Badfinger deserves a hand.
Certainly not the best movie of either Steve Martin or Eddie Murphy.
…oops, sorry, that’s Bowfinger. Never mind.
That “piece of shit drug show” is widely considered to be the pinnacle of serialized television writing and acting. Don’t know why you had to bash it in this thread for seemingly no reason.
I grew up in the seventies and knew of Badfinger. Never listened much, never bought an album. Years later, I got into some power pop bands, and Badfinger kept coming up. But due to plenty of other musical interests, again, I never bought an album. Cut to twenty years later and I’m watching the end of Breaking Bad, and I hear this amazing song and looked up who recorded it.
Guess whose albums I immediately began checking out? Thank fucking god for whoever picked that song to end the show with! As well as the fact that it seems the royalties issues have been settled, and the remaining members will actually get paid now, which is even more important than my musical happiness.
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And what is your opinion of Badfinger? The Band, the music, the TOPIC OF THE THREAD?
It really did take me 20+ minutes to compose myself. I let the dogs out, got them back in and into bed, loved on them a little, did the dishes and came back to this. Sheesh!
Hey, Blind Owl and Timeless are great tracks.
I remember finding out about them.
Not to mention that not only did the song fit the scene perfectly, it sparked a resurgence of interest in Badfinger which is much deserved. I think I actually still have my vinyl copy of “Magic Christian Music” purchased contemporaneously with the release of the movie and it’s absolutely in rotation in my car’s USB stick.
It made my room a little less lonely.
Boring, dated shite, is what I think. But then, I’m not a huge fan of the later-period Beatles music they were clearly aping, either.
Some excellent power pop songs.
I still remember coming out of a restaurant with Mrs. J. sometime in the '70s after a terrible lunch, turning on the car radio and hearing “Guess I got what I deserve”. 
Some excellent power pop songs.
I still remember coming out of a restaurant with Mrs. J. sometime in the '70s after a terrible lunch, turning on the car radio and hearing “Guess I got what I deserve”.
I was wondering who did that.
That’s one of their best albums. I would say that, the follow-up Straight Up and Wish You Were Here are essential to any lovers of power pop. It you’re into acts like Big Star, the Raspberries, the Move, Cheap Trick, etc., I think Badfinger is essential in that lineage.
One song Bowfinger did not cover.
I hear the opening chords of “No Matter What” when I think of Badfinger. Having had a look at the Wikipedia page for the song, I learned that R.E.M. once did a cover for a fan club single! I might want to track that down.
I saw Badfinger and Pure Prairie League at the Whisky a Go Go around 1971. Badfinger was MUCH too loud for that space. PPL was beautiful.