Bad Company

Solid classic rock album.

There were a few in here i liked, but it didnt feel like they wanted it enough

It is a playfully album, for me it lacks a little more personality to be honest. I enjoy the old school sounds but I can't say I will revisit it anytime soon 3/5

ok

some metal band must have covered "Bad Company" in the 00ies and i quite liked it. it's so distant now that i don't even bother doing research, who it was. the album is alright and i've heard most of the songs before. typical 3-star material without any hiccups but also not really any highlights.

Interesante. Me encanta la portada. Me he guardado Seagull que me parece preciosa y Rock Steady.

Straightforward pop rock - wasn't all bad then, not all bad today.

Disco mistura rock clássico/ básico com alguns temas mais melodiosos interessantes.

Good music for its era, but its era has long since passed and now the songs seem dated.

Maybe I like seventies rock too much and I'm more critical towards the genre. Bad Company id nothing i've never heard before. A good but interesting album. Shouldn't be here.

Some very tame dad rock, in spite of the name

1074 - "Here's your juice box and orange slice. Thanks for coming."

This album is 5x platinum. Which is so curious to me because it's totally fine. But - FIVE TIMES PLATINUM? There just isn't anything that outstanding about these songs. They're catchy. The performances are good, especially Rodgers's vocals. But maybe I'm just looking at this the wrong way. Maybe this album is just the best representation of what audiences in the 70s wanted out of their rock. Nothing too dramatic, or noodly, or dynamic, or introspective. Just - straight ahead rock about how much a dude wants chicks. Which is the one real detractor for me with this record. Just about every song is about how much this dude wants "love" RIGHT NOW. Like ok. We get it. You're horny. It's fine. And mericfully short at 34 minutes. An extra star for brevity! THREE STARS

Ba(lla)d Company

A debut album that sounds like a debut album. Fairly basic and doesn’t really jump out beyond the singles. Short, but still drags at times. Rating: 6/10 Favorite Song: Ready for Love, Bad Company

Yea bro whatever. He likes having sex. Good for him. Probably without consent, too. He is a rock guy from the 70s, so it's more likely then not.

boring

nahhhh

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Zzz

Dit is wel lekkere muziek.

If you are aura farming in a jean jacket in 1976 this is the album for you. I don't really know how to assess this album. A lot of the tracks got played to death on classic rock radio stations so I was pretty familiar. It's not outright bad. There are some iconic guitar riffs in there. I don't really like the singing but I can see why people would. I just don't feel strongly that this is a must-hear album.

Solid rock album with some classics on it.

How is this a UK band? And what's super about this supergroup? American sounding grandad rock - and I like some of it! A couple strong tracks, an American washed sound.

Sonido 70´s, Rock de toda la vida. Uno de esos supergrupos británicos de principios de los 70. Originalmente estuvo integrado por exmiembros de la banda Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mick Ralphs (exmiembro de Mott the Hoople) y Boz Burrell (exmiembro de King Crimson). Conocidos por su tema estrella: Can't Get Enough. Rock Steady más rock duro. No son Deep Purple, son más rock que rock duro, pero la voz de Rogers aguanta todo. Luce especialmente en otro de los mejores temas del álbum: Bad Company. The way I choose, baladón (basa en Don´t let me down) que marca el camino para todo el AOR y baladas heavies posteriores. Movin' On suena a la CCR y Seagull a esos acústicos de Led Zeppelin. Versiones: Don´t let me down, que no aporta mucho.

nice

I mean, I know they were signed to Led Zeppelin’s record label, but it does just kind of sound like a watered down version of Zeppelin.

Really nice surprise, hadn’t listened before but this is a cracking wee album

Now this is some good old-fashioned rock and roll!

Loved it

Rock clásico con una gran voz Paul Rodgers y muy buenos instrumentistas. No se complican la vida y resultan muy disfrutables.

I like his voice

this is smoothbrain fun I guess? Nothing wrong with any of it...don't think it would crack my top 1001 albums of all time though!

The real question is this, in a battle between Bad Company and the Eagles, who would win the Dad Rock/Boomer Rock crown? It seems the edge has to go to the Eagles, but man, it would be close.

Any time I was asked by someone about which album was the best classic rock album, I would always answer: Bad Company - Bad Company. They caught magic in a bottle here. A band having fun and with incredible blues and rock chops, with one of the greatest vocalists rock music ever had. The songs are classic rock staples to this day. 5/5 and one of my favourite albums of all time.

I’m a sucker for this early 70s rock sound. Reminds me of just chilling on the back porch on a hot summer evening.

Nice dad rock. Great riffs. Slow builds on some songs.

Я не поняла я это уже слушала или нет

My first 5 star. Phenomenal.

One of the most successful supergroups in history, it brought together former members of major bands of the era: Free, Mott the Hoople, and King Crimson. Drawing on their experience and class, these four guys recorded one of the decade's best albums in just ten days. Each of their mothers could rightly exclaim, "Son, you’ve fallen in with a bad company!" — to which the son could proudly reply, "Mom, I founded it." The music here can be described using the term "dad rock" — a label that is simultaneously complimentary and disparaging. It consists of country-tinged blues and ballads — mostly mid-tempo, though some tracks even have a danceable groove. Listening to it evokes the feeling of riding a Wild West steed — only that steed is galloping down a highway. If your dad listens to old-school rock 'n' roll, he’ll like Bad Company. If you like Bad Company, you might want to consider becoming a dad yourself — if you haven't already.

Я ее основал

Hard rock in the early 1970s was actually pretty manageable, and often very good!

Its hard to belive this once was groundbreaking.

It is an okay album.

Leuke ontdekking!

♥️♥️♥️

Bien

Bad Company (Bad Company, Bad Company, 1974) is the best Bad Company song on Bad Company named Bad Company. In all seriousness: this is a great snapshot of mid-70s classic rock, sporting the slightly American-twanged soft-rock vocal that was all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. On the British side, The Rolling Stones made up the vanguard, with Led Zeppelin, the Who, and Def Leppard not far behind. A simple I-IV-V chord progression and riff in the opener, Can't Get Enough. It's the sort of thing you could listen to for hours – and, collectively, you probably have listened to hours of songs that cling to this same formula. There are dozens, though the only one I can think of right now is Angry, the modern Rolling Stones single. There's a damn good reason for being formulaic, though: it's an excellent thing to copycat. We get to a positive foot-tapping groove in the aptly named Rock Steady. Very driven. Takes a moment to work out the rhythm at the beginning, but I love that sort of thing. Great riff that I wish had gotten developed more in the guitar solo (though still a solid solo). Bad Company demonstrates their mood versatility in the slow, beautifully expressive Ready For Love. (Mood versatility is what usually separates 3-star from 4-star records, in my eyes.) That brief breakdown at the halfway mark and the soft piano solo that follows may be the finest point on the entire LP. The verses in Don't Let Me Down shine with understated emotion – nice piano and drums – but the chorus sounds so much like a Beatles knock-off that I had to check whether this was an original composition. (It was.) The main melody of the title track reminds me of No Quarter (Led Zeppelin). Though the atmosphere differs completely, I have to imagine Bad Company took some inspiration. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the two bands somewhat riffed off each other in the 1974/5 era. Regardless: fantastic song. The Way I Choose makes a slightly risky move, being the second slow 6/8 blues track on the record (out of eight tracks overall). Still, it's played very well, particularly those saxes in the background. Movin' On uses a similar riff to Can't Get Enough, plus a ridiculously driving rhythm. I don't quite understand Seagull, as a closing track or even just as a Bad Company song. A standard Mixolydian progression (VIIb-IV-I), some nice acoustic guitar and vocals... and not much else. That last bar of twinkly guitar is pretty pristine, though. 4/5 Key tracks: Can't Get Enough, Bad Company

Reminds me of arctic monkeys

This is just a great rock record. You don’t realize you know most of the songs and you heard them in the background on classic rock radio for years and never pay attention. But the songs are good. Paul Rodger’s voice is what I would imagine AI would come up with if you had to generate a male rock and roll singers voice. Everything about this feels organic. I don’t know if that’s the right word but it feels like it fits. Organically.

A supergroup (former members of Free, Mott the Hoople and King Crimson), the first ever release on Zeppelin's Swanson label, one of the biggest selling albums of the 70s, a major hit in 'Can't get enough' and a rock classic in 'Seagull', and a classic rock magazine favourite. I don't think the music fully lives up to the sum of the parts, no bad tracks but only two really significant ones but I think I am seriously late to the party with this band. Still good to hear a rock album for the first time.

I bet my dad loves this album. I enjoyed the vocals and the title track in particular. The ballads were hit or miss. I think the band should have picked a name that sounds more like their sound…I thought I was in for an early punk album. So in that respect I was pleasantly surprised as my thoughts on early punk music is well documented at this point.

Like it 3/5

This is OK. Like a heavier sounding Rolling Stones. Good production and singing. The songs are OK but just a little dull. Probably 3.5 but I'll round it it to 4.

Surprised that there's no 10 minute or longer tracks. 1/5

Pretty mediocre

Not really enjoying this album. Like a 2 star for me.

Middle of the road classic rock. Not great. Not terrible. Lots of radio hits, but none that I’m ever too excited to hear.

snooze-fest...even with the classic rock mainstays wikipedia calls this blues rock but i barely find any blues and it's pretty pussy rock if you ask me

You're always in trouble if the best track on your album is a cover. Bored company!

This is #day764 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… here's to hard rock meeting blues rock in the mid-'70s. Pretty good company, right? I either forgot or didn't know Paul Rodgers was a vocalist for this band. Shame on me, but I only learned about him when Queen released a record with him in 2008. Most of the time, though, I prefer the music to the vocals on this one. This is a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day765.

Turgid. As an aside, I've been listening to Free (precursor band) as a consequence of watching Life on Mars (UK TV series) which has a great soundtrack of early 70s British hard rock. I only knew Free from All Right Now which suffers from overexposure. Turns that they have some good songs - Wishing Well, Little Bit of Love - and are 1000% less dirge-like than these guys. By inference, Paul Kossoff + Andy Fraser > Mick Ralphs + Boz Burrell.

I was surprised to be as underwhelmed as I was.

A lot of hits for one album, although too redneck for me.

It sounds like dad rock now, but when those dads were in junior high, it was just junior high rock; I can still see those graffitied desks. Sure, it's heavy and boring, but the dude can sing.

Look, by now these songs are so overplayed on classic rock stations. But they are overplayed because they are great songs! And the albums is jam packed with them. It doesn't quite reach the level of Boston's first album, but it's darn close.

Apple Music describes this album as "the definition of no-nonsense '70s hard rock", but if it's no-nonsense, I'm not sure what else it is. The lyrics on this one are especially nursey-rhyme level.

This is Bad Co’s debut album. It’s rare that I know 75% of the songs on one of these albums, but it’s true today. Bad Co. had the benefit of debuting just as AOR was becoming popular, so their songs were played a lot (they still are played a lot on classic rock radio). That explains how I know six songs on this record. A four-star rating - not because I necessarily like Bad Company, but more because their debut is well done.

More 70s English bands..... they even have "bad" right in the name! This sounds more "oldies" mixed with the band 'Europe' than "70s", though, which is good. I rate them: middling company.

Good old fashioned QFM rock n roll. I had the follow up album Straight Shooter on cassette when I was in 8th grade and kind of prefer that, but this feels like a more consistent album of early 70s rocking.

How do I know every song on this album? I don't seek it out, I just know them all.

Banger

It kind of annoyed me that it opens with them singing about how they can’t get enough love but then two songs later they’re going on about how they are ready for love. I just feel they should play the other way around. I don’t think I’d enjoy the album anymore but at least it would make more sense. This is very generic rock, the kind of rock that plays on beaten up stereos in garages across America. Super repetitive too, I don’t care for this at all. Also, of all the birds to sing about, seagulls? Really dude, you wrote a ballad about seagulls. They can’t get enough but I had more than enough of this. 2 stars

Great grove

Not quite sure I would describe this as hard rock. Definitely feels a bit squidgy to me.

A solid middle of the road 70s rock offering. It flows nicely and has you tapping your feet. It’s just a little to plodding and slow for me.

Given I thought they were an American hardcore outfit, I was somewhat surprised by what I got. And given who they are I’m surprised I wasn’t really aware of them (other than the opening track). Anyway, it’s somewhat of a plodder somewhere between hard and soft rock, which makes it something like ‘Firm Rock’ or ‘Moderate Rock’? Reasonable enough listen, but let’s face it there’s a tonne of more exciting stuff from this era.

I had heard of this lot, well who hasn't? But not really heard anything, except the famous ones, by them. But I had just always written them off as a middle of the road AOR sort of band. Which essentially they are. Problem is, they do it phenomenonally well. They have a great sound and its a great album, I really enjoyed it, can't see how I could possibly justify giving it less than 4

Superb stuff. Easy to listen to rock. Great vocalist.

Great name for a band, great name for an album. It would sum up it's place in my record collection if for some reason I bought it as a peculiar drunk purchase. Luckily there is not enough alcohol in the world for this to actually happen. What can I say about it? Generic heavy rock, it could have been Whitesnake for all I know or care.

I don't know exactly how to explain it but this is just the most grey rock and roll ever made.

Wow. All albums were excellent.

Top. Notch. Rock.

Favorite songs: Ready for Love, Bad Company, Movin’ On

a same-y album even has a same-y beatlesq song

Good thing that Classic Rock radio has guaranteed that no one will die without hearing this album.

Considered giving this a 2, because the titular song is a banger. But the rest is just soooo boring and tepid.

Oh, vidim, da sm spet v nekem roadhouse baru sred Amerike. (Čeprav so British band.) Was it worth it to make a supergroup for this ("Can't Get Enough")? Hmmmm... "Rock Steady" je mal boljš. Mal. Sm hotla napisat, da se na splošno izboljša tekom albuma, sam fora je da, great musicians, don't equal great artists. Or great lyricists.

Not quite anything but is trying to be.

Generic. Boring.

After the first track the music is fairly pedestrian. No innovative sounds here zzzzz.

Good blues rock. This album holds up very well. I thought this was a '90s/'00s album until I checked the release date. My only complaint is that the production is a little basic. My favorite track was "Ready for Love". 3.5 stars.

Surprisingly good and poppy for classic rock.

Soft rock. Disto guitare, grosse caisse présente. Je trouve le rythme un peu répétitif dans chaque musique. Je m’ennuies assez vite pendant l’écoute. 2,5/5

The rockiest rock album you'll probably e'er hear, & unfortunately that's a bad thing. Sounding like a bored & perfunctory Allman Brothers, Bad Co.'s a supergroup featuring no superstars, which ain't so super to me. But the unknowns of the rock world - well, unknown to moi - deserve to be heard, no doubt. It just so happens that I couldn't care less what Rodgers, Ralphs, Burrell, & Kirke have got to say. 'Finding out along the way / What it takes to keep love living / You should know how it feels, my friend.' Save 'The Way I Choose,' a decent, heartfelt ballad, their debut is actually worse than what I've heard from Deep Purple. Maybe it's Burrell's prog sentiments, or perhaps it’s their shitty Southern USA imitations. Prob both - I can do w/o.

Totally unremarkable, not one song worth recognizing. Mercifully short.

The number of bangers on this album would be a greatest hits compilation for other bands. Debut album to boot.

Turns out, sometimes these bands stick around because they're pretty good! I liked a lot of em, but there were some stinkers especially w lyrics.

Bra klassisk rock. 7/10

Average company