Straight Up
by Badfinger

Album
Straight Up by Badfinger
Year: 1971
Release date: 1971-12-13
Overall rank: 2,386th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 148 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1971 (53rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (428th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,386th)

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Badfinger bestography

Straight Up is ranked as the best album by Badfinger.

Badfinger album bestography « Higher ranked
- This album (2,386th)
Straight Up Lower ranked (5,410th) »
No Dice

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Straight Up track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Take It All
Average Rating: 82 (37 votes)Comments: View 0
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Baby Blue
Average Rating: 86 (63 votes)Comments: View 2
3.
Money
Average Rating: 78 (34 votes)Comments: View 1
4.
Flying
Average Rating: 77 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
I'd Die Babe
Average Rating: 80 (33 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Name Of The Game
Average Rating: 83 (41 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
Suitcase
Average Rating: 76 (29 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Sweet Tuesday
Average Rating: 79 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
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Day After Day
Average Rating: 86 (58 votes)Comments: View 1
10.
Sometimes
Average Rating: 79 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
Perfection
Average Rating: 78 (33 votes)Comments: View 0
12.
It's Over
Average Rating: 79 (32 votes)Comments: View 0

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Straight Up rankings

Straight Up rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,386th | 1970s rank: 428th | 1971 rank: 53rd  Overall chart history
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Straight Up ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 148 votes)
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 !		09/16/2026 16:28 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,98565/100
 
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 !		08/25/2026 18:01 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,81136/100
 
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 !		05/13/2026 03:23 Philly28  Ratings distribution  96869/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.


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Straight Up forum mentions

This album has been referenced 19 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From BestEverAlbums 08/31/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5421): By Simon_bramhall
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Simon_bramhall () 1. by (1973) 2. by by (1969) 4. by (1977) 6. by (1969) 7. (1966) 8. by (1975) 9. by (1968) 11. by by by by (1969) 15. by by by (1973) 18. (1972) 19. by (2009) 20. (1973) 21. by (1987) 22. by (1971) 23. by by (1973) 25.…”
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From MadhattanJack 04/01/2025 09:10 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From CharlieBarley 06/01/2024 01:05 in Working My Way Through The BEA Overall Chart
“#.2246: I liked this album. Variety in the songs in terms of styles and singers and composers.”
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From 06/05/2012 19:36 | #43862 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
There is an interesting history to this album. Actually Badfinger's third album was ready for release in spring 1971, but for several reasons Apple would not release the album. Some of the songs were re-recorded while others were simply scrapped. Fortunately these songs have surfaced in recent years as bonus-tracks on "Straight Up" and "No Dice". Amongs these are gems like "I'll Be the One", "Baby Please", "Sing for the Song" and great alternate versions of "Name of the Game" and "Perfection" produced by Geoff Emerick (Edited)
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From 07/25/2016 01:17 | #171767
Favoritas: Baby Blue, Day After Day, Name Of The Game, Take It All
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