Badfinger - The Very Best of Badfinger
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Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Badfinger
Free Music Review: A Great Overview Of An Almost-Great Band.
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a terrific overview/introduction to one of the most interesting "coulda-beens" in rock history. Badfinger was a band that, in an alternate universe, might have been considered first-tier artists, along with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin. But career-mishaps, an unfair comparison to the Beatles (that's a bad thing?) and, unfortunately, shallow content lyrically (many of their songs are either semi-sappy love songs and/or boy loses girl songs) prevented them from attaining these heights. In retrospect, Badfinger is still one of the darkest and most interesting sounding pop bands of all time. Although a few of their earlier hits included here border on unlistenable now ("Come And Get It", for example, released around the time the world was experiencing the Doors, Hendrix, the Stones "Beggars Banquet" and the Beatles "White Album" seems howlingly lame and silly today), the vast majority of this collection will astonish, delight, and amaze people just coming to discover this group. Standouts include the power pop classic "No Matter What", the haunting and beautiful "Day After Day", and the incredible "Baby Blue", still one of the finest songs of the Seventies, bar none. But undiscovered gems abound here as well, including the majestic, wide-stereo sound of "We're For The Night", the terrific closer "Meanwhile Back At The Ranch/Should I Smoke", and Badfingers' biggest career misstep of all time, their original version of "Without You" that they NEVER issued as a single! Those only familiar with the Nilsson version will find the original, included here, a tremendous surprise - although it doesn't have the majestic, soaring vocals of Nilssons' classic version, the Badfinger version is, in all ways, it's equal musically. The desperation of the vocals straining as the song closes sends chills up your spine. An astonishment, and a song that would have been huge, had the band released their version. The Badfinger story remains among the saddest in rock, as those that will undoubtably delve further into the group after this introduction will discover, but their musical legacy fortunately lives and breathes with the re-discovery of this fine band by new fans each year.Free Music Review: It's Badfinger! What do you want?
Hit: 4 Stars
First off, the cd is called "The Very Best Of Badfinger", not "Badfinger Rarities and Unreleased Tracks" which apparently is what the 1-star "reviewers" thought it was. This cd contains a collection of some of the best music Badfinger made, which means some of the best pop music ever recorded. No Matter What, Dennis, Name Of The Game, Baby Blue, We're For The Dark...all great great songs. Although I do agree that Capitol ONCE AGAIN blew it with the track selection by not including more Warners tracks and including too many Iveys era songs, there's still not a bad track on the whole cd. While some fans may be disappointed at having no extra unreleased material, that is hardly a reason to trash an entire album of incredible music. If you tell people this is a bad cd and they don't buy it all you're doing is killing the chances for more Badfinger cds in the future (including your precious rarities!)by not promoting this one. So people keep in mind that these bad "reviews" are just sour grapes from people who already have these songs and were expecting something extra. If you have no Badfinger in your collection this is a good place to start, and the remastering has improved the quality of all the songs. Buy this, then go get Best of Badfinger Vol. 2 from Rhino. The music is worth 5 stars. I docked one star for Capitol's bungling of the track selection - only 3 songs from Wish You Were Here, Badfinger's greatest album????Free Music Review: Decent collection of hits with improved sound
Hit: 4 Stars
Firstly we must keep in mind that a "greatest hits" album is not meant for the obsessive fan who already owns all the material. Rather, its purpose is to provide the casual fan with an enjoyable collection of an artist's work. That's exactly what this disc is, nothing more, nothing less.All the well-known hits are here, "No Matter What", "Day After Day", "Come and Get It", etc., so it should please anyone who is simply looking for the classic singles. The remainder of the disc is filled with album tracks from both the Apple and Warner Brothers records, side by side for the first time. Casual fans hearing lost classics like "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch" for the first time will be knocked out!
I do question the inclusion of some tracks, namely "I'll Be the One" (which had its first release as a CD bonus track in the '90's), and the original (initially unreleased) take of "Name of the Game" over its "STRAIGHT UP" counterpart. There are also a few glaring omissions -- only one track from the excellent "ASS" LP is included, and there is a notable shortage of Joey Molland tracks.
However, the packaging is very nice, with an essay and many photos I have never seen, and the remastered sound is a marked improvement over past releases. It serves as an adequate introduction to this great band.
Free Music Review: The Essentials and More...
Hit: 4 Stars
It's the "More" that could have been much better.
First the good news.
This collection shimmers and shines with some of the best Brit-Pop ever recorded and clearly proves that Badfinger should have been the recipients of far more star status than the 70's ever gave them.
On this release, many of the exceptional Apple wedges beyond the hit singles are represented, however the suits went slightly top heavy in the Apple orchard. It's on the Warner Brothers era where the compilers were quite clueless. The two best cuts on Wish You Were Here (truly one of the great lost classics) are not here. "Just a Chance" and "Know One Knows" were passed over for the likes of "Dennis" and "Love Time". As great as those songs are, they're not in the same league as the aforementioned. Also noteworthy is the absence of one of the best two songs on the self titled Warners album, "Shine On".
I can't recommend this release as the end-all for even the casual Badfinger fan. Because this collection falls just short of what it could and should have been, it is highly recommended that you augment this with the Rhino Best of Vol 2 release.
The Rhino guys were much smarter in their choices of the underated Warners material.
Between the two, you would truly have THE BEST OF BADFINGER.
Free Music Review: Goodfinger
Hit: 4 Stars
This band seems to be critisised because people thin that they copied the Beatles. They did not copy the Beatles, the Beatles helped this band to become popular. They do sometimes sound like the early Beatles but if they sound like the Beatles, then it makes it even more enjoyable. I bought this product and likes that they put nineteen songs on here. It also has a cool booklet that tells you that the Beatles helped them.
I am not much of a pop fan but to me this was sort of rock. My favorite song is Day after Day. It is very soothing and calms your soul. No Matter What is my second because you can jam to this one and turn it up loud. It's got a great beat to it. Come and Get it is my second and it was their first hit single. Baby blue is my fourth favorite and you like never hear this on the radio. Rock of all ages is the closest song you get on here to classic rock and not poppish. That is my fifth favorite. I could name a whole lot more out of these nineteen songs that I like but I will not.
I took one star off this product because the following songs were not good: love time, lonely you. Buy this product if it does not bother you that they might sound like the Beatles a little bit. God bless you and have the greatest day.