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Breakfast Of Champions

from WE ARE OPEN by DMPH

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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

D.M: This took some time to get right but it was worth it. Very bass-driven with some familiar keyboard sounds. Great lyrics (as usual) performed well (as usual) have always been the backbone of our songs (see?). Shame there wasn’t more guitars or a huge brass section. But you can’t have everything in a song, though we have tried; believe me.

P.H: What a strange and convoluted gestation process was undertaken with this song. In 2021 Doug and I had a silly ditty called ‘Burberry Bouffant’ that did not have a happy birth. For something so ludicrously dumb and simple, we failed to get on the same wavelength and bring that baby home. The lyric to ‘Breakfast of Champions’ was written as a replacement to ‘Burberry Bouffant’’s verbals. Indeed, there is a recording of me yowling ‘Breakfast of Champions’ in a circa-1965 Bob Dylan impression over the music track to ’Burberry Bouffant’ (the reason being that the dead drum sound reminded me of the snare wallops on Dylan’s ‘Positively 4th Street’).
Rather than try and resuscitate ‘Burberry Bouffant’ and throw the somewhat-serious lyric away to a semi-comic performance, we positioned it to float through this mass-Murphied soundscape.

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from WE ARE OPEN, released October 8, 2023
Written, performed and produced by Doug Murphy and Paul Hamilton.

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