Break Like the Wind

Break Like the Wind
Studio album by Spinal Tap
Released	March 17, 1992
Genre	Heavy metal[1] comedy rock
Length	49:54
Label	MCA Geffen
Producer	Spinal Tap, T-Bone Burnett, Dave Jerden, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Lukather
Spinal Tap chronology
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Break Like the Wind (1992) Back from the Dead (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Rolling Stone	[1]

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.^[3]