- Source: Breakaway (Big Pig song)
"Breakaway", by Australian band Big Pig, is a cover of American R&B singer Chuck Jackson's song "I Can't Break Away". Originally released on November 2, 1987, in the United Kingdom, it was released on February 15, 1988, in Australia as the third single from their debut album Bonk. The song, written by Mitchell Bottler and Gary Zekley, is about freedom and fighting against destiny. Like many other Big Pig songs, "Breakaway" features plentiful drums and percussion but no guitars.
The song became the band's most successful single, reaching number one in New Zealand in May 1988. It also reached number eight in their native Australia and managed to chart in North America, reaching number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on Canada's RPM Top Singles chart. Its earlier UK release saw the song peak at number 89 on the UK Singles Chart.
In 1989, the song appeared on the soundtrack to the science-fiction comedy film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, also appearing in the film's opening credits.
Reception
In 2004, Clem Bastow of Stylus Magazine wrote that while Big Pig's "Breakaway" is likely "the least 'rock' of all the songs from Excellent Adventure," it incites a sense of excitement. He added that the song is "a dodgy, quasi-deep (see: made up language) throwaway hit" from an otherwise obscure band clad in matching dresses, "yet doesn't that line, 'All my life I’ve wanted to fly/Like the birds that you see way up in the sky', set to that pulsating proto-industrial clang, tap into that universal wish for freedom, for super-human powers, for that which we cannot have? The answer is, of course, yes."
Track listings
White Label Records 7-inch single
"Breakaway" – 3:45
"Hellbent Heaven" – 3:33
White Label Records 12-inch maxi-single
"Breakaway" (Popper Mix) – 6:02
"The Bald Dwarf"
"Breakaway" – 3:30
Charts
= Chuck Jackson version
== Big Pig version
=Release history
References
External links
"Breakaway" at Discogs (list of releases)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Breakaway (Big Pig song)
- Big Pig
- Breakaway
- One Bad Pig
- Bonk (album)
- Inaya Day
- Peppermint Park (TV series)
- List of songs about Los Angeles
- Left to My Own Devices
- Chuck Jackson
