(Cry) All the Way Home
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| Studio album by Spinal Tap | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal, comedy rock, psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 49:54 | |||
| Label | MCA Records | |||
| Producer | Spinal Tap, T-Bone Burnett, Dave Jerden, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Lukather | |||
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Break Like the Wind is a 1992 album by the semi-fictional 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.
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.
All tracks by David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel & Derek Smalls except where noted
"Break Like the Wind" samples the classical guitar piece Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo.
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