Supertramp
Breakfast In America
Breakfast In America
(1978)

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Kaisersosay
Apr 23, 2013 - 10:35
ughh last few songs ,,,not loving...


Hasan
Jan 01, 2013 - 13:41
Gets my vote for the wimpiest lyrics ever written.


HazzeSwede
Feb 26, 2012 - 08:21
Lots of good Supertramp songs..this is one. #8


oldsaxon
Dec 19, 2011 - 12:58
jbjnr wrote:

I'd like to disagree on the albums comment for the benefit of others who might be reading.

Crime of the Century : some very fine songs on here. Rudy, Asylum, If everyone was listening. These are simply outstanding tracks. They've got drama, symphonic orchestration, depth and a great sound

Crisis? What Crisis? : A Soapbox Opera, sister moonshine, stand out from my memory

Even in the Quietest Moments : Babaji, Fool's Overture.

Indelibly stamped : Rosie Had Everything Planned - wow! (great melody, and great lyrics too). Aries - I challenge anyone to put aries on loud and not want to hear it again and again.

Those 4 albums for me (for starters) put Supertramp in a league well above most of their contemporaries, and those that came after. It's a shame that they don't get more play.

With you all the way on this, sadly, BIA was a sad end to an otherwise brilliant set of albums. I remember seeing them in an open air stadium just as the sun set...grey-purple sky, a flock of hundreds of starlings circling like a school of fish above the crowd. They opened with "school"....that harmonica....just spine tinglingly good.


oldsaxon
Dec 19, 2011 - 12:43
fredriley wrote:
Kippers for breakfast? Bleucch! For those unaware of this UK delicacy, kippers are smoked herring. I'd rather have a bowl of muesli.

mmmm....a lovely kipper next to poached duck eggs with Hollandaise on a muffin (english style, of course) toasted nearly to charcoal...That's a breakfast. Where DID I put that tweed jacket and deerstalker? Is there more tea?
It's almost as good as pancakes, maple syrup, bacon and coffee....nearly....


jonnydreaming
Nov 17, 2011 - 18:52
I love the inclusion of brass and woodwinds into this song! I wish more artists would do the same.



Poacher
Oct 17, 2011 - 05:03
fredriley wrote:
Kippers for breakfast? Bleucch! For those unaware of this UK delicacy, kippers are smoked herring. I'd rather have a bowl of muesli.

Fred, a propper kipper on the bone and traditionally smoked, along with some fresh bread and butter and lashings of tea is an excellent way to start the day before going out on the estate to shoot something (either the country or inner city estate).


fredriley
Oct 17, 2011 - 05:00
Kippers for breakfast? Bleucch! For those unaware of this UK delicacy, kippers are smoked herring. I'd rather have a bowl of muesli.


vandal
Oct 03, 2011 - 15:24
no


Proclivities
Sep 15, 2011 - 15:31
laozilover wrote:
don't know why I never noticed this before but do you think the waitress kinda looks like the statue of liberty?
Limpopoking
Sep 02, 2011 - 05:40
Not a patch on "Crisis, what crisis?"... BIA to me, was their debut into unabashed commercial sounds.


laozilover
Sep 02, 2011 - 05:36
don't know why I never noticed this before but do you think the waitress kinda looks like the statue of liberty?


Deadwing
Aug 15, 2011 - 06:44
jbjnr wrote:

I'd like to disagree on the albums comment for the benefit of others who might be reading.

Crime of the Century : some very fine songs on here. Rudy, Asylum, If everyone was listening. These are simply outstanding tracks. They've got drama, symphonic orchestration, depth and a great sound

Crisis? What Crisis? : A Soapbox Opera, sister moonshine, stand out from my memory

Even in the Quietest Moments : Babaji, Fool's Overture.

Indelibly stamped : Rosie Had Everything Planned - wow! (great melody, and great lyrics too). Aries - I challenge anyone to put aries on loud and not want to hear it again and again.

Those 4 albums for me (for starters) put Supertramp in a league well above most of their contemporaries, and those that came after. It's a shame that they don't get more play.


I was a HUGE Supertramp fan even before BIA came out.

Then every dipshit in town jumped on the bandwagon and acted like Supertramp was some NEW awesome band that they had "discovered"

:P

Getting people to listen to new music is as hard as getting people to try new exotic foods, I don't know why this is

Personally, I am always up for a challenge.

Except Balut, Bugs, and Monkey Brains.

Phuck that lol


yurasuka
Aug 15, 2011 - 06:37
I love this song! Have ever since I can remember! But each to his/her/its own.


Foot
Aug 01, 2011 - 19:42
Awful, as bad now as it was in '78.


jkhandy
Jul 14, 2011 - 21:45
crnkan wrote:


{#Yes}



crnkan
May 12, 2011 - 14:59
{#No}


drews
Mar 28, 2011 - 15:29
bindi wrote:

Interesting. . .

And also, don't forget Jeff Lebowski, writing a check on Sept 11,1991- exactly 10 years before the attack, while George Bush Sr rants in the background on TV about Sadam Hussain. (Big Lebowski was filmed in what, 1997 or 1998?)

I think it's all just weird coincidences, but who knows?


So maybe Bin Laden was a big Supertramp fan who was inspired to target the twin towers by the Breakfast in America album cover? More seriously, this still sounds like the perfect pop song after all these years.




rlr511
Mar 28, 2011 - 15:24
blech spare me!


treatment_bound
Mar 10, 2011 - 12:06
NO!!!!!!!!!


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