Meanwhile... I'm Still Thinking » Badfinger

Badfinger-Airwaves

sfaubert — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:03 +0000

Keepers:

Love Is Gonna Come At Last
Come Down Hard
Sail Away

Airwaves

Badfinger-Head First

sfaubert — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:00:02 +0000

Keepers:

Back Again
Hey, Mr Manager
Keep Believing
Lay Me Down

Head First

Badfinger-Wish You Were Here

sfaubert — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:00:26 +0000

Made back in the days when there were two sides to an album, side one of “Wish You Were Here” was one of the best in history. It’s amazing to me that as our attention span grew shorter, albums got longer – 20 minutes of perfection was do-able, 40 minutes was tough but possible, 60 minutes an exercise in futility.

We all know that life isn’t necessarily fair, but it’s not supposed to kill you. It’s been almost 40 years and the Badfinger tragedy still hurts.

Keepers:

Just A Chance
You’re So Fine
Got To Get Out Of Here
Know One Knows
Dennis
Love Time
Meanwhile Back At The Ranch/Should I Smoke

Wish You Were Here

Badfinger

sfaubert — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:00:49 +0000

Keepers:

I Miss You
Lonely You
Andy Norris

Badfinger

Badfinger-Ass

sfaubert — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:00:54 +0000

Keepers:

Apple of My Eye
Get Away
Icicles
Winner
Blind Owl
Cowboy
I Can Love You
Timeless
Do You Mind

Ass

Badfinger-Straight Up

sfaubert — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:00:37 +0000

Poor bastards. Ham and Evans already have a deer-in-the-headlights look about them on the cover, don’t they?

Played this thing to death on 8-track, then bought the lp, then bought the CD with extra tracks, now feel guilty for having not paid for the mp3s. Something’s screwed up somewhere, and three of these guys aren’t with us to not get the money they wouldn’t have gotten from the 4th format of this album that I have or have not owned for 38 years.

Keepers:

Baby Blue
I’d Die Babe
Name Of The Game
Sweet Tuesday Morning
Day After Day
Sometimes
Perfection

Straight Up

Perfection

sfaubert — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:05:23 +0000

There was a short period in my life when I took my favorite album covers and thumb-tacked them on the wall of my room. The “No Dice” cover was strategically placed so that every morning when I woke up She was pointing directly at me. I spent an awful lot of time trying to figure out exactly where bead ended and breast began, and I still don’t consider that time wasted.

Later on I was somewhat upset that my otherwise pristine (and otherwise quite valuable) copy had a hole in the cover, but I suppose I got my money’s worth.

You’re My World

Badfinger-No Dice

sfaubert — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:00:29 +0000

“I’ll Be The One” might just be one of the best previously unreleased extra tracks ever… for this song not to get released in the first place leads me to believe that someone REALLY pissed somebody off.

Keepers:

I Can’t Take It
Midnight Caller
No Matter What
Without You
Watford John
We’re For The Dark
Loving You
I’ll Be The One
Love Me Do

No Dice

We’re For The Dark

sfaubert — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:05:16 +0000

Has anyone ever noticed that you can listen to an album alone a bunch of times and absolutely love everything, and then start to change your mind when you listen to it with someone else around? It’s like you change your filtering system whenever anyone else gets involved, and it takes a few alone-listens to straighten yourself out again.

I brought Badfinger’s “Magic Christian Music” to a party and tried to get my friends to listen to it past “Come and Get It”, the problem being that for every “Crimson Ship” there was a “Fisherman”. Not an easy sell, especially if you weren’t the one manning the turntable. It was way easier to put on Derek and the Dominos and just let the thing play through, which is ultimately what happened.

My belated apologies to JoAnne for dancing inappropriately with her to “Layla”, and to everyone there that night for ruining the seance. I really didn’t understand that it was all about holding hands with people and trying to scare them, and that actually communicating with the dead was not very high on the priority list.

Stack-O-Records

Badfinger-Magic Christian Music

sfaubert — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:49 +0000

Keepers:

Come And Get It
Crimson Ship
Midnight Sun
Rock Of All Ages
Carry On Till Tomorrow
Walk Out In The Rain

Magic Christian Music