb2020]

50 years later at 70 years old this is still great. Cool thing about Supertramp is they sound the same live as they do on record. Ya'all remember records.

[@robertjenson2020]

They opened with this song in concert when I saw them back in the day - they were my first concert, and it was a helluva one, that's for sure.

[@benjaminrupe5930]

The first track on Supertramp's masterpiece concept album, Crime of the Century. Now listen to the rest of the album to get the whole story. It's worth it.

[@rhaddon66]

Supertramp has many layers. Their songs are deep, brought with a sound of happiness and hope. Suggestion: Take the long way home.

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Great Supertramp album from 1974 - Crime Of The Century. It was a huge album here in Canada 🇨🇦 Went to #1 here. Love Supertramp! Saw them live here in 1974 and again in 1979. Phenomenal ❤❤

[@Seansmusicvault]

Glad to see you discovering this amazing band. "There's gold in them thar hills," sayeth an old grungy prog-rocker. ☮

[@jamestreible4545]

Great song choice! I love Supertramp, and I think this was definitely one of their best albums. Like Rush, another band with superb musicianship and intelligent lyrics, but with an entirely different, unique sound.

[@moon4music]

Their early albums Crime Of The Century, Even In The Quietest Moments and Breakfast In America were huge for me back in the 70s, and of course I still enjoy these albums today, I love the piano and keyboard in these albums. Fantastic whole album experiences. Saw them live in 1983 just before the departure of Roger Hodgson who in my opinion was an important band member. I saw Roger Hodgson twice since then and he always puts on a great show, and does include his Supertramp songs in his shows. This particular song is sung by Roger Hodgson for the first two sections, and Rick Davies sings the section that starts with "Don't do this, and don't do that" and then Roger Hodgson finishes the last section. This song is a great album opener for Crime Of The Century.

[@Ilikeryche]

Amen to that. I wasn't impressed with most stuff after Breakfast in America though, just the odd track.

[@EchoesDaBear]

GREAT reaction!! My #1 Supertramp album...every song is perfection, ending with the title track...and that will just blow your mind! HIGHLY suggest reacting to the whole thing! School is a phenomenal start! This album came out in 1974....50 years this month! Cheers from Canada, eh!!

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Hey Red l got the strap in 68 4th grade throwing snowballs no big deal except for one boy of five who cried, we giggled. Enjoy your Supertramp journey. ✨️🍁✨️

[@gobeethoth]

love me some supertramp !! bloody well right, logical song, hide in your shell, goodbye stranger. some of my fav supertramp songs. always good music and good lyrics.

[@DavidLindes]

yes yes yes to all of these and more. :)

[@gutsanglory1]

Supertramp is super cool, love that whole album. Cheerz!!!

[@AcornDomainsCancelled]

Great album! ❤ Crime of the Century n Rudy are super choices, too! 😊

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Glad you liked it, it's such a classic song, and I don't know how old you are, but yes similar, I can remember getting in some battles with teachers but on the other hand some of them I really loved. There was one teacher in second grade that was so mean to me but in fourth grade, two years later which is an eternity in the life of a little kid at that age, I heard that she was going through a really horrible divorce and suddenly my viewpoint changed on her. But still, there's never an excuse to be mean to kids. Also keep in mind that if this came out in the mid-70s, he's writing about and experience probably younger than that, and they were a British band, and it's notorious anyway about the regimented British schooling and the way they treat the kids, but Rodger Waters got a ton of mileage out of that with Pink Floyd The Wall.

[@johnnytheb26]

Nice reaction. Back in the 70's, when I was a very young boy, everyone seemed to own this album, and if you were buying a new stereo system in a store, they invariably played this on it for the stereo quality. I saw them live around this time at The Mayflower Theatre, in Southampton, England, and they were brilliant.

[@josephbishop3590]

Thanks Red❤ The "back and forth" in the headspace is "panning" and it is AWESOME when it's properly produced. The production and engineering on this track and album is STELLAR. You've landed on my favorite track from this band. One of the standouts of the era. Great lyrical content, great songwriting and brilliant musicianship. These guys are simply superior artists. SCHOOL is supposed to educate you. But they're designed to create drones. And an educated student first learns how to learn and what to learn. Much of what they NEED to learn is not in the curriculum, but on the streets. This song calls to us to challenge the mold. To fight the yoke that SCHOOL is trying to place on us. To be free-thinkers.

[@Rackelhane]

Wow! This took me back to the late 70...Supertramp was one of the first band i really fell in love with. The production and the beautiful soundmix was something i`v never heard before. They became hugh. Thank you for this great reaction. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.❤

[@angelootavio204]

🎶School🎶 the unmatched and dearest one! Hit number 1 in Brazil radios in 1976/1977, among with 🎶"Give a little bit"🎶 and 🎶Hide in your shell🎶 School, what a trip!!

[@caryd67]

Oh…. this is gonna be a fun journey down the Supertramp rabbit hole 👏🏻

[@davidcarney4302]

Supertramp! One of my favorites... literally just bought the 40th anniversary remaster of this album on vinyl earlier this week.

[@herbie1234567890]

“Take the Long Way Home”-good next Supertramp song to check out. Enjoying your channel.

[@MegaIronleg]

MASTERPIECE ALBUM, FROM THE FIRST NOTE, TO THE LAST BEAT… EXPERIENCED THIS ALBUM IN THE SUMMER OF 1975, IN OTTAWA. FENOMINAL CONCERT, THE SOUND WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR N DEEP LIKE THE STUDIO ALBUM. SCHOOL IS THE FIRST SONG ON THE ALBUM, RECOMMEND FOLLOWING THROUGH THE SEQUENCE, WITH THE SECOND SONG…. BLOODY WELL RIGHT. ALL THE SONGS BLEND INTO ONE ANOTHER. I HAD CHILLS THE WHOLE TIME OF THE SONG, GREAT REACTIONS. UR GONNA LUV THIS BAND. ROCK ON 👊🖖

[@scott4482]

This is one of those albums where you can drop on track 1 and play the whole thing through, thats a rare thing.

[@ThomasKnip]

The title song of the album, the final track, if you hear it in the right moment, its surreal arrangement hits hard.

[@Elvatrenni_413]

Rick and Roger have said that tis album is not a conceptual album but for me it is following Rudy from school and forward. If you really want to hear this album, do it sleeve to sleeve, it will not be the last time you listen to this masterpiece of album,.

[@jaumepiquebernaus1853]

great choice to start discovering Supertramp, I congratulate you. You did it with the first track from the best album of Supertramp. A beautiful gem that all lovers and collectors of good modern and rock music from the last century should have, on better vinyl. They were one of the top bands of the seventies and early eighties with a fresh, distinctive and progressive sound. I have seen Supertramp several times in Barcelona and they never disappointed me. At the beginning and at the end of all his concerts the school harmonica solo plays. You can check the full album you gonna love it. Rudy Bloody well right Crime of the Century . Another two greats albums Crisis what crisis Even in the quiestest moments. Keep on rocking beauty ❤ Greetings from Barcelona

[@willfromyadkinville]

enjoy the journey! they have so many great songs!

[@alienlifeform7490]

l love your channel and can't wait to see your reaction to this epic band. I'm 66, so Supertramp has been a favourite of mine for a long time. : )

[@utubberize]

Having a nun in one class growing up was a wake up call indeed

[@mattmid7012]

There's some great Supertramp songs, knew an older work friend who loved them. You will certainly know a couple of their songs. Breakfast in America and The Logical Song, both well worth reacting to as are many of theirs and I'm sure you'll recognise those. Good story, the teachers of our time would never get away with the stuff they did then would they. lol I had a physics teacher that used to throw the chalk duster at anyone who was talking! And I mean throw, not just a toss. Some of it was sadistic and bullying but in a perverse way it was also character building! Being told no, is something a lot of kids of today need to hear. The one huge thing that does seem to be sadly missing is one you touched on, respect to elders.

[@billg763]

Great reaction Red! Honest and spontaneous. I remember when this album first came out and I think my reaction and that of my peers wasn't much different. We were blown away then and still are by this song and album.

[@petermarto5200]

Another great band!! They have many great songs.

[@utubberize]

Many albums and a few hits also...Yes they were in everyones album collections

[@Particulator]

Great band, great introduction song choice. The title song of that album, Crime of the century, is so on point with the current political scene of many countries. Worth a listen.

[@billn7183]

You will love your journey into Supertramp

[@RayEvans-j1q]

Back in the Seventies, stereo systems were popular! The ‘Crime of the Century’ album was used to demo in stereo stores!

[@Rolling_Ronnie]

Incredible and extremely talented band, loads for you to explore.

[@scott4482]

Songs like this are why my generation thinks so little of more modern popular music. We had this kind of stuff, have no room for what passes as popular music these days.

[@Ilikeryche]

Definitely.

[@ricosuave6373]

❤ 👉 Supertramp.. Great song n album!

[@eugenesmith5126]

Superb stuff! Thanks to the Channel and its author !..

[@Buddha-of8fk]

Super Tramp is an awesome band that only cool people know about. Welcome to the club. The thing l love about Super Tramp is there songs are just so different. They will play any instrument that makes a sound.

[@Ilikeryche]

I know about Supertramp, therefore I am cool. lol.

[@Buddha-of8fk]

@@Ilikeryche Yes you are.✌️

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

The best song of Supertramp🤘

[@mikelmart]

Crime of the Century Fools Overture Asylum

[@Aussiecris214]

SCHOOLONG Red in supertrap Rabbit hole lol gret group ❤❤❤❤

[@DrMackSplackem]

Happy Redhead Appreciation Day!

[@stephenpresley5772]

Great song and reaction

[@Saboteur709]

Came for the great song. Stayed for the therapy session. :)

[@rk41gator]

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” Frank Zappa

[@WilliamJones-sf5pt]

Rick Davies loved to choo-choo. Supertramp took Pink Floyd's album The Wall and stuffed it into a single song.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Oh yeah, from this same Crime of the Century album, check out the first hit of theirs that I ever heard on the radio as a little kid, Bloody Well Right.. it's pretty heavy and it totally rocks and yet it's really emotional and really cool. And scathingly sarcastic. People that have only heard their later iconic album, Breakfast in America, which is a total masterpiece by the way, are sometimes shocked to hear that they could be a lot heavier than that just a few years earlier.

[@Ilikeryche]

Agreed. You know your Supertramp stuff.

[@dugferd2266]

The sound quality of recording of Supertramp's records was ahead of its time. The best known song on this album is probably Bloody Well Right, or maybe Dreamer. Their Breakfast in America album had many hits, most or all of which I imagine you have heard.

[@scott4482]

I don't usually listen to reactions for any band other than RUSH, but since it's you and I liked this album I made an exception

[@bobsmith9936]

Great group to explore, that crime of the century album, all great tracks,i suggest the title song, i saw them 4 times live in the 70's aaaawesome. The 70's music era, god somebody invent a time machine 🙏

[@rk41gator]

Love your comments. Decorum and social norms are there for good reasons. But critical thinking is even more important. Bullying is never good. Miss Sando said to us the we will remember her. She was right! Her makeup was theatrical. Her make up was tyrannical. She said she was a Southern Bell who always wanted to be on stage; but instead, we were now her captive audience. YIKES! However, Miss Sando was one of my best teachers. Only she could force us to learn our vocabularies and her lessons have stood the test of time.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

RHN: Maybe I'll know it when I hear the chorus Me: Chorus? Bahahaha.

[@Ilikeryche]

Lol.

[@kallsop2]

That's what made a lot of songs so good in the 70's, they didn't always follow the verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/verse/chorus/end

[@Derideo]

Beautyfull 😻 Great song too...

[@anthonysteinberg4853]

A Rush girl discovers Supertramp. LOOKOUT 🤯

[@richylarsen]

Your reactions are very authentic, I love them. Please, I would like you to react to Latin American bands, for example Soda Stereo, to the song "Prófugos" live; also to Pappo's Blues, to the song "Sucio y Desprolijo". Greetings beautiful from Peru!

[@j.k.1963]

A very, very sophisticated rockalbum. This may sound tacky, but the high quality of this album is just that.

[@romanazzitube]

❤

[@derekhauffe7197]

Please consider viewing their performance in France.

[@DocRock67]

Supertramp, a collective of very talented musicians. Unfortunately some of them had egos too big to get along with each other. There is a lot more to discover. Fool’s Overture for example, from the album Even In The Quietest Moments, will blow you away.

[@CasioGreg]

bob siebenberg - one of the most underrated drummers -

[@festidious2644]

Hello, Pretty Redhead: The next Supertramp song to follow along with this is, 'Ain't Nobody But Me' from their 'Crisis, What Crisis?' album. Great reaction!

[@Ilikeryche]

That's from "Crisis, What Crisis?"

[@festidious2644]

@@Ilikeryche Sorry about that. I knew that but my sixty-eight year old brain had a temporary malfunction! 😊

[@Ilikeryche]

@@festidious2644 I know what that's like. I'm a little younger but I get it.

[@patrickwouters6568]

Hi! Supertramp is one of my favourite band since 1975. "Rudy" from the same album is fantastic! (the entire album is good).

[@keithelliott3771]

Absolutely gawjus music played by real musicians and not something that's just sampled from someone else's creativity.

[@GregCombs100]

Welcome to the Supertramp rabbit hole. This was truly one of the great bands of the 70s, a little quirky, not your stereotypical 70s classic rock band. Great songwriters and immensely talented musicians. School is a good starting point, you could sample anyone of of their poplular songs and not be dissapointed.

[@EnerGeezerSquirrel]

Oh, it's from the 70's alright: most of the good stuff from then has become "classical" in that it survives quite well, thank you very much! This well's not as deep as Rush's, but they were a very bright if short-lived nova. They *exploded* into the musical consciousness of the popular culture of the 70's so fast that they played a hall in Paris after their first releases...to 7 people (1 was their manager) A few years later, they recorded a live album in the same city before a crowd of 60,000. A few years later they dissolved with an essential member, Roger Hodgson, departing and changing the sound of the band irrevocably. I *did* very much love the entire "Brother Where You Bound" album without Roger, but they faded soon after.

[@EricKoch-s5b]

Hey beautiful! Enjoyed you story of the mean teacher, share more with us. Super Tramp has such a great library of songs you really need to explore. Check out their song " Good By Stranger ".

[@jeffcampbell668]

Listen to the entire album back to front. It's like "The Wall" or the Zep concert film 'The Song Remains the Same".

[@Kotic1959]

Saw Supertramp a few times. First at Ford Auditorium in Detroit with I believe Heart and some other band for $2.00 They used to showcase bands during the week. Saw so many in that venue that made it huge Queen, Kiss, Thin Lizzy , Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore) and the list goes on They were a phoenomenal band who reached their peak with Breakfast in America. For me that was not my favorite album but it was 2x platinum. They started to become pop as you can notice on that album . But they had a great run. Hodgson and Davies could not get along any longer.

[@sanandaallsgood673]

Okay, now that you've opened the Supertramp door, you need to listen to Cannonball from the Brother Where Ya Bound? album. It took me several months to get into it, but once I did, it was an amazing song, as was the rest of the album! I think you'll enjoy it.

[@mariozammit7065]

“Do as they tell you to, u dont want the devil to come and pull out ur eyes” and after that line the jam is phenomenal! I have to watch ur review later but thanks for doing these. I’m glad u picked the studio version bc tbh i hoped u would do that with Rush as some of there concert material isnt the greatest. ❤

[@Ilikeryche]

Personally I think the studio version is best for a new listener in most cases with most bands.

[@mightyV444]

Please don't be shy to tell us if you ever _do_ not like something! Your honesty still would be very much appreciated! 😉👍 Which also is one of the reasons why I like Justin Panariello's reactions, who doesn't hold back at all when he dislikes a song 😀 Like, he'd been going through the entire Rush discography, and while he liked the majority of it, there still were certain songs he couldn't stand and one in particular, and he kept poking fun at it for quite a while afterwards 😅 And _this_ song, 'School', reminds me of an amazing Summer vacation in the lovely Netherlands in '84, when I was 14 and my Big Sister had gotten 'The Best Of Supertramp' for her birthday only days earlier, and this was the opening song 😊

[@DaveSVT-rn4of]

MY check out "the Logical Song".

[@royferntorp]

My red-haired wife would love it if you lived next door. She likes watching. Your videos.

[@anthonysteinberg4853]

Supertramp!!!! Crime of the Century Breakfast in America Take the Long Way Home The Logical Song.... Oh just pick any album any song. They're all good 👍

[@allengray5748]

VERY COOL!! Use to NOT like this band. And then I grew up!! Other tunes; BLOODY WELL RIGHT THE LOGIC SONG and TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME are a couple good ones!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎

[@progvinyl9021]

A kind of forgotten band ,but they had some very god songs

[@rk41gator]

Be weird. Criticize away. But do know that this is one of my favs.....and not just from SuperTramp. 'The Logical Song' is logically also up there.

[@philshorten3221]

Just for a great laugh, check out Tim Minchen "Prejudice" Just pause if you need to rearrange any letters😂😂😂

[@RonnieMcNairney]

Hi Redhead 👋 Please react to Hide In Your Shell, from The same Album. It's excellent 👌 Keep Rocking 👍 Ronnie SCOTLAND 😊

[@SeanBressie]

🎶🤩

[@firedoc5]

If you like the harmonica intro, you'll like my favorite of theirs, "Take the Long Way Home".

[@vankesselable]

Reacting to Supertramp should always be from the "LIVE in Paris" album. It's a masterpiece like "Pulse" from Pink Floyd.

[@michaelpennington9327]

If you like this, wait until you hear The Logical Song, Long Way Hime, Bloody Well Right, Breakfast In America, etc.

[@jacquesjrviens3384]

That makes me think, you should give Tori Amos's Winter a listen or maybe Silent all these years or Precious things from her first record. Great vocals and even better pianist, this girl is a true artist in every sense of the term.

[@timmaytee]

Super Tramp was some more like ,RUSH,, They released so many good tracks I can't count them.

[@williamdemerchant7295]

I broke my collar bone in first grade and wore an arm sling. I was carrying on with a classmate one day when my teacher actually shook my injured arm. It didn't bother me too much then, but it really pisses me off when thinking back.

[@markmoore236]

Fools overture,is a great song by Supertramp you should also check out

[@Ilikeryche]

She should. That's a long one though.

[@fredericnavarro4575]

Rudy😉

[@bobcorbin3294]

This song bleeds right into Bloody Well Right which should be your next reaction to these guys.

[@Ilikeryche]

I was thinking something from Breakfast In America next would be good.

[@DavidLindes]

"She was not older and wiser, she was just older and mean." -- oof. Indeed. That happens. My high school history teacher was, I decided about 5 minutes in to the first day of class (when he told a story ridiculing an exchange student for having been upset about being lost and confused on a large campus where she barely spoke English and so was having trouble figuring out what was what and where to be, etc.) that he was just an asshole, and wrote off the whole class. Mostly endured it; got an F though... anyway.... yeah.