Break Like the Wind

Break Like the Wind
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 17, 1992
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Length49:54
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Spinal Tap chronology
This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
Break Like the Wind
(1992)
Back from the Dead
(2009)
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AllMusic
Rolling Stone

Break Like the Wind is the second album by the comedy 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 of moving "like the wind" (meaning to move at great speed) 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.