Circa 1980... "Breakfast in America" Kitsch or Cool?

[salin]

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. Hey! Watch what you say!

They'll be calling you a radical, a liberal.

Cool, cool, cool.

[salin]

3. I've always loved it... but realized

I was a kid and overly "pop" oriented at the time.... was curious about other folks who experienced that phenom at the time - and what their impression was/is. Count me in the cool count... but I can see how it could be heard as kitschy.

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. I'm 36 years old, and still "overly 'pop' oriented"

There is absolutely a difference between bubble-gum pop and intelligent pop. "Breakfast in America" was very smart pop.

[salin]

4. btw,

props... slow to respond... sign me... radical, a liberal...

[LSdemocrat]

2. What in the world are you talking about?

[salin]

5. The album "Breakfast in America" from the early 80s.

Huge at the time... curious about evaluations of it 20 years later.

[AlCzervik]

6. Long Way Home makes much more sense to me then it did when i was 13

i actually listened to the lyrics instead of just singing along, that song is pretty sad, sad menaing sad and not bad.

[RagingInMiami]

7. I loved that album back then

It jived with my life at the time because my parents had sent me away for disciplinary problems.

[salin]

11. can see/hear how that would fit

for the noncorming... who would be subject to others trying to force conform-ation.

And now you post on a "radical, a liberal" board (stealing from FinnFann stealing from the album)...rather full circle, eh?!

[RagingInMiami]

14. You got that right

You can laugh at my behavior
That’ll never bother me
Say the devil is my savior
But I don’t pay no heed

[NightTrain]

9. Watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal....

I say, let 'em call me that all they want! I'm damned proud to be a liberal, by gum! :kick:

[MrSlayer]

10. I don't hate it.

Though I haven't figured out why.

[Lady Effingbroke]

12. It's interesting that you mention this album.

I just listened to it recently - it holds up quite well, considering that it is 25 years old. :scared: I was all about "The Logical Song" and "Goodbye Stranger" in 1979!

[MaineYooper]

13. actually late 70s

I bought this new, and I'm 90% sure it was 78 or 79.

Great album though. (showing my age referring to it as an album, I know) I still listen to it on cassette from time to time.

[salin]

Probably correct.... I was in Indiana and the album was huge in

1980 (college frosh year)... but in the pre-MTV/Cable years sometimes it took awhile for what was big elsewhere to really get big in our more "isolated" areas.

Per the album refernce.. of things of this era, it is still an "album".... though our more "young'uns" on DU may find that a very passe reference.

[Left Is Write]

20. On the term "album" -

I still say album. The album is the collection of works, not necessarily the medium used. You could have an album on tape, on CD, on LP, and so forth.

Once on the radio about ten years or so ago, after I had introduced the newest single from such-and-such album, I received a call from a teenager who asked if we were actually playing "albums" or did I mean to say CD?

I said, "No, I meant to say album. The album is on CD, but it's still an album."

I think he thought I was strange, too old, or both. :)

[DS1]

15. I like it

:shrug:

[RagingInMiami]

16. It's been years since I've listened to it

But now that I go over the lyrics, I want to run out and buy the CD cause coincidentally, it's reflective of my current life situation.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Supertramp - vastly under-rated band

Breakfast In America - darn good album! I like others better, but a damn fine piece of work. Managed to be a bit poppy (more than usual for Supertramp) but still maintained the integrity of the band.

meaningful lyrics, and also good music. Like most of their albums.

I especially like Even in the Quieter Moments.

[DBoon]

18. Wasn't it really about 1976 or so?

No really an early 80s album?

[Left Is Write]

19. Yeah, it was late 70s.

I remember when my sister was 15 or 16 (1978-79), she went on a school trip to Mexico and brought back a copy of the album with the cover done entirely in Spanish.

I liked it from the first listen.

[WCGreen]

21. It was 1979

part of the soundtrack for my three month road trip to Oregon, Southern California and Las Vegas......

The whole Goodbye Stranger jus fit me like a teee

Good bye stranger
It's been nice
Hope you find your paradise.....

I met so many people that I would never see or hear from again that this song just so aprapo......

[donheld]

22. That was a good album