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The Best of Bread |  | Artist: Bread
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 1853
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 74311
UPC: 081227431129
EAN: 0081227431129
ASIN: B00005JGA4
Release Date: June 19, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Make It With You | | • | Everything I Own | | • | Diary | | • | Baby I'm-A Want You | | • | It Don't Matter to Me | | • | If | | • | Mother Freedom | | • | Down on My Knees | | • | Too Much Love | | • | Let Your Love Go | | • | Look What You've Done | | • | Truckin' | | • | Guitar Man [*] | | • | Aubrey [*] | | • | Last Time [*] | | • | Sweet Surrender [*] | | • | He's a Good Lad [*] | | • | Daughter [*] | | • | Friends and Lovers | | • | Lost Without Your Love [*] |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.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. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Classic November 8, 2009
William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)
It surprises me that I am giving this a classic rating, too. Look at my other reviewes, and you'll see Hawkwind, Crimson and Coltrane, and those are the mainstreem choices.
But I find Bread's music important on two levels. It is not that this is "great music that brings back great memories." It is great music, but there is a lot more than that going on.
Bread arrived in 1969 and hit big in 1970. People were TIRED. Manson and Altamont had all but snuffed the hippie dream, Nixon was firmly in the helm and there was no end in site in Vietnam.
Here comes this band writting love songs, but songs that speak about the complexities of relationships. David Gates talked the sadness and the yearning in very real, human terms.
"It Don't Matter To Me" may be, somewhat, about sharing a partner, the restlessness and sexual experimentation going on in 1970. But it is more about resignation, humility, detatchment. When Gates writes "Lots of people have an ego hang up/want to be the only one." he is making the cultural into the extremely personal.
"Make it with you" works the same way--"Make it" here could well mean sex, but also could mean finding a safe place to rest with another person. Who is to say they are not one in the same here. Looking for sancturary--phsyical and emotional- in the storm of 1970. Gates may not have been against a lot of the change going on in the era, but he realized it was in the context of everyday life, not life itself. By not overtly talking about it, Gates is addressing it.
This Gates guy is smart. Very Smart.
Bread may have been on AM radio, but this is no Bobby Goldsboro hit. The arrangements here are clean and the playing is excellent. Even the string parts have a dignaty that is antithetical to much of the AM pandering of the time. This music is clear as a country stream, never sappy or maudlin. If the Carpenters could have made their work this pristine and had emotional complexity this consistent, they would be a much more respected band today.
If you are older, take AM, FM, Straights and Hippies, culture and counterculture out of your mind. Then listen to this.
You'll rethink this band and be rewarded for it.,
 Lots of memories October 24, 2009
L. Warren (Jackson, MS, USA)
The album is called the Best of Bread, but there were some songs on there I'd never heard before. Overall, I'm really enjoying the album.
Bread at its best! September 25, 2009
R. Lawrence (Mississippi, USA)
This album really brings back fond memories of my younger days. Such a smooth easy sound...........
This album - close your eyes - makes you feel good September 7, 2009
John Kaiser
Great music. If you close you eyes and just put everything aside, this music makes you feel good. It talks to the soul.
Super! June 25, 2009
Eriko Sugo (California)
I originally got this for my mom and I got into them very quickly! I love soft rock so this is a fantastic album to listen to : ) Some of my favourite songs are "The Guitar Man", "Make It With You", "Diary", and "If". I recommend this to anyone even if they are not into 70s music!
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