This glistening ballad from the band was once hailed as the successors to the Beatles is full of latent feelings and pop hooks worthy of the Fab Four. This Pete Ham composition is one of his many works that have the same mix of interesting music ideas, pop structure and deep lyrics as Paul McCartney. The bright mix of acoustic guitar, tick tocking piano fills, psychedelic slide guitar shouldn't work with the downbeat theme of loneliness and yet it does. The song is driven along by a bouncy bass drum roll; the song somehow manages to mix ballad sensitivity with hard rock rhythms and that's the art of Power Pop. A genre that few bands made a career in apart from Cheap Trick and Big Star, power pop is a mix of rock and pop and was originally coined by Pete Townshend to describe The Who's brand of heavy pop. Badfinger updated the light, breezy Merseyside pop with 70s hard rock crunch and scored a number of classic songs mainly from their 1972 album Straight Up, of which this was the lead single. Produced by Todd Rundgren and featuring George Harrison on slide the song hits you like freight train with no excess and immaculate production worthy of George Martin. RIP
Friday, 11 March 2016
Badfinger (1972) Day After Day
'I remember finding out about you'
This glistening ballad from the band was once hailed as the successors to the Beatles is full of latent feelings and pop hooks worthy of the Fab Four. This Pete Ham composition is one of his many works that have the same mix of interesting music ideas, pop structure and deep lyrics as Paul McCartney. The bright mix of acoustic guitar, tick tocking piano fills, psychedelic slide guitar shouldn't work with the downbeat theme of loneliness and yet it does. The song is driven along by a bouncy bass drum roll; the song somehow manages to mix ballad sensitivity with hard rock rhythms and that's the art of Power Pop. A genre that few bands made a career in apart from Cheap Trick and Big Star, power pop is a mix of rock and pop and was originally coined by Pete Townshend to describe The Who's brand of heavy pop. Badfinger updated the light, breezy Merseyside pop with 70s hard rock crunch and scored a number of classic songs mainly from their 1972 album Straight Up, of which this was the lead single. Produced by Todd Rundgren and featuring George Harrison on slide the song hits you like freight train with no excess and immaculate production worthy of George Martin. RIP
This glistening ballad from the band was once hailed as the successors to the Beatles is full of latent feelings and pop hooks worthy of the Fab Four. This Pete Ham composition is one of his many works that have the same mix of interesting music ideas, pop structure and deep lyrics as Paul McCartney. The bright mix of acoustic guitar, tick tocking piano fills, psychedelic slide guitar shouldn't work with the downbeat theme of loneliness and yet it does. The song is driven along by a bouncy bass drum roll; the song somehow manages to mix ballad sensitivity with hard rock rhythms and that's the art of Power Pop. A genre that few bands made a career in apart from Cheap Trick and Big Star, power pop is a mix of rock and pop and was originally coined by Pete Townshend to describe The Who's brand of heavy pop. Badfinger updated the light, breezy Merseyside pop with 70s hard rock crunch and scored a number of classic songs mainly from their 1972 album Straight Up, of which this was the lead single. Produced by Todd Rundgren and featuring George Harrison on slide the song hits you like freight train with no excess and immaculate production worthy of George Martin. RIP
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