The Soundtrack of My Youth

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Supertramp - Breakfast in America (1979)



Couldn't really get into it initially as it sounded a bit too "poppy" compared with their earlier works. But it didn't take long for the songs to grow on me.

Interesting bit of info about the album from Wikipedia: 'The album was recorded in 1978 at The Village Recorders. Tensions between Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies started to come to the fore on this album. Rick didn't like the song Breakfast in America and he didn't want the album titled Breakfast in America and originally opted for either Working Title or Hello Stranger.

'The album's front cover was designed by the late Mike Doud and depicted Kate Murtagh as a Statue of Libery figure holding a glass of orange juice instead of a torch and the background featured a city made from cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery (for the wharfs), eggboxes, vinegar, ketchup and mustard bottles, all spraypainted white. The twin World Trade Center towers appear and the plate of breakfast represents Battery Park where the Statten Island Ferry leaves from.'

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