taco bell jams - the biggest boss

this is the first attempt in what hopefully will be regular - unscheduled - yet frequently occurring archiving of the musical ambience furnished by taco bell.

Mr. Mister - Take These Broken Wings

Mr. Mister is an American pop rock band most popular in the 1980s. The band's name came from an inside joke about a Weather Report album called Mr. Gone where they referred to each other as "Mister This" or "Mister That", and eventually selected "Mr. Mister." Mr. Mister may be considered as representative of the melodic sound of 1980s pop rock. The band consisted of Richard Page on vocals and bass guitar, Steve George on keyboards, Pat Mastelotto on acoustic and electronic drums and Steve Farris on guitars.

Welcome to the Real World was the second album by American pop band Mr. Mister. Released in 1985, it climbed to #1 on the Billboard album charts during early 1986. 

Two singles from the album, "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie" both went to #1 on the US singles chart.

This is truly a heavy weight in the annals of taco bell jamdom. The song was co-written with lyricist John Lang, who was inspired by a book called "Broken Wings" written by Kahlil Gibran.[1] The lyrics "Take these broken wings and learn to fly again" may be a reference to The Beatles' song "Blackbird." The song is a mix of synth, digitally delayed guitar, bass and drums. The song's hissing intro was an effect created by the sound of crash cymbal played in reverse. There is a distinct guitar sound in this track thanks to Steve Farris' innovation of the electric guitar, managing to extract a delay effect at an odd timing to create a contrast to the steadiness of the bass and beat. The outro to the song features Page singing very high and lengthy falsetto notes. this song is peppered and spiced with amazing usage of the dx7 synthesizer. 

In 2001, this song was sampled for a Tupac Shakur song on his posthumous album Until the End of Time, for the title song.

a better use of this sample can be heard on, "the boss," by rick ross from the album, "trilla." 

i can't begin to fathom how many times i played, and then replayed, "the boss!" it also samples "Blue" by Diana Ross, and "Paul Revere" by Beastie Boys, in addition to breaking t-pain to the mainstream! although, there is no documentation of, "the boss," gracing the t.b. dine-in, rest assured our children's, children's, children's, children will be tapping their space boots to it on mars in some total recallish hell hole of taco bell, in between spurts of fire sauce and mr. mister.