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Straight Up! by Badfinger (CD, 2010)
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BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED. 6 bonus tracks for this 2010 remaster. Ships fast.
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About this product
Product Identifiers
ProducerGeorge Harrison^Todd Rundgren
Record LabelCapitol, CAP
UPC5099964244020
eBay Product ID (ePID)27046030210
Product Key Features
Release Year2010
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistBadfinger
Release TitleStraight Up!
Dimensions
Item Height0.20 in
Item Weight0.10 lb
Item Length5.50 in
Item Width4.60 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks18
TracksTake It All, Baby Blue, Money, Flying, I'd Die Babe, Name of the Game, Suitcase, Sweet Tuesday, Day After Day, Sometimes, Perfection, It's Over, I'll Be the One, Name of the Game [Earlier Version] [Version], Baby Blue [U.S. Single Mix], Baby Please [Previously Unreleased], No Good at All [Previously Unreleased], Sing for the Song [Previously Unreleased]
NotesThe rockers and ballads on this 1971 LP boast exquisite song craft and Todd Rundgren production: The classic hits Day After Day (featuring George Harrison and Leon Russell) and Baby Blue plus Name of the Game; Take It All; Perfection, and more prime Badfinger. You also get the unissued songs Baby Please; No Good at All, and Sing for the Song plus I'll Be the One (originally intended as a single); Name of the Game (first version), and Baby Blue (U.S. single mix)!
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Ratings and reviews
Most relevant reviews
- 29 Nov, 2018
G R E A T!!!
This is the definitive Badfinger album on the Apple label & reminiscent of the Beatles. I highly recommend a listen.....Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 29 Jan, 2019
Quality Power Pop!
this is Badfinger's Best Album after WISH YOU WERE HERE. I Highly recommend this remastered disc with bonus tracks.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 16 Feb, 2019
Perfection
You get Baby Blue, Day After Day, and Name of the Game, but the best song here may be Perfection, which you can’t get on their compilations.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 07 Jul, 2019
Great CD
My husband loves it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Jul, 2022
Worth the price
Great English band.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 31 Jul, 2023
It Is Excellent.
The Badfinger CD " Striaght Up" Is Everything That I Hoped It Would Be.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 20 Apr, 2016
Timeless and of its time
There is something special about an album that received mixed reviews on its release, but is lauded much more positively - even a classic - many years later. As well as a left-turn (in this case, away from rock), that would disappoint rusted-on fans, it suggests something that was before its time, like a Van Gogh music project. Badfinger’s “Straight Up” is such a recording, full of contradictions but a joyous experience. The songs are brilliant in their own right, but make sense as a collection - even as the diverse styles that you get from three producers and as many songwriters hark at tensions from competing ideas. At one, it was influential - the classic powerpop “Baby Blue” predates Big Star’s genre-defining “#1 Record” by several months. “The Name of the Game” could have been a mid-70s stadium epic. Yet it also borrowed heavily from the popular music canon - producer #2, George Harrison, once was claimed to have called off recording because he claimed that the record was “too Beatlesy”. And clearly, he should know. Yet, The Beatles influence is unabashed, everywhere you look. Harrison and the band began their association in trying to capture the spirit of Abbey Road. And Harrison’s own slide guitar makes Straight Up’s “Day After Day” such a moving song. Elsewhere, it’s almost a case of: What Beatles album are we trying to sound like today? “Sometimes” harks right back to “Beatles for Sale” or even “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Suitcase” references “Revolver”, and the more acoustic numbers such as “Perfection” get closer the so-called White Album. But if John Lennon - as he has meant to have claimed in the mid 1970s - said that if The Beatles were still together then, that they would have sounded like Electric Light Orchestra, perhaps if they were still together in 1971, they would have sounded like Badfinger? Harrison’s work on “Straight Up” ended when his work for Bangladesh intervened. The also-legendary Todd Rundgren took over, and quickly finished the job. Apparently, Rundgren did not gel with the band, but the finished product is his legacy. And the bonus tracks on the 2010 remaster are well worth the effort - along with the successful US single version of “Baby Blue”, you get several tracks from the early Geoff Emeriick sessions - further proof that sometimes a great record has to be a sprawling mass of contradictions to be a classic. And in the current age of single-track digital downloads, the extra layers of complexity in bringing the tracks together into an album is what makes this recording well worth owning in its entirety.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
