by William Ruhlmann
Badfinger lists itself as a quintet on this album, including longtime members Joey Molland and Tom Evans, plus keyboard player Tony Kaye, drummer Richard Bryans, and guitar player Glenn Sherba. Certainly, they sound more like a band on this record than they did on its predecessor, Airwaves, which was basically a Molland-Evans duo album, but that is not an improvement. They tend to rock out more here, downplaying the more folkish and melodic pop tendencies in their music. Sometimes, as on &Because I Love You,& they sound like the Raspberries trying to sound like the Beatles. The hit, such as it was, was &Hold On& (number 56), a shadow of former glories, and although this album charted briefly, it only confirmed that Badfinger was no longer a record seller.