Bread - The Best of Bread (2015) Audio Fidelity SACD FLAC Beolab1700

Bread - The Best of Bread (2015) Audio Fidelity SACD FLAC Beolab1700



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Bread - The Best of Bread
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Artist...............: Bread
Album................: The Best of Bread
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 57 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 07/04/2015


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Tracklisting
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1. Make It with You
2. Everything I Own
3. Diary
4. Baby I’m a Want You
5. It Don’t Matter to Me
6. If
7. Mother Freedom
8. Down on My Knees
9. Too Much Love
10. Let Your Love Go
11. Look What You’ve Done
12. Truckin’

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This 1973 recording is a great collection of music from Bread, the popular 70’s band best known for their mellow, smooth, melodic and often mournful tunes. 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.

Mastered for this release by Steve Hoffman at Stephen Marsh Mastering

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