I love "Breakfast in America"! Great album.
This is a band I have not mentioned before in my influences. I listened to "Breakfast in America" and "Crime of the Century" a lot in 9th/10th grade and really enjoyed the lyrics. Certainly not a guitar band primarily, but I was playing piano back then. Here are a couple of my favorites from back then. Anyone else admit to liking them?
School, I always wanted to play the piano solo well, but never learned it. May have to try another swing at it when we buy a digital piano. Here is the original recording set to some trippy pics that fit.
Logical Song
Breakfast in America
Steve Thompson
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I love "Breakfast in America"! Great album.
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I can admit my tastes. I haven't listened to them in years or have any in my collection [though this reminded me of them for the first time in years], but I grew up on New York "classic rock" radio, and Supertramp had a few staples in the rotation. So while I don't know most of their music, what I remember, I remember liking a lot.
"I happen to have perfect situational awareness, Lana. Which cannot be taught, by the way. Like a poet's ... mind for ... to make the perfect words." - Sterling Archer
R_of_G, Check out some of "Crime of the Century" if you have not listened to it. and Breakfast, esp. Long Way Home and Child of Vision, or even go back to "Even in the Quietest Moments" album. (couldn't find good visual clips on Youtube, but you can find the recordings with someones pics). Great rhythmic and syncopated piano, and good lyrics.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
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love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Supertramp is a favorite of mine.
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"Even in the Quietest Moments" ranks high on my list desert island disks.
Speaking of Breakfast....
The song Breakfast in America has been sort of redone (mutilated) and renamed by some awful Top 30 pop group. They sing the line "Take a look at my girlfriend" over and over and then add some horrible hip hop lyrics to it... It's practically criminal. I have teenage daughters, and so I hear it a lot.
So I went out and bought the Breakfast In America CD last week (since my old 8-track isn't very practical) and I popped it in while driving my kids to school and forced them to listen to the real song. Naturally, they thought Supertramp's version was pretty lame and they like the pop version better, but at least I'm TRYING!!!
Believe me when I say that teenagers have brains like concrete. Sooner or later your hard earn efforts will set in. All three of mine are learning the hard way ... by experiencing the short falls of life.Originally Posted by Toaster
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Thanks, always helps to have somewhere to start.Originally Posted by sunvalleylaw
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