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Break Like the Wind
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Editorial Reviews:
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Enhanced UK pressing of Spinal Tap's 1992 rockin' return to the charts features two bonus tracks: 'All The Way Home' and the Enhanced Video for 'Bitch School'. Crank this one up to 11! MCA.
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Has there ever been a rock band more unjustly maligned than Spinal Tap? Accused of everything from heralding the demise of heavy metal to being the very raison d'être for alternative rock, they suffered their greatest indignity at the hands of director Rob Reiner (cowardly hiding behind the moniker Marty DiBergi), whose 1984 "rockumentary," This Is Spinal Tap, muckraked its way through the band's courageous, tragedy-strewn history in service of a few mocking laughs. Reiner/DiBergi even stooped so low as to employ a heartless, mercenary band of Hollywood writer/comedians to burlesque the band's core members--David St. Hubbins (played by mendacious Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (callow Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (haughty Harry Shearer). But the great ones just won't be denied; Spinal Tap reached deep down in 1992 and let loose with Break Like the Wind, another potent blast of the very stuff that made their legend. Featuring an all-star supporting cast (the title track alone boasts Slash, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani, and Tufnel look-alike Jeff Beck), the Tap gallantly tried to stem the tide of flannel and tattoos with thundering odes to gender enlightenment ("Bitch School"), mystic quests ("Clam Caravan"), and its own glorious rock-fest legacy ("Stinkin' Up the Great Outdoors"). Pop diva Cher and St. Hubbins share a vocal tryst on the uplifting ballad "Just Begin Again," while even Steely Dan's reclusive Walter Becker pens technical notes, praising the album's pioneering use of the Crosley Phase Linear Ionic Induction Voice Processor System. Sadly, they just don't make albums like this anymore. --J.D. Swift
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A cataclysmic of the Mind
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A music have for any true fan of music The greatest band of all time products the greatest album of all time. Break like the wind is a transgenic odyssey of musical integrity.
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Better than most "real" heavy metal
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And the band's breadth of styles highlights the versatility of this extremely talented group of "musicians." For a "parody" or "spoof" album, this is great music in it's own right. I listen to it first because it's funny, but I listen to it again because it's great stuff. Like the first album the rhyming lyrics are purposefully contrived and are a chuckle at first listen, especially in "The Majesty of Rock" ("together and ever"). It's hard to believe that these guys are not professional musicians and that they don't make a living from music. The haunting title track is awesome, and tracks like "Rainy Day Sun" sounds like it was written by the Beatles.
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Good cd.definitely worth getting if you liked the original Tap music. Nah, not really. I just wanted to use that line from the movie.
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Almost better than the first!
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The only bad parts for me were the duet with Cher (too blatantly bad for me) and the remake of Christmas with the Devil which is done better on the remastered soundtrack (Take number one with their Hoiday greeting kicks every other version). I agree that the lyrics are what give Spinal Tap their edge but if you're a musician listen to their dead on take of all forms of rock. The Sun Never Sweats is a highlight for me particularly the middle section that switches into three unrelated keys while the riff badly apes Slade or Jethro Tull. The best part of the album though is Nigel's voicebox solo on Springtime. I have to say reading reviews that if people aren't laughing out loud at the music on this album you're missing the point. Rainy Day Sun does a great job of evoking bad '60's psychedlic rock - a cross between the Doors and the Kinks.
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