Supertramp - Breakfast in America
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Free Music Review: Blast from the Past
Hit: 5 Stars
This album originally came out in 1979 when I graduated from college. It's wonderful to hear these songs again! Of course, "the Logical Song" was a big hit and brings back lots of memories. Highly recommended.Free Music Review: a great carnival-like album
Hit: 4 Stars
although being supertramp's most commercially successful album (#1 in uk & US), breakfast in america is also very intellectual & musically aggressive. By the time they recorded this album, hogdson & davies were at odds about the material & album name. As each of them shared arranging, writing, & lead vocal duties, they were beginning to want more control. Davies did not like the song breakfast in america or the name of the album. Davies liked working title or hello stranger as album title & wanted to leave BIA off the album. Obviously there was a consensus & hodgson won the battle. That's music... it not only challenges the listener but the artists as well. as they look for their role in the band with ideas & control, a great piece of art is produced through argument & consensus. The album is much more pop oriented with 4/4 patterns than previous albums but still retains aspects of their symphonic/progressive rock roots. The album opens with gone hollywood & reveals strong high-octave backing vocals by hodgson which remains the trend throughout. The song contains the tempo changing & heavy piano playing characteristic of the previous tramp efforts. The logical song follows & uses a rock/jazz electric organ/piano which would remain a staple in the album as well. Hodgson's vocals are incredible here showing an edgier & more aggressive singing style. Goodbye stranger is my favorite davies song besides school & has a great organic groove accompanied by more hodgson vocals. Breakfast in america follows & has unique carnival-like sound that has great vocals as well. Then the epic take the long way home starts with its eerie synth srings & more carnival-like stuff. 2 overlooked songs are nervous wreck & child of vision as they possess the same power-charged vocals & heavy keyboards. Although less progressive the album is quite consistent & almost conceptual with pessimistic social undertones which was a common theme in the late 70s in music (rush/genesis/elp/queen). Supertramp also mimics pink floyd in a way with their alternating vocals within songs. It is also very ahead of its time from a production standpoint. Also clarinet became a rock 'n roll instrument after this thanx to helliwell. Sibenberg's drumming is also quite aggressive & inventive. The drumming, though, is partially harmed by the low tuned toms which produces a muffled sound. All in all a great album that closes the seventies & welcomes the 80s. Free Music Review: Excellent Audio Quality
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like "Breakfast In America", this 2002 version labeled "Newly Digitally Remastered from the Original Master Tales" is the best digital version available. Better than the MFSL UD1 Made In Japan, catalog UDCD 534 or any other version. This is a wonderful flat transfer.
This recording was remastered by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York. The two gentlemen achieved results similar to the Car Stevens Limited Editions Digi-Pak series also remastered at Sterling Sound (Ted Jensen performed that remarkable transfer).
If you take the time and effort to properly EAC this disc and then burn the results onto the best possible media (Green Tunes mastering CD), the playback on a high end audio system is truly amazing.
Free Music Review: Why Should You Care If You're Feeling Good?
Hit: 4 Stars
Personally, I would characterize (i.e. oversimplify) Supertramp as a late-70s hybrid of Steely Dan and the Beatles. They resemble Steely Dan in their spotless production and tight, finely-honed pop arrangements; the Beatles in their English wit and effortlessly melodic songcraft; and both their core of a formidable songwriting duo, in this case Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies. For their earlier work I might throw in a dash of Pink Floyd to account for the proggy atmospherics, but on BREAKFAST IN AMERICA the band is mostly concerned with making a great pop album
And regardless of how accurate or effectual all these comparisons are, BREAKFAST IN AMERICA is indeed a great pop album, a ship of gooey vocal harmonies afloat on a sea of cascading electric piano, buoyed onward by howling harp nor'easters and waves of screaming sax. (And yes, laboured as it is, I'm proud of that metaphor.) You've probably heard the hits: the delightful "The Logical Song", the propulsive "Goodbye Stranger", the airy "Take the Long Way Home", and the bouncy, vaguely Klezmer-ish title cut. But you probably haven't heard great album cuts like "Just Another Nervous Wreck", which is as anxious as its title would suggest, or the closing epic "Child of Vision". And if you like catchy, well-constructed pop music, you really should, because it doesn't get much better than this.
Free Music Review: Great Tunes
Hit: 4 Stars
'Breakfast In America' is among the better albums of the 1970s. It is pop at its best - quirky, catchy, and fun.
It is one of the rare CDs where it really must be bought as a full album, rather than just a collection of singles. Some of the great hits here include the following: The Logical Song, Breakfast In America, Take The Long Way Home, and Lord Is It Mine.
This is one of those CDs that really must be in the collection of anyone who enjoys popular music.