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Badfinger - No Dice (1970)(Gold Disc Remaster 1997)
Badfinger - No Dice - DCC 24K Gold - Remastered by Steve Hoffman. Along with "Straight Up" and "Wish You Were Here", "No Dice" represents the very best of Badfinger. This second album by the immensely talented and equally star-crossed Welsh/Liverpudlian quartet is an absolute must-have. 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.
Badfinger was a British power pop band formed in the 1960s but their contribution to music was marred by the tales of managerial corruption and the resultant suicides of two band members. The band's association - and to a certain extent comparisons - with The Beatles was useful for them and by 1971 they had recorded four successful albums: (Maybe Tomorrow (as The Iveys) (69), Magic Christian Music (1970), No Dice (1970) and Straight Up (1971)) and fame was beckoning around the world. The next album Ass (1971) became snarled up in a move from Apple to Warner Brothers and the album failed to perform well; nor did it's follow up Badfinger (1974). Wish You Were Here was a return to form in the eyes of the critics but divisions within the band were beginning to form; a result of management issues. Worse still, the wrangles about missing money between the record label and their manager, Stan Polley meant that the next album Head First was not released at all. In 1975 Peter Ham, founder member and creative force of the group hanged himself, stating in his suicide note that Polley was a "soulless bastard". The group disbanded. By 1979 the remaining members had reformed and released Airwaves but the relationships within the band were brittle, Badfinger fractured and it resulted in two "Badfingers" touring. The main split between members Joey Molland and Evans ended when Evans hanged himself in 1983 - over an argument about royalties for the band's main songwriting credit "Without You", (which Evans had co-written with Ham).
Badfinger's second album No Dice kicks off with "I Can't Take It," a rocker that signaled even if Badfinger still played pop and sang ballads, they considered themselves a rock band. What gave Badfinger character is they blended their desire to rock with their sensitive side instead of compartmentalizing. Even when they rock on No Dice, it's never earthy, like, say, the Stones. Badfinger's very sensibility and sound is modeled after the early British Invasion, where bands sang catchy, concise love songs. Yet there's a worldliness to their music absent from that of their forefathers, partially because Badfinger styled themselves as classicists, adapting the sound of their idols and striving to create a similar body of work. No Dice bears this out, boasting old-fashioned rockers, catchy pop tunes, and acoustic ballads. On the surface, there's nothing special about such a well-crafted, sharply produced, straight-ahead pop record, but the pleasure of a power pop album is in the craft. No Dice is not without flaws -- a byproduct of an all-writing, all-singing band is that some songs don't measure up -- but it does achieve the right balance of craft, fun, and emotion, due in no small part to Pete Ham's songwriting. Ham dominates the record, providing note-perfect openers and closers, along with the centerpiece singles "No Matter What" and "Without You," the latter a yearning, painful ballad co-written with Tom Evans. Collaborating with new guitarist Joey Molland, Evans wrote two other excellent songs ("I Don't Mind," "Better Days"), while Molland's own "Love Me Do" chugs along with nice momentum. Still, the heart of the album lies in Ham's work.. He proves that songcraft is what separates great power-pop from good, and it's what makes No Dice a superb pop record...S. Th. Erlewine
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Size: 319 MB
Genre : Rock
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Line-up
Joey Molland - Guitar, Vocals
Tom Evans - Bass, Vocals
Mike Gibbins - Drums
Pete Ham - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Tracklist:
01 I Can't Take It 2:54
02 I Don't Mind 3:13
03 Love Me Do 2:57
04 Midnight Caller 2:48
05 No Matter What 2:59
06 Without You 4:42
07 Blodwyn 3:24
08 Better Days 3:59
09 It Had to Be 2:27
10 Watford John 3:21
11 Believe Me 2:58
12 We're for the Dark 3:51
13 Get Down Bonus Track 3:43
14 Friends Are Hard to Find Bonus Track 2:28
15 Mean Mean Jemima Bonus Track 3:41
16 Loving You Bonus Track 2:51
17 I'll Be the One Bonus 2:54
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