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Badfinger - No Dice Audio CD

A fair review of the Badfinger "No Dice" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Badfinger reviews here, or go back to the Badfinger tabs.

Badfinger Band: Badfinger
Title: No Dice
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-03-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Can't Take It 2: I Don't Mind 3: Love Me Do 4: Midnight Caller 5: No Matter What 6: Without You 7: Blodwyn 8: Better Days 9: It Had to Be 10: Watford John 11: Believe Me 12: We're for the Dark 13: Get Down [*] 14: Friends Are Hard to Find [*] 15: Mean Mean Jemima [*] 16: Loving You [*] 17: I'll Be the One [*]

Badfinger No Dice 24K Gold Disc CD
The sound is very clean and transparent. CD is beautifully packaged. Definately the standard by which all other Badfinger recordings are measured.


Great Power Pop Classic!
The inspiration from The Beatles can be heard on most of these songs, but this album shows that they're much more than just a Beatles rip off. No Dice was Badfinger's first masterpiece ( and my first Badfinger album!). Some changes had been made since the recording of Magic Christian Music. Geoff Emerick (known from his work with The Beatles) produced most of the album; the rest of it was produced by Mal Evans who also produced some of Magic Christian Music. Ron Griffiths had already left before the release of the previous album so Tom Evans had now taken over the bass. Joey Molland ,who had played with Gary Walker, was chosen for a new guitarist. The material (the songs) on this album is very strong. "Without You" written by Tom and Pete has become an all-time classic - here`s the original version - superior to any version I've heard so far. Enjoy Pete's organ line at the end of the song - sounds like something Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum could have done. "No Matter What", "Midnight Caller" and "We're For The Dark" all show what a brilliant songwriter with an unique sense of melody Pete Ham had already become. The album is a perfect blend of ballads, rockers and a bit of country ("Blodwyn"), generally performed with more rocking feeling than their earlier recordings. Though the album is obviously dominated by Pete Ham's songs all other members contribute to it. The bonus-tracks are all very good - 4 of them hail from the never-released follow-up album to "No Dice" recorded early 1971. The strongest of them is the group-composition "I'll Be The One", which at a certain point was considered as a single - I believe it had the hit-single potential.

My favourites: Midnight Caller, Without You, No Matter What, We're For The Dark and I'll Be The One.


One of the best releases of the early Seventies
Badfinger does it the justice it deserves, their emphasis bestowing a degree of sorrow that Nilsson missed. It was here that Nilsson must have heard the emotive and beautiful song, "Without You," and it is on NO DICE that the song gets its best interpretation ever. True to the Beatle-like style that they were known for, the album is full of pleasant early-seventies style rockers that makes it enjoyable from start to finish. Their first big hit, "No Matter What," is a great song that hints at what will follow on STRAIGHT UP two years later. This one is a little better sounding than the Capitol/EMI release, which is scheduled for deletion.


This album isn't a gamble--Badfinger finds their voice
Like the son of a famous actor, or musician, many folks thought they had it easy because of the Beatles' patronage. The Beatles association both helped and hindered Badfinger.

NO DICE finds Badfinger defining their musical persona and developing their distinctive sound--strong melodic hooks and great block harmonies. "No Matter What" the Pete Ham penned single from the album was just an indication of the great songwriting found throughout this album and the later STRAIGHT UP, ASS & WISH YOU WERE HERE. BADFINGER, although a little weaker than WISH YOU WERE HERE is also a great place to start listening to this pioneering power pop quartet.


Cast Your Lot With "No Dice"
This second album by the immensely talented and equally star-crossed Welsh/Liverpudlian quartet is an absolute must-have. Along with "Straight Up" and "Wish You Were Here", "No Dice" represents the very best of Badfinger. Power-pop defining "No Matter What" and the ever-green ballad "Without You" are hands-down classics while "We're For The Dark", "Midnight Caller", and "Blodwyn" are three of the late and great Pete Ham's most beautiful songs. The previously unreleased bonus track "I'll Be The One" is a treasure. This album is a great introduction for new fans of Badfinger. Veteran fans should, if they have not already, check out "7 Park Avenue", an incredible collection of Pete Ham demos spanning the late sixties until 1975.


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