Straight Up

No Dice	Magic Christian Music	Wish You Were Here Badfinger's 1974 studio album & second for Warner Brothers after their highly successful spell on the Apple label. Features nine tracks, including 'Got To Get Out Of Here', 'Know One Knows' and 'In The Meantime Some Other Time'.	Ass Ass was the last Badfinger album recorded for Apple, originally released in 1973. Parlophone/Apple.	Badfinger The band's 1974 album & their first for Warner Brothers. 12 tracks, including 'I Miss You', 'Shine On' and 'Love Is Easy'.
Badfinger No band in rock 'n' roll has quite the hard-luck story to match that of Badfinger. Despite abundant songwriting and performing talent, a Beatles connection and critical acclaim, the band ended up penniless, with two of its members committing suicide. These two records, cut for Wa...	7 Park Avenue Badfinger leader Pete Ham hanged himself in 1975 three days before his 28th birthday, leaving behind six albums, a note declaring the group's manager a "soulless bastard," and the demos collected here. Most of these songs didn't make it to Badfinger's records, a circumstance 7 Pa...	Golders Green Badfinger mainstay Pete Ham should have become one of the 1970's brightest singer-songwriters. Instead, he became one of the decade's tragic musical footnotes. Caught in the spiraling financial turmoil spawned by the dissolution of the Beatles' Apple Records (Badfinger's label), ...	Wish You Were Here No band in rock 'n' roll has quite the hard-luck story to match that of Badfinger. Despite abundant songwriting and performing talent, a Beatles connection and critical acclaim, the band ended up penniless, with two of its members committing suicide. These two records, cut for Wa...	Head First If Badfinger never quite shook off the mixed-blessings of its early Beatles associations, they at least carved out a comfortable niche for themselves in the early 1970s, largely by carrying on the sterling pop sense of their famous sponsors. Sadly, the Fab Four parallels wouldn't...

Straight Up
Well Loved Then and Still Love it Now! It stand the test of Time! How ironic though; In the song "Perfection" the line says "So listen to my song of life. You don't need a gun or a knife" Wow!, reflecting on these words now. I wish we could have prevented the suicide of both Pete Ham and Tom Evans. Heaven is rich!

Straight Up: a perfect 70s album.
This was one of the first albums I ever purchased, and it remains one of my all-time favorites even today. Badfinger consisted of Tom Evans on bass guitar and vocals, Pete Ham on guitar, piano, and vocals, Joey Molland on guitar and vocals, and Mike Gibbins on drums. Reportedly taking its name from a John Lennon finger injury, the band worked with Lennon and McCartney on the Apple label to create a sound similar to the Beatles, which is evident on hit singles such as McCartney's "Come and Get It" (1969), "No Matter What" (1970), "Day After Day" (1971), and "Baby Blue" (1971). Before recording Straight Up, Badfinger played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Ringo Starr's single "It Don't Come Easy," John Lennon's Imagine, and as backup musicians at Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Badfinger is not only an example of rock and roll at its brightest moment, but also at its darkest depths. After a successful career start, the Badfinger story eventually ended in bankruptcy, drugs, depression, and two suicides. One of the things that makes Straight Up such a great album is that it was co-produced by Harrison and studio wizard Todd Rundgren (A Wizard, A True Star). Rundgren's engineering genius is quite obvious on the album. Another thing that makes this a great album is that Harrison provided an occasional Beatlesque guitar solo here and there, including the track "Day After Day." Leon Russell also played piano on the album. Album tracks include: 1. Take It All 2. Baby Blue 3. Money 4. Flying 5. I'd Die Babe 6. Name Of The Game 7. Suitcase 8. Sweet Tuesday Morning 9. Day After Day 10. Sometimes 11. Perfection 12. It's Over 13. Money (Original Version) 14. Flying (Original Version) 15. Name Of The Game (Original Version) 16. Suitcase (Original Version) 17. Perfection (Original Version) 18. Baby Blue (Original Version) From the opening chords of "Take It All," to the stunning vocal harmonies, to the philosophical lyrics, to the melancholia of "Sweet Tuesday Morning" and psychedelia of "Flying," to the now-familiar guitar hooks, Straight Up is a mesmerizing classic. Thanks to Rundgren's perfectionism in the studio, the album sounds as good now as it did in 1971. G. Merritt

If this CD goes out of print, I'll be bummin'
This is a great CD. Awesome tunes produced by George Harrison and Todd Rundgren.. It's the Badfinger staple... If this ever goes out of print, I'll be bummin'. We all know how finicky Apple is... The acoustic "Name of the Game" is simply breathtaking...

This rocks
I loved everything about this CD. I liked every song on here, though Joey Molland's SUITCASE sounded better on the bonus track than the George Harrison album version. Remastered digitally, this album featured hits like DAY AFTER DAY and BABY BLUE, a medley of MONEY and FLYING, a great piano tune called TAKE IT ALL, and Tom Evans' IT'S OVER. A great CD overall.

Still lives on
I was 10 years old when I bought this and it was the first new album that I had ever owned. I wanted it because of "Baby Blue" and "Day After Day" just like everyone else but I fell in love with the rest of the songs immediately. They are just as fresh today as they were the day I peeled the cellophane off of the album 35 years ago. Growing up a Beatles freak I was not disappointed because you can really hear that Beatles influence through out the album. "Sometimes" and "I'd Die Babe" have a great Rubber Soul sound to them and "Perfection" is just a great song. Hell, they are all very good! This is such a great mix of song writing and influances coming together to record a timeless album. Every time I see one of those top 100-album lists I cannot believe how after this one is over looked. A true classic and a must have for your collection.