Badfinger - The Very Best of Badfinger
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Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Badfinger
Free Music Review: A complete picture
Hit: 4 Stars
The good thing about this album is that it presents material from both principal parts of Badfinger's career (the Apple and the Warner period) and thereby provides the listener with a more complete picture of this great but tragically unfortunate band than previous compilations. A minor weakness is that the selection is a bit unbalanced, including some rather weak tracks from the early years and lacking a number of much better songs from Badfinger's late production. Anyway, this is the most comprehensive Badfinger compilation so far and the digital remastering adds to the pleasure of listening to one of the best Beatles successors and one of the first - if not THE first - power pop bands.Free Music Review: Good Selection, but where's the rockers?
Hit: 4 Stars
It's very well laid out: they open with their hits ("No Matter What," "Day After Day," "Baby Blue,") and then run through their catalog chronologically. It's neat that the Warner Bros. albums are featured, though "Dennis" is a bit on the foolish side. I wish that more of their rocking tunes ("Midnight Sun," "Constitution," "Blind Owl,") were included, as people unfamiliar with their material may think they just did lightweight power pop, which is hardly the case. It's a good starter, but I reccomend the Apple-only best of from 1995 a little bit more...if you can find it.Free Music Review: Good introduction to the band
Hit: 4 Stars
Fine collection of Badfinger material. Outstanding remastering. Major flaw, though, by including the original, inferior mix of "Name Of The Game", instead of the "official" mix.
I'll weigh in with my own "ultimate Badfinger compilation", had I been the producer for this collection: "Carry on Till Tomorrow", "Come and Get It", "No Matter What",
"I'll Be the One", "Money/Flying", "We're For the Dark", "Baby Blue", "Day After Day", "Perfection", "Name Of the Game", "I'd Die Babe", "When I Say", "Icicles", "Apple Of My Eye", "Shine On", "Just A Chance", "Love Time", "Dennis", "Meanwhile Back At the Ranch/Should I Smoke"
Free Music Review: The essential tracks are here...
Hit: 4 Stars
Badfinger perfectly captured the sound and attitude of the popular music of the time. Indeed, many of these songs are as good as anything released in the early 1970s (Come and Get It, Day After Day, No Matter What). The band also had a way with a Beatle-esque ballad (as evidenced by the hit Without You, and Carry On Til Tomorrow). Not all of the material on this collection is as strong, and some tracks (like Apple of my Eye) are noticibly absent - but that's a common complaint when evaluating "Best Of" compilations. The essenial tracks are here, and there should be enough to keep you rocking for a long time. Recommended.Free Music Review: Must have for your Badfinger collection
Hit: 4 Stars
Just a note that this is a great CD for any music fan, especially one who grew up with the Beatles and then after the break up followed Badfinger, the Raspberries, and Big Star. The familiar hits are great and most of the other selections are fine also. One note - if you only know the hits listen to the WB Wish You Were Here tracks. That Badfinger album is not only the best record Badfinger ever did - it ranks up with the greatest ever. One gripe - Where is "Some Other Time" from the WB Wish album?