Line #39 Music/BreakfastInAmerica


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/breakfastinamerica.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Take a Jumbo 'cross the water. Like to see America!"'']]
3	->''There are times\
4	When all the world's asleep.\
5	The questions run too deep\
6	For such a simple man.\
7	Won't you please,\
8	Please tell me what we've learned?\
9	I know it sounds absurd,\
10	But please tell me who I am.''
11	-->-- "The Logical Song"
12
13	''Breakfast in America'' is the sixth studio album by Music/{{Supertramp}}, released through Creator/AAndMRecords on 29 March 1979. It was Supertramp's most commercially successful album, having gone quadruple platinum in the United States alone, and supported by charting singles such as "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", "Take the Long Way Home", and "[[TitleTrack Breakfast in America]]".
14
15	!!Tracklist
16	[[AC:Side one]]
17	# "Gone Hollywood" (5:19)
18	# "The Logical Song" (4:07)
19	# "Goodbye Stranger" (5:46)
20	# "Breakfast in America" (2:37)
21	# "Oh Darling" (3:43)
22
23	[[AC:Side two]]
24	# "Take the Long Way Home" (5:08)
25	# "Lord Is It Mine" (4:08)
26	# "Just Another Nervous Wreck" (4:22)
27	# "Casual Conversations" (2:56)
28	# "Child of Vision" (7:24)
29
30	!!Principal members:
31	* Rick Davies - vocals, piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, harpsichord, synthesizers, harmonica, wah-wah clavinet
32	* John Helliwell - saxophones, clarinets, siren whistle, whistling, backing vocals
33	* Roger Hodgson - vocals, guitars, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, pump organ, vibes
34	* Bob Siebenberg[[note]](credited as [[RealNameAsAnAlias Bob C. Benberg]])[[/note]] - drums, percussion
35	* Dougie Thomson - bass
36
37	----
38	!!I'm playing my tropes upon you, while there's nothing better to do:
39	* BigApplesauce: The New York skyline seen through an airplane window is emulated with an assortment of boxes and utensils, with a diner waitress carrying a menu and a glass of orange juice in a similar manner to the Art/StatueOfLiberty.
40	* CallBack: A line in "Breakfast in America"'s chorus is "but there's not a lot I can do", which was also found in Supertramp's earlier song "Dreamer".
41	* EpicRocking: "Child of Vision" is seven and a half minutes long, with "Goodbye Stranger" coming close to reaching six.
42	* GreasySpoon: The diner in the back cover of ''Breakfast in America'', based on a real life diner the band ate at across the street from the studio where they recorded the album.
43	* GrowingUpSucks: The basis of "The Logical Song", where learning more about the world makes the narrator more cynical.
44	* HatesSmallTalk: "Casual Conversations":
45	-->In casual conversations and how they bore me,\
46	Yeah, they go on and on, endlessly.\
47	No matter what I say, you'll ignore me anyway.\
48	I might as well talk in my sleep,\
49	I could weep.
50	* HorribleHollywood: "Gone Hollywood" is about a man who moved to Hollywood and grown increasingly disenchanted with it. The final verse is more hopeful though, with the narrator making the big time after trying for some time.
51	* JadeColoredGlasses: "The Logical Song" is how the narrator grew more cynical through life.
52	* LongestSongGoesLast: "Child of Vision", with a good chunk of it towards the end being an instrumental.
53	* LossOfIdentity: "The Logical Song", again.
54	-->Please, please tell me what we've learned\
55	I know it sounds absurd\
56	Please tell me who I am
57	* NonAppearingTitle: "The Logical Song" (the word "logical" does show up, but without "song"), "Breakfast in America" (both "breakfast" and "America" appear, but not together) and "Just Another Nervous Wreck" (the closest approach is "everyone's a nervous wreck now").
58	* NotStayingForBreakfast: "Goodbye Stranger" is about the narrator engaging in a one night stand then moving on very shortly afterwards.
59	-->Goodbye stranger, it's been nice.\
60	Hope you'll find your paradise.\
61	Tried to see your point of view.\
62	Hope your dreams will all come true.\
63	Goodbye Mary, Goodbye Jane,\
64	Will we ever meet again?\
65	Feel no sorrow, feel no shame,\
66	Come tomorrow, feel no pain.
67	* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The inner sleeve of ''Breakfast in America'' is designed to look like a diner menu, in keeping with the theme of the cover.
68	* RhymingWithItself: "Breakfast In America" rhymes girlfriend with girlfriend.
69	* RockstarSong: "Take the Long Way Home" is about how a musician would spend a lot of time on the road and would [[HomesicknessHymn suffer from homesickness]] and a broken relationship with his wife.
70	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: "The Logical Song" starts out with the narrator being young and idealistic before taking a firm cynical turn.
71	* TheSomethingSong: "The Logical Song".
72	* TakeThat: WordOfGod says that "Casual Conversations" and "Child of Vision" are Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson taking potshots at one another.
73	** Verse three of "The Logical Song" could be taken as a knock on conservativism:
74	-->Watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,\
75	A liberal, a fanatical criminal\
76	Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable.\
77	Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable

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