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Bread's second album was its commercial breakthrough, and for good reason. The Los Angeles foursome created its signature commercially accessible sound with this album and refined it over its next several releases. Starting with ON THE WATERS, Bread became Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young without the rough edges.
The commercial brilliance of this subtle shift is obvious; Bread was one of the first bands with some rock credibility to be acceptable to the emerging adult-pop demographic that made the Carpenters megastars. ON THE WATERS contains the breakthrough hit "Make it With You," possibly the group's best single, and 11 other soft rock gems, including the lovely "Call on Me."
Recorded at Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California. Originally released on Elektra (74076). Includes liner notes by Barry Alfonso.
Bread: James Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); David Gates (vocals, guitar, bass); Robb Royer (guitar, flute, keyboards); Mike Botts (drums).
Producers: David Gates, James Griffin, Robb Royer.
On The Waters Music Review Purchase On The Waters CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Bread Guitar Man CD (1972)
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Bread's GUITAR MAN was not one of its most commercially successful albums--the album's only chart single was the title track--but it's a finely-crafted, well-constructed soft rock album which shows the group at its best. Bandleader David Gates first made his name as a session producer ...
| | Bread Baby I'm-A Want You CD (1972)
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Bread's fourth album, 1972's BABY I'M-A WANT YOU, is the band's commercial high point and one of its finest albums. ...
| | Bread Lost Without Your Love CD (1977)
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This was the end of the line for Bread. David Gates reunited one last time with James Griffin after a four-year hiatus spawned by a power dispute between the two lead songwriters. The band returned to form pretty well intact, with the Gates power ballad "Lost Without Your Love" cracking the Top Ten. It would be their last hit single. By 1977, the Bread formula was starting to sound dated, but despite the unevenness, completists and heartier Bread fans should seek and find this record. There's plenty of filler, but a couple of the Gates ballads ...
| | Bread CD (1969)
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Bread's self-titled 1969 debut is somewhat atypical, compared to its later albums. Beginning with 1970's ON THE WATERS, David Gates, Robb Royer and James Griffin (with new addition Mike Botts, who doesn't appear on this album) created a smoothly commercial blend of harmonies, folk-rock gentility, and slick studio arrangements that resulted in a seemingly endless string of hit singles.
BREAD is reminiscent of the chamber-folk sound Elektra Records pioneered in the '60s--think of Judy Collins' Joshua ...
| | Bread Manna CD (1971)
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Bread's third album, 1971's MANNA, is in many ways similar to its predecessor, ON THE WATERS. Same production team, same Crosby Stills Nash and Young-meet-the Association musical style, even a similar bread-related pun for the title; in other words, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
David Gates, James Griffin, Robb Royer and Mike Botts had, by this point in their career, come up with a brilliant amalgam of ...
| | David Gates First CD (1973)
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First, David Gates "first" album away from Bread, begins with that distinctive voice and sound his band made famous when he was at the controls. On the initial track of this 1973 release, "Sailing Around the World," he sings "wish that I could start again." The problem here is that Bread had a groove, and a quick comparison is in order: Despite David Bowie's fame after splitting from the Spiders From Mars, rock & roll fans never felt the same way about that artist. So, too, with this soft rock maestro, and regardless of the on-key and in-control aspect of First, it's hard to get a handle on many of these nine original songs. It's a stellar cast behind the identifiable pop figure -- Jim Horn, Jim Gordon, Larry Carlton, Russ Kunkel, Mike Botts, and so on and so forth -- all providing a sterling foundation, but there is no knockout punch like "The Guitar Man," "Make It With You," or even his '60s hit for the Murmaids, "Popsicles, Icicles." Now an acoustic version of that gem would have brought this set to life post haste. "Sunday Rider" is restrained rock, not as defined as the Top 30 "Let Your Love Go" from 1971, the hardest of Bread's dozen hit records. "Soap" is pretty lackluster, though "Suite: Clouds, Rain" adds a nice dimension to the end of side one, nearly nine minutes of lovely, soft music that became identified with the artist. Side two ...
| | Neil Diamond Classics: The Early Years (1966-67) CD (1983)
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Also available in a 3-pack with THE JAZZ SINGER and BEAUTIFUL NOISE.
Neil Diamond first achieved international success in the 1970s and '80s with his splashy, big-budget productions. But in the mid-'60s, Diamond was just another respected journeyman songwriter who, like Paul Simon, Lou Reed, and many others, had cut his teeth cranking out tunes at New York's celebrated Brill Building, a center for post-World War Two American songwriting. During this time, Diamond wrote a flurry of excellent songs that have taken on a life of their own. CLASSICS: THE EARLY YEARS captures the singer at what some consider his creative ...
| | Clear Blue Sky CD (1971) (Import) Germany
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Clear Blue Sky were still in their teens when they were discovered by Nirvana's Patrick Campbell-Lyons, and their youth shows. Clear Blue Sky, the trio's one and only album, is a mishmash of hard rock leanings, prog rock fascinations, and occasionally jazzy delivery that is best regarded today by collectors of classic Vertigo albums and early Roger Dean artwork. John Simms' vocals are extraordinarily uncertain, and the record itself sometimes sounds more a youth club rehearsal than a major-label release. Campbell-Lyons' production ...
| | Guitars & Machines V.5 CD (2006) (Import) Import
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| | At Vance No Escape CD (2009) (Import)
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| | Brother Kite Waiting For The Time To Be Right CD (2006)
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It isn't hard to understand why some folks believe that shoegazer/dream pop and power pop are incompatible. Power pop, for all its poppiness, thrives on rockin' exuberance, while shoegazer bands (even with distorted guitars) are known for being dreamy, spacy, hazy, and surreal (sort of like the alternative pop/rock equivalent of a David Lynch film). But the Cardigans demonstrated that a band could be relevant to both alternative power pop and the shoegazer/dream pop aesthetic, and Lush maintained some dream pop overtones when they gave themselves a major power pop makeover in 1995 with their Lovelife album and the U.K. smash "Ladykillers." So power pop can, in fact, be part of the recipe for shoegazers, which is what happens on the Brother Kite's Waiting for the Time to Be Right. The more uptempo parts of this 2006 release drift into power pop territory, although the Brother Kite are a shoegazer band first and foremost -- and their ethereal sound draws on influences ...
| | Miles Davis Miles & Quincy Live At Montreux CD (2008)
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| | Techno Club Vol 26 CDs (2008) (Import) Import
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| | One For All Killer Joe CD (2009) (Import) Import
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