Some albums land like 540 megaton bombs, and their impact is so tremendous, it ripples across generations, and the songs never leave the radio, ever. Like anything by Guns And Roses or Taylor Swizzle. Here's one of those albums, and it's title tune. Read On!

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   And surprise, it's not by AC/DC, or Metallica and it's not Tom Petty's Greatest Hits or even freaking Thriller, which would be a perfect album if that one song by Jackson and Paul McCartney was THE FIRST FRIGGIN SONG ON THE ALBUM. I think it's the first song, I actually don't remember, but I know a song that awful can bring down even an album that was so ubiquitous even your grandma had a copy. Breakfast In America, however, has no crap songs to bring it down. it is perfection. It is golden from beginning to end. Of course, your mileage may vary. I certainly felt that way in 1979 when the album showed up, delivered to my doorstep by the Columbia Record And Tape Club. And man, when I wasn't wearing out the grooves of the album, with it's incredible cover-

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-I was hearing it all over the damn radio that summer. Everybody knows those songs. They are ingrained into people my age like genetic code. I did come to resent the songs omnipresence. I mean, there's only so many times you can hear that ultra high voice toodling "Good Bye Stranger" before you start getting angry. The songs never went away though. You still hear them on the radio today, one is probably playing every minute of the day somewhere in the world. It's even been said when you wanna test out your new stereo, you put on this album to put the system through it's paces.

 

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And then a top forty band whose name I don't remember a couple or five years ago used the title song's refrain as the basis of a new song, and that was hit, and Supertramp's Breakfast In America got another resurgence. Also our production director tried to upload one of their songs to Youtube and almost got his hinder handed to him by the band's lawyers. THEN, a friend of mine said he was listening to the album and "boy those songs are so good, they sound like they could have been recorded yesterday." So, the album re-purposes itself again, discovered by generation after generation, and all those of us who were back there when it first dropped can do is shrug, nod knowingly, and make it your-

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