DU Album of the Day: "Breakfast in America" Supertramp

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At last, our long national nightmare ended, Supertramp brings in an album to wash the late taste of disco from our musical palates. Abbreviated post today, except to note that one of the sound effects in "Logical Song" was the double-whistle tweet from Mattel's hand-held football game, on which I attained a form of unbeatability in that I could hold the ball for the entirety of a half before scoring on the last play.

1. Gone Hollywood
2. Logical Song
3. Goodbye Stranger
4. Breakfast in America
5. Oh Darling
6. Take the Long Way Home
7. Lord Is It Mine
8. Just Another Nervous Wreck
9. Casual Conversations
10. Child of Vision

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1. The clarinet solo in the middle of "Take the Long Way Home"

is one of the great moments in pop-rock. Or is it a tenor sax? I never have been quite sure.

[progressoid]

5. Hmmm...

That got me wondering so I had to look that up. Still don't know and Wiki is a little vague about it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_Long_Way_Home



EDIT: My daughter says it's a soprano saxophone. (she plays the clarinet).

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8. I watched a live video of it on Youtube and it appears to me to be...

...a soprano saxophone!

[Wait Wut]

2. Ooooh...flashback!

I wore this one out, bought another one. That was stolen. Bought the cassette. Car ate it. Bought the CD. Now...it's on my iTunes.

It never gets old.

[pacalo]

7. Damn straight. One of the best cassettes I've ever bought.

[Enrique]

3. the album cover was awesome

by the way we all know you just posted this so you could brag about your Mattel football skills.

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Kippers are a HORRIBLE breakfast food.

They're much better with some gin as an apertif.

[HeiressofBickworth]

6. At this moment

I'm listening to Supertramp's Crime of the Century album through my computer. I've got the vinyl Breakfast in America but haven't listened to it for a while. Think I'll do that tonight when I sit down to pay the bills.