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What's Your Slice of Bread?

1) "Make It With You"

4 votes

2) "It Don't Matter To Me"

0 votes

3) "If"

2 votes

5) "Baby I'm-a Want You"

2 votes

6) "Everything I Own"

6 votes

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 08:32 AM

Yeah, there's a lot to hate here. Pioneers of the soft rock sound, high volume hairstyles, and casual leisure clothing, but they were a real band there for a while, not merely a studio creation, and besides deliveringwell crafted slide-guitar-driven goo, they gave the world multi-insturmentalist Larry Knechtel, who --- apart from his Breadwork --- became a fountain that watered dozens of great recordings over time, playing the piano on "Bridge over Troubled Water," helping Phil Spector craft the Wall of Sound, adding organs and pianos to Elvis Costello's blues act, bass on early pre-suck Billy Joel, and all over the Monkees, Elvis Presley, and Roy Orbison. Ever wonder who played that ripping organ on "Born to Be Wild"? Larry Knechtel, I think. Rick Rubin was regularly hiring him at the end. Anyhow, like with the Rascals, it's always funny how a band that gets huge recording and peforming easygoing feely-goody music can destroy the whole money-making machine in a fit of petty jealousies and decade-long legal squabbles. So tell me your slice of Bread. 1) "Make It With You" (#1 in 1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFa5E8q-940 2) "It Don't Matter To Me" (#10 in 1970) http://espanol.video.yahoo.com/watch/4808974/12831752 3) "If" (#4 in 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyfcHdw2AYs 5) "Baby I'm-a Want You" (#3 in 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mflw8-BZdV0 (alternative video done as a creepy tribute to Lori Partridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr6S4aCJ2X4) 6) "Everything I Own" (#5 in 1972) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfTfMoR8sg We're sticking with top-ten chartbusters here, but other charting singles that you may remember (most of which rock more) and want to write in include: "Let Your Love Go" (#28 in 1971) "Mother Freedom" (#37 in 1971) "Diary" (#15 in 1972) "The Guitar Man" (#11 in 1972) "Sweet Surrender" (#15 in 1972) "Aubrey" (#15 in 1973) "Lost Without Your Love" (#9 in 1976) "Hooked On You" (#60 in 1977) Go ahead. Turn your nose up. Give me attitude, but you're the jerk who got yourself stuck on the desert isalnd, and I imagine you'll have some wistful moments that need wistful songs.

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 08:41 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

By the way, doing the turnaround from verse one into verse two in "Baby, I'm-a Want You" right in the middle of a line is an all-time pop-craft accomplishment.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 01 2010 08:41 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

That version of "If' ain't Bread. ... seems like our friends at Warner Bros. disabled all the authentic audio tracks. Listening on lala now

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 08:48 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

I thought it sounded shady. But you know what, peeps? You know what "If" sounds like. That last one is presented as David Gates solo, but I bet the backing tracks he's synching to are Bready enough for government work.

dgwphotography Apr 01 2010 08:50 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Was "The Goodbye Girl" just David Gates solo? It frightens me that I remember them appearing on an episode of The Hardy Boys... Of the 6 listed, I have to go with "Lost Without You Love" And yeah - I have all of these and more on my ipod....

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 08:55 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Well, "Lost Without Your Love" is number seven of six. But we'll take your vote as a write-in. "Goodbye Girl" is Gates so-lo.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 01 2010 09:01 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Holy sh*t. Though technically before my time, these guys floated around in my subconscious-- coming in on Lite-FM with the click of the bathroom light in our first apartment, wafting through barbershop and department-store backing tracks-- for maybe the first 8 years of my life; I'm pretty sure knew how to hum the entire melody to "If" before I knew a single word. They're stuck to my brain hard and fast, like blow-dried, feathered neurons. If loving this treacly, treacly goodness is wrong, then I'm terminally incorrect, most likely with some form of Type II musical diabetes. If I have to choose one, it's "Everything I Own." "Guitar Man"-- of which Cake does an amusing, smirky* cover-- and "Make it With You" are particularly earwormy for me, and the mid-line transition in "Baby" is sweet stuff indeed (most of the songs are full of weird little filligree like that)... but the "EIO" bridge just wrecks my inner, perpetually-barber-chaired 6-year-old. Yes, yes, Mister... There were finches I loved, and I loved them so, and I took them for granted... and they FLEW AWAY TO SOME OTHER KID'S HOME, WHERE THEY LOVE HIM MORE AND NOBODY WILL EVER LOVE ME*. I WOULD give everything I own just to have them. Once again. *This is probably a little more than a little redundant. **My aunt "accidentally" poisoned them, actually, while housecleaning. My folks told me the truth when I was 24.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 01 2010 09:05 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

My sister used to play this album non-stop. Gotta love that even the font is mellow. Now to the contest... Of the clickable picks I'm going with Everything I Own. I considered Make it with You and If also ("Don't Matter" sucks). If is hilarious if you take it for a love song contemplating the destruction of the entire universe, plus it's only 2:35, they were careful not to feed us too much sugar. Of the second tier, who's gonna steal the show? You know it's The Git-ar Man. Their rockers ("Let Your Love Go") were pretty dull.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 01 2010 09:08 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

JCL and I have alarmingly-similar Bread tastes. I am pointing and winking-- smoothly, of course-- at my monitor, squire.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 01 2010 09:09 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

yeah, and I'm gonna go listen to that Cake remake NOW!!!!

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 09:10 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

I waited in vain to draw Darryl Strawberry or Dwight Gooden in the Parody Challenge, because I always thought of them every time I heard "Everything I Own." I would give everything I own Give up my shoes, my hat, my phone I would give everything I own Just to have them... back again Bread covers are legion. Bread covers have done better in the UK than bread ever did.

dgwphotography Apr 01 2010 09:17 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

So then my ipod, with a mind of its own, jumps from Bread to Nickelback...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 01 2010 09:25 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

You need to fire your iPod.

dgwphotography Apr 01 2010 09:28 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

my brain just crashed against the back of my skull...

MFS62 Apr 01 2010 09:39 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Can I wait to answer this until after Passover? Later

sharpie Apr 01 2010 10:05 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Larry Knechtel also played bass on the Byrds version of "Mr. Tambourine Man." Think of the jangly intro and then the slidey bass that comes in which really makes that intro such a killer. I hated on Bread pretty hard when they were around but "Make It With You" wins for being first released before I realized the horror that was to come.

G-Fafif Apr 01 2010 11:16 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Baby I'm through, running it's true -- from the fact that "Sweet Surrender" is my favorite Bread hit.

seawolf17 Apr 01 2010 11:20 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

I like how Bread doesn't have a #4 option, like it's some sort of superstition. "Everything I Own," because if it's good enough for a sappy Tesla cover, it's good enough for me.

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 11:23 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

"Lost Without Your Love" (#9 in 1976) probably should have been in there, but I don't recall it.

themetfairy Apr 01 2010 11:36 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

I went with Baby I'm-a Want You. But it was a close call between that and Make It With You. I always liked Bread. Had that same album as JCL's sister.

Frayed Knot Apr 01 2010 11:38 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

'Best of Bread' -- that was a '45' right?

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 02:04 PM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Check out sharpie and Knot with their respective gluten intolerances.

Valadius Apr 01 2010 06:06 PM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Rye? Did they have an amazingly short half-life or something?

cooby Apr 01 2010 09:24 PM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

You know what, Bread is a group I always politely listened to but when I look at a list of their songs I am reminded at how many really nice numbers they had. I chose "Everything I Own" because one it's really pretty and two it's about his dad

G-Fafif Apr 06 2010 11:07 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

The Whispers spread their up-tempo soul jam on Bread's "Make It With You" here.

Edgy DC Apr 06 2010 11:25 AM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

"Everything I Own" is threatening to run away with this.

Willets Point Apr 09 2010 07:53 PM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Jesus, I've never heard of this band or any of these songs either. Where do you people find this crap?

Edgy DC Apr 09 2010 08:26 PM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

Liar. I refuse to believe you've never tried really reaching out to the other side.

Edgy DC Oct 21 2010 12:41 PM Re: What's Your Slice of Bread?

I just read LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr's footnote explaining his mental association with the the bridge to "Everything I Own" and my heart exploded.