Come And Get It:
The Best Of Badfinger (1995)
But Just The Apple Years
Most self-respecting record collectors don’t wanna know about best-of compilations. They’re often considered crib sheets to serious students of music. But, old age and an unmanageably large collection has convinced me that they have their place. For convenience, if nothing else. And… simply said, some bands are just better served by them. Except for Straight Up (and maybe, No Dice), I’ve never fully embraced any other Badfinger albums, though there’s some decent material spread among all of them. Come And Get It: The Best Of Badfinger‘s title really means the best of Badfinger on Apple, so it doesn’t go near any of the group’s post-1973 Warners material. Still, when there’s not enough time to cherish the pros and cons of any album, much less Wish You Were Here, this comp will tag the necessary bases, providing a pleasant reminder of everything that’s right about Badfinger.
Come And Get It
Maybe Tomorrow
Rock Of All Ages
Dear Angie
Carry On Till Tomorrow
No Matter What
Believe Me
Midnight Caller
Better Days
Without You
Take It All
Money
Flying
The Name Of The Game
Suitcase
Day After Day
Baby Blue (U.S. Single Mix)
When I Say
Icicles
I Can Love You
Apple Of My Eye
16 Comments
I definitely agree with your Badfinger assessment. A generally pleasant body of work, but only the pair of albums that really hold up when you want to listen to an entire album.
Your blog is great and your work is appreciated. Colonel Kurtz would approve.
Many thanks Reg. Say hi to your owner for me.
I have a similar Capitol CD release from 2000 called "The Very Best of Badfinger" which does not include 'Dear Angie', 'Flying' and 'Suitcase', but has later optimistic winners like 'It's Over', 'I'd Die Babe' and 'Lonely You'. :-)
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Joey Molland (front left) looks a lot like Paul McCartney in the cover picture. Coincidence? Probably.
Yeah, the 2000 best of includes their forst Warners album, 1974's Wish You Were Here. They stopped there because Pete Ham left the group after that.
Thanks again, good compilations are always welcome.
The band that should have had it all. Gorgeous melodies & terrific songs, yet cursed from the beginning, it seems. Such a sad history, but the songs will outlive all the bad vibes & sadness. Thanks Cap, I always wax philosophically with these guys.
As a music fan, the saga of Badfinger is tragic.
As a lawyer who is a music fan, it is even more tragic.
If straight-world lawyers of the time had been willing to take on hippie-musicians as clients, and if hippie-musicians of the time had been willing to work with straight-world lawyers, Pete Ham and the rest of Badfinger could have been extricated from their management bind, and right now Pete Ham would be making great music.
Instead he saw no way out and killed himself.
What a loss!
Get his demos collections. They are great.
Ace K.
I agree with the mouthpiece (I kid, I kid) about the two discs of Pete Ham out-takes (Golder's Green and 7 Park Avenue on Rykodisc). They're welcome to any fans of Pete's work.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate this post, because I've never really had the gumption to pursue Badfinger beyond their most obvious hits. I see that you ripped these @320, but I heard a little bit of digitally/pixelly sounds on tracks like Rock of All Ages (as compared to my own version). Maybe I'm just being an audiophile, but I'm curious if anyone else hears it too. Could be yet another example of Apple's neglect for this wonderful band.
Sorry Penguin. My ears' acute dynamics were left behind at a Grand Funk show in 1970.
great group – sad tale – good compilation but missing "sweet tuesday morning".
Hey Cap’n….
any chance of a repost please?
greggery
New link up, thanks Greggery.
Muchos gracias kind Sir, and may all your weeds be wildflowers…
and therein lies a recommendation for any of those who haven’t really discovered how good Tom Petty can be – his Wildflowers album
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