Supertramp - Breakfast In America

i heart "the logical song" and "goodbye stranger" so much ...

One of the best sources online for this kind of thing, and which I always criminally forget: used to be jefitoblog?

"the logical song" is one of the best songs about a nervous breakdown ever written -- it's just as bleak as anything written by (to pick a famously "depressing" contemporary to supertramp) ian curtis.

Trivia: In "The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize", it's said that Alan McGee's first gig attended was a Supertramp concert. He is reported to have enjoyed it.

One day in 6th grade (1981-82) my English teacher brought in some of her LPs and placed them at the front of the room. Our writing assignment was to choose one and describe its cover art. One of the LPs was BIA though I don't remember if I picked it. She also had stuff like Styx "Pieces of Eight", REO "You Can Tune a Piano" and "The Best of the Doobies". I suppose this supports the late 70s American arena pop/rock lumping-in, but on the the softer, commercial end. But who knows, maybe she decided to leave her copy of UFO's "Force It" home that day.

Still adore it. Sue me.

This album is kind of nice in a good softrock way, but still a major disappointment when you know this is the band who made "Crime Of The Century" 5 years earlier. A bit like Genesis' "And Then There Were Three".

Oh yes, and Logical Song is rub except when done by Scooter.

-- Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:58 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

DUDE'S STILL GOT IT

As for Scooter, check this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPO6cGX0Ds

^^^ DUDE'S STILL GOT IT

finally the truth is revealed why people are so anti-prog -- supertramp are prophets of terror

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/supertramp-breakfast-america-album-cover-3040330#.Ut6cI2Qo7Zu

Album came out in 1979
9/11 reference
9/11 was served with breakfast…not to mention the everyday fight for freedom: “Breakfast In America.”
Orange juice = fireball
You are looking out of the window of a plane; she is showing the target.

Since this thread is on a six year bump, I just wanted to say I fucking LOVE Supertramp

Best conspiracy theory ever

1, 2, 3, 5!

Screw that, we all know the Coup did it in collaboration with Dream Theater.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/images/coup.jpg

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/1a/87/39bb024128a09f9260d06010.L.jpg

http://message.snopes.com/rumors/images/coup.jpg

Fuck it, it won't let me link the Coup cover! Conspiracy!

always thought this cover was kind of terrifying

http://smhttp.14409.nexcesscdn.net/806D5E/wordpress-L/images/1057988-two_weeks_image_super-300x200.jpg

heard a terrifying cover of the title track in the grocery store the other day, i think there was rapping.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/21/how_supertramp_got_involved_in_one_of_the_weirdest_911_truther_conspiracies_ever/

One of the commenters on that Mirror article pretty much summed it up:

"What a complete cockwomble"

it's weird, when I was a kid I loved Supertramp from early on and when Breakfast in America broke big I was completely down for that, loved it, felt like a very elite 6th grader with my deeply held conviction that the best song on the album was Goodbye Stranger and now I'm listening on Spotify and I have no recollection whatsoever of this opening track. At all. Just gone. well that's my story hope yall enjoyed it

yeah, i remember this band being a big deal when i was a kid, but over time, they just sounded bland and faceless.

yeah, they've aged much worse for me than a lot of stuff -- often, I'll hear stuff I liked when I was a kid with new ears and say, oh, this is more interesting than it seemed in ways I couldn't have noticed. I'm trying Crisis? What Crisis? on Spotify now, I remember arguing with myself over whether it was a better album than Crime of the Century - I have to say, I think Peter Gabriel was taking notes from these tunes when he put Solsbury Hill together

but this vocal style...man it is hard to feel any sympathy with it

it's too bad the big hits off this record were roger hodgson cuts, much as I like him I find myself gravitating more and more toward the rick davies tunes as I get older, obv "goodbye stranger" is fantastic but "oh darling" is the real secret hidden gem of this record

someone just told me "Goodbye Stranger" is about 'marijuana addiction' (whatever that is). Maybe this was obvious (???) but the thought never occurred to me. Can anyone confirm or deny?

As opposed to being about a groupie? (I am addicted to pot so there ;)

It would have to be about two groupies though - "Mary" and "Jane".

It was an early morning yesterday
I was up before the dawn
And I really have enjoyed my stay
But I must be moving on

Like a king without a castle
Like a queen without a throne
I'm an early morning lover
And I must be moving on

The song seems pretty straightforwardly to be about groupies to me, or at least about a man who has very short-term casual relationships on a serial basis. How do the lyrics support the "marijuana addiction" interpretation, aside from the fact that he cites the two names "Mary" and "Jane"?

He loves early mornings but being a stoner means he always sleeps in, so he has to give it up.

1, 2, 3, 5!

I never heard the marijuana thing either, that's why I asked. The person who told me was very convinced, though

btw can't ever hear this song and not think about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOKPPSJg1mk