| Break Like the Wind | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Spinal Tap |
| Cover: | Break Like the Wind.jpg |
| Released: | March 17, 1992 |
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| Length: | 49:54 |
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| Producer: | Spinal Tap, T-Bone Burnett, Dave Jerden, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Lukather |
| Prev Title: | This Is Spinal Tap |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Back from the Dead |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Break Like the Wind is a 1992 album by the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap. The songs include a range of genres, from the glam metal anthem "Bitch School" down to the skiffle satire of "All the Way Home". The title, and the album's title track, is a double entendre that combines and confuses the idiom "make like the wind" (also possibly a reference to the Christopher Cross song "Ride Like the Wind", famously covered by British heavy metal band Saxon) with "break wind", a euphemism for flatulence.
Originally, the CD was packaged in an 18-inch "extra-long box", as a satire against the controversial packaging policy of longboxes which was increasingly criticized as unnecessary and wasteful. The album notes are by Steely Dan's Walter Becker, who spends the entire page highlighting the Crosley Phase Linear Ionic Induction Voice Processor System and ignoring the band and music entirely.
The album reached #44 in Canada.[1]
In the film This Is Spinal Tap, David St. Hubbins (portrayed by Michael McKean) and Nigel Tufnel (portrayed by Christopher Guest) claim "All the Way Home" is the first song they wrote together, and that six years after it was written, David and Nigel recorded the song in December 1961. The film recounts the two being in different bands, David in the 'Creatures' and Nigel with the 'Lovely Lads'. Similarly, "The Sun Never Sweats" is implied to be the title track from their fictitious album of the same name, whose cover is shown on the packaging of the album This Is Spinal Tap. "Clam Caravan" is apparently a "misspelling" of "Calm Caravan".[2]
All tracks by David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls except where noted.Notes
Mixed at Can Am Studios
| Peak position | |
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] | 67 |
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