★★★★★
Badfinger's appalling fate - if there's a sadder story in rock, we honestly don't want to hear it - unfairly overshadows their music. Crippling managerial and label machinations were already upon them by the time of Badfinger's 1974 release: but despite its preoccupied, harried gestation, the album turned out surprisingly well. It's not primo 'Finger food (witness the odd telegraphed rhyme and clichéd platitude), but an unforced sincerity pulls them through...
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-01-02
★★★★★
Timeless....The Musical Legacy This album sees 16 tracks assembled from the band's career - with 14 of them the re-mastered versions that originally appeared in 2010 - and most of them from between 1970 and 1972. As well as the excellent Baby Blue, their stand out moments are the classy Day After Day and the song that became a huge hit for Harry Nilsson, Without You...
- www.music-news.com
2013-12-14
★★★★★
Ill-starred, Badfinger's final album before guitarist/vocalist Pete Ham's suicide was designed to annoy. Made in 1975, it finally saw the light of day in 2000. Given the nature of "Hey, Mr Manager", "Rock'n'Roll Contract" and "Savile Row", the Welsh power poppers practically signed their own death warrant. Creatively, Head First reeks of insecurity and shifting tastes within, but its archly melodic, cynical elements could strike a chord with Super Furry Animals types...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Once again I'm forced to wonder whether I wouldn't like this record if it were by the Beatles. But without mentioning what the question says about the group, which is called Badfinger, the answer is that the Beatles couldn't have made this record. Except for "Day After Day" and "Perfection," not one of these unabashedly tuneful tunes has any magic to it, which isn't simply a matter of cautious tempos and harmonies--it's a matter of magic...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
I don't think these guys imitate the Beatles just so Paul will give them more hits--they've got hits of their own. But from the guitar parts (play "Better Days" right after "I Feel Fine") and harmonies (the Paul of "I've Just Seen a Face" atop the Paul of "Long Tall Sally") to concept and lineup, an imitation is what this is, modernized slightly via some relaxed countrification. They write almost well enough to get away with it, too...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
With their new album No Dice, Badfinger has to their credit one of the best records of the year. This album is literally a quantum jump over their uneven debut album Magic Christian Music, and Badfinger is certainly on the way to fulfilling their enormous promise...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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