C/D: Supertramp: Breakfast In America

still can’t stop with this album. it really is breathtaking.

I guess “just another nervous wreck” is the spiritual/emotional apex of this album. heavy stuff.

I’m especially into the guitar solo at the end of “goodbye stranger” now. and the whole “ain’t nothing newwwwwww in my life todaaaaaay” part in “gone Hollywood” which is a fantastic song.

The waitress who appeared on the cover of Supertramp's Breakfast in America (1979) – album is 95 years old on this picture. How wonderful is this!! pic.twitter.com/qPDiwleUnW

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For some reason I though it was the eventual exploding head woman from Total Recall, lol. Anyway, iirc she died years ago, and iirc so did this person.

First 9/11, then the cover model dying...is there any wickedness that Supertramp won't resort to?!?

"Give A Little Bit" is about 'Rona.

East Village 2002: Lydia Lunch's RETROVIRUS, featuring Bob Bert of Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore/Bewitched on drums, Weasel Walter of the Flying Lutenbachers on guitar and monster improv bassist Tim Dahl on....er....bass and the Art Gray Noizz Quintet, featuring Stuart Gray aka Art Gray aka Stu Spasm of Lubricated Goat, Skeletonboy from Woman on two-string bass, Bloody Rich Hutchins from Live Skull on drums...and a band called Skull Practitioners plug in at DROM, a basement-level venue on Avenue A that used to be called Opaline, and before that, a fetid caved of sludge-metal called Beowulf. In the crowd are various erstwhile members of bands like SWANS, Live Skull, Bush Tetras, The Carvels, Even Worse, Fractured Cylinder, King Missile and Alice Donut. The mood is heavy but jubilant. There is lots of alcohol, black leather and sneering. On the sound system between bands .... the in-house DJ is playing several high-decibel selections from .... W A I T FOR IT ..... BREAKFAST IN AMERICA by Supertramp.

whoops, 2022

I would've been there for the in-house DJ. The rest of that is fucking dreck.

so the lady on the album cover is almost 140 years old now?!

I'm glad you weren't there, paulw.

Hodgeson - "We chose the title because it was a fun title. It suited the fun feeling of the album."

“Fun” feeling? Really? Is he joking?

Maybe the key lyric to this album really is “the questions run too deep for such a simple man”