Silly Love Songs: A couple, such as "Oh! Darling!", "Give A Little Bit", and "Downstream".Seventies Hair: Davies and Hodgson, to this very day.Rockstar Song: "Take the Long Way Home".Rhyming with Itself: "Breakfast In America" rhymes girlfriend with girlfriend.Rhymes on a Dime: "The Logical Song," again.Refrain From Assuming: "Breakfast In America" is not "Take a Look at My Girlfriend".Red Scare: "Brother Where You Bound", complete with excerpts from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.Please Don't Leave Me: "Don't Leave Me Now".Parody of Evolution: Brother Where You Bound.Or Was It a Dream?: "Even In The Quietest Moments" has the singer asking this question at the end of the song.Not Staying for Breakfast In America: "Goodbye Stranger".Non-Appearing Title: "The Logical Song", "Breakfast In America", "Gone Hollywood", "A Soapbox Opera", "Fool's Overture", "Downstream".Loss of Identity: "The Logical Song", again.Long Runner Lineup: From the revamp to Hodgson's exit was 11 years with the same band.Subverted with "Asylum", which ends with a faint cuckoo noise.Also, the Fake-Out Fade-Out in "Lover Boy" is very abrupt. Last-Note Nightmare: "If Everyone Was Listening" ends with foreboding strings.Jade-Colored Glasses: The page quote is from "The Logical Song".Humans Are Bastards: The song "Crime Of The Century" is either this or a group jumping the Moral Event Horizon (Raping the universe besides being difficult, would obviously cross that line) depending on how you interpret the fact that behind the masks "there's you and there's me".Here We Go Again: Hey, hey, hah-oh, lah-la, hey-hey.Hates Small Talk: "Casual Conversations".Genre Shift: They started out as a Prog Rock band, but as time went on, they became more poppy, culminating in their extremely poppy Breakfast in America.and "Fool's Overture," which fades out right before the singing starts.Brother Where You Bound's title track takes up most of side two.The most well-known is the 11-minute long "Fool's Overture". Epic Rocking: They have some roots in progressive rock, so it's not surprising.Despair Event Horizon: "If Everyone Was Listening", "Lord Is It Mine", arguably "Rudy".Creator Breakdown: Many of their well-known songs involved Davies and Hodgson taking shots at each other.Its uniting theme being insanity, or the dark side of society. For those who don't want to look ( or are at work), it's basically the arms and chest of a naked and heavily tattooed woman.Color Coded for Your Convenience: On the original Lyrics sheet insert for Crime of the Century (the album), Roger Hodgson's vocals are colored white, and Rick Davies' yellow.Book Ends: Crime of the Century opens and ends with the harmonica solo of "School", and their debut album features one version of the song "Surely" at each end.Big Applesauce: The cover for Breakfast in America is NYC with boxes as buildings and a waitress as the Statue of Liberty.Because I Said So: "School" even provides the page quote.Assimilation Academy: "School", which is the page quote.And That's Terrible: From "Crime of the Century".Frank Farrell – bass, keyboards, backing vocals.Richard Palmer-James – Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, balalaika.Roger Hodgson – Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, cello, flute, composition.Gabe Dixon – Keyboards, tambourine, vocals.Jesse Siebenberg – Percussion, vocals, guitar, keyboards.Lee Thornburg – Trombone, trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals.Carl Verheyen – Guitars, percussion, backing vocals.John Helliwell – Vocals, woodwinds, keyboards, synthesisers.Rick Davies – Vocals, keyboards, harmonica, composition, saxophone.PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
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