(2017) Bread – The Elektra Years: The Complete Albums Box  


Review:
The 6 studio albums of American rock group Bread are collected in The Elektra Years: The Complete Albums Box. The band issued five albums in a busy four-year period from 1969 to 1972 including Baby I’m-A Want You, whose title track reached number 3 in the US singles chart in late 1971. Bread split up after 1972’s Guitar Man but returned successfully five years later with Lost Without Your Love. Formed in Los Angeles, Bread would become one of the most successful soft rock bands of the 1970s – and one that remains among its most rewarding. Founders Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer and David Gates were all talented singers and songwriters, and the band scored a dozen Top 40 singles (including such favorites as “Make It with You,” “If” and “Everything I Own”).





Track Listing:
Bread (1969)
1. Dismal Day
2. London Bridge
3. Could I
4. Look at Me
5. The Last Time
6. Any Way You Want Me
7. Move Over
8. Don’t Shut Me Out
9. You Can’t Measure the Cost
10. Family Doctor
11. It Don’t Matter to Me
12. Friends and Lovers

On the Waters (1970)
1. Why Do You Keep Me Waiting
2. Make It with You
3. Blue Satin Pillow
4. Look What You’ve Done
5. I Am That I Am
6. Been Too Long On the Road
7. I Want You with Me
8. Coming Apart
9. Easy Love
10. In the Afterglow
11. Call On Me
12. The Other Side of Life

Manna (1971)
1. Let Your Love Go
2. Take Comfort
3. Too Much Love
4. If
5. Be Kind to Me
6. He’s a Good Lad
7. She Was My Lady
8. Live in Your Love
9. What a Change
10. I Say Again
11. Come Again
12. Truckin’

Baby I’m-A Want You (1972)
1. Mother Freedom
2. Baby I’m-A Want You
3. Down On My Knees
4. Everything I Own
5. Nobody Like You
6. Diary
7. Dream Lady
8. Daughter
9. Games of Magic
10. This Isn’t What the Governmeant
11. Just Like Yesterday
12. I Don’t Love You

Guitar Man (1972)
1. Welcome to the Music
2. Guitar Man
3. Make It By Yourself
4. Aubrey
5. Fancy Dancer
6. Sweet Surrender
7. Tecolote
8. Let Me Go
9. Yours for Life
10. Picture in Your Mind
11. Don’t Tell Me No
12. Didn’t Even Know Her Name

Lost Without Your Love (1977)
1. Hooked On You
2. She’s the Only One
3. Lost Without Your Love
4. Change of Heart
5. Belonging
6. Fly Away
7. Lay Your Money Down
8. The Chosen One
9. Today’s the First Day
10. Hold Tight
11. Our Lady of Sorrow


Media Report:
Genre: pop, soft rock
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits