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  • Audio CD (9 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal / Island
  • ASIN: B00004YTTN
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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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 Caravan
12. Christmas With The Devil
13. Now Leaving
14. All The Way Home
15. Bitch School

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Quite how Squatney's finest heavy metal combo managed to bounce back from the commercial fiasco surrounding Smell The Glove and the US tour which found them supporting puppet shows at children's' amusement parks is anyone's guess. But here they are once more, with fire in their bellies. Or maybe that's indigestion. Break Like The Wind re-unites perm-headed poet David St Hubbins, confused tongue-waggling axeman Nigel "I'm a professional, I rise above it" Tufnel and jazz-oriented courgette enthusiast Derek Smalls for a record which, although hardly redefining the meaning of rock & roll, succeeds in not choking on it's own creative vomit, or anybody else's for that matter. For example, the totally ironic (of course) "Bitch School" hits back at critics who have accused them of being "too sexy", "Rainy Day Sun" is what The Kinks would sound like now if it was still 1965 (or something) and the over-inflated imperialist pomp-rock of "The Sun Never Sweats" is beyond words. This album finds Spinal Tap sounding young again--young again in a grown-men-trapped-in-the-bodies-of-13-year-old-boys kind of way (in fact, early school skiffle demo "All The Way Home" is also included here). A hit? This record should climb all the way up to Number 11. --Kevin Maidment

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The majesty of rock!, 12 Feb 2006
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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Spinal Tap returns! The most prolific nonexistant band ever is back with "Break Like The Wind," a wonderfully warped metal album that celebrates rock'n'roll, bad lyrics and exploding drummers. This a bad album -- gloriously, magnificently bad, in the way only a spoof can be.

It opens with the roaring male dominance rocker "Bitch School," which would be offensive if it weren't tongue-in-cheek, then lurches on to the wonderfully bloated "Majesty of Rock," a gloriously ghastly duet with Cher, the insanely pretentious "The Sun Never Sweats" ("Bolder than the pirates who used to rule the sea/Braver than the natives, who never heard of tea...")

The peak of this album may be the song "Break Like the Wind," which aspires to be deep and inspirational despite lyrics like "We are the thumb on a stranger's hand." And two of the most priceless songs are at the end: the mope ballad "All the Way Home," and the truly twisted Christmas song, "Christmas With the Devil."

The world was first introduced to Spinal Tap in "This is Spinal Tap," the classic rockumentary about England's loudest band. With the help of Cher (yes, that Cher) and Dweezil Zappa, they take it upon themselves to roundly mock metal, hard rock, rock ballads, and quite a few other things as well -- they're funny because they put so much effort into doing a nudge-wink bad job.

The music itself is pretty standard hard rock riffs -- it's merely okay, and therein lies the irony. What's really startling is that while the music is not amazing in the technical sense, it's actually much better than many real-life bands were. Scary, no? It does have its moments of brilliance, due to Zappa and Jeff Beck mostly, as well as some gloriously ghastly sitar.

It's not the music but the lyrics that are genius. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are true geniuses of the bad song -- what's even better, these are the sort of bad songs that people write, but don't know that they are bad. "And that's the Majesty of Rock!/The Mystery of Roll!/The darning of the sock,/the scoring of the goal!" Does it get worse than that? Yes, if you include lines like "Rise! for you are cream" and "We may be gods or big marionettes/But the sun never sweats."

"Break Like the Wind" is a wonderful album by the loudest band in Britain, and the best band that never technically existed. Tap into this!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What the Darkness wish they were..., 3 May 2005
This album, quite simply, rocks! There's no escaping the fact that it's a spoof, but musically speaking it far surpasses much of what tries to pass for the real thing! The Darkness should take note... While Justin Hawkins and co try to have us believe that they are a proper, serious band, everyone just thinks they're a piss-take; on the other hand everyone knows that Tap are a piss-take, but they could quite easily cut it as a real band!
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The True Majesty of Rock, 6 Oct 2000
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I first saw the film 'This is Spinal Tap' when I was at University and thought it was one of the funniest films I had ever seen and that the band 'Spinal Tap' had produced some of the most interesting songs ever! Imagine my delight at finding a second album of all new material. All new songs not included in the film but just as relevant to the way we live life today. Tap speak for a generation, they are artists in every sense of the word.....they are....... You know they're a comedy band don't you? Spinal Tap is one of the best comedy films ever and the album spoofs so many songs and artists it would be hard to list them all. If you're a fan of the film you'll love it, if you're not a fan of the film. Watch the film, you'll love it and you'll end up buying this album anyway! Long live the Tap.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Did the wind break for you ?
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Majesty of Rock!
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I saw the film "This is Spinal Tap " on first release and was awestruck . Rock'n'Roll - yes . Comedy - yes . Authentic - Yes , well , almost . Read more
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