BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

This album was recorded between 1978 and early 1979, and it was released in March 1979, while Disco Music was still the fad and people like me who didn`t like Disco Music (with some good exceptions like KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND) had to continue looking for new good quality Prog Rock and Rock bands. I first listened to SUPERTRAMP in the Radio, in late 1979 or maybe in early 1980. The first song was "Goodbye Stranger". I liked this song a lot, but still recognizing that it sounded somewhat commercial and even with some slightly Disco drums arrangements. So, in May of 1980 I went to a record shop with one of my brothers, we saw this album (with a cover which seemed to me very "ordinary commercial" in those days!) and I bought this album, and my brother was happy too because he also liked the "Goodbye Stranger" song. We arrived to my parents`house, I played the album, and when the stylus was in the song "Goodbye Stranger" one of my other brothers was dancing and singing the falsetto lyrics of the chorus: "Goodbye Mary, Goodbye Jane"! We liked very much this album, but I particularly liked it more, and one day I played four times the whole album from start to finish."Gone Hollywood" has "loser/winner at last" lyrics and a good sax solo in the end. "The Logical Song" has very good lyrics. "Goodbye Stranger" too, and also a very good lead guitar at the end. "Breakfast in America" is very commercial pop. "Oh Darling" is a great love song with excellent arrangements. "Take the long way home" also has good lyrics and piano, plus Harmonica and clarinet solos. The beautiful "Lord is it mine" is a very good religious song, sung with feeling by Hodgson and with a superb clarinet solo (I consider this song my favourite from this album). "Another Nervous Wreck" is a "nervous" song really, with very good lead guitars. "Casual Conversations" has funny lyrics about a couple in fight, with an arrangement which sounds to me similar as Billy Joel`s "Just Like the Way You Are", and a very good sax solo and funny backing vocals (due to the subject of the lyrics!). Is curious how previous reviewers consider "Child of Vision" a Prog Song. For me, it is slightly Disco Music in arrangement, at least some the drums parts. But it is also a good song. I think that at that time I considered Supertramp a commercial pop band with some Progressive Rock arrangements, but maybe I was most interested in this band due to the lyrics: a high quality commercial pop-prog band with good quality lyrics which were "deep" in meaning and messages. This album is good from start to finish. I still consider the cover design of this album to be very commercial, but it is a good design really.In mid 1981 I bought my next Supertramp`s albums ("Even in the Quietest Moments..." and "Paris") and I still like Supertramp`s music.