Label: A&M Records (US), CD-3708
Style: Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Progressive Pop
Country: London, England
Time: 45:58
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 300 Mb
Charts:
UK #3, AUS #1, CAN #1, FRA #1, GER #1, NL #1, NOR #1, SWE #2, SWI #1,
US #1. SWI: Gold; UK, FRA, GER & NL: Platinum; US: 4x Platinum; CAN:
Diamond.
The album went through two rounds of demos. The first were
home demos, each of which consisted of the chief songwriter (either Rick
Davies or Roger Hodgson) singing and playing either acoustic piano or
Wurlitzer electric piano. The second were eight-track demos recorded at
Southcombe Studios in Burbank, California during late April and early
May 1978. It was in recording these demos that the band worked out the
backing track arrangements for all the songs (with the exception of
"Take the Long Way Home") and determined the order in which they would
appear on the album.
In order to avoid spending a lot of time on
mixing, the band and their production team devoted a week to
experimenting with different sound setups until they found the perfect
arrangement. The effort proved to be wasted, as the engineering team
would end up spending more than two extremely stressful months searching
for the right mix, and were finished after that length of time only
because the deadline had arrived, not because they felt at all satisfied
with the results.
Tensions between Hodgson and Davies were
reportedly almost non-existent on the album. Engineer Peter Henderson
recalled: "They got along fantastically well and everyone was really
happy. There was a very, very good vibe and I think everyone was really
buoyed up by the recordings and A&M's response to them." Hodgson
contested this, saying that he and Davies had increasingly different
lifestyles, and that he felt that Davies disliked many of his songs and
kept quiet about his displeasure only because he sensed that he would be
voted down. Melody Maker journalist Harry Doherty offered a third take
on the duo's interactions during the album sessions: "In three days with
the band, I don't think I saw Davies and Hodgson converse once, other
than to exchange courteous greetings."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_in_America)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Gone Hollywood (05:19)
02. The Logical Song (04:11)
03. Goodbye Stranger (05:50)
04. Breakfast In America (02:39)
05. Oh Darling (03:48)
06. Take The Long Way Home (05:09)
07. Lord Is It Mine (04:09)
08. Just Another Nervous Wreck (04:25)
09. Casual Conversations (02:58)
10. Child Of Vision (07:25)
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