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. ~ William Ruhlmann