Badfinger
– The
Very Best of Badfinger
CD Compilation, U.S., 2000
Apple
For a band that was produced by
the all-time greats of their era, such as Tony Visconti, Todd
Rundgren, Geoff Emerick, Paul McCartney, Chris Thomas, and are
actually on The Beatles label Apple, how did they become such a
downer? By all accounts this should have been a happy narrative with
plenty of hits on the side, but instead we get two suicides and sort
of a text book in bad luck in the music business. So do I love this
band? No.
Without a doubt Badfinger know
their way in a recording studio, and they have that text book
songwriting skills, yet something about them leaves me really cold.
They're the Beatles but without the Beatle poison. In other words I
hear the skills of putting a pop record together, but I don't hear a
sense of passion. I can totally understand people loving this band,
but also I feel they don't take any chances with their music, and for
me, I need that scope on a pop record. By no means do I dislike
Badfinger, I just wished there was something else added to the mix.
But yeah for sure they know there way around a good melody. I can't
fault them on that.
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