They got lots and lots of air play. Very popular, in a Steely Dan sort of way. They did their own thing and it was good! It's 2022 and I'm still listening. 😎✌
I first heard this song in January of 1975 while in the U.S. Navy onboard the USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, an Aircraft Carrier. This black boy, who by the way is a musician and songwriter, back then had never heard super beautiful rock music like this. One of my Shipmates, Petty Officer McWhorter, was studying me one evening when this song was playing on the shipboard radio, and I know he couldn't believe a black boy was mesmerized by this type of music. He came over and asked me, "do you like that?" And I told him yeah. He would also turn me on to Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), and other groups that I love to this day. I was 18 years old when I first heard this song and I am now 66 and still love rock and roll and especially songs like this. I love all types of music except hip hop (ha ha, LOL).
Love your story & musical taste! Btw, my bros served on destroyer Richard L Page in '75 - not as impressive as your ship (!) but had to mention after reading your amazing comment here. 🎵🇺🇸
@@nahuelnahue9545 it dosent surprise me you like this music without the gospel music given to us all by the black slaves we would not have it for that i will always be grateful as should all us white people bless you brother
I was like 14 when my mom said here listen to this, and she handed me Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America on vinyl. Wow! It was true love that 40 years later has only gotten better. Thanks mom!
I tear up when I hear this song. Brings me back to HS/college days decades ago. The children laughing and yelling and the piano interlude are beautiful
Funny you say that I bought this record when it came out and thought the same thing clean and tight with deep bass and wide dynamic range I needed no adjustments from my system it's that good . You're right
I always chuckle a bit when I hear or read the "high quality for the time" line! Sorry, but analogue recording, when done correctly, is still the best you will get. The only time you can find better quality is if an analogue master gets manipulated digitally - straight to digital recordings do not capture all of the harmonics that get captured on tape.
Funny: i heard this song for the 1st time while driving to greece with my family in our camper (summer holiday in Germany). I was 8 or 9 years old. Late evening, lights of a city in the distance. And this song...
Love you now and forever ❤My first band since J was 14 years old...Today J am Nearly 64 years..And still Love your awesome Music and Lyricks. Love Marie 🥰
Best Rock 'n Album of all time! At parties back in the day, we would play both sides and everybody loved it! Not one person ever complained! Not a weak song or a filler on it!
Classic tune, they were such a great band, used to listen to this a lot in College when we used to play whole album sides on kick ass stereos. I always loved the piano part in this song from 3:16 on. They just don't make songs like this anymore, nothing is even close.
Wow! I've never found this album on YT before! This was my first ever live gig... They were supported by Mike Oldfield doing Tubular Bells!!!!! Absolutely epic night when I was about 15!
When this album came out for the first time , I heard it at a friend´s house who had a room with cork on the walls and a beastly professional sound system...I remember I had never heard anything like it, the music was mind blowing but the quality of the recording for a vinyl record was out of this galaxy...
Happy Birthday Roger Hodgson born on March 21, 1950. He is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the former co-frontman and founding member of progressive rock band Supertramp. After releasing two solo albums in 1984 and 1987, Roger Hodgson took a break from his music career to spend time with his children as they were growing up. He returned to touring in 1997, and released a third solo album in 2000. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hodgson
One of their best albums besides breakfast in America, loved supertramp since I was a teenager, still love their music to this day. School is one of my favorite songs.
Back in the 70s my friend's dad had a kick ass Pioneer Technics stereo and speakers. He had four speakers and they were set up in each corner of the room facing the center. The scream was crazy loud but the acoustics in that song sounded so great on that Technics turntable, stereo and speakers.
An era when the few produced rock compositions that told the story using every artist from musician to album covers to ultimate concert and you 'd never leave the same.
I’m nearly 60 in two months time, but as a teenager I spent my summers with my second family in the long balmy summers in Brixham Devon. I remember buying breakfast in America, the day it was released and to young girls/ladies ran a small shop on the harbour. I ran to them and they played it on their turntable in the shop. Both side, twice. This just takes me back, listening to such a fantastic band. I do miss those times.
I was 8 y.o. when my uncles lend me the cassette in 1991. Never stopped listening this band every month since then... So 384 months listening best group ever.
This album sounds today as if it was recorded YESTERDAY !!!! It's incredible to think that it sounds even more new and fresh than "Famous last words", released 10 years after !!
You can hear how good they are from the fact that there’s about five songs in this track that 99% of bands would have made into full songs. Incredible band.
Back in mid 70ies, their performance at the Montreal Jerry Park stadium was phenomenal! Unbeknown to anyone, before opening of the show, for relaxation they played soccer at the park with a bunch of locals! Love their music!
Ouvi pela primeira vez um CD do Supertramp com 20 anos de idade e aqui estou eu com 42 ainda ouvindo estas maravilhosas canções, School é minha favorita
How did I not get how very everything this song is…? The switch ups to that pulsing beat hit me viscerally. If I listened to it once, I listened over a dozen times. In a row. Then more again later over the course of 16 hour drive. Loud. Brought out some feels that needed the outing.
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 Your teacher tells you stop your playing, get on with your work And be like Johnnie-Too-good, 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 you let it 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) And 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'm 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
Esta canción, me trajo muchos problemas psicológicos cuando tenía 12 años. Cada vez que la escuchaba se iba la luz. Hasta q hasta el año la logré escuchar entera. Que pasada!
Canción de cuando tenía 15 años!! Y tengo 60!! Cómo pasa el tiempo. Pero no por esta canción extraña y dramática, hermosa y fulminante. "Escuela". Long life long term
