Supertramp Breakfast In America #D Limited Edition 180 Gram Vinyl LP (Used, Ex)
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Supertramp Breakfast in America on  Numbered  Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity!
Mastered From Original Master Tapes & Pressed at RTI!


Supertramp's Blockbuster Features Catchy Hooks, Rhapsodic Melodies, Symphonic  Bluster, Meticulous Production: Breakfast in America Includes "The Logical  Song," "Take the Long Way Home"

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes for Supreme Sonics: Mobile Fidelity's  180g Vinyl LP Presents the Record's Famed Dynamics, Colors, Tones, and  Instrumentation in Full-Range Glory

Supertramp's Breakfast in America has it all: Illustrious artwork. Sing-a-long  hooks. Contagious melodies. Symphonic bluster. Rhapsodic thrust. Signature  Wurlitzer electric piano sounds. Two Grammy Awards, including one for Best  Engineered Album. More than 20 million copies sold. Four Billboard hit singles  that continue to dominate radio airplay today. Every aspect of the chart-topping  art-rock set screams blockbuster, not the least of which is the production, the  result of painstaking studio setups and months of mixing. Now, you can  experience the sonic brilliance in unprecedented clarity on Mobile  Fidelity's definitive-sounding reissue.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, this  numbered-edition 180g LP wrings out the record's dynamics, colors, and tones in  all their full-range glory.  Absent artificial ceilings, Breakfast in America unfolds with an  expansiveness and radiance that parallels the vibrancy of its iconic New  York-themed cover. Crucial traits such as imaging, separation, balance,  transients, and openness achieve near-epic levels of realism and presence. Songs  unfold and breathe on mammoth soundstages that put the effort's legendary  production – and stellar playing – into proper perspective. The 1979 set has  been reissued multiple times in the past, but it's never sounded so engaging,  lifelike, or entertaining.

Indeed, aside from the undeniably catchy nature of the ten tracks, fun remains  the most central element of Breakfast in America. The band even titled the  record to fall in line with the overall joyful feeling of the material. About  the latter: Few late 1970s rock albums feature a more cohesive, harmony-drenched  parade of stunningly executed, wondrously arranged works. The collective  offspring of members Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, each tune reflects the  creative pulses of each musician, with the resultant contrasts lending to their  appeal. Davies' penchant for grittier, bluesy strands blends with Hodgson's  witty, pop-leaning techniques. The combination proves unstoppable.

Home to a quartet of commercial staples – "The Logical Song," "Goodbye  Stranger," "Take the Long Way Home," and the title track – Breakfast in America  teems with arena-sized drama, meticulous craftsmanship, and mesmerizing  refrains. Shrewd lyrical turns abound, whether on the phonetic,  adjective-stacked "The Logical Song," life-in-America portrait "Child of  Vision," or move-to-L.A. saga "Gone Hollywood." U.S. references also dot the  smash title track, which reflects the glib humor, romantic fantasies, and pop  culture permeating the record.

Breakfast in America also retains its vitality because of its expert  instrumentation and placement. Deemed a "a textbook-perfect album of  post-Beatles, keyboard-centered English art rock that strikes the shrewdest  possible balance between quasi-symphonic classicism and rock & roll" by Rolling  Stone shortly after its release, the record serves as a blueprint of  reference-setting production and mixing. Check the scorching guitar outro on  "Goodbye Stranger," gospel accents on "Lord Is It Mine," saxophone lines on  "Take the Long Way Home," or chemistry of the choruses on basically every piece  here. It's enough to make one long for the '70s again.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered From Original Master Tapes
• Pressed at RTI
• Gatefold jacket

Selections:
Side A:

1. Gone Hollywood
2. The Logical Song
3. Goodbye Stranger
4. Breakfast In America
5. Oh Darling
Side B:
1. Take The Long Way Home
2. Lord Is It Mine
3. Just Another Nervous Wreck
4. Casual Conversations
5. Child Of Vision


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