Badfinger Essentials

Badfinger Essentials

Badfinger's winsome early-‘70s update of beat-group pop is a master class in the devastating effects of sudden mournful melodic twists in an otherwise giddy power-pop confection. The Beatles-y “Baby Blue” and “Maybe Tomorrow” are bittersweet soufflés of songs with sour aftertastes, while “No Matter What” and “Day After Day” throw sad upon happy with grim inevitability, the way night follows day. And things get even more intense when they dispense with the chirpiness entirely—either theatrically in “I Miss You” or with desperate sincerity in “Without You.”

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