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Manna | 
| Artist: Bread
Label: Wea/Elektra
Category: Music
List Price: $14.49
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 224102
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 603497350421
EAN: 0603497350421
ASIN: B000024KMU
Release Date: August 23, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Let Your Love Go | | • | Take Comfort | | • | Too Much Love | | • | If | | • | Be Kind to Me | | • | He's a Good Lad | | • | She Was My Lady | | • | Live in Your Love | | • | What a Change | | • | I Say Again | | • | Come Again | | • | Truckin' |
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Album Description
European pressing of the pop bands 1969 album which is long out-of-print in the US. This being Bread's third album, isn't so much a step forward as it is a consolidation of strengths, as the group sharpens their skills and carves out their own identities. Features the 12 original tracks including 'London Bridge', 'Look At Me', 'Friends And Lovers' & 'Don't Shut Me Out'. Manna is the last album that showcased Robb Royer as a group member. After Manna he left Bread, but continued to co-write songs with James Griffin. Of the twelve songs on this album, James Griffin and Robb Royer wrote six of them; David Gates wrote the remaining six. Warner.
Album Details
Bread's Third Full Length Album was Originally Released in 1971. The Album Includes an Equal Number of Tunes from the Band's Songwriters, the Team of Robb Royer and James Griffin Versus Lead Singer David Gates. The Royer/Griffin Team Are the Rockers of the Band, While Gates is More the Romantic Balladeer. Includes the Hits "Let Your Love Go" and the #1 Chart Topper "if".
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 One of their best May 2, 2005
D. Moses (London, London United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Why did the other reviewer write 'I have to admit...' for his opinion of loving Bread- one should be proud to like this sort of music!
As for the album, it is excellent. Not one weak song on here. It opens with two songs, that give a false impression, this might be a heavier album. 'Let your love go' is one of their best rockers, showing Gates could do other styles, not just ballads. 'Take comfort' goes from really bluesy bits to ballady bits in the middle and it really works, showing Griffin and Royer were as talented as the genius Gates.
'If' is the most beautiful heart wrenching ballad and the end of the song, if you close your eyes, will make you feel you are flying. Incredible stuff. The best song on here just beats that though, 'Come again'. what an incredible classical arrangement and what a beautiful melody. Definitely shows what depth goes into their songs. Awesome.
Another of my favourites is one that Griffin has not rated in retrospect, 'Live in your love', but to me, this is another incredible ballad, with a soaring melody.
All the other songs are great also. Highly recommended from these geniuses I am proud to love.
The "Baroque" Bread; i.e. a true classic ... June 4, 2006
T. Atkins (Baltimore, MD USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Okay, maybe I'm a little biased here as far as judging which Bread album was the best of their half-dozen stellar studio efforts, but there are many factors convincing me that "Manna" should have featured the subtitle "From Heaven."
The legendary love ballad "If" alone is almost enough to justify the album's "heavenly" appeal, but songs such as (among others) the harpsichord-driven rocker "Let Your Love Go" and the church-like organ solos on the ethereal "What A Change", as well as the album's centerpiece, "Come Again" (which, for all its melodrama, succeeds brilliantly in its shifts of tempo, mood, and overall dynamics that even most pop music craftsmen ignore) ultimately give this album a warm "Baroque" feel that makes the album a wonderful first choice if you were forced to choose among Bread's studio efforts instead of any of their numerous and sometimes notoriously repetitive best-of collections (with the notable exception of 1996's 2-CD "Retrospective" of course).
Sure, seasoned Wall-Of-Sound Veteran Larry Knechtel, who joined the band following the album's 1971 release, contributed a wealth of experience and his own subtle signature touches to succeeding (and also massively successful) Bread recordings, but the tensions that had just begun to brew within the previous lineup were likely a factor in producing an ultimately masterful 12-song body of work that no Bread album before or since could touch with a ten-foot, uh, loaf.
Enough already - just enjoy the album if you already own it ... if not, then get it post haste!!!
Bread Manna November 19, 2007
mj7den (Stevens Point , WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simply they're BEST record... less commercial then all the rest.
The tri fold album design will be a classic in Rock n Roll cover art.
Scoop it up while you can. There are good songs here that do not show up
on the best of CD releases, the cover concept by photographer Robert L Heimall is a work of art. The fidelity of the recording, as with most Elektra releases of that time is outstanding.
These guys knew how to record and produce. In Tribute... Take Comfort!
 Buy Bread Alone November 27, 1999
Kevin Monahan (Kanazawa Japan)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
A very nice album, indeed. This is the tight, well written 'pop' you were avoiding in the early seventies (see also 'Harry Nillson') that may appeal to the softer you that's appeared of late. Regardless, the album has lots of drive and harmonizing like you haven't heard in a long time. Where do great songwriters like these disappear to anyway?
Best Album Bread Did December 28, 2008
Robert B. Mills (Ooltewah, TN. USA)
This album had the best quality and strongest mix of songs of all of the Bread albums. Gates and Griffin meshed so much better and clearer on this production. If is such a solid song, but other choices had a more deeper quality to them - Too Much Love, Come Again, Live In Your Love.
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