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Badfinger - Straight Up Audio CD

A fair review of the Badfinger "Straight Up" 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: Straight Up
Rating:
Release Date: 2005-02-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Take It All 2: Baby Blue 3: Money 4: Flying 5: I'd Die Babe 6: Name of the Game 7: Suitcase 8: Sweet Tuesday Morning 9: Day After Day 10: Sometimes 11: Perfection 12: It's Over 13: Money [Original Version][#] 14: Flying [Original Version][#] 15: Name of the Game [Original Version][#] 16: Suitcase [Original Version][#] 17: Perfection [Original Version][#] 18: Baby Blue [US Single Mix]

Sounds fine to me.
This CD sounds fine to my ears. I don't get what the other reviewer was so angry about. It's the same master as the jewel-boxed American or British Apple CD, so if you were looking for it to sound different, you're out of luck. But it really isn't a poorly mastered title, so I don't know why the other guy thought it was so bad.

If you need a different master of it, try finding the DCC gold CD mastered by Steve Hoffman. It's a bit smoother.


What a Shame! Desperately Poor Sound Quality!
This mlps version should really have been an improvement over the previous releases; instead, we get poor quality cardboard shoddily put together albeit with an insert containing all the lyrics in both English and Japanese. It's a crying shame when one of the great classics of 70's rock is treated so shabbily like this. There are 6 bonus tracks of alternative versions of the main tracks but what's the point when the sound quality is so very desperately poor? If you are going to pay so much more for an album to get you to "upgrade" from your present copy, I'd demand a much better product that what we have here. I guess I could forgive the sub-standand mini-lp replica sleeve design but I definitely cannot forgive the very poor sound quality for the kind of price these guys are asking for. My advice is to wait for a much better remastered version to come out and to give this one a wide berth.

Content-wise, these tracks represent some of the best work ever done from the early 70s. When you have both Paul McCartney and George Harrison taking an interest in your work let alone Todd Rundgren producing as well, it's safe to say that you're on to something big and that's exactly what this album represents. From the brilliant slide guitar work of Harrison on my favourite album track "Day After Day" to the soulful and beautiful opening track "Take It All" you get track after track of simply good songwriting. No fillers on this baby at all and it still sounds as enjoyable today as it did all those years ago.

Let's hope the powers that be get their act together and head back to the drawing board to bring us an mlps version that is worthy of the album. I wait with bated breath.


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