Come And Get It (The Best Of Badfinger) - Badfinger

Advantages: Life, energy and rock and roll joy.
Disadvantages: None whatsoever in any way, shape or form.

...Last Chance Honey What a corker this is! Off they set to a 2/2 rock’n’roll stomp with such a fun sound it makes me smile to hear it. I’d call this the ‘I’m playing hard to get song.’ ‘This is your last chance, honey! Whoooooo!’ I want to see it live and I want to see it now. They have so much wit and energy without being pseudo-intellectual or hip-hop fashion victims. Are you Gonna be my Girl? The bass and drum intro alone is brilliant. You have to tap both feet and various other bits. The intro on cough and tambourine is joined by a great bass riff that is fat and juicy. In come the drums with such a slap-it-up enthusiasm to fill up the rest of the sound. Then the singer blasts off with singing that takes off alone in the manner of Jailhouse Rock’s opening lines. It’s pure rock and roll from the fifties. People even... Read review

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Advantages: New facets of rock's greatest
Disadvantages: Not for the casual fan

...of "Step Inside Love" and "Come And Get It", which became hits respectively for Cilla Black and Badfinger. The others include a rock'n'roll medly included during the difficult "Let It Be" sessions - Jive Bunny, Status Quo, you weren't the first, were you - and an amusing version of "Get Back", with Paul ad-libbing vocals at the end just as the police were coming to order them off the roof during that famous last live open-air performance in January 1969. The main exclusive is John Lennon's "What's The New Mary Jane", a much-hyped 'rarity' which had been rumoured as a possible Plastic Ono Band single at the time - featuring John, George, Yoko and roadie Mal Evans, but neither Paul nor Ringo. Like its predecessors, it's a compelling insight into what made the Fab Four tick. You won't get Beatles songs polished to perfection, but you shouldn... Read review

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Advantages: A compilation of great songs from a great musician
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...When James Marshall Hendrix died in September 1970 at the age of just 27, the world lost a great, talented musician who was a definite icon and innovator in music...and here comes a "definitive" greatest hits album of Hendrix's work - "Experience Hendrix". Released in the UK in 1997, the two-disc edition includes one CD of twenty of Hendrix's releases from numerous years of work... "Purple Haze" - 2:52 "Fire" - 2:43 "The Wind Cries Mary" - 3:20 "Hey Joe" - 3:30 "All Along the Watchtower" - 3:59 "Stone Free" - 3:36 "Crosstown Traffic" - 2:19 "Manic Depression" - 3:42 "Little Wing" - 2:25 "If 6 Was 9" - 5:34 "Foxy Lady" - 3:19 "Bold As Love" - 4:11 "Castles Made of Sand" - 2:47 "Red House" - 3:50 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - 5:12 "Freedom" - 3:25 "Night Bird Flying" - 3:50 "Angel" - 4:22 "Dolly... Read review

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