Album 10, Badfinger "Straight Up"
This album comes from the suggestion of my friend Alex Johnson who tweeted his love for the band. Like so much music from the 70s, this was a band I knew of but knew nothing about and so, on to the list they went. Badfinger Straight Up 1971 Let's do a mini-review on this one first. I dig the album, the music, and the band in general. I was jamming along to the songs as they played and was enjoying it. I especially loved the alternating lead singers. Is there a modern band that does this with any regularity or is this truly an artifact of a bygone age? Send me your counter-factuals. Anyway, it was all good and enjoyable and I was writing the review in my head when track 9 started, Day After Day . Hmmm, I know this song, I thought. It is very familiar. That intro is unmistakable. And then the singing. And then, wait...this is...surely it's not...this can't be...Badfinger? Oh dear readers, I must confess, and I swear as god as my witness, I thought this was a Beatles...