Released in 1989 when the post-
Apple
albums were hard to come by,
Rhino
's
The Best of Badfinger, Vol. 2
does an excellent job of summarizing the last three
Pete Ham
albums (
Badfinger
,
Wish You Were Here
, and the unreleased [until 2000]
Head First
), adding a couple of selections from
Airwaves
for good measure. Fanatics can complain about missing tracks (and, at a certain stage, most
fans were fanatics by their very nature), yet this hits most of the high points, offering proof that the group remained viable -- in some ways getting better -- until the end.
remains essential, and
Capitol
's 2000
The Very Best of Badfinger
is the best overall compilation, yet as a sampler of the group's latter days, this is hard to beat. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine