Badfinger 5 Biggest Hits POLL -

NMW FTW

aka TS: day after day vs baby blue

Still have to go with Baby Blue.

No Matter What by a very thin margin. Although if this was the band's version of Without You, I'd vote for that.

"Day After Day." Don't think I've ever heard "Without You," and wasn't even aware it was their song until very recently.

NMW FTW

― Mark G, Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:16 AM (11 hours ago)

'Day After Day'.

My favourite Badfinger song is 'We're For The Dark', though.

for a second i thought it said goldfinger and now i'm disappointed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUCjJphE-0

my vote^

Voted "Day After Day", and I'm still not sure I've heard much from their post-Apple years.

"no matter what"

incredible vocal

"No Matter What" edging out "Day After Day" edging out "Baby Blue."

Feel like someone should do a Badfinger vs. Raspberries poll, but maybe it's too soon.

Baby Blue vs Go All The Way.

Alt. Timeline Breaking Bad ends w/this Raspberries jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTPzqBdGxc

Day After Day. Such a beautiful song. But if Just A Chance was eligible...

Run hot and cold on "Come And Get It." Sometimes I like it and sometimes it feels like a McCartney throwaway.

Most of the stuff on "McCartney" are throwaways. It prolly would've fit on there just fine.

Raspberries' signature song as "Go All The Way" seems a lot more obvious than choosing one for Badfinger.

for a second i thought it said goldfinger and now i'm disappointed

― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:01 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We can do a Goldfinger poll after this....

aka TS: day after day vs baby blue

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'm sure I knew "Baby Blue" before I knew "It's all over now Baby Blue"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Tough but fair.

Called it, just about.

Heard "The Name of the Game" at Publix. Should've been a single.

Day After Day, My Sweet Lord, Photograph, It Don't Come Easy--the mood of these George productions is just captivating

Throw in Billy Preston's "That's the Way God Planned It." Harrison really should've been a Todd Rundgren, producing artists as a sideline well into his thirties. Too bad he didn't give a shit about contemporary music.

Or anybody else really.

Harrison doesn’t really deserve the “Day After Day” producing credit – or at least, the sole credit. The song was a shambles when Harrison left the session and Rundgren did a ton of work with Pete Hamm on the guitars to get it to where it ended up (IIRC there is even some debate as to whether Harrison is actually even playing slide on that solo bridge but I think that’s BS). But since it was Harrison and it was Apple Rundgren got bumped and that was that.

Also, Photograph is Richard Perry.

By all accounts, though, it's pretty similar to the Starr-Harrison demo, though, which is why I let the mention slide.

I'm not really a fan, but the above is enough to make me wish that Greatest Hits EP's were actually a thing. (I was never able to enjoy their LP or CD-length compilations in their entirety.)

The problem as a fan is that 1) they never had a great record top to bottom, 2) there’s no comp that has both their best Apple and Warner Brothers material so each is filled out with subpar material and 3) the records and comps both feature too many songs written by the guy who was their worst songwriter, who not so coincidentally happens to be the only band member still alive.

I think Molland is a better singer/songwriter than Evans, though of course Ham's songs are the standouts, and agree that they really didn't connect more than two or three times on each album.

He's definitely a better songwriter than Mike Gibbins!