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Great album, if you like blues rock
Very strong entry in the “greatest rock vocalist” generic classic rock sub-genre. It’s cool when someone acknowledges they’re bad news 😎
Solid rock. A good time jamming.
til the day i die
Good company
mej
Sometimes I forget that I’m the daughter of a Hot Rods Guy™️. Then I hear music like Bad Company, and something deep in my soul awakens, and I’m holding a flashlight while ‘70s butt rock plays over a crappy Walkman radio on my Dad’s workbench. That said, only half of this album is cool and actually rocks. The other half, strangely enough, is mostly ballads, for some reason. And they mostly suck. Like, I get that this was a ✨thing✨ at the time, but they’ve all aged like milk. By now, trying to listen to a lame hard rock ballad is like drinking from a Garfield glass made with lead paint. Still, the songs that rock do kick ass. Maybe they’re not the pinnacle of this type of music, but they’re pretty good. Especially Side A. That said, I don’t think they are good enough to be essential. Even if this whole album kicked ass, while I’d definitely enjoy it more, I don’t know if it would make it any more essential. Influential, maybe, but the bands it influenced are not good and not represented on this list. And that’s just what Bad Company could sound like in theory. As it is, though, ballads and all, I find Bad Company to be even less important. A few staple cuts for classic rock radio, sure, but the full album does not belong on here. But hey, the triple self-titled thing, that’s gotta count for something!
Great production on this rock record with lots of highs. Good voice and catchy choruses with complimenting instrumental work. Nice
It's like a short but underwhelming yacht ride. Trite.
Yes I listened
Pretty good!
ok
Very good classic rock. An easy, enjoyable listen but did not contain enough quality to merit 5 stars.
Typical dad rock stuff, could be better
Dull 70s rock
I get it, but I don't want it
Basic 70s guitar rock.
Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.
Nice album. This is just classic hard rock. Great vocals, nice guitars, and punchy vibe. ***
Solid album, Bad Company the song is a classic. None of the other songs stood out to me but were good background songs to listen to while working.
Enjoyed Bad Company more than expected! Pretty sweet rock tunes. Will check out more of them!
wow, that was forgetable.
This band has a few good songs. The one where they say their own name is one of those.
Really thought I'd like this more
culerisimo
Basic classic rock.
Much preferred Free/Mott the Hoople/King Crimson before BC formed. Average rock, but never better than that.
Calling this bland is an understatement of the century. This is just literally white noise. Plain oatmeal. ChatGPT output for the prompt "generate a generic 70s rock song". Insert other notoriously bland things here. Extra egregious, because the album cover made me think this could be Krautrock or something at least 1% cooler. Boo.
Lof
Maybe this was really exciting stuff back in the day but it mostly just felt like generic dad rock in this listen. Some pretty weak lyrics all around too.
Innocent enough. An easy listen if boring a.f.
It's Dad Rock but it's actually just a really solid album.
This was my first time listening to the whole album and honestly a lot of it sounded the same and was one note.
This one is right up in the middle of the bell curve. 3/5
Superb.
Great album
Helt og aldeles middelmådigt selskab imo! Sangeren turnerede med Queen i 00’erne lol, de udgav et album med originalt musik og det var ikke et succesfuldt eksperiment
Sagde mig ikke så meget
Lige præcis sådan jeg regner med at min 70'er rock skal lyde! Mon sangen Bad Company med gruppen Bad Company fra pladen Bad Company var grunden til at de lavede en helt plade?
This was a pretty standard sounding blues based rock/folk album with some nice sounding production for the time. Luckily I'm massively into that.
This is just a great, up the middle classic rock album.
Brilliant. Every song. Paul Roger’s voice.
My favorite Album!
Haven't listened to this album for years. From the opening track "Can't Get Enough", through the title track "Bad Company", to the closing track "Seagull", this is a classic 1970s rock album.
5.0 - Vinyl
Great album start to finish
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS ALBUM! I literally looked at the list of albums, noticed the album cover thinking it was Bad Company and thought "Wait, is Bad Company on the list?" I went to check and realized that they're on here and thought "Oh cool, another artist on the list that was referenced in JoJo!" Not even a minute later, I clicked the next album button and Bad Company is right there! HOW?!?!! Weird mind powers aside, this album's pretty good. I'd say it's one of the better 70s rock albums I've listened to. The sound is solid and so is the singing. The writing is alright. A bit repetitive, but mostly pretty good. The album's nice and short so it doesn't drag. This is just a good experience. They may call themselves a Bad Company, but they're pretty good in my eyes. 4/5.
Like the guitar
This was a fun one. Kind of basic but fun to listen to, none the less.
Classic dad rock, iconic voice, short duration. The non-hits are a bit forgettable
Jamais entendu à l'époque. Mais rien de marquant.
post-Free Boro singer Paul Rodgers in a pretty good blues/rock effort
Great record, probably a top ten best debut album.
Classic 70s rock. Fine, but maybe lacking some excitement.
Really good album from beginning to end. Just a great 70s rock album.
With hits like Can't get enough of your love and Feel like makin' love, this band is "classic rock" muzak of the highest order.
Pure distilled WMGK classic rock.
not bad, not great. pretty decent album that good to have on in the background, but nothing earth shattering for me
uncle music (derogatory)
Very strong for a debut record. Such an iconic lead vocalist with some great hard rocking riffs throughout the record.
Excellent
Interesting supergroup of relatively unknown musicians. Sounded good! 6/10
I guess I understand why this album made the list. It has multiple songs that remain in the classic rock zeitgeist. For me personally I’ve never cared much for the hits off this album and the non-hits aren’t great either. The title track is the only one I can tolerate, the rest bore me. This is one that maybe “rocked” in 1974, but feels so tame and uninteresting now.
The most generic rock
This one is like a good pair of old boots: Nothing fancy, the brand no longer exists and they won’t impress anybody, but they do what they’re supposed to do very well.
Bad Company is ridiculous. They are not really for me, but are fun enough. Give me both Styx and Foreigner over them any day.
Surprisingly rocking.
Schmaltzy arena rock. All the songs sound basically the same.
This is pretty boilerplate 1970s rock, but pretty well-executed. Very basic sound, but solidly done basic stuff. Solid drums and guitar work.
Bad Company by Bad Company from the album Bad Company. Not my favorite album of theirs, but I understand why this is the one chosen for the list. Probably like a 4.5 but rounding up.
Classic album, I LOVED it. Been listening to them all day long.
I don't hate it but don't particularly care for it either. Dumb to the point where I think it's meant to be ironic but the ballads might suggest otherwise. My enjoyment is also hindered by how repetitive or similar it all sounds.
Competent but uninspiring rock music.
Honestly a better rock album than most on this list
Fine but nothing too memorable imo
Classic Classic Rock. Not a Bad Song on the Album and Great Example what should be on this list. 4.5 rounded up to 5 stars
Great classic rock!
Solid stuff. Pretty chill old school rock.
Do these dudes wear acid wash jeans, white tennis shoes, and play at state fairs across the US? C’mon.
I liked the inclusion of keys on some of the tracks. For a supergroup they didn't really stand out to me though. Not bad, but they didn't grab my attention.
Oh seagull, I thought you'd be better!
Classic rock with a pop flare at some of it's finest. Not every song on the album is great, but when it hits, it hits just right. \"Have you heard Bad Company by the band Bad Company of their album Bad Company?\"
It’s 70s rock album and it sounds like a 70s rock album. If you like 70s rock albums you’re going to go crazy for this. If you think 70s rock albums just sound like 70s rock albums then this 70s rock album will just sound like a 70s rock album. It’s not bad, but it just feels very uninteresting to me. There are so many similar albums on this list; we don’t need all of them.
This was just really boring. Nothing interesting.
kuuluttu nimi. haisee ison bändi metkut, mutt koskaan tultu kuunneltua.. jaha ja alkaa niin askalla geneerisellä rokillla ja hold up.. hold... wait a minute... jotain on vialla... transformaatio... kyllä .. TRANSU ALBUMI... toinen puolisko on vitun hyvä.. eka leikeltiin vaan vähän palloa heiluteltiin nenän edessä ja sitten vittu saalistamaan saatana... loppuu jopa vähän lyhyeen mutta pacing on kyllä kova jättää pikkasen hinkumaan vähän voivottelemaan jättää.. respektiä bändille... we are the... bad company
Not bad by any means. Quite good bluesy hard classic rock. Just not really my taste.
I'm a sucker for blues rock, this was really solid.
See, I'm giving the same numerical rating as SOMETHING ELSE BY THE KINKS by The Kinks, but believe me that this a much more positive 3.'Cuz... Man, I'unno. As much as I wanna pretend that I have good, approvable taste in music—even if I don't sway much outside the mainstream—in my heart of hearts, I can't help but be a bit of a dad rock girlie. It's nothing terribly special or memorable, but in the moment it's fun times. Plus, it's just fun that this group has a self-titled song on a self-titled album. That's the first and maybe only reason you'd put 'em next to Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Black Sabbath and Living In A Box.
A powerhouse of a debut. Only heard the title track before, so I was expecting similar tracks to that, but the way they have such variety on each of the other tracks was such a pleasent surprise.
I think the first half of the album is a 3, and the back half of the album is a 4, so once again, I’m at a 3.5 that I wish I could keep there. I think I’m gonna bump it down to a 3. Ultimately, it’s because I think too many songs suffer from extended periods where everything just sort of blends together for too long. There’s not a single bad song on here, but so many of them just fade into the background after a bit while listening. That wouldn’t be so bad if the entire album had great instrumental pieces, but I find the first half of the album to be a little bland and a bit generic in its instrumentation, so it really sticks out when those songs blend into the background. The second half of the album is great, and doesn’t suffer from it as badly because they have great instrumentation and just better all-around vibes. However, they do suffer from it. It’s a 3.5, but I’ll round it down for that. Another solid 7/10 album.
This album feels very generic to me in all facets. The name of the band feels like the first thing a bunch of bikers would think of when naming a band. The music feels like a weird Lynyrd Skynyrd copy with some more soul stuff thrown in. Really, the thing as a whole just feels surface level. It isn't anything offensive, but it drags, with repetitive lyrics (it is blues rock after all) and a general formula of building the song up way too quick. The final two-to-three minutes of nearly every track tend to feel useless, or at the very least, annoying. It tries to do this deep-down “I love you so” soul thing a lot, but it feels disingenuous. The lead singer, Paul Rodgers, just doesn't have it in him to swing with the best of them, but I suppose I can respect the trying nature? I don't know, when I listen to this I only think of better 70s rock to listen to, and very little else. Guitar playing is the best part, but it's still forgettable. Not technically a “bad” album, but let's just say the band and album name is apt.
We have a rare triple name between the song, album, and band name in Bad Company, which is a certified banger of a song. Covered by a thousand bands, but because it's quite good. As for the album on a whole, this is quintessential dad rock and what I would expect to find on a classic rock radio station. Most of it is forgettable or cheesy anthem rock, though I also liked Ready for Love.
Gewoon prima, niets speciaals
Just totally fine. Nothing remarkable, nothing terrible. Just fine while it was on and that's pretty much it
I don't have anything really to remark on this album. I thought it was all right. I still don't think I understand quite how to enjoy classic rock. The only stand out now that I've listened to the album was "Bad Company", and that's probably just because I've heard it before. I actually loved the finale, "Seagull": beautiful chord progressions, simple, and sweet.
This album is special to me. My dad introduced me to it when I was listening to some hard rock back in high school. I loved it. I think all the songs just really flow well together and even though I guess I'd classify it as hard rock, it's pretty easy listening. Classic rock, easy listening, and nostalgic. Triple win.
Great vocals. they have a simple, clean sound. This album has sleepy Hozier level of energy, which I found doesn't match with the electric guitar riffs and other rock music trappings when they're basically singing ballads.
Cheese.
Will probably Never listen to this album again, everything sounds the same
This album is peak unoffensive mid-'70s "hard" rock. It is consistently fine, and pretty much never more than that. I guess Bad Company is a "supergroup" of guys from the bands Free, Mott the Hoople, and King Crimson. I don't know any Free, but I find this less interesting than the Mott the Hoople and King Crimson albums that I've gotten on here so far. "Ready For Love" is actually a Mott the Hoople cover. Perfectly fine sound, well-produced, I like the singer's voice, and yet something is just missing for me. It's ok but hard to get to excited for this. I'm also pretty convinced the best song on here isn't one of their popular ones, "Seagull" slaps to finish the album. "Bad Company" the song is mid. Favorite song: Seagull Other: Can't Get Enough, Ready For Love, Bad Company, The Way I Choose 4/16/24
After a couple bad albums, this comes up. Classic. Thank you. Standouts: Can’t Get Enough, rock steady, Ready for Love, Bad Company, Movin’ On 4.5
Yup
This is some of the blandest, uninteresting, and generic dad rock I've gotten so far. I rank them even lower than Deep Purple, because at least they had some genuinely influential and innovative songs. This is just boring shite - hard rock for people who find Led Zeppelin too "artistic".
rokanrolito bien de fa años. 4/5 5to resultado en youtube, y en youtube music no esta. Tan importantes no seran estos
The company is good, the music just OK. Classic 70's rock is not my jam but I appreciate the anthems, the sweet rock-n-roll love songs, and dreamy ballads made to be paired with weed and patchouli.
Felt a little too polished, pretty sure every song is about fucking, overall it was a good time.
I can’t get enough of Paul Roger’s. Underrated singer..
4/9/24. Meh, not bad music but forgettable rock & roll from the 70s. Perhaps I should listen again to give a more favorable review, but first impression was mild.
Sure, ok.
I didn’t expect this to be a 5, but I didn’t expected it to be a 1 either. A long while back I gave an LCD Soundsystem record a 1 and called it “gruel for millennials”. This here is gruel for boomers. If you took all the Classic Rock in the world and averaged it and flattened it out into one thing, it would be this. Most of what I previously knew about Bad Company is that whenever the Rock and Roll HOF announcements come out, people get mad BC isn’t in there. That is so funny now that I’ve actually listened to them. It’s like insisting that plain rice crackers should be in the Chips Hall of Fame.
I enjoyed that
Not bad
Great album
Well, I knew more songs than I thought I would on that album. I know the band. I know their sound. An original hard rock supergroup.
Some great anthems and a pretty deep second side.
Had never listened to this whole album. Really enjoyed it.
Good but not great. Paul Rogers vocals were the highlight but the guitar and drums felt mundane.
Bad Company and Ready For Love are standout tracks. The rest of the album wasn't.
Standouts: Bad Company, Can’t Get Enough, Ready for Love, Rock Steady, Movin’ On, 4.5
Surprisingly very good. Movin on, is the only song that doesn’t belong.
This is my music here, probably going to be called Dad rock by others. Just great jams that remind me of listening to classic rock in my brother's car when he drove me to school. Their eponymous song is still just a classic I will never get tired of.
This was boring
It was alright but nothing actually bringing me back to ever give it another go for the full album.
Prototype boomer dad rock. Nothing stellar but enjoyable enough
I do love some overly earnest sounding arena rock. Not as good as others examples of it. Perhaps a bad sign that The Cars Just What I Needed came on after and was 100% better. Still fun though
Prototypical classic / dad rock. Def didn’t hate it but wouldn’t seek it out.
70s rock through and through. Good 70s rock, but still sounds so much like so many others.
Solid, almost a 4
Very meh about this one
If you have listened to classic rock radio at all in the past 30 years, you've heard Bad Company. The problem is that the hits are good to great, but they only make up 3/8 of the album. The other stuff is.... not so good. The lyrics are trite ("I get up in the morning and it's just another day, pack up my belongings and I've got to get away..."), and the songs almost sound like they're ripped off of other songs. "Don't Let Me Down" sounds almost like "Give Peace A Chance," which is maddening. One of the things that I did not know is the difference between this band and Free. There are a number of songs here that I thought were from Free (same singer, so...?). Of the non-hit songs, "Seagull" is decent, but the whole lyric "And you fly all around 'til somebody shoots you down." seems kinda... morbid. How many people are shooting down seagulls? What did they ever do to YOU? So I'm going to give it a middling grade because you can't have only half of the songs be good. So 3 it is.
Bad Company was another band I was a fan of when I first got into classic rock. And there was nothing a few of my friends loved better than to ask each other whether we knew/liked the song Bad Company - to which someone would reply "you mean by the band Bad Company off the album Bad Company?" There was some reverence there but also a realization of the pure cheese of it all. Which kind of goes to this entire album - they do some straight-ahead hard rocking and Paul Rodgers has the big vocals to match, but the lyrics are a little juvenile. But what can you say for a band whose biggest song is called Feel Like Makin Love? The point wasn't to be Shakespeare put to music, it was to ooze machismo, sexiness, and cool. And they do a pretty good job of that. Can't Get Enough of Your Love is such an energetic, rocking tune while Ready For Love is a sexier rock ballad, punctuated by sultry guitar work. The title track is maybe their best and most complex work on the album, both musically and lyrically. Still, there's still more than half of an album to fill out after that. I know Rock Steady and Movin On fairly well, and they're decent tunes but not as high quality musically as the others and my god, those lyrics. I'm sure these guys got laid a lot, and maybe that's all that mattered. As much as I liked Bad Company, I liked their hits scattered across multiple albums and they don't have enough stuff to hold up an entire album. 3.5 at best but I gotta round down for the cheese.
I mean, it's fine. I've heard all of these songs a billion times through osmosis. Nice production, but it's all pretty standard blues rock.
Not Bad, just average.
I own and have listened to it. Classic live show with JB at the peak of his powers.
Yeah quite bad
Unreal. Great rock album. Listened 5x
It’s fine.
For a “supergroup” this isn’t that super
Didn’t mind it, but wasn’t particularly impressed or intrigued. I was pleased that it was only 34 mins. I think a lot of the albums recently have been way too long. If my favorite thing about an album is that it’s short, prob can’t go above 2 star.
I can’t think of another band that has a song title that’s the name of their group on a self-titled debut album. Talk about some cojones. I thought this was a pretty good classic rock album. There were a couple memorable songs like Don’t Let Me Down and the aforementioned Bad Company but nothing that stood out too much from the crowd. When I think about what classic rock sounds like, this is a pretty general style that pops into my head.
I wonder how many artists can say that their greatest hit is their self title song off their self titled album? Bad Company: Bad Company - Bad Company Not every album needs to be deep and meaningful. Sometimes "I want you to stay, I want you today, I'm ready for love, baby I'm ready for love" is all you need to say. This was a solid rock album start to finish. It's not going to change anyone's life, but I'm sure most people would enjoy it.
Bad Company has a couple standout songs. They’re not on this album
Yet another example of this list's bias for the middest of dad rock. I felt absolutely nothing as I listened to this. For some reason, the lead singer of the band Bad Company singing "Bad Company" over and over again on the song Bad Company from the album Bad Company just didn't do it for me. It's generic as can be. There are no impressive moments throughout the record. If you asked a random person to name as many dad rock bands as they could, how many would they name before Bad Company? Probably at least 30. This album should be at the top of the list of albums to remove for the next revision of the 1001 albums book. The only thing going for it is that it's not a horrible listen, so to me this is barely a 2
I didn’t hate it as much as the others. I thought it was a smooth easy to listen to album that I just had on while i worked. Ready for love was a great song. Second half wasn’t as good but it was fine.
"Supergroup"? More like...super...poop. This album kept me bad company. This album let me down. I'm ready for...something else. I COULD get enough of this. I'm movin' on form this one. Seagull. In all honesty, the record is fine, middle of the road dad rock from 74. If I had a nickel for every teen who probably got to first base to this record, I wouldn't have to work anymore.
Comme Ci, Comme Ça Company.
It was alright
Solid classsic 80s rock
This is a nice, solid classic rock album.
Well shit
J'ai trouvé ça bien, mais j'ai l'impression d'avoir déjà entendu une vingtaine d'albums qui sonnaient exactement comme ça depuis le début de ce projet, donc je ne vois pas trop en quoi celui-ci se distingue.
pretty run of the mill but rather enjoyable
One of the best voices in rock, and some of his best songs on this BC by BC from the album BC is (maybe) the best example of the triple shared name. Flawless
Well its not for me but they do have some good songs.
Another one where there's nothing particularly offensive, but really nothing much to write home about.
Paul Rodgers is one of the finest singers in Rock history
Generic rock music you’d hear on the background of some Sons of Anarchy episode.
Sounds good, maybe not so exciting towards the end, not sure.
Yet another album I'll hem and haw about rating until I give it a 3. Not bad, but generic. It's good. It's fun. It's fine.
Perfectly fine classic rock
It sounded like every other 70s rock band, which means it was good, but it didn't really stand out. 3.5 stars.
i think, on average, i enjoy bad company slightly more than other similar 70s rock, but i absolutely forget they exist as their own distinct entity. a lot of this dad rock is incredibly ignorable ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
behhhhhh the two songs I like on this album, I think I heard covers of first and liked those and it rubs off onto the originals more power! more thrashing!
no complains no praises, love a short album that doesn't overstay
Nice but not hooked
Classic Rock album - a fixture of the airways in the 70s onward. Heard everything except "Seagull" and "Th Way I choose" which are real good --- they should have gotten more air time.
Honestly…? Kinda felt like a generic 70’s rock album. Again questioning why it’s in the book, and assuming the answer is because of the song “Bad Company” (which I wouldn’t even hold among as the album’s best songs). Is it bad? No. There’s stuff to like here. It just doesn’t feel all that original. Reading that this was an early release on Zeppelin’s Swan Song label really added up. There are small flashes of Zeppelin here, whether it’s brief parts of vocal lines or the tone of the guitar. But it just doesn’t strike me as vital listening, honestly. Would be curious to see where they went after this. This honestly should’ve been something I would normally eat up and ask for seconds. But it just didn’t do it for me. 2 stars. Standout tracks: Rock Steady, Don’t Let Me Down, Movin’ On, Seagull
I knew so many songs! Great album.
No complaints here 3
A great album!
A couple decent songs, pretty damn bland overall though. Feels like a solid 2.
Three radio hits out of the gate. Pretty quintessential horny 70s garage rock. Of the first three, I think Ready For Love is my favorite. Spacious with keys that make for a nice atmosphere. Don't let Me Down sounds almost gospel like with the choral backing. Not my favorite. I wonder why the album name = band name = hit song was such a thing for this era. Whatever the motivation, this song is a classic staple. Nice slow delivery couple with punchy but not showy drums and some solid riffs. Moving On is a fine enough jam, but the rest of the album is pretty snore worthy. I think this is perfect music for working on your car to. Just fine 3 / 5
Great album that I have listened to many times. I give it a hard 4 overall but this really is an album I could listen to anytime. Bad company comes up on all the classic rock playlists I have
This is a poster child for 3 stars. Solid music, but ultimately pretty forgettable. Seagull was probably my favorite track.
I used to listen to this album so much when I was younger, not quite sure why or how I found it but it was constantly on. This is just good old fashioned rock and I think that every song on this album is very good. Bad Company the song is the obvious top hit which gets me pumped every time. Seagull is a nice way to end on a slow note after an otherwise pretty high energy album. Nothing spectacular about this album but it is always a great listen.
Can’t Get Enough sounds like Some Kinda Wonderful. Not a bad thing just similar. Was really about to shit on Don’t Let Me Down until that solo came in. Rest of the song is still meh. The song we’ve all been waiting for - Bad Company is a jam no matter how you look at it. There were some standout moments on this album but not enough to make me return save a couple songs. Was hoping for more.
Meh. Some forgettable Rock. Solid, but nothing special.
When I was 18 I worked in a snack bar at my local country club, serving rich kids french fries. I only had one source of entertainment for 12 hours of fry slinging - a classic rock radio station. Apparently I have listened to this album hundreds of times, but I never knew that. 3/5 - reminds me of fries.
Decent classic rock album
Classic
Bad Company hit the scene in the summer of 1974. The summer before I started high school, a fine time. And the album made a huge splash, topping the Billboard album charts and selling 5x Platinum. And I had one of those 5 million sold, mine was on 8 track tape. Yes, this was the sound of that particular slice of the 70’s. It was all over the radio, and one of my heavy-rotation albums back then. annd still a staple of and almost every song from the album was a staple of Classic Rock today. And I still listen to it occasionally 50 years later. That said, it’s not really “compelling”…. It’s not deep and meaningful. One of my favorites, but never my actual favorite. Just good, solid, mid-70s rock. It’s a notable coincidence that the first single (Can’t Get Enough) was on the charts at the same time as the Rolling Stones’ “It’s Only Rock And Roll (But I Like It)”. And sometimes that’s enough. Bad Company would go on to release 4 more successful albums in the 70’s, but none were as good (or as successful) as this debut. Solid 4.5/5, but rounds down to 4
Excellent album
If these songs weren’t played nonstop on the radio maybe I’d appreciate it more. Some classics but so overplayed.
I like the song Bad Company from the album Bad Company by the band Bad Company, but it's no Iron Maiden from Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden or Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath. Well constructed and performed but lacking soul.
This is amazingly mediocre. It shouldn't be given the prowess of everyone involved, but it is. I couldn't figure out why for a while, but I believe it's because it's too safe. There's nothing here that stands out or is memorable.
Every song is a banger. 5/5
Quintessential 70s rock. Very well produced, but the songwriting is lacking. Plus, the guy’s voice sounds like the whole Creed/Pearl Jam thing 25 years before it happened.
3+
I’ve never heard of this band before. I really liked the mix of rock and soul/R&B, very smooth The singer has a great voice.
Good album idk what to say
Generic 70s rock. Unremarkable.
it's easy rock with some good tunes here and there. There's nothing much apart from that. the songs start and end at the same energy level. actaully the more i listen to the album it sounds soulless to me. Like, it's just going through the motions, it's certainly competent and there are a few decent melodies as well scattered throughout the record but the more I listen to it I feel why am I listening to this? It's such an easy listen that at first it duped me into thinking it is good. On repeated listens the surface level is all there is. it just gets on your nerves the more you listen to it. one song that agreed with me a bit is the piano ballad don't let me down with it's group vocals which sound good. The album though did let me down, it's a 1 for me.
Quintessential 70s! I always imagine the band in Almost Famous as a version of Bad Co. What happens when a bar band is really good!
Fun rock n roll album from a lesser known band.
A lot less heavy than I thought it would be. Even the heavier tunes in comparison to today’s music is pretty low key. But it’s great stuff. I was surprised by how much more low-key most of the album is. But the recording is great, sounds very much like a band playing in a room, warts and all. Not overly polished, but still a gem.
Despite the nature of the challenge, this one took me 3 days to get through. I'd put it on, and then something would come up and I'd have no problems turning it off. It's not bad, but bland. Most of these tracks in a vacuum are really good, but as an album it all just blends together and does not work for me. Rhe band is clearly very confident, and I respect that. Don't Let Me Down kind of sucks though. Standouts include: Bad Company, Seagull, Ready for Love
Þægilegt classic rock. Fílidda.
LOVEEEE, best one yet. liked every song
Classic rock from a classic band.
It's one of the greatest classic rock albums of all time. What I never knew until last week was that they're British! Honestly, to hear their voices, I had no clue! Ha!
Southern-fried meatoes. This album sounded like stale beer and sweat-stained trucker hats on a Wednesday-morning binger in Tuscaloosa.
“Bad Company,” the song on the album “Bad Company” by the band Bad Company, is iconic. And a bold move. Some bands name themselves after a song from a band they idolize. Some name themselves after a song one of the members wrote prior to their coming together. But only a handful are bold enough to go with the trifecta Bad Company achieved with their debut album and hit song. So it’s a good thing that song is iconic enough that no one who ever hears it will ever forget the name Bad Company. “Can’t Get Enough” and “Ready For Love” are nearly as memorable, and three of eight songs being lasting hits is a pretty good debut. But it doesn’t all hit that mark. “Don’t Let Me Down” let me down. The album didn’t need a ballad. “Movin’ On” almost got things back on track, but in the end was just kind of there. I felt like moving on from the album even though it didn’t drag on for five minutes like some of these songs. There’s nothing groundbreaking about Bad Company. The album is very much of its era, with vocals and wailing guitars screaming early 70s, alongside the hints of blues and folk that was well-integrated by the best 70s bands. A solid album by a confident band, but mostly forgettable beyond the hits.
I’m struggling to find organized thoughts about this album, so I’ll leave it at this: I like it mmmmm yeahhhhh.
This grew tiresome for me. Hearing a few songs was nostalgic, but that's about it.
It’s a little hard not to like this. Sure it’s cheesy 70s rock, but I know 90% of these songs through osmosis and I don’t hate hearing them. I’m not sure why this is better than other bands that seem otherwise similar to me. Helps that it’s only 35 min long. Lots of songs about fucking and wanting to fuck and who he wants to fuck, so it gets quite repetitive in that way. Otherwise, I like it but I probably won’t be listening to this whole album again.
More like Dad Company
A lot of radio hits on this... but none of them would I put on intentionally. Probably a 3.4...
I'm familiar with a handful of Bad Company songs, and two of them are on this album ("Can't Get Enough" and the title track). I'm honestly bummed that "Shooting Star" isn't on this album, but I'm definitely not bummed that I didn't get to hear "Feel Like Makin' Love" for what has to be the 4,000,000th time in my life. God bless Clear Channel classic rock stations for blasting that gem at least half a dozen times a day. I've always thought of Bad Company as being in the same vein as Kansas or Bachman Turner Overdrive: a band who made enough hits in their heyday to still be touring and selling tickets to boomers with too much money and free time. This album pretty much confirmed that feeling. As I mentioned above, classic rock radio staples "Can't Get Enough" and "Bad Company" are on this album, and they're just as mediocre and tired as I remember. While they're familiar songs, that doesn't mean they're catchy or particularly unique. The blandness of these two songs is representative of the majority of the rest of the album: passable guitar playing and drumming, and moderately horny lyrics. However, I will give credit where credit is due: Paul Rodgers can sing really well, and his singing talents are on display on this album. Oddly enough, for a band known for 'hard rock,' they sure do a better job at the slower and more melodic songs than they do their so-called specialty: I thought "Don't Let Me Down" and "Seagull" were easily the best tracks on this album, with the saxophone melody on the "Don't Let Me Down" being particularly good. If you want some generic classic rock, then you've certainly found it in this album. One last parting shot that I almost forgot to mention: shoutout to probable MAGA sympathizers Five Finger Death Punch for taking "Bad Company" and somehow making it worse.
3.5
It's fine. They are obviously good musicians but it's very polished dad rock.
The album is way shorter than I remember, so I really flew through this. Super good listen!
That's a classic rock block. A octuple shot of Bad Company. For real though, it is a pretty solid effort. I appreciate the softer moments, shows a more well-rounded version of the band than you get from classic rock radio. Which classic radio does a totally disservice to so many bands, reduced down to a couple surface-level hits from yesteryear. Maybe that's the problem with most classic rock stations, they aren't run by music nerds, people who want to hear songs like Bad Co.'s "Don't Let Me Down". Solid album, should have tuned those guitars before they did "Seagulls".
A thorough response to anyone who ever accused them of denying being bad company, this album is the factory settings of state fair rock.
Remember the good old times. Perfect choice.
Absolutely fire classic rock
Bra solid straight forward rock n roll!
It wasn't bad, just...generic-sounding? I prefer other bands from around the same era, I guess. But I won't necessarily turn any of this stuff down.
Super easy listening with a nice little blues riff edge. Particularly liked the sax solo into guitar solo on song I can't remember the name of
Solid, classic rock album
I preferred the early original bands and surprised at the change of direction. But listenable back in the 70s and still ok today. Strangely they seem to lack energy and excitement.
A band, album and song with the same name? Sign me up.
You can make a fantastic album that isn't three days long. Some great rock ballads, anchored by Ready for Love.
Straight forward, clean, melodic rock. The album is strong from start to finish, with several absolute bangers in there. Couldn't ask much more from a rock record. Paul Rodgers has such a great voice for this style. Loved it.
Just some classic rock that! Definitely featured on some kind of compilation in my teens.
Must admit I'd never heard this before and although I knew the name, I didn't really know who Bad Company were. But this was your standard classic rock, no more, no less.
Awesome
Pleasantly surprised! Enjoyed!
Favourite songs: Can't Get Enough, Rock Steady, Bad Company, Movin' On, Ready for Love Least favourite songs: The Way I Choose 5/5
Can stay in pub rock history
Listened Before? N I may or may not have heard this whole album before, but it has so many classics I feel like I definitely have. Just a solid mainstream rock record from the '70s. Also, personal bias - I just really like this one. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Ready for Love, Bad Company
Okay
On repeat: rock steady and ready for love, very antique sounds, chill and enjoyable, old rock’s essence in an album
Not bad for a lad from brambles farm in Middlesbrough
Good
I know this was probably groundbreaking at the time, but as a first time listener, this just comes across as a bit generic and a bit bland to my ears. The lyrics feel two dimensional and only about making love (and seagulls?) - I've never been a huge fan of classical rock, and this isn't going to be the album to change my mind.
Another rock album lokking like all of the others.... Kind of tired of it. Not too bad though
I like the title track but otherwise pretty middling. Should’ve let Boz sing
Trevligt att höra catchy låtar efter lång torka
For a hard rock band this was less hard than I expected. Pretty good!
Very boring classic rock.
Nicht angehört. Langweiliger Dad-Rock, nehme ich an.
Og ástæðan fyrir því að þessi plata er á listanum er ... óskijanleg. Hversdagslegt áttundatugarrokk, ekki beinlínis fráhrindandi en rosalega óeftirminnilegt.
One of the greatest albums of all time. Still a must-listen nearly 40 years after its release. 5/5.
extremely surprised, this has that real good emotion and touches of soul I loved. I was really invested with the singer's performance and lyrics
Bra sång och så. Ganska tråkig rock. Låtar som inte handlar om någonting.
Really good enjoyable! It had a good variety and they wasnt trying to hard imo.
Liked everything but Seagull which was a load of shite. Bad Company and Can’t Get Enough are both great songs.
Had its moments, so a generous 3, but possibly the most uncool album in the book.
Average classic rock album
Decent rock-'n-roll record, real old school. Gets a bit old after a while, don't think I'll be coming back to it.
Feels like a middle ground from the other hard rock I've heard here. It's less technical than Van Halen, slower than Aerosmith, less experimental than The Who, etc. Reminds me of the Eagles in the good ways and bad; well-made overall but I don't feel much of anything when listening. Reaffirms that I need more catchiness, uniqueness, or some modern appeal to consider any hard-rock better than adequate. 4.5/10
Mega classic.
Classic album with some solid rock songs.
Bad Company is what ChatGPT would sound like if you asked it to compose “Dad Rock.” Devoid of imagination, plodding, lame. Too soft to go hard, too hard to be soft. The auditory equivalent of a “half chub.” Bad Company is the Imagine Dragons of 70’s Rock. Granted, if they were the entertainment in a bar that only serves Bud Lite, I’d think they sound pretty good, given that this is clearly their hobby. Everything they do well, a hundred artists do better. This album has no business being a “must hear.”
very fun, ide u lajk
Blues rock. Me ha gustado bastante. ¿Hasta vinilo? Venga, va.
Venga, le voy a dar un 5.
Fine. Good background music and rocks.
4.5/5
Some classic tunes in here, the end of the album is nice how it slows down and mellows
Not what I’d usually listen to but it was quite enjoyable. It’s funny hearing such an epic song about a seagull when the seagulls that live near my house are the most annoying creatures on the planet.
Classic! Standouts: Can’t Get Enough, Ready For Love, Bad Company, Movin’ On, Others: Rock Steady, Don’t Let Me Down, The Way I Choose, Seagull 4.5
Nothing notable
Short and boring, quite impressive actually.
Solide rocknalbum, maar niet speciaal Tikkeltje saai
Erg nice album met lekkere old school rock! ik kende zowel de band als het album nog niet, maar ik laat m zeker in mijn downloads staan terwijl ik niet veel ruimte meer over heb. Dat zegt toch wat lijkt me
This is familiar because it's the kind of 70s rock I heard so much of as I grew up, including quite a few tracks from this album. My listening interests have changed over the decades so it's not likely I'd come back to any of their albums, but it's still fun and enjoyable -- performed very well -- and definitely brings back some great memories.
Soldi album
I really love this album. It's just good rock and roll from way back in the day.
This came as part of a run of 70s rock albums and, frankly, was just dull. A couple of songs were clearly big hits, but it's just so sodden and midpaced. Lots of use of 'rock' in place of curse words. It wasn't offensive, but I can't imagine ever wanting to listen to it again. 2 stars only because Can't Get Enough is fairly pleasant
Solid classic rock.
It’s extremely ‘generic 70s dad rock’, but I guess it does what it does reasonably well, so I can’t be too harsh... actually nah, I can. I listened again and even across 8 tracks there's too much flab, and too much drab(ness), in amongst the good bits. 2.5
Un sólido álbum de rock de los ‘70s y un acompañante fiel en espíritu al trabajo de Led Zeppelin. Sin embargo, el disco se escucha bastante antiguo y no ha envejecido bien, transformándose casi en una pieza histórica del rock y no en un disco influyente de las aristas más interesantes de la música con guitarra.
Perfectly servicable blues rock. The title track is obviously a classic, but outside of that a lot of the songs blend into each other. I probably won’t listen again
To me, this is just your average, run of the mill hard rock album. And I think this album got off on the wrong foot for me, because those two first songs seem pretty bland, and largely derivative of other hard rock bands I've heard from this time period. But to my surprise, the two songs after that were way better than what came before it. They just had far more engaging instrumentation from the band. Sadly, after that, the only song I enjoyed was The Way I Choose. They stuck with what worked at the time with this album, and because of that, this album has a few big iconic hits. It fits right in with the rock sound of the late 60's and 70's. I like that sound, but not everyone can be the next Led Zeppelin. Sometimes it's better to go with a new idea and hope it sticks the landing. Rating: 5/10
Parasta klassista rockia mitä kuullut vähään aikaan. Bad Company - Bad Company - Bad Company tietyysti kova Balladit kuullosti vähän Jeff Buckleyltä
Just based off the band name and the album cover I expected some kind of early punk rock, turns out it's just some pretty average blues rock. Turns out i've listened to the album before once but nothing stuck with me, and on a second listen it seems like the same has happened again. The album is actually just about to finish as I write this and i'm having trouble remembering anything that happened. Nothing offensively bad though, just forgettable, so a 3 is probably fair.
Ultimate Dad rock album.
Truly awful.
it was allright :)
Pretty good, sounds a lot like Pink Floyd. Some songs sounded familiar. Really enjoyed the guitar, especially on "The Way I Choose"
Really good! I especially enjoyed the vocals.
Rebel souls Deserters we are called Chose a gun And threw away the sun Now these towns They all know our name 6 gun sound is our claim to fame I can hear them say Bad company And I won't deny Bad, bad company Till the day I die 5/5
This is a pretty standard classic rock album, outside of the fantastic title track. As a supergroup, sure, these guys can play their instruments, and Rodgers has a great voice. But the songwriting is still pretty generic. It's a quick, breezy listen though, which earns it extra points with me. I'm still not sure it needs to be on this list, but yeah, it's pretty good.
I love to see (hear) a Canadian winning and add another band theme song to my memory (in triplicate this time!), but I'm not dad enough for Bad Company to intrigue beyond the latter parenthesis.
One of my favorites
A rippin and roarin bit of ‘70s rock that is as straight up as it gets. Great production values and fantastic mix really set the tempo for some damned fine rock n roll songwriting.
Great album some timeless classics
3 overall, not a bad album.
Solid classic rock albums. Just enough friction to be interesting, not enough friction to set the world on fire. Better than background.
I confess a soft spot for Bad Company thanks to a youthful dalliance with the 'Straight Shooter' album. And this ain't all bad either. Then again, it ain't all good. 'Can't Get Enough' is either a rollicking good time or turgid yomp through all the stock classic rawk poses; delete as appropriate. 'Rock Steady' has a swaggering insistence to it; and 'Bad Company' is a brooding tale of desperadoes. However, the rest is pretty blah. Yeah, 'Ready For Love' is alright but Mick Ralphs did a better job first time around with Mott the Hoople. Paul Rodgers, on the other hand, single handedly drags the material to a place of mild interest, but after a while even his tight-trousered 'emoting' is a drag. 'Moving On' is terrible. The lyrics to this entire album could've conceivably been written in crayon. There's a song about a seagull on here.
Apple Music called this album "The definition of no-nonsense 70's hard rock." That seems fair and I get the appeal. You could say that about AC/DC for every generation they've been a band. And yet... I could go for some nonsense, you know? At least just a little. I like "Ready for Love" and enjoyed hearing "Seagull" and "The Way I Choose" for the first time. I'm here for the ballads, dude. Otherwise, it's the stuff I've heard on the radio a gajillion times and never much cared for. There are better bands that do this exact formula. But main talking point: where's the line between the song "Don't Let Me Down" and the Beatles song of the same name? Bad Company didn't record a cover, and it's not exactly ripping them off. But I don't know how you hear this version *without* thinking of the Beatles tune. There's enough overlap there that it at least should've warrant the question: "Should we change the lyrics?" And the answer should've been: "Duh. Obviously."
A testament to the dodgy tastes of mid-70s rock fans, most of them teenage boys. There's a handful of decent tunes (e.g., "Movin On" is okay) but far too much silliness ("The Seagull" -- what a bird to get so poetic about, the fake drama of the title cut's intro) to take this even a little seriously. Also, sounds bland.
Decent fan of bad company. Probably my favorite album that's been generated so far
Classic Rock en tota la seva glòria. Arrels de blues rock, petits apropaments al soul, però sobretot molt rock, amb la veu poderosa de Paul Rodgers, que sortia de Free per trobar el seu propi camí amb una de les bandes clàssiques dels '70, que sempre ve de gust escoltar
Sky Radio rockmuziek. Niet slecht maar ik ben het eigenlijk meteen alweer vergeten. Enorme 3.
Doesn't feel like anything spectacular 2/5
Real good stuff 86/100
Classic album
Perfectly good rock