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1974: El crimen del siglo con Supertramp (y II)

Contenido de esta entrada:

Introducción

Enlaces, letras, videos y opinión personal

Créditos

Reediciones


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Entrada siguiente de Supertramp: 1975: Supertramp en crisis


Introducción

En un anterior artículo comenzamos la historia de Supertramp, un grupo británico de rock progresivo fundado en 1969 por el músico Rick DaviesSupertramp ha sido una de las bandas más influyentes de la escena musical mundial de los setenta y ochenta del siglo XX.  La primera formación de Supertramp, integrada por Davies, Roger Hodgson, Richard Palmer y Robert Millar, publicó un álbum homónimo con las características del rock progresivo de escaso éxito comercial, al que dedicamos dicho artículo: 1970: Comienzos y primer álbum de Supertramp

En otro anterior artículo continuamos su historia hasta la publicación de su segundo álbum Indelibly Stamped1971: Estampado indeleble

En el anterior artículo comenzamos a comentar el álbum Crime of the Century en lo que respecta a antecedentes, grabación, lanzamiento y recepción:1974: El crimen del siglo con Supertramp (I)

Portada del álbum Crime of the Century

En este artículo continuamos con el álbum Crime of the Century: con la revisión individual de las canciones, créditos y reediciones.

Como recordatorio, vuelvo a poner la lista de canciones para que nos sirva de guía.

Lista de canciones

Todas las canciones escritas y compuestas por Rick Davies y Roger Hodgson.

Cara A
  1. «School» 5:34
  2. «Bloody Well Right» 4:31
  3. «Hide In Your Shell» 6:48
  4. «Asylum» 6:43
Cara B
  1. «Dreamer» 3:31
  2. «Rudy» 7:19
  3. «If Everyone Was Listening» 4:04
  4. «Crime of the Century» 5:36

Enlaces




Enlace a la lista de reproducción del álbum completo: Crime of the Century



Enlaces, letras, videos y opinión personal


LADO UNO

1. SCHOOL

Enlaces





Letras

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 criticize, 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 that way
- you're coming along!

Videos

"School" se convirtió en un elemento básico en vivo para la banda, y se utilizó para abrir sus conciertos, como se ve en los álbumes Paris y Is Everybody Listening?. Es la tercera canción en vivo más tocada por la banda.  Adjunto video en el Hammersmith Odeon, 1975:


Anuncio de un concierto. Imagen de la edición de 2014


Después de que Roger Hodgson dejó la banda en 1983, la canción entró en su repertorio, y la interpretó en todas sus giras en solitario. Adjunto actuación en octubre de 2014  en São Paulo, Brasil:



2. BLOODY WELL RIGHT

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En 2021 se incluyó en la banda sonora de la película Cruella

Letras

So you think your schooling's phoney
I guess it's hard not to agree
You say it all depends on money
And who is in your family tree
Right, you're bloody well right
you know you got a right to say
Right, you're bloody well right
you know you got a right to say
Ha-ha you're bloody well right
you know you're right to say
Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right
you know you're right to say
Me, I don't care anyway!
Write your problems down in detail
Take them to a higher place
You've had your cry - no, I should say wail
In the meantime hush your face
Right, quite right, you're bloody well right... etc.

Videos

La canción se convirtió en un elemento básico en los conciertos de Supertramp desde su publicación original. La duración de la canción se extiende en vivo a menudo alcanzando más de siete minutos. Adjunto actuación en París en 1979:


Rick Davies la ha seguido interpretando en solitario. Adjunto video de actuación el 14 de julio de 2011 en Le Sporting Monte-Carlo, Mónaco.



3. HIDE IN YOUR SHELL

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Funda del disco con las letras de las canciones

Letras

Hide in your shell
'Cause the world is out to bleed you for a ride
What will you gain making your life a little longer?

Heaven or Hell
Was the journey cold that gave you eyes of steel?
Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker

Too frightening to listen to a stranger
Too beautiful to put your pride in danger
You're waiting for someone to understand you
But you've got demons in your closet
And you're screaming out to stop it
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you scramble for

Don't let the tears linger on inside now
'Cause it's sure time you gained control
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know

Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
To get your heart back and on the road
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know

All through the night
As you lie awake and hold yourself so tight
What do you need, a second-hand movie star to tell you?

I, as a boy
I believed the saying the cure for pain was love
How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes?

Too frightening the fire's becoming colder
Too beautiful to think you're getting older
You're looking for someone to give an answer

What you see is just illusion
You're surrounded by confusion
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you can scramble for

Don't let the tears linger on inside now
Because it's sure time you gain control
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know

Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
To get your heart back and on the road
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know

I wanna know, I wanna know
I wanna know
I got to know
I wanna know you
I wanna know you
Well let me know you
I wanna feel you
I wanna touch you
Please let me near you
Let me near you
Can you hear what I'm saying?

Well I'm hoping, I'm dreamin', I'm prayin'
I know what you're thinkin'
See what you're seein'
Never ever let yourself go

Hold yourself down, hold yourself down
Why d'ya hold yourself down?

Why don't you listen, you can trust me
(So what you gonna take?)
There's a place I know the way to
(So what you gonna make?)
A place there is no need to feel
(So what's he gonna?)
To feel
(So what's he gonna?)
That you're all alone
(So what's he gonna do?)

Hear me
(So what you gonna take?)
I know exactly what you're feelin'
(So what you gonna make?)
'Cause all your troubles are within you
(So what's he gonna?)
They're all within you
(So what's he gonna?)
Please begin to see that I'm just bleeding too
(So what's he gonna do?)

Love me, love you
(So what you gonna take?)
Loving is the way to help me, help you
(So what you gonna make?)
Why must we be so cool, oh so cool?
(So what's he gonna?)
Oh, we're such damn fools
(So what's he gonna do?)

So what you gonna take?
So what you gonna make?
So what's he gonna?
So what's he gonna?
So what's he gonna do?

Videos

Roger Hodgson la siguió interpretando en vivo.



4. ASYLUM

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Letras

Jimmy Cream was keen, his brain was always winnin',
I can't keep tabs on mine, it's really quite a joke
I see him down the road, I ask if he'd be willing
To lend me 15p - I'm dying for a smoke
Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum
I'm just as sane as anyone
It's a just a game I play for fun - for fun.
I told em - look! - I said I'm not the way you're thinkin,
Just when I'm down, I'll be a clown, I'll play the fool.
Please don't arrange to have me set to no asylum
It's just a game I play for fun - for fun.
Will he take a sailboat ride?
He is very likely to,
Will he feel good inside?
He ain't very likely to,
Will he tell you he's alive?
He is always trying to
But nothin', no nothin', does he say
In the morning when the day's begun
- "Hello Good morning, how are you?"
And in the evening or the noonday sun
- "What a lovely afternoon!"
Well I've been living next to you

Bluesy Monday is the one day that they come here,
When they haunt me and taunt me in my cage.
I mock them all, they're feelin' small, they got no answer
They're playin' dumb but I'm just lauging as they rage
Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum
It's only a game I play for fun
I've been foolin' everyone - everyone.
Will he take a sailboat ride?
He is very likely to
Will he feel good inside?
He ain't ever likely to
Will he tell you he's alive?
He is always tryin' to
But nothin', no nothin' does he ever say
In the morning when the day's begun
- "Do you think it looks like rain"?
And in the evening or the noonday sun
- "You know I nearly missed my train"
Well I've been living next to you my friend
But what kind of friend are you?
Is it the beginning or the sorry end?
Will I ever see it through?
I've never been insane
Oh what's the game?
I believe I'm dying...
He's mad, mad, mad...
Not quite right...
Oooooooooo..............


Videos

Adjunto actuación en París en 1979:




LADO DOS

1. DREAMER

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Letras

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said "Far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!"
You know, well you know you had it comin' to you
Now there's not a lot I can do

Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer
So now you put your head in your hands, oh no!
Wow!

I said "Far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!"
You know, well you know you had it comin' to you
Now there's not a lot I can do

Well, work it out someday

If I could see something
You can see anything you want boy
If I could be someone
You can be anyone, celebrate boy
If I could do something
Well, you can do something
If I could do anything
Well, can you do something out of this world?

Take a dream on a Sunday
Take a life, take a holiday
Take a lie, take a dreamer
Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
Well, can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
Oh no!
Dreamer...

Videos

Roger Hodgson la siguió interpretando en directo. Adjunto video de actuación en Viena en 2010:



2. RUDY

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Letras

Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line
He don't wanna get there, but he needs time
He ain't sophisticated, nor well-educated
After all the hours he wasted, still he needs time.
He needs time - he needs time for livin',
He needs time - for someone just to see him.
He ain't had no lovin'
For no reason or rhyme
And the whole world's above him.
Well it's not as though he's fat-
No there's more to this than that-
See he tries to play it cool-
Wouldn't be nobodys fool.

Rudy thought that all good things comes to those that wait
But recently he could see that it may come too late.

All through your life, all through the years
Nobody loved, nobody cared.
So dim the light, dark are your fears
Try as I might, I can't hold back the tears
How can you live without love, it's not fair?
Someone said give but I just didn't dare.
What good advice are you waiting to hear?
Hearing's alright for them that's all there
You'd better gain control now
You'd better show'em all now
You'd better make or break now
You'd better give and take now
You'll have to push and shove now
You'll have to find some love now
You'd better gain control now.
Now he's just come out the movie.
Numb of all the pain,
Sad but in a while he'll soon be
back on his train...



Videos

Actuación en el programa de la BBC, Old Grey Whistle Test, en 1974:


Adjunto actuación en París en 1979:



3. IF EVERYONE WAS LISTENING

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Letras

The actors and jesters are here
The stage is in darkness and clear
For raising the curtain
and no-one's quite certain whose play it is
How long ago, how long
If only we had listened then.
If we'd known just how right we were going to be.
For we dreamed a lot
And we schemed a lot
And we tried to sing of love before the stage fell apart.

If everyone was listening you know
There'd be a chance that we could save the show
Who'll be the last clown
To bring the house down?
Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall

Well, what is your costume today?
Who are the props in your play?
You're acting a part which you thought from the start
was an honest one.
Well how do you plead?
An actor indeed!
Go re-learn your lines,
You don't know what you've done
The finale's begun.

If everyone was listening you know
There'd be a chance that we could save the show,
Who'll be the last clown
To bring the house down?
Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall.


Videos

Roger Hodgson la siguió interpretando en directo:



4. CRIME OF THE CENTURY

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Letras

Now they're planning the crime of the century
Well what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
Yes, It's well worth the fee
So roll up and see
How they've raped the universe
How they've gone from bad to worse
Who are these men of lust, greed and glory?
Rip off the mask and let's see.
But that's not right - oh no, what's the story?
But there's you and there's me
That can't be right

Videos
Adjunto actuación en París en 1979:


Mi opinión personal sobre el álbum:

Me acuerdo de haber escuchado el tema Crime of the Century en la televisión y me quedé impresionado con ese desvanecimiento prolongado, y así cuando pude me compré el vinilo. No es el primer álbum de Supertramp que tuve, porque me regalaron Crisis, What Crisis? en cassette cuando tenía unos once años. El álbum empieza con la magnífica School, en la que destaca el solo de piano. Le sigue Bloody Well Right, que a mí no me gusta mucho, solo a destacar el estribillo pegadizo. Hide in your shell es una bonita balada progresiva. Asylum destaca por el piano y por sus arreglos orquestales. Dreamer tiene un ritmo animado que le proporciona el gancho suficiente para convertirse en un éxito pop. Rudy es también una canción muy animada con unas excelentes letras. En If Everyone Was Listening destacan por sus arreglos orquestales. Y el álbum termina espectacularmente con la ya citada Crime of the Century.

Créditos

Supertramp

Rick Davies – voz, piano, piano eléctrico Wurlitzer, órgano Hammond, sintetizadores, armónica

Roger Hodgson – voz, guitarra, piano, wurlitzer y pianos eléctricos Fender Rhodes

John Anthony Helliwell – saxofones, clarinete, voz

Dougie Thomson – bajo

Bob Siebenberg (acreditado como Bob C. Benberg) – batería, percusión

Dougie Thomson 

Producción

Ken Scott – productor, ingeniero

Supertramp – productor

John Jansen – ingeniero

Ray Staff – masterización original de vinilo

Richard Hewson – arreglos de cuerda

Paul Wakefield – diseño de portada y fotografía

Pabio Nicoli – dirección de arte

John Janses


Reediciones

En 1977, se convirtió en el primer título de LP de música pop reeditado por el sello  Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

A&M lo lanzó como uno de los primeros CD de su serie "Audio Master Plus" en 1984, que luego reeditó en 1990. Mobile Fidelity también lanzó su propia versión en CD remasterizada en un disco de oro como parte de su serie "Ultradisc", en noviembre de 1984

Edición de Mobile Fidelity de 1984

Una nueva versión remasterizada en CD del álbum fue lanzada por A&M en 1997, seguida de una remasterización diferente el 11 de junio de 2002. Las nuevas remasterizaciones de A&M presentan toda la carátula del álbum restaurada más créditos y letras completas, que faltaban en algunas ediciones anteriores. Las remasterizaciones de A&M de 1997 y 2002 fueron de las cintas originales de Greg Calbi y Jay Messina en Sterling Sound en Nueva York. 

Contraportada de la edición en CD de 2002

La remasterización de 1997 tiene todas las pistas alcanzando un máximo del 100 por ciento, alterando significativamente el rango dinámico original de la grabación y agregando efectivamente una nueva distorsión al sonido. La edición de 2002 no es tan ruidosa, pero todavía tiene mucho del mismo efecto. 

El álbum fue reeditado por el sello alemán Speaker's Corner en 1999, como un LP de vinilo de 180 gramos. No tiene ninguna de las compresiones de rango dinámico aplicadas a las versiones de CD remasterizadas de A&M

Portada de la edición en vinilo de 180g de 1999

Se publicó el 9 de diciembre de 2014, con motivo del 40 aniversario, el álbum, remasterizado por Ray Staff, sería reeditado en CD, descarga digital y formatos de vinilo de 180 g. Además del álbum original, el lanzamiento incluía una grabación completa de un concierto de Hammersmith Odeon de 1975, un folleto de fotografías de 24 páginas y un ensayo escrito por Phil Alexander con nuevas entrevistas con Ken Scott, Dave Margereson y la mayoría de los miembros de la banda. Dos impresiones 10×8 y una versión más larga del ensayo fueron anunciadas como exclusivas de la versión en vinilo.

Imagen de la edición de 2014

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