Comments for Badfinger, No Dice

this album as it is listed has an incomplete track listing and the release year is wrong. the album was released in 1970, not 1971.

Perfection is the most revelevent song of this time. I wish other people would take these words into consideration.

I am listening to this album at this time. I LOVE BADFINGER!!!!! What has happened to them? Where are they in this age of lost music??????

Badfinger is great. I Have almost all of their albums. I have Magic Christian in good condition, straight Up and most other old ones. I am a really big fan. I live in FL and had a flood and my records are now on a shelf, but they are safe. Thank goodness.

This album was the one that charted the highest for Badfinger. It is excellent, but no better than several of their later works. "We're for the Dark" and "I Can't Take It" have an immediate appeal while songs by Molland show his budding promise as a songwriter and performer. "Better Days," one of Joey Molland's first Badfinger works, has a very strong Country/ Western sound. It would work today on the country charts. The bonus tracks on the new Apple release of this album are further testament to the bad management at Apple records. These tracks, as well as others from the newly released albums clearly show that Apple had enough material for another Badfinger album of high quality. Instead they shelved these tracks for over twenty years. Had this poor management not been so persistent its likely the band would have charted many more hits. Further, Pete Ham and Tom Evans might still be alive instead of the victims of depression induced suicides.

1. I Can't Take It 2. I Don't Mind 3. Love Me Do 4. Midnight Caller 5. No Matter What 6. Without You 7. Blodwyn 8. Better Days 9. It Had To Be 10. Watford John 11. Believe Me 12. We're For The Dark This is the proper track listing of the original 1970 release. Bonus tracks were added to the CD reissue.

"Without You" is the same Ham/Evans number that went to NO.1 for Nilsson on the "Nilsson Schmilsson" album. No Dice is one of rocks true classic albums, and positively the most overlooked. Rarely in the anals of any typical record collection will you find the lp, say one of every 50 people has it, and once out of print in 1973, was never available in any other form by Apple or Capitol, not even on an "oldies 45" series or a cheesy re-issue ! Cassette and 8-track tapes contain slightly different song order, but tracks appear to be the same takes. The 45rpm single of "No Matter What" is coupled with an abridged version of "Carry On Till Tomorrow" from The Magic Christian movie (full version found on Apple CD/LP "Magic Christian Music By Badfinger".

One of the finest examples of post-doowop harmonies ever. A great unrecognized band which combined flawless polyphonic vocalisms with raucous guitar riffs, trailblazing a path that would find later groups fame-- but alas, not the Bad boys themselves. The harmony lead guitar style which would so distinguish the signature 70`s bands (BTO, Bad Co., Thin Lizzy) found its earliest incarnations on No Dice, their second outing.