Quad LP/Tape Poll Bread - Baby I'm-A Want You [CD-4/Q8/QR]

[EMB]

Elektra EQ-5015, from 1972.

Side 1:

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

Side 2:

1. Dream Lady
2. Daughter
3. Games Of Magic
4. This Isn't What The Governmeant
5. Just Like Yesterday
6. I Don't Love You

ED

 

[bliss_band]

I have the Best Of in CD-4. Any differences on this one with the tracks that are the same? Still looking for this one on ebay and shops on LP, never seem to see it when looking.

 

[EMB]

Right now you make me wish I had both of 'em here, just to be absolutely sure!

But, IIRC, they were the same. Could be that THE BEST OF BREAD was the album the folks at E/A decided to remix to quad, then realized that five cuts from BABY would have to be remixed(all five are on Side 1), so why not do that title, too? Wish I knew for sure, my memory is bad for what got released when(for the most part), and my old Schwann's are up north gathering dust(and probably mold, too).

My regret--and probably yours, too--is that BEST OF VOL. 2 didn't get the treatment, since it covered other singles and fine B-sides. But two was all we got, alas....

ED

 

[bliss_band]

Yeah totally a bummer they didn't decide to do more Bread titles. The one I do have is really good.

 

[EMB]

Well, that was the nature of quad releases; except for a handful of acts, like Chicago, most releases seemed to be just to 'test the waters,' a token title or two per artist. This happened later with SACD and DVD-A's, too, history repeating itself. Unfortunately, those who blundered during the quad era were not the same people who bungled the later formats. Seems despite the quality of the technology(and let's face it, quad really was confusing to a lot of folks, regardless of format quality)we always wind up on the short end, lamenting what might have been.

That said, I gave this one an '8,' but only because, relative to Side 1, Side 2 is relatively lackluster from a composing standpoint, 1 being loaded up with gems. Begins with a rocker, ends with that most aching of ballads. If ever a single sequence of songs told you everything about a band, Side 1 of this album is really The Story of Bread--what was great about them, what was mainstream and predictable.

ED

 

[Eggplant]

I have the Best Of in CD-4. Any differences on this one with the tracks that are the same?

The four hits from Best sound FAR better here.
Baby I'm a Want You is starkly cleaner.

For sound quality, 70's "best-of's" are not the way to go.

 

[Quad Linda]

8. What's great here is fantastic. Some of it is a bit lackluster. US CD-4:


Japan CD-4:

 

[humprof]

I’m a broken record (so to speak) about the brassy production aesthetic of early & mid-70s pop albums, but Armin Steiner engineered this one, so I’d love to hear it in a high-res format. Anyway, what I’ve got is a better-than-average CD-4 conversion. I can't name the WEA house quad mixer(s)--can anyone?--but this is another workmanlike job. Typically (but not always): four-corner lead vocals, bass in the left rear, diagonally-panned lead guitar (and drums!). A couple of tracks have harmony vocals spread discretely across the rears and/or around the room. I so identified this album with the gauzy soft-rock sops that had me all moony-eyed as a 5th-grader (“Everything I Own,” “Diary,” the title track) that I’d forgotten all about the rockers like “Mother Freedom.” (Also: the slightly silly “I Don’t Love You,” with its Cookie-Monster vocals.) 7+ all around, though I'll round up to an 8. I might even go higher if the sound were more pristine and/or if the material still spoke to me.

 

[JonUrban]

I was just reading some stuff on the net and saw that the song "Everything I Own" on this album was written about David Gates' Father! I did not know that, and do not even know if it's true, but if it is, this is very poignant here on Fathers Day.

Read these lyrics with this perspective and you have a totally different take on the tune, here what, 50 years later?

So Happy Fathers Day to all of you Fathers out there. Now go break out those Q8's and give this thing a listen with this in mind:

You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free
The finest years I ever knew
Were all the years I had with you

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

You taught me how to love
What it's of, what it's of
You never said too much
But still you showed the way
And I knew from watching you

Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can't let go

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for granted?
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear the words
You long to say

I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again
Just to touch you once again

 

[key_wiz]

I was just reading some stuff on the net and saw that the song "Everything I Own" on this album was written about David Gates' Father! I did not know that, and do not even know if it's true, but if it is, this is very poignant here on Fathers Day.

Read these lyrics with this perspective and you have a totally different take on the tune, here what, 50 years later?

So Happy Fathers Day to all of you Fathers out there. Now go break out those Q8's and give this thing a listen with this in mind:

You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free
The finest years I ever knew
Were all the years I had with you

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

You taught me how to love
What it's of, what it's of
You never said too much
But still you showed the way
And I knew from watching you

Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can't let go

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for granted?
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear the words
You long to say

I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again
Just to touch you once again

Having been released not long after “Love Story” I always presumed the song was about a love who died too young. But the lyrics makes more sense for a parent.

This was the first LP I ever purchased. Love to see this be in the next batch of Quadio.

 

[ar surround]

that I’d forgotten all about the rockers like “Mother Freedom.”

On the ‘Best Of’ album Mother Freedom disappointingly seems to fade out quite early. Is the version on this album longer, or does it too fade out quite early?

 

[Bob Finholm]

Wow! Never knew that. It's quite a beautiful song. Much more meaningful knowing it was written about his Dad.

What a great album, by the way! My brother bought the 'Baby, I'm-A Want You' LP when I was 10 in '72 and I was instantly hooked. Hope Rhino is reading this and are listening because we need a Quadio Bread release! : )

 

[barfle]

I was just reading some stuff on the net and saw that the song "Everything I Own" on this album was written about David Gates' Father! I did not know that, and do not even know if it's true, but if it is, this is very poignant here on Fathers Day.

Read these lyrics with this perspective and you have a totally different take on the tune, here what, 50 years later?

So Happy Fathers Day to all of you Fathers out there. Now go break out those Q8's and give this thing a listen with this in mind:

You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free
The finest years I ever knew
Were all the years I had with you

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

You taught me how to love
What it's of, what it's of
You never said too much
But still you showed the way
And I knew from watching you

Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can't let go

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for granted?
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear the words
You long to say

I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again
Just to touch you once again

I lost my dad a couple of years ago, and my mom a couple of months ago. I did raise a glass to my dad yesterday. They both lived to be almost 98, so I know I’m one of the lucky ones to have had them for well over seventy years.

Yes, those words make incredible sense when applied to a parent.

 

[BPWingN]

I heard an interview with Randy Bachman a few years back and he mentioned him learning from Gates that "Everything I Own" was written about Gates' father. Bachman said it added a completely new depth to the song. I agree.