RARE BRITISH APPLE '71 BADFINGER ~ STRAIGHT UP Beatles "Day After Day" POPCRAFT
Sold Date:
September 2, 2018
Start Date:
August 30, 2018
Final Price:
$105.50
(USD)
Bid Count:
11
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18933
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38
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COLLECTIBLE & RARE 1971 BRITISH FIRST PRINT!
CLEAN FINAL COLLECTION COPY!
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BADFINGER
STRAIGHT UP
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RARE ....Superior BRITISH "APPLE" COLLECTION COPY ! Blows away the USA copy in terms of WIDE RANGE SOUND!!!
BEAUTIFUL TOP COPY ...
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....Original 1971 U.K. first pressing of the peak collectible album on the Apple label featuring the timeless smash hit "Day After Day" produced by George Harrison.
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The closest anyone ever came to crossing Revolver with Abbey Road: a set of excellent, emotional, diverse pop songs with pristinely lush production. Badfinger got criticized in their day for sounding like the Beatles, but time has shown that emulating that sound, in your own way, is pretty cool. In the '70's, with the former Beatles doing a somewhat patchy job of sounding like their old band, Badfinger came the closest of anyone. And pretty consistently, too:
Three of Badfinger's five best songs are here, all Pete Ham compositions: the heartstrings-tugging "Day After Day", the power-pop gem "Baby Blue", and the soaring "Name of the Game". (The fourth is Joey Molland's "Some Other Time", and the fifth... ah, impossible to narrow it down from so many great tunes.) In fact, Pete could do no wrong during this period; "Take It All" and "Perfection" are also standouts, and the diversity and quality of his contributions here recollect Paul's Revolver songs.
Like the Beatles, Badfinger was blessed with several great songwriters. Pete Ham was the giant, most comparable to McCartney, but Tom Evans (bass) and Joey Molland (guitar) were talents analogous to George Harrison, and Mike Gibbins (drums) came up with a good song every album or so. On this album, Joey contributes some pretty good pop/boogie songs ("I'd Die Babe" sounds kind of like Wings from this period) and a very cool, Allman Brothers-esque acoustic ballad, "Sweet Tuesday Morning". And Tom has the nice medley of "Money/Flying" on side 1 and the dramatic, foreboding "It's Over" closing out side 2. So, it's mostly Pete's show, with a couple more excellent tracks from Joey and Tom, and several more good ones that are a little too good to be just "filler".
It's impossible to listen to this stuff, especially the opening and closing tracks, without feeling the profound sadness and desperation that was gripping the band. Blessed with abundant talent and cursed by awful management, Badfinger got about as screwed over as you can get in the music business; Pete and Tom ended up committing suicide by hanging themselves over monetary woes. You can hear this in their music, much of which sounds like a call for help. Despite or because of the pressures Badfinger faced, they came up with one of the best bodies of pop from the early '70's. The "Straight Up" album, their shining star...
Take It All
4:25
Baby Blue
3:38
Money
3:31
Flying
2:37
I'd Die Babe
2:05
Name of the Game
5:49
B:
Suitcase
2:53
Sweet Tuesday Morning
2:31
Day After Day
3:02
Sometimes
2:57
Perfection
5:10
CONDITION: The Cover: rated: M- fragile heavily laminated BRITISH cover is SOLID all over ... so hard to this find clean ,has only a couple very minor handling crinkles in the lamination to be viewed as insignificant ...still with bright original colors on both sides and has NO split seams, no bends, no writing...harder to find in this fine state than most would realize ...
The Vinyl: rated: M- TOP COPY is filled with loads of shine; all glossy and clean on both sides! The record plays with enjoyable CLEAN audio. CLEAN Apple labels too
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
NOTE: All Items backed by money back guarantee! IF you have a problem PLEASE let us solve for you BEFORE leaving ANY negative feedback. Thanks! GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean VG+ a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
