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 • Badfinger - Apple Demos 1970-1972		  	                     April 2008
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Badfinger - Apple Demos 1970-1972
Cannonball CA-2003010

01. No Good At All
02. Sweet Tuesday Morning
03. Suitcase
04. I'll Be The One
05. Baby Please
06. Mean Mean Jemima
07. Loving You
08. The Name Of The Game
09. Money
10. Flying
11. Sing For The Song
12. Perfection (2nd version)
13. Perfection (Preliminary)

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For many of us the "Unreleased and Some Released" bootleg from the late 1980s was the first
taste we had of the original (and unreleased) "Straight Up" album. Since then we've had
many of these tracks released as bonus tracks on the CD reissues of both "No Dice", "Straight
Up", and the "Best Of Badfinger" as well as incremental upgrades on may other bootlegs. So
why then do we need this 2003 bootleg, "Badfinger - Apple Demos 1970-1972"?
Well, I'll get to that.....

First of all let us all be clear that these are not demos. This is a stereo mix of the album
Badfinger submitted to Apple in 1971. A hasty mix was done before the band went on one of
their many US tours. Apple rejected the album, and like kids who did a sloppy job on their
chores Badfinger were told to 'do them again'. That's how we got the officially released
"Straight Up" album late 1971 (or early 1972 depending on where you lived).

A fresh listen brings a question to mind. Were Apple right to reject this initial album?
I am now thinking 'Yes, they were'.

Sure, there are some excellent songs and performances here, namely "Name Of The Game",
"Baby Please", "Sweet Tuesday Morning", "I'll Be The One", "Suitcase" and "Loving You"
being the standouts. But the rest of the album either lacks direction ("Money", "Mean Mean
Jemima") or appears half finished ("No Good At All", "Perfection", "Sing For The Song").
This would be a problem Badfinger would encounter on too many of their albums ("Ass",
"Badfinger" being two other prime examples). The album plods along, and as a whole it
doesn't deliver the goods despite the excellent sound on this release.

Some might say that this album reflects the true nature of the band. That's true if you
consider Badfinger primarily as a live act. This would have been an album that would have
translated well on stage.

In short, to my ears these songs we (as collectors) know so well are presented here in best
ever quality. No information is provided with the disc, so how the mix differs to the
"No Dice"/"Straight Up" bonus tracks is something I have not taken the time to analyse.
This is however a great sounding recording that appears not to have suffered from horrendous
noise reduction or fidelity loss from being passed from collector to collector.

Being five years old now, this disc is probably no longer available except through trading
circles such as Bootlegzone or The Traders Den. It is worth tracking it down if you can
get it.


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