Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams was a British progressive folk band. The band consisted of 3 members, one male and two females : David McNiven, Angie Rew and Carolyn Davis. The group released 3 albums : Bread, Love and Dreams, 1969, The Strange Tale Of Captain Shannon and The Hunchback from Gigha, 1970, and Amaryllis. What is particular about Bread, Love and Dreams is the awesome folk story telling in the songs sung by the beautiful unique voice of David McNiven.

Bread, Love and Dreams (1969), Track Listing

1		Switch Out The Sun
2		Virgin Kiss
3		The Least Said
4		Falling Over Backwards
5		Lady Of The Night
6		Main Street
7		Artificial Light (Of All The Living Lies)
8		Until She Needs You
9		Mirrors
10		Poet's Song
11		The Yellow-Bellied Redback
12		95 Octane Gravy

This album is very folky and easy to listen to. But, for some tracks, I find it lesser easy. The tracks that i'm talking about are the ones where the lady sings in an opera-ish way. Best song for me in this album is ''Mirrors''. 

The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and The Hunchback from Gigha

	Hymn For Sylvia
	Masquerade
	Sucking On A Cigarette
	He Who Knows All
	The Lobster Quadrille
	Butterflyland
	Purple Haze Melancholy
	Sing Me A Song
	The Strange Tale Of Captain Shannon And The Hunchback From Gigha

Personally, this is the best album. Like the story telling in ''Mirrors'' ? Listen to this album and you will love the story of Captain Shannon and other characters in the songs. The best songs for me in this album are : The strange tale of Captain Shannon..., He who knows all, Hymn for sylvia, Masquerade.

Final Thoughts : Bread, Love and Dreams is a great band. If this band became more popular, I'm sure it would have been a classic. But hey, our music world sucks. Great bands are unpopular and today's bad ''music'' is famous.

Tomorrow - 1967

Tomorrow were a psychedelic 60s band (obviously) also known as ''The in crowd'' and before that as ''Four plus one''. They were the among the first psychedelic bands in England along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. They recorded 2 albums, Tomorrow, 1968 and 50 minute Technicolor dream, 1998.

Tomorrow, 1968 Song listing :

Side one

1. "My White Bicycle"* (Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess) – 3:17
2. "Colonel Brown"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:51
3. "Real Life Permanent Dream" (Hopkins) – 3:15
4. "Shy Boy"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:26
5. "Revolution"* (Hopkins, Steve Howe) – 3:48

[edit]Side two                                                                 (info taken from wikipedia)

1. "The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase" (Hopkins) – 3:17
2. "Auntie Mary's Dress Shop"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:44
3. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:58
4. "Three Jolly Little Dwarfs"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:26
5. "Now Your Time Has Come" (Hopkins) – 4:51
6. "Hallucinations"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:37

Best song for me, in this album, is Hallucinations. Just simply because it's awesome. Also the vocals are so ''clear'', good audio sound. Cool guitar playing by the famous Steve Howe (from Yes). It just sucks that all of their songs don't last longer.

50 minute Technicolor dream, 1998, track listing :

1. "Am I Glad to See You"
2. "Blow Up"
3. "Caught in a Web"
4. "Revolution"
5. "Why"
6. "Real Life Permanent Dream"
7. "Three Jolly Little Dwarfs"
8. "Revolution"
9. "Caught in a Web" (live)
10. "Shotgun & the Duck" (live)
11. "My White Bicycle" (live)
12. "Real Life Permanent Dream" (live)
13. "Revolution" (live)
14. "Why" (live)
15. "Mr Rainbow" (live)
16. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (live)

Now, I did not listen to this album, unfortunately, But basically, this is a compilation of mostly previously unreleased recordings.

So my final thoughts of this band is, It feels fresh and it's awesome, even if it's from 1967. If you  have some friends that you want to get them to listen psychedelic, I recommend this band because it's an easy to listen to psychedelic band, not all psych bands are easy to listen to.

This is my first post, Let's see how it goes.