I sometimes listen to my old mp3s randomly and in most cases I find something great to add to my Bests folder. A few days ago, I found a masterwork: Supertramp's Breakfast In America. It's a great song from the 1979 album with the same title. Supertramp is a Dutch rock band formed in 1969. A rich music and delightful melody composed of saxophone, keyboards and guitar with a joking, easy and free lyrics, and of course great scatting of the singer makes it my these days playlist top. It has quite the same feeling when you see the movie Amelie Poulin or listen to its soundtrack. Some sense of freedom, relaxation and delight.
There are other great songs of them like Logical Song, School and Bloody Well Right which I love.
Here's the lyrics to the Logical Song, you know where to find the music!
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical,
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man,
Wont you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Wont you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical,
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man,
Wont you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Wont you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
1 comment:
The first year of university, I used to randomly borrow tapes from my father (or vynil records which I needed to record on a tape in order to listen to them). One of those tapes was "Breakfast in America", and I remember I listened to it several times, until I got to love that record. I later forgot this album, but the film "Magnolia" brought me a couple of great songs back to me. One of them was "The Logical Song".
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