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Bread - The Best Of Bread (1973) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2015]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 16 Jan 2024 00:39:44

Bread - The Best Of Bread (1973) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2015]

This 1973 recording is a great collection of music from Bread, the popular 1970's band best known for their mellow, smooth, melodic and often mournful tunes. Many of the classic Bread tunes included in this set live on through soft rock stations everywhere.

Lead singer David Gates crooned his way into America's heart, and starting with "Make It With You" quickly spun off hits like "Everything I Own," "Diary," "Baby I'm A Want You," "It Don't Matter To Me" and "If." At times, their songs had a more upbeat feel as with "Mother Freedom," but they always retain that same soothing blend of soulful lyrics and gentle music. This album covers all the early hits and more delivered with a deceptively breezy tone by one of pop's purest vocalists.

Audio Fidelity reassembled all the original masters of the tracks that appeared on the album release rather than work from the compiled "Best of…" master thus giving the recording a completely fresh, updated sound.

As The Best of Bread unfolds, its 12 tracks begin to tell a tale of two different types of bands. The first half dozen songs, all of which were composed by leader David Gates, are each studies in soft pop perfection. On these two- and three-minute gems, Gates crafts soaring, evocative melodies that can stand against rock's finest. And though these songs' lyrics tend toward sentimentality, the band offers enough tasteful instrumentation to prevent them from slipping into easy listening melodramatics. Though there are no such concerns for the album's second half, Bread's more aggressive approach is not nearly as compelling. Certainly, tunes like "Mother Freedom" are appealing, middle-of-the-road rockers, but they lack the polished, melodic sophistication of their gentler counterparts.

Review by Brian Christopher, Allmusic.com

If they are to believed, David Gates and the other members of Bread never intended to become the enduring icons of a subgenre they virtually invented: soft rock. Indeed, scattered throughout this expanded edition of a perennial bestselling catalog album are tuneful evidence of their original intent, as one band mate said, "to make the '60s last a little longer." But it's the familiar, largely Gates-penned and -sung hit singles that remain the band's legacy, from "Make It with You" through the reunited band's last hurrah, "Lost Without Your Love." Though they've become oft-mocked clichés, these are singles informed with a rare, often complex melodic sense, delivered with a deceptively breezy tone by one of pop's purest tenors. Gates and Bread clearly colored artists as diverse as '80s MOR icon Christopher Cross and nouveau singer-songwriter David Mead.

Review by Jerry McCulley

Bread at Allmusic
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Tracklist:

01. Make It With You (3:17)
02. Everything I Own (3:09)
03. Diary (3:09)
04. Baby I'm-A Want You (2:32)
05. It Don't Matter To Me (2:51)
06. If (2:41)
07. Mother Freedom (2:37)
08. Down On My Knees (2:47)
09. Too Much love (2:48)
10. Let Your Love Go (2:26)
11. Look What You've Done (3:14)
12. Truckin' (2:32)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 2 from 29. April 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 14. February 2015, 20:25

Bread / The Best Of Bread [2015 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ5 197]

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