Baby Blue - Badfinger | Andy & Alex FIRST TIME REACTION! 

Fit beautifully for the Breaking Bad finale song. Choosing his "baby blue" over family, friends, everything, for the love of power and money. Great song!

The backstory behind Ham’s and Evan’s suicides is so much worse than being sad they didn’t sell records. They were preyed upon unmercifully without a clear path to break loose from the vultures. A truly tragic story.

"Day After Day", "No Matter What" and "Come And Get It" are also great ones by then

"Day After Day" is one of the greatest songs of the 1970's.

In a different universe, this band reached the same heights as the Beatles. They were that good.

Badfinger is a band that came from my hometown in Swansea, Wales, which is an honour I carry with me. Their story is one of the most genuinely tragic I’ve ever read in music history. One of the best of their generation, without a doubt. Lyrically, musically, they were spot fucking on at every turn.

Love everything Badfinger. Such a tragic loss of Pete Ham due to being financially screwed by management. Tom Evans also died in 1983 by suicide. Mike Gibbins died from a brain aneurysm in 2005. So tragic. Baby Blue, Come and Get It, No matter What and Day After Day are songs from my youth. Who couldn’t love a band named Badfinger?

S tier for me regarding just the chord changes alone.

No Matter What is got me hooked on this band! The definition of ear candy, catchy melody, Intricate guitar parts and gorgeous harmony. Like if you agree!!

S tier. You need to watch a documentary on Badfinger and do an update. Saddest story in rock but they were a very talented band and need more respect.

This was one of the best songs to come out in the early 70's. A great band and tragic story. Such a huge loss for the world.

The story of Badfinger is the saddest story from the music industry. They were treated incredibly badly.

George Harrison played the slide guitar portions on their hit "Day After Day"... definitely worth a listen.

When Badfinger was trending, there was a lot of talk about them actually being the Beatles playing under a different name. The fact that Badfinger was on Apple Records only added fuel to the fire. This was a great band selling around 14 million albums. The Beatles loved this band and did what they could to promote them. An original vinyl of their album Straight Up in good condition will still cost about $300.00. I loved this band.

Great Music, Heartbreaking Story RIP Pete, Tom, Michael

Got this one wrong gentlemen. Classic tune from a great band way back in the day. Early 70's S-Tier Banger.

Fun facts: Badfinger originally recorded the song" Without You", written by group members Pete Ham and Tom Evans; although Nilsson has the most famous version. This group was formed in 1961, originally called The Iveys and signed with The Beatles' Apple Records in 1968. The next year they changed their name to Badfinger. This group was discovered by Beatles "roadie" Mal Evans. The groups "Beatles-esque" sound is because Paul McCartney and George Harrison and produced two of their biggest hits "Come And Get It", also written by McCartney, and "Day After Day", respectively. George also plays slide guitar on the latter.

One of my favorite songs of ALL-TIME!!!

Used perfectly as the last song on the last episode of "Breaking Bad". Amazing song.

Yes, they did sound a lot like The Beatles. Two other Beatles connections are that Paul McCartney wrote and produced their 1st big hit, "Come and Get It", and George Harrison produced and played guitar on the song that I recommend for your next Badfinger song, "Day After Day". Other trivia: Badfinger wrote and did the original version of "Without You", a song that you know from Nilsson's version. It's on the same album as "No Matter What", which I would be glad to see appear on this channel. If you want to hear another Beatlesque power pop song by a band similar to Badfinger, try "Go All the Way" by The Raspberries.

When this was played in the finale of Breaking Bad I got goose bumps.

Next is their terrific melodic 1971 hit, "Day After Day." You also loved Harry Nilsson's cover of their ballad, "Without You." Remarkably, they were oldtimers, who formed way back in 1961, before the Beatles revolution. Evidently they were called The Iveys during that whole Beatles decade.

I don’t have a problem with any song resembling The Beatles. Fell out of my chair when I heard A-. This song is perfect in so many ways, IMO. Having a tough time remembering what criteria you guys use to qualify a song as an s-tier. Oh well, I guess there’s a rear end for every seat!

As a child of the 60's this was a song I grew up with. It has a lot of Beatles influence in it. Loved it then but when they used it in the finale of my fav show Breaking Bad it fit so perfect I cried a little.

Day After Day is a great song.

Day after Day is a bittersweet song - 🎶 looking out of my lonely room... 🎶

My All Time favorite song,perfect.

This song will now forever remind me of one of the best shows ever created Breaking Bad

"Day After Day" is one of their top tunes and the one that many people will think of automatically when you say the name "Badfinger".

This was me and my father's favorite song, and since he passed away more than three years ago, I listen to it every single day.

One of the best power pop tunes ever recorded. I still get shivers on the last verse. Produced by todd rundgren by the way (more todd guys!!).

S+ The song is nothing short of an S. Sounding like the Beatles in their case, and in the case of ELO who has also gotten the comparison is not a bad thing. Both bands were fantastic in their own right.

Finally you get to this one! Don’t let any Beatles influence make you think any less of this masterpiece. Power pop at it’s absolute peak!

“Day after Day” - same album, but produced by George Harrison- some great unison slide guitar work by George + Pete Ham

"Day After Day" should be the next Badfinger song on your list for a listen, and I would love to see your reaction to "No Matter What" made available on this channel.

Baby Blue was produced by Todd Rundgren on the Beatle's Apple label. Paul McCartney had a large influence on the Band's direction.

Badfinger was such a great band. Baby Blue and Day After Day are such good tunes.

BEST SONG TO CLOSE OUT AN AMAZING TV SERIES... BREAKING BAD !!! BEST FINIALLY EVER !!!

This was used in the series finale of Breaking Bad - a perfect song for saying goodbye to Walt's beloved blue meth.

Pure power pop. I wasn’t brought here by a TV show, but rather memories of a childhood summer, AM radio on a greasy garage shelf in a neighboring house, hanging with the older kids got a full contact football game, riding bikes until dark.

This song has my favorite drum fills. So awesome.

Great great song. Tragic story as they both died penniless because of their management stealing everything. Pete Ham and Tommy Evan's who wrote Without You that has been covered by Harry Nielson and Mariah Carey. Pete and Tommy both hung themselves in 1975 and 1983 respectively. RIP. George Harison produced so yes they have a Beatles sound but they were fabulous writers, musicians on their own. Day after Day should be next. They had 4 top 10 songs between 1970-1972 and only made a slight monthly allowance as their management convinced them they were stashing their real money away for their futures. So sad.

Another reason to be grateful for Vince Gilligan and 'Breaking Bad'. Without that I probably never hear this great song or learn about this great band.

"Baby Blue", "Come And Get It", "Day After Day" and "No Matter What" are the must listen 4 from Badfinger. The deeper cuts don't come close in my view, but "We're For The Dark" is strong and "Without You" became a standard after later covers.

Badfinger was peaking musically in a Beatles mode and beginning to explore their own themes when The Beatles broke up and in an instant their own label turned into a cesspool of lawyers fighting for the shares of the company and Badfinger were left to fend for themselves. Couldn’t play or perform their own songs and couldn’t get paid for any of their work over the preceding three years.

This is one of the most iconic songs of the 70’s, and Badfinger had so many great hits! Please keep them coming!

VERY disrespectful and irresponsible to imply that the great Pete Ham committed suicide because he "was sad that later albums were not as good.". That is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. There were several factors that led to Pete ending his own life... and the quality of the music was not one of them. If you're going to provide any biographical information on an artist or band, please make sure it's accurate information.

S+ without a second thought.

I’ am from the 60’s generation and when Bad Finger came ou , yes we thought they sounding like the Beatles but me and my friends we loved them.

Two members of Badfinger committed suicide. As others have mentioned, it is one of the most tragic stories in rock and roll. It wasn't because they were sad about their records. They were betrayed.

One of my favorite bands of all time. The album ASS is one of my favorite albums of all time!

YES!!! Badfinger was a great band. Pete Ham was a phenominal songwriter/musician/singer. Tragic story. He would have written the best songs and had a massive solo career after. "Without You" is one of the most covered songs...ever! Besides be scewed out of millions, the label held all of their albums due to not being paid by management. Pete was made of music so to not even have his music out there and be broke with a new home and pregnant girlfriend was way too much. He drank a bottle of wine after drinking all night, left a short note and hung himself. Tom, his friend and bass player (who may have been bipolar) hung himself 8 yrs later. His son found him in a tree.

One of my favorite bands ever.

Somewhere in my top 20 greatest songs ever, hands down.

My $0.02 - this is a Straight Up (heh) S-tier BANGER. One of the best songs of the 70s.

Great group, I loved this song so much, it came out when I was in Jr High. Their story is very tragic and I would love to see it made into a movie. They had a large number of hits.

Great song from a band with a tragic history. An AM radio staple that will always be part of my wasted youth.

Pete Ham was one of the best songwriters ever, his ability to create melodies is amazing-very sad and tragic story

Strong S-one of the best pop songs ever, and helped create perhaps the best TV show series ending ever-Breaking Bad.

I think of this one as the song played in the final moments of the show breaking bad

I decided a long time ago that sounding like The Beatles is a great compliment!

Always loved this song, but now I’ll always remember it as the finale for Breaking Bad.

Love this group. Badfinger were a Welsh rock band from the 60's-80's. They became the first group signed by the Beatles' Apple label. Come & Get It" was written & produced by Paul McCartney & "Day After Day" was produced by George Harrison. They had other hits such as "No Matter What", "Baby Blue" & "Without You" (written by Harry Nilsson). This group had quite a sad history. The band had bad mismanagement & lost most of their money, two members committed suicide & one died of a brain aneurysm.

Finally! Watied a while for some Badfinger reactions! Great song! I would like to set the record straight about some wrong info spread by people here: there is NO "lead singer" in the group. All 4 members contributed material. Basically, if 1 member wrote a song, they were the ones to sing lead vocals on it. The only exceptional cases were on some of the drummer's (Mike Gibbins's) songs. Also, this song was written by guitarist Pete Ham, who was (usually) their lead guitarist and principal songwriter along with the other guitarist, Joey Molland. Two of the band members, Ham and the bassist Tom Evans wrote the song "Without You". The Beatles didn't have much to do with Badfinger's music except for Paul writing a song for them ("Come and Get It") and George co-producing and playing guitar on their "Straight Up" album, on which "Baby Blue" is the 2nd track.

The best power pop song of all time!

The Beatles weren't super involved with them. Paul wrote their first single and George produced part of one of their albums but they wrote their own material . They are the beginning of power pop. I think they sound like them because they have the beautiful harmonies and super catchy melodies.

This is one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time, thanks for the reaction guys. Stan Polley, their manager robbed them blind, which led to Pete Ham's and Tom Evans' suicide, Ham even mentioned Polley in his suicide note. Even though their songs were big hits, and always got heavy radio play, they barely had two nickels to rub together. I love Badfinger, and I certainly hope Stan Polley is burning in hell right now for what he did to those guys. 😠

Shouldn’t be an issue…that’s who discovered them and they were very talented on their own!

Some very tragic back story with this band, there last album is a hidden rock gem, they're best album I think, its spectacular. Wish You Were Here is what it's called and the production is their best ever. A little history on the band they were on the apple label which the Beatles created and Paul McCartney wrote their first top ten hit (Come And Get It) and there debut album was a soundtrack to a film Magic Christian which Ringo Star played a main role in. Unfortunately one of there managers, Stan Polley robbed them dry and even after they had multiple songs topping the charts they still all lived in one house. Peter (the main singer and songwriter) committed suicide not long after his wife got pregnant in 1974 and hung him self in his garage which was devastating, peter tried calling Stan Polley endless times but he never answered and Peter just wanted to know why his money wasn't coming in because he just got a lease on the house and couldnt pay for it. After Stan Polley found out about Peters suicide, just to show how terrrible and disgusting he is, wanted to get Peters life insurance. And Tom (the bassist and Peter's best friend) committed suicide 8 years after and hung himself on a tree in his yard and his daughter found him. Absolutely tragic, one of rock and rolls history saddest stories truly.

Day After Day, No Matter What, Come and Get It. Badfinger has a lot of bangers.

Great Song by a criminally underappreciated band.

this song hit so hard as the finale to "Breaking Bad". It's perfect for it, written decades before the show.

Check out “Come and Get it” or “Day after Day” also. First time I heard these songs I thought they WERE the Beatles. They were like a Beatles tribute band!

If you haven’t hit Day After Day you MUST. One of the greatest songs ever imo. George Harrison on slide guitar.

"Day After Day" should be listened to, next. I don't ever remember saying to myself when the song came out, "That sounds like the Beatles." It is easier to make the comparison after years of listening to music and understanding the dynamics of the band. Great song, nonetheless.

Like all the Badfinger hits. Baby Blue has always been my favorite. Still have the 45. First concert I went to I was 14. It was Badfinger and Billy Preston. 😎

One of my all time favorites. You guys underrated it.

Oh yeah. Good tune. Badfinger. A very young me remembers this tune from the AM radio during car time and bar time with my dad after his weekly softball league games.

This song has now become synonymous with the finale of Breaking Bad. I can still remember watching Walt White bleeding out and dying while this song played...it was absolutely iconic. A great song and a great series.

If you want your soul crushed watched any documentary about Badfinger. Their albums sold great but their management stole most of the money and left them unable to pay their bills. The lead singer committed suicide and then a while later the base player(?) committed suicide. It's awful.

My father loves these guys. Maybe, the first power pop band. This band is a prime example of how the music industry can eat you up and spit you out. They wrote, Without you ' which Harry Nilsson covered. "Perfection", "Day After Day", "Name Of The Game" and "Take it all" are all great songs by them. George Harrison does some very good slide and guitar work on some of these songs.

Closing song in Breaking Bad’s last episode scene

Any resemblance to the Beatles certainly didn't hurt them, as they had a significant string of hits. This song was produced by Todd Rundgren, btw.

A&A, you'll love their "No Matter What", "Day After Day" and "Come And Get It"!!!

My ear is different. A+ - S. This is a stone-simple but near-perfect pop-rock song. We NEEDED more from the Beatles and we got this.

One of my favorites, though not as well known as some others, is Meanwhile Back at the Ranch/Should I Smoke. It rocks pretty hard, maybe harder than anything else they did?

They were my first concert. This is the song they opened with. I'll never forget it.

These guys have a few hits, and such a wonderful sound.

I had the great pleasure of seeing Badfinger perform this in 1971. Loved it then and still do! It was the perfect song to end my favorite TV series, Breaking Bad! Pure genius!

Lots of great music to choose from Badfinger! My rec would be "Name of the Game" (version with orchestra backing). If you want something more different, "Carry On" is really great in the folk-like idiom.

I didn’t realize back then how much they sounded beatlesque. Still A- for me. Lyrics and drums A+.

The big thing I like about you guys is that you let the song play through untl you react.

Come and get it..written by Paul

I have a rare book about the band. NO!! Pete wrote that way! George Harrison had massive repect for Pete's talent. He asked him to play at Bangladesh concert. He kicks azz on lead guitar!!

Badfinger was the gateway to what became the power pop era in the 70's through 2000's. There may have been some Beatles influence, but when you bite down on it, it is an entirely new sub-genre of music that had other fingerprints on it.

Bad Finger also wrote & first recorded the song "Without You" Covered ByHarry Nilsson.

I got to see them live once in the mid 80's with the surviving members. It was a fantastic show. Such a tragic story. RIP to the members that have passed.

Great choice. One of the best songs ever recorded

Perfectly chosen for the closing scene of "Breaking Bad".

If any single group can be credited with "inventing" power-pop, it's these guys.