Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap - Break Like the Wind

Break Like the Wind
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Artist: Spinal Tap
Brand: SPINAL TAP
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-29
Music Label: Mca Special Products
Soundtracks:
  1. Bitch School
  2. The Majesty Of Rock
  3. Diva Fever
  4. Just Begin Again
  5. Cash On Delivery
  6. The Sun Never Sweats
  7. Rainy Day Sun
  8. Break Like The Wind
  9. Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
  10. Springtime
  11. Clam Caraban
  12. Christmas With the Devil
  13. All The Way Home

Music reviews of Break Like the Wind

Music Review: The best thing Spinal Tap has ever produced.
Rating: 5 Stars

I got into Spinal Tap when I saw the hilarious "rockumentary" for the first time a couple of years ago. I soon bought the video and memorized almost every line. The comedic genius of Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest could be clearly seen in the movie and the original soundtrack... but their real talents come through every note on this album. They outdid themselves by showing that they can still poke fun at mainstream metal bands while, at the same time, rivaling them in songwriting. These songs, while at times intentionally off-key a bit, are extremely well made.

The songs are, in my opinion, funnier and catchier than the ones on the original soundtrack. "B**** School" starts off the album, wallowing in male-dominant lyrics. "The Majesty of Rock" comes in with a sweeping melody and beat, and lyrics such as "And it feels so real, you can feel the feeling!". "Diva Fever" is a faster song with amazing solos by Dweezil Zappa. And what would a good parody album be without a ballad? Nothing, exactly! "Just Begin Again" is a beautiful (chuckles) and uplifting (laughs hysterically) song. The appearance of Cher really adds a lot to this song. Just listen to David and Cher try to harmonize, you'll be rolling on the floor. "Cash On Delivery" is just an awesome song. Its classic hard rock, with great riffs and a great beat. "Rainy Day Sun" is the obligatory hippie song. Its pretty good, not the albums best, but pretty cool. Things build up to what could be the album's highlight, "Break Like the Wind". The title track really shows off what Spinal Tap can do. There are some awesome solos in this song by about 4 different people, including Slash and Jeff Beck. There are so many guitars going at the end, it starts to get really distorted. Amazing song. "Stinking Up the Great Outdoors" is a great Southern rock tune, complete with harmonicas and slide guitar. Along comes the albums strangest song, "Springtime". Nigel Tuffnel comes in with what sounds like a cross between Louis Armstrong and Johnny Rotten... its hilarious. He then commences with a guitar solo made with his voice, I guess through some kind of effects thingie. Thats also hilarious. The ending is very disjointed. "Clam Caravan" could also be the albums highlight, very soothing Eastern-sound, and a horrible sitar solo (this is intentional, of course). "Christmas With the Devil" is another great hard rock tune. Track 13, though not listed, is a great little filler track, and it actually has something to say! And the album ends with the classic "All the Way Home". All Spinal Tap fans should remember this song from the fast food scene in the movie.

Well, this is a long review, but all I want to say is that, if you think this can't possibly be as good as the film or the original soundrack, give it a good listen to. You'll grow to love it.

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Description of Break Like the Wind

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.
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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