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Finger a Winner

1) "Maybe Tomorrow" (as the Iveys)	0 votes
2) "Come and Get It"	2 votes
3) "No Matter What"	3 votes
4) "Day After Day"	2 votes
5) "Baby Blue"	2 votes

AG/DC Aug 12 2008 07:41 AM

The Devil unavailable for dealmaking on your desert island, you turn to Allen Klein, who says, yes, you may take a song from Apple's top recording artists, The Beatles. But the rub (and there's always a rub) is that you have to also take a song from Apple's B-Team hitmakers, Badfinger, and listen to it with the same frequency. You quickly sign and then look over your choices. What's cool here are the sets and productions of the early seventies music programs they're seen on here: Midnight Express, Rock Concert, and whatever that show is that Kenny Rogers is hosting. Yikey. 1) "Maybe Tomorrow" (as the Iveys) 2) "Come and Get It" 3) "No Matter What" 4) "Day After Day" 5) "Baby Blue"

seawolf17 Aug 12 2008 07:48 AM

Tough call for me between No Matter What and Come and Get It, but I went with the former based on the fact that I love the Def Leppard version: Warrant does a good version of Come and Get It, but the original's boring.

AG/DC Aug 12 2008 07:52 AM

It was down to the middle three for me, the first and last representing perhaps the sunrise and sunset of the band's run. From there I thought of the island. What would I want to hear there? "Day after Day" was right out. "No Matter What" is about chasing the girl, and "Come and Get It" about being chased. That's the one I want on the island --- tying my romantic fantasies into my hope for rescue.

AG/DC Aug 12 2008 07:54 AM

Badfinger also did the original of "I Can't Live," before Harry Nillson and whoever his producer is went out and invented the power ballad record with it. Now that it's been covered a billion times, I hope the Badfinger guys retained some publishing rights on it, but I'm guessing the residuals all feed directly into the accounts of the Beatles and Allen Klein.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 12 2008 08:24 AM

I like that they have the stones to basically leave out a line in the first verse of the song. ("Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm/Make your mind up fast") Plus they sound exactly like Beatles near the end of that one, which is expected since it was written & produced by McCartney. I don't see what Def Lep brings to "No Matter What." Pretty tragic band with two guys committing suicide.

cooby Aug 12 2008 09:12 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 12 2008 09:17 AM

Baby Blue. A song I will stop what I'm doing to listen to. I'm going to listen to it now. Thanks, Edgy

AG/DC Aug 12 2008 09:17 AM

Cool, that didn't necessarily wet my whistle, but I hoped it would wet somebody's. A number 14 hit, and their last. The thing I'll stop what I'm doing for is to watch that awesome introduction.

sharpie Aug 12 2008 10:03 AM

Went "No Matter What." Close for the middle 3. The "mm mmm mmm mmm mmm" wasn't them dropping a line. It was the way Paul demoe'd it with the Beatles. Except Beatles did it a little faster (and a little better).

AG/DC Aug 12 2008 10:14 AM

Coolio, Beatles give them an unfinished song and they're too intimidated to add a single lyric.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 12 2008 10:25 AM

="sharpie"]Went "No Matter What." Close for the middle 3. The "mm mmm mmm mmm mmm" wasn't them dropping a line. It was the way Paul demoe'd it with the Beatles. Except Beatles did it a little faster (and a little better). Oh I knew that. It sounds as if they drop a line. Ballsy strategy anyway then by Paul.

AG/DC Aug 13 2008 09:26 PM

It's cool, on "Day After Day," to see him play that slide guitar like George Harrison taught it to him, but doing it on the Angus Young SG. Then I think, "Maybe he's faking it. I think that was George Harrison playing that."

AG/DC Aug 13 2008 09:31 PM

According to wikipedia, yup. The song was written and sung by Pete Ham and produced by George Harrison, who plays some of the slide guitar parts of the song along with Ham. The record also features Leon Russell on piano. As the song was unfinished at the time Harrison left the Badfinger album to produce the Concert for Bangladesh, the final mix was done by Todd Rundgren, who took over Straight Up after Harrison's departure. The article also claims that Joe Jackson borrows liberally from "Day After Day" for "Breaking Us in Two."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 13 2008 09:59 PM

I can hear that. I remember finding out about you Don't you feel like trying something new?

AG/DC Aug 13 2008 10:14 PM

Kind of breaks my heart in two to realize that after all these years.

Fman99 Aug 14 2008 06:44 AM

I'm a "Day After Day" guy. But that's just how I roll.