Bad Company

mehhhhh

One of the daddiest of the dad rocks - is there a driving album in the world that doesn't include "Can't Get Enough". Never fully understood the "super group" billing, and Rodgers voice kinda grates. It's perfectly acceptable of course, but hardly a stand-out in a pretty crowded field. Probably a 3 in its own right, but I'm deducting a star for the general bafflement that it's included here.

Competent but uninteresting. Mercifully short. 2.4

Not a bad vibe

2.5

So mid it's insulting

Insanely boring

God this band sucks!

Insanely boring

Mid

At least it's not Five Poser Power Pose

Dad rock but like a little sadder

Although I appreciate the clarity of the vocals, which isn’t common in most bands, it also makes it more obvious how basic the lyrics are. Other than that, it’s an okay-sounding album, and I wish I could enjoy it more, but it’s just very average.

good, old fashioned dad rock and quintessential 70’s rock music. Paved the way for may upcoming artists at the time but I understand the critiques of repeating track sounds, however, for the 70’s this is revolutionary within the music space. I still think it holds up till this day though, nice chill music with beautiful ballets and lovely guitar/piano jamming, as well as beautiful vocals from Paul Rodgers :) Favourite song(s)- Don’t let me down, Bad Company, Seagull! Least favourite -

I need a dad bod and a grill to be able to enjoy this music

22/01/2026 1. can't get enough - just generic classic rock really.... sounds alright but that's it really. two and a half minutes in this is just sooo boring. bass is nice i guess. 2. rock steady - just a bit bland. the instruments are nice, but it's just a lot of nothing. vocals are just soooooo boring. sounds alright, but gives nothing!!! 3. ready for love - liking the start of this one a bit more.... the vocals are doing nothing for me. this is the sort of stuff they play on absolute classic rock...... why is this so long. liked it more at the start, but just evolved into stadium rock again. *4. don't let me down - liking the female backing vocals. kinda gospel-y. saxaphone!!!!!! redeems it from shit. love the guitar solo and the bass. instruments are really good, but again, i don't feel anything! 5. bad company - same as the others really. glad this album is on the shorter side. 6. the way i choose - one minute in i don't think i can do four minutes more of this..... every single one of these songs sounds exactly the same. saxaphone cannot save this one.... 7. movin on - more energy. vocals just started all the energy has gone. how can such good musicians make such a boring album. *8. seagull - more folksier. still boring and too long! really great instruments but oh my god this is the most boring thing i've ever listened to. not sure i needed to listen to this before i die. hard/stadium rock is generally something i don't like, so wasn't massively surprised by my dislike, but didn't expect to find it so boring!

Finished listening and immediately couldn't remember anything about this album

Good ol claaaaassic rock.

good song carries the album

First song is great, the rest I listened to at 6am and I’m still confirming this genre isn’t really for me…

Nice

How much 70s hard rock bands are there in this project, and why am I getting all of them in one week? The mixing is lackluster: The music sounds like we're hearing it through a drywall, and the vocal+guitar dynamics are very flat. Sounds like it was mixed exclusively for rock bars. The music matches the mix: Bland, taking absolutely no risks, and immediately forgettable.

Eihän tämäkään oikein lähtenyt missään vaiheessa. Välillä kivoja juttuja biiseissä mutta tylsäksi jäi lopputulema

Bändin nimessä on virhe, voisi yhtä hyvin olla "Bad". Läiskätään nyt kakkonen silti sen vuoksi että oli joku kitarasoolo

Nojoo ohan tää tämmöstä ihan jees jynttätänttää, joka ei nyt kauheesti herätä fiilaria. Ei oikein voi palkita millään "upean mullistavaa materiaalia aikanaan" -palkinnollakaan. En pahastu jos radio roski näitä biisejä pakkotoistaa mut melan öl saa riittää.

Blandest vanilla rock ever produced.

Das müsste eigentlich absolut meine Musik sein, aber es ist einfach gar nichts hängengeblieben.

Boring.

Habilt rockband som blir bäst när det drar åt soulballad som i Don’t let me down och The way I choose. Men oerhört svag sånginsats.

Roligare 70-talsrock än Zeppelin. Bandet är rätt bra, men sångaren är trist och texterna pinsamt dåliga. Lite bättre texter, en Rod Stewart eller soulman från södern på sång så hade det kunnat bli riktigt bra. Lyssna bara på blåset i The way I choose. Nu hamnade bandet i dåligt sällskap istället.

Imaju mi oni par okej pjesama, ali ne na ovom albumu. 2/5, 3/10

If Bad Company were a car they’d be a red Camaro

A real mixed bag

🆗

Boring

overall: MEH

надто прісно й нудно, навіть для такої бумерки, як я 👵 максимум одна пісня з альбому заслужила трохи вищу оцінку

від такої музики відчуваю себе дідом ще більше

Boomer blues

I’ll tell you who is bad company! Len Houmous & Ken Chutney! Avoid at all costs. 2.0 2/8 Rock Steady

slow.

The very definition of middle of the road - dad rock that keeps solidly in the lane of 70s guitar music without ever straying into hard rock or metal territory. The singer Paul Rodgers (now better known for his collaborations with Queen) is apparently from Middlesbrough but you’d never guess from his mid Atlantic accent. This is the sort of album that Jeremy Clarkson would listen to whilst driving on a motorway.

Fine

Not great, aside from the self named track - completely boring

Dad rock so aggressively average that I can’t even bare to give it an average rating. I’m knocking this down a whole star for a complete lack of originality and interest in making emotionally engaged music.

This is the kind of music that makes me glad punk swept across the UK music scene two years later. These guys fancy themselves as some kind of outlaws living the life they want to lead, behind a six gun. It's all a bit puerile, especially the gratuitous sexism. The lyrics are dreadful throughout, which is a shame because if anything is good here, it's Paul Rodgers' vocals, which lift my rating from 1 to 2.

This is the daddest dad rock I’ve ever heard

An average rock record, that leant more into blues as were earlier versions of rock. Best: Bad Company Worst: Seagull

Where to begin? Firstly, Hard Rock? Really? Seems far too Middle of the Road for that. Next, lyrics: Now you fly, through the sky, never asking why. And you fly all around, 'til someone shoots you down. (This is from a song about a seagull that knows about the end of the world). It's hardly profound). The most well known track, Can't Get Enough of Your Love, would be better off a couple of minutes shorter, and while I found the whole album pleasant on the first listen, I found myself getting bored when playing it through again. It's not all bad - Bad Company and Movin' On maintained my interest for a few more listens, but in the main this is just pretty soulless 'dad rock'

Wow, this album starts off STRONG with three bangers everyone knows that basically define what I think of as "classic rock". It does slide a lot after that though. Slower, more ballad-esque tracks fill out the remainder of the album and I just lost interest entirely

This is pretty average boomer rock Will I listen to again: 1%

It's 70's dad rock so if you like that, then you'll like this. I don't particularly like dad rock. It's not bad, it's just not for me. It's nice and short though.

Started off slow, picked up towards the end. The title track is the most famous song from the album and it's not a surprise. It's a groover. Won't be in a rush to listen to this album again but wouldn't be offended if I heard some Bad Company.

More derivative 70s blues hard rock by a bunch of white guys. I’m not sure what’s supposed to set this super-band apart from the rest of the scene back then. Amazing and technically sound musicians, Paul Rodgers has a great voice and the production is polished yet they still managed to somehow churn out forgettable music that I’ll most likely never play again outside of mainstream classic rock playlists.

Some steady hands on this album. A Bad Company cover band would sound, well like Bad Company. Some great moments, love the groove in the bass on Ready for Love, the rythm section of the band in general are superb, tight, have feeling, provide good backbine. But does that make this a greatest album? Not sure. Good album for sure, maybe great in parts, an album you must hear before you die? Maybe not. Some superb musicians from other noted bands formed BC. The reault for me is the zenith of classic rock. It is likely people onow a few songs of theirs without knowing who the band is. Shame because there’s some nice playing on here, but its a bit background rock s an overall album. Will pick tracks and play on high rotation - Ready for Love, Bad Company.

It was okay, and you know I love the 1970s rock era, but it didn't grab me

If I never have to hear another bluesy hard rock supergroup, it will be too soon

Quite simple for me, apparently that’s the band style and it keeps consistent along all songs, but, lyrics doesn’t mean something quite special, instruments just do their thing, they don’t feel it too much. Mmm not unforgettable. But, ‘The Way I Choose’ is quite similar to what i usually look for, soundly speaking.

Rock steady? More like steady rock amiright?

Couple good songs

Enjoyed first 10 mins and then it got. Really. Boring.

Basically The Eagles with more overdrive. Bland and meaningless.

Honestly, dope artwork. This was less tame than I was expecting but more tame than I would like. Decent blues work, but blends in with 70s/early 80s rock a little too much. Easy listening but not very exciting, seems unlikely I ever listen to this again. I'm also knocking them down a star for not doing Don't Let Me Down justice, the song did not translate to their blues rock sound well imo . 2/5

pretty forward sounding for 1974, blues driven rock might not always sound unique but this does. Nothing grabbed me by the neck and shook me in to really appreciating it. One thing I'm finding is how music, especially in the 70's was still so seminal while also sounding, uniquely 70's and a bit dated.

It's fine. 5/10

More like bland company 2*

Just so boring. I’m so over this era.

okay bro we get it you can repeat the same lines over and over again

Good little dad rock album.

I do really like the title track, but that’s about it. Just more dad rock dadding along in the world

Some fun moments but pretty forgettable. Decent voice though, not too showy.

I don't know, it sounds good but I didn't remember a single song. It sounds way too generic, like any other band from the period. The title track, Bad Company, is the only one that I remembered. Other than that guitars are sweet, voice is rock-y and overall it's really nice but doesn't really stick.

stereotypical bar music - nothing wrong with it per se, but kinda boring

++: Can't Get Enough, Bad Company, The Way I Choose, Movin' On +: Don't Let Me Down +-: Ready for Love, Seagull -: Rock Steady 5,5/10

Pretty unremarkable Hard Rock with - you guessed it - a blues-y edge! Not terrible, but nothing to write home about either. Key tracks: Can't Get Enough

One of those albums I've been meaning to listen but never got round to it. It's a perfectly fine album but didn't blow my socks off 2/5

arena rock ahhhhh album

More like Utterly Uninspiring Company. When this popped up I was worried that “Shooting Star” would be on it, so at least I dodged that mediocre bullet.

Competent but uninspired 70s rock.

The album equivalent of your boomer dad going into the garage to saw a plank of wood in half for no reason.

Proto-butt? I mean, it's alright I guess. But these tracks have been on classic rock radio for so long now that I can't help but feel like I've heard enough, even if I have never listened to the whole thing before. Can't say I will do it again. Ready For Love has a nice piano part and cool buildup back into the buttrocking on the second half, but besides that, I don't have much more to say. I've heard their next album is better?...oh no, I hope it didn't make the list too! 😬

I do not like this

To be honest, this is the type of Rock that has always made me think I maybe don't like Rock. I know that this sound definitely inspired a lot of rock acts, but I think I would rate them fairly poorly as well. It feels as if these bands took what makes bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and watered it down and packaged it for a wider audience. Less metal, less psychedelic, more straightforward, and lyrics of an outlaw life as a must. Maybe too much radio as a kid disabused me of this type of rock. But considering that this album came out the same year as Rush's self titled, Bad Company feels more like a Rock derivative and less of a rock evolution.

lmao

Completely unremarkable 4/10

Eu sempre vi esse nome “Bad Company” em todo lugar, mas nunca parei pra ouvir suas músicas. E coincidentemente, sempre acreditei nunca ter ouvido suas canções em público ou em eventos. Quando peguei pra ouvir este disco, comecei a refletir se realmente nunca havia ouvido essas canções antes. Elas são tão genéricas que fica impossível saber se realmente não as ouvi em bares aleatórios por aí. Nada aqui é tecnicamente ruim. A banda e o vocalista são todos adequados. Eles tocam bem, e nada aqui se destaca negativamente. O problema é que o disco inteiro é dolorosamente sem sal nenhum, sem gosto algum. Não possuem nada que os destaque de qualquer forma, nem mesmo negativa. Isso talvez seja a maior crítica possível, aquela que assim que o álbum acabou, eu esqueci praticamente tudo que havia acabado de ouvir. Novamente, nada é ruim, mas nada se destaca, nada se eleva para além do esperado, da mediocridade, do mais do mesmo. Parece qualquer rock genérico que você consiga imaginar. Não me vejo ouvindo este disco novamente nunca mais na vida, e se eu me deparar com alguma canção deles em público eu nem irei perceber. 2/5

Clive in accounts really gets into this when the band play it at the Christmas party. He puts his tie around his head and just goes for it.

I would totally listen to one song from this album and be happy. 8 back to back though? Never again. It's cliche after cliche with not much character. All songs are fine, just none of them stand out. "Rock Steady" is probably my favorite. I could raise it up a star in the future maybe.

Pretty run of the mill 70's rock Best Song: Bad Company Rating: 4.0/10 Stars: 2/5

Dad rock to the nth degree. At least it was short and had some of it's better songs near the middle/end 4/10

Bad company

Boring company

Bad

Not for me

Bad Companies by Bad Company is bad company other than the one song, Bad Company, which is pretty good.

lowkey mid, sorry

Didn't realise that bad company were more of a soft rock vibe, I'd always thought of them as a punk band which is clearly wrong. It's not something I will listen to again but not because it's bad by any means it's just not my kind of thing. It feels like a very old school romantic, nostalgic album about love, could get played at a high school dance (70's). And then "Movin' On" started and it feels far less lovey and more blues inspired. Didn't realise they were British. I was not expecting a song about seagulls either. Even less so as the finale.

¿Es este realmente un disco que tenía que escuchar antes de morir? No lo creo. Aburrido, genérico e irrelevante. Con excepción del tema homónimo al álbum que tiene una buena diferenciación entre la carga de la estrofa y un estribillo fuerte. Los temas tienen un trabajo de voz agradable (aunque nunca impactante). La calidad de grabación general suena muy bien, pero por alguna razón el track "Movin' On" parece grabado/mezclado de una manera distinta a los demás, lo cual es extraño, sobre todo considerando que de seguro tendrían un buen presupuesto para grabar. El álbum es realmente olvidable. Rescato que no me parece un mal disco, pero sino fuese porque se trata de un álbum hecho por un supergrupo realmente no aparecería en esta lista.

Enough with the mid rock albums please!!!

Nothing inherently “bad” (get it?) about this album, but it was boring to me. Much slower than I anticipated. I even let it loop a few times while I worked and nothing grabbed my attention for too long.

So middle of the road. There's nothing here to excite, just incredibly by-the-numbers rock.

Song named after the album named after the band. Who did it better, Black Sabbath or Bad Company? Tells you a lot of what you need to know. I can see how people would like it, but to me, this is the definition of corporate rock. Peter Grant struck gold with Zeppelin, and Swan Song was born, but it never landed - and Bad Company is the example of that.

Super yacht rock-ish. Weirdly mellow.

boring...bland...

So much dad rock

Еще один хардрок альбом, который звучит ровно так, как ожидаешь, непонятно зачем добавленный к другой сотне хардрок альбомов. Во мне родился какой-то очень серьезный хардрок хейтер, судя по всему, и я просто не могу адекватно воспринимать мьюзишеншип, и всё остальное, когда я слышу Лед Зеппелин под другим названием. Лучшая песня - Ready For Love.

2 bangers off the top and then filler. Classic rock album to the core.

Inoffensive, competent rock music. Nothing that gets me going or moves me. Not to sound like a straight-up hater, but I always find it corny when a band has a song named after them. This one is especially egregious. "Six-gun sound is our claim to fame/I can hear them say/bad company." Yuck.

It was OK. 2/5

wait so Bad Company UK is a band, but the original Bad Company are also from the UK? that doesn't make much sense. i've grown to appreciate this type of boomery blues rock but this isn't a really standout example deserves to be one of the 1001? maybe. probably not but maybe

Not as bad as I was worried it was going to be when I saw it was yet another artist I’ve never heard of (and there’s probably a reason for that), listenable, kind of funky in places, but nothing that massively excites me

Paul Rodgers, way before he became a part of Queen + Paul Rodgers, which was of course the best Queen incarnation we've been allowed to witness. Nah. This sure is an album full of songs in which the singer expresses his desire to fornicate all day and night. Using various different 1970s-compatible rock expressions for that desire. And this is still not quite as terrible as you might expect.

Absolute definition of mid. Nothing outstanding about it, if you told me this was done by some blokes in a garage I'd believe you.

Mediocre dad rock strikes again. I imagine this won’t be the last. Was just totally fine.

Unspektakulärer, seichter Rock. Fand's eher langweilig. Seagull war noch ganz gut, aber hat das Album auch nicht spannender gemacht

As far as dad rock goes, the vocals are pretty great. Too bad the actual music is forgettable. But really gorgeous vocals. Paul Rodgers can make anything sound good. Record was a real bore though.

Generic 70s rock. Not bad, not good. I can't complain, but I won't listen to this again. That said, is this really an album that you need to hear before you die? There are dozens of other albums that encapsulate 70s rock better and there’s really nothing all that special about it. Overall, I did like it, but I think I'm docking at least 1-star from the rating solely because I don't think it deserves to be on the list.

dad blues rock, the worst kind

Nogal slaapverwekkend allemaal. De track "Bad Company" vind ik wel grappig, omdat het me doet denken aan een terugkerende grap in The Best Show op WFMU.

I like my 70s classic rock to be doomier and weirder than this. Also never been a fan of Paul Rodgers' voice.

Synnyinvuoden rokkia

i can't believe that the 1001 albums website has me listening to the song Bad Company by the band Bad Company off the album Bad Compan

I don’t think so.

Если бы этот альбом стал человеком, то он был бы говнарем ебанным, которого все дружно по кругу ебут в сальную сраку на фестивале нашествие. Плохая, ебать ее, компания. 4/10

Meh. Boring. FM radio killed it

pretty generic rock from the era. a couple of interesting bits maybe

Definitely strong classic rock with zesty lyrics. Having no nostalgia for that genre, so it doesn't have a ton of appeal for me. (Although The Doors are a notable exception.)

Bad Company by Bad Company from the album Bad Company

this hurt my heart

Full to the brim with dad rock. A fine album, but yet another where I need to get a copy of the book to find out what makes it so special, as this sounded very bland and generic to me.

Not bad but not my thing. Just mehhh,,,

Bad Company. Or just Bad? This is just Badly dated boring ass rock.

Not My vibe

Pretty bland and generic.

“rock and roll has been going downhill since the release of the first bad company album!” - dave foley, kids in the hall

oh boy....dad rock....WAIT I WAS GONNA TURN SPOTIFY PRIVATE SESH ON i cant continue to dad rock poison my algorithm. "well ill take whatever i want and baby i want you" [uhm emoji]. theres some not awful ideas in this guitar but it feels kinda tame n stale. in 1974. thats when u were sposed 2 b having the new ideas. okay cant get enough of ur love picks up a bit near the end. but like i SHOULD be singing along loudly CANT GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE and air guitaring to a song w this concept smh. okay rock steady doesnt start off horrible maybe this onell have smth more distinguished abt it. okay he sounds like he has the whooping cough but i dont hate his voice for TURN ON YOUR LIIIGHT AND STAY WITH ME A WHILE. okay but dude do u need cough syrup. maybe a drink of water. okay yeah rock steady is acdc braindead dumb but fun brand fun for me lol. okay on ready for love someone gave him a coughdrop were back. like the ambience at the beginning of the track + the big BNNNGG guitar stabs in the prechorus. oh no dude dont strain ur voice again!! bro ur voice isnt sposed to sound like this until youve been singing in concerts for 20yr. in 1974. actually rob halford in Right Now has a healthier sounding voice and hes fucking 73 years old my good man. cant decide if the opening chords for dont let me down sound cool or like their instruments are about to break. god damn now we gotta get a white guy tries to do the blues track. we have GOT to stop letting englishmen get away with this shit. "bad company in their eponymous song on their eponymous album" <-- girl do u hear how goofy ass this sounds. these lyrics are unserious but i dont hate the instrumentals. do def hear that the guitar doesnt come in as GGGGGRHHHH fuzzy distorted as it clearly wants to....let it be louder!! the way i choose is boring as hell we once again have to stop englishmen. wait they actually have a saxophone on this whered you get that! confiscated. okay great we go another track that would be way cooler if somebody actually cool made it. like when u sing WOAHH WOAH WOAH it sounds like what a lame parent in a movie thinks rock and roll sounds like. but like theres some ideas in the guitar that dont suck? but it doesnt feel particularly crunchy or powerful either i want that part more than mr bronchitis. okay the outro is good from 2:50-3:08 like thats VERY cool so where was that energy in the rest of the track. HOW does this music sound so tired and derivative IN 1974?? i guess that has to be truly difficult + innovative yeah! a power ballad abt a seagull the most unromantic + unsympathetic bird of all time? what is this jonathan livington seagull ass shit. this is really like....its all music from a rock n roll movie soundtrack but where they couldnt get the rights to any good songs. its like a 2.3 + a little frustrating bc u can tell its not the worst bones on several songs theyre just being performed by losers. would i buy the physical record: no. standout tracks: rock steady, ready for love, i Want to like cant get enough of your love but its insufficiently....idk. something. cool. fatal flaw: plagiarism should be legal on media like this as long as youre making it less lame

I'm not sure how universal of an experience having Otto the Busdriver is for most people, but it's a pretty mundane fact of life here in Pittsburgh. I grew up on our Classic Rock station 102.5 WDVE. Bad Company is the kinda good songs that you can play on the radio because it would actually suck if they played Don't Stop Believin' every day on the bus. Bad Company is so there's a song that nobody cares if you talk over. Bad Company is so that Sadie Jeffers can tell you about how this band sucks and tell you that The Dead Kennedys are her favorite band and you can stare at her freckles and all the product she puts in her hair to get it to do that. It's disrespectful of Bad Company to put them on this list.

This sounds like the soundtrack to a movie I absolutely do not want to watch. Incredibly boring, though I did kinda like "Movin' On". Thankfully it was a short album. 4/10

Rock supergroup. It’s well put together and some decent songs, but it all sounds too middle of the road for my tastes. Straight forward meat and potatoes blues based rock without anything particularly inventive to make it stand out.

Super mid. No ha habido nada que destacara ni interesante en todo el álbum, ha sido como verlo pasar.

og butt rock

It's like if someone gave AI the prompt "Make a 70s rock album."

They're not bad, I just find them incredibly corny. Not my table.

Se mitä ihmiset haluavat - ja pelkäävät - Rollarien olevan. Ready For Love ja (jostain syystä) The Way I Choose ovat aika tehokkaita.

A pretty nothing rock album with some decent moments scattered throughout. 2/5

Doesn't do much for me I'm afraid. Don't even think I could recognise a Bad Company song of it came on in the wild. They just have very little going for them that stands them out from the rest. Best Track: Movin On Worst Track: Don't Let Me Down

Best Song: Can't Get Enough Worst Song: Don't Let me Down

I like Bad Company, the song. Bad Company the album was fine, nothing special. Bad Company the band I think I always thought were Bad Religion

In another of my lives, this would’ve been five stars.

La verdad se me queda corto. No es malo pero tampoco me deja mucho. Es un rock and roll medio aburrido

I think we had some bad company at the house where I grew up at some point in time. This definitely feels like music my POP would've had on when he wasn't blasting something better. "I take whatever I want and baby I need you..." So some of these lyrics have not aged particularly well and yet they also seem quaint by comparison to more current lyrics with questionable sex and gender politics. Speaking of quaint, mid-tempo blues played by thoroughly competent British rockers now seems to sit in that territory as well. Though props to Bad Company for writing a song about themselves / name checking the band. All notions of "Badness" in Bad Company have all but vanished into Boomerdom. Although to be fair it could just be in hibernation and will come back as it once did (a la Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive and similar sounding songs).

A classic rock radio tier band that I would never go out of my way to listen to unironically (2.5/5)

Generic prog rock

Meh.

Bored. Slow dad rock.

booooooring

Torn. Part of me wants to rip on how fucking stupid, plodding and boring this record is. Another part of me feels sorry for its fans - this is somebody’s favorite album. Maybe he was that rando shop student that had a muscle car and tried to get you to smell his finger, maybe it was a country cousin who thought it was “badass”. Regardless, this is solid, dumb shit.

One gets the feeling that this band could be so much better if they had just let rip with their abilities, Maybe they didn't want to upset their parents by going berserk with their music and chose the path of mediocrity instead. Sad really. Blandness is OK(ish) in moderation, but these guys take it to the extreme.

Mira, mal no estuvo, pero a estas alturas es, como dicen los gringos, "unremarkable".

Plodding 70's "super-group" treacle blues rock. This album is weighted down by its own sense of importance and earnestness. What a drag. Ignore this album and just put any Faces record on instead. Best Tracks: Can't Get Enough of Your Love; Ready For Love; Bad Company

2.5

It's like a short but underwhelming yacht ride. Trite.

Typical dad rock stuff, could be better

Dull 70s rock

This band has a few good songs. The one where they say their own name is one of those.

Much preferred Free/Mott the Hoople/King Crimson before BC formed. Average rock, but never better than that.

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.

This was my first time listening to the whole album and honestly a lot of it sounded the same and was one note.

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

Jamais entendu à l'époque. Mais rien de marquant.

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.

Schmaltzy arena rock. All the songs sound basically the same.

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.

Do these dudes wear acid wash jeans, white tennis shoes, and play at state fairs across the US? C’mon.

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.

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.

Just totally fine. Nothing remarkable, nothing terrible. Just fine while it was on and that's pretty much it

Will probably Never listen to this album again, everything sounds the same

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.

This was boring

It was alright but nothing actually bringing me back to ever give it another go for the full album.

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.

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.

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

"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.

Well shit

Another one where there's nothing particularly offensive, but really nothing much to write home about.

Generic rock music you’d hear on the background of some Sons of Anarchy episode.

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!

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

A couple decent songs, pretty damn bland overall though. Feels like a solid 2.

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.

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

Southern-fried meatoes. This album sounded like stale beer and sweat-stained trucker hats on a Wednesday-morning binger in Tuscaloosa.

This grew tiresome for me. Hearing a few songs was nostalgic, but that's about it.

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.

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.

Very boring classic rock.

Og ástæðan fyrir því að þessi plata er á listanum er ... óskijanleg. Hversdagslegt áttundatugarrokk, ekki beinlínis fráhrindandi en rosalega óeftirminnilegt.

Bra sång och så. Ganska tråkig rock. Låtar som inte handlar om någonting.

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

Short and boring, quite impressive actually.

Solide rocknalbum, maar niet speciaal Tikkeltje saai

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

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

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.

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.

Doesn't feel like anything spectacular 2/5

Sometimes bluesy, but no chills in me like e.g. Chicago Blues. Songs do not really touch me, just average or below average for me.

Eh. It’s standard 70’s dad rock, so fine. None of the songs are bad, but they don’t really feel unique in any way, and this doesn’t do a great job at what it seems like it’s trying to be. I do have an interesting anecdote about the band, though. When I was in the car ride - somewhere, I forgot - one day, my dad played ‘Shooting Star’. I asked him to turn it off (I don’t really know why, I don’t hate that song or anything). He proceeded to play it THE WHOLE TIME. It got on my nerves so much. Anyway Bad Company is an ok album I guess.

Boring dad rock

Didn’t like it

Halfway between Led Zeppelin and boring drivetime rock ballads of the late-70s/early-80s.

Inte jättespännande direkt.

Like the Ramones, every song sounds the same. Unlike the Ramones, this isn't very good.

Don't know a great deal about this band at all. I recognised the first song after about 3 notes, good song, hear it a lot on those "All The Hits All The Time" radio stations that have 20 minutes of adverts for 40 minutes of music. Anyway. I kind of drifted off after that, and the record is nearly finished, and I haven't got much more to say about it. How many bands can say they have a Band Name - Album Name - Song Name, song? It can't be many! 2 / 5 stars.

The original buttrock

Mid rock album: nothing outstanding on the record and it just sounded like stereotypical rock music listened to American dads trying to feel cool (even tho the band are British...I think). Overall I wouldn't say I'd listen to it again.

Maybe

Nope 👎

Bad company, self titled song on the self titled album slapped. The rest just ok.

Take out the excitement in hard rock and Bad Company is what you get. Slow bluesy classic hard rock without any edge, power or fun.

Certainly some highlights, but even those don't really move me the way you would expect from an alltime classic. It does still surprise me this was like the first big signing to the Beatles label. 2.5/5

Pretty much what I was expecting. I knew the two hit tracks from this album, and the rest of the album, while varying some tempos and topics, didn't really wow me. Just not for me.

This is what you would get if you typed “generic 70s rock” into an AI generator

Vocals are great. I see why it belongs on the 1001 cause it embodies that 70s hard rock thing so well. But the problem is the mediocrity of the songs. Title track doesn’t even rock as hard as I remember. Can’t Get Enough is pretty good.

:)) lol

Best Song: Bad Company. This is the second best song I know of where the song is the album is the band. Worst Song: Don't Let Me Down. Worse than the Beatles version in every way. Overall: Uninspired dad rock. At its best, it feels like a poor imitation of CCR. Can't imagine ever returning to this.

I just didn't find this interesting or engaging at all. They can sing and certainly are good with their instruments, but the songs are all 13 in a dozen, rock by numbers. It feels like this band isn't even subtop in the 70's rock ranks, even though it's apparently a 'supergroup'

The first songs were good, but they ended up being the definition of generic music. I liked the first ones precisely because they remember some other bands and other songs.

Just some classic rock from the 70's. Pretty uninteresting compared to a lot of other music which was created around that time.

Thoroughly boring

Listening to this album made me 25 years older, 30 pounds heavier, and 100x more straight (but just so I can talk about how much I hate my ex-wife). 1.5/5

Very straightforward classic rock. Enjoyable enough I suppose. I do prefer my rock to be less simple than this. When I say I love hard rock I do not mean this. I bet my dad would like this; he likes a lot of the arena pop hard rock acts of the 80s, like Scorpions, Foreigner, or Bryan Adams. So in that respect, I'd say Bad Company were ahead of their time, just cause they remind me of that music in a lot of ways 2

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If you really want to hear Paul Rodgers sing, go for Free over Bad Company. A largely dull and repetitive record-no wonder the title track is the only one played on rock radio these days.

It's rock alright. It's fine but it doesn't excite me that much? Don't Let Me Down is boring. Yeah I mean it's rock alright.

Pretty bog standard blues rock 2*

meh

Bad record more like.

my dad would like this sax player was good

Just not my vibe

Boring

Nothing really bad about or good about it

Meh fine but sooooo forgettable

Bad.

Pretty sure I enjoyed this a lot more when I was younger. I think I was hoping for an album of ‘Feel like making love’ - that’s how I remembered this. Reminds me a little bit of a luke warm cup of coffee. You know you’d have enjoyed it more when it was first made, but it’s still ok. Perks you up. Bit underwhelmed by it now, although there’s still a few decent highlights to it. Better than a lot of this type of rock of that era.

Never heard of these before.... Kinda wish it had stayed that way. Inoffensive enough but Christ it was boring. Nothing at all stood out. Overproduced, sanitised, yawn. Completely forgettable Did Leibach do this to me? Without jahs, neins and raus' I was lost...

Basic, bland 70’s rock.

A bit bland..

Must have inspired Bon jovi

Meh, only good thing was the bad company song on bad company by bad company

Pretty boring

De rest van het gezin viel binnen één nummer in slaap in de auto...Ik moest rijden, anders had ik ook even een uiltje geknapt.

Turgid

Not too memorable but nice

Middle of the road forgettable dad rock

So many British bands in this list

Bad Company? More like the Boring Company. Forgettable white man blues.

Dad? Is that you?

My dad doesn’t like this so I don’t like this

Was okay

Aaaaand it's 70s English rock again. Didn't they ever think "gee, anyone who listens to every album here is gonna get sick of English rock" while putting the list together? 2/5.

I felt nothing.

I thought I would like this more but it's pretty boring and kind of generic 70s rock sounding. Even the song I used to like, "Bad Company," did nothing for me (although I hadn't listened to it in a long time). Just a 2 I guess.

Feels like a centre point of classic rock...and in being so is quite a dull ride.

Very dull, vanilla rock. It’s almost as if someone made a checklist of rock tropes and these guys just went by that.

Ehh it's pretty bland generic rock. Completely forgettable.

Pretty underwhelming. Songs aside from Bad Company are fairly generic.

Liked: The Way I Choose

kind of shit tbh,

Best song - Bad Company One for karaoke - Bad Company One for a run - Rocksteady Alright. Moving On got me good because I could only think of Vic and Bob covering it.

Yawn

Sure, it's direct and clean, but also sounds a bit light and tinny, doesn't it? Maybe even tame. Rodgers' voice frays noticeably on "Rock Steady," undercutting the promise of the title. Takeaway: people in the '70s would buy anything sold to them, musically. This feels like testament to the dodgy taste of mid-'70s rock and roll simpletons, of which there were clearly many. "Don't Let Me Down" is homogeniety itself -- beat and rhythms, solo and vocals (but no doubt would sound great if one were waving a lighter about in one of that benighted era's acoustically unsound arenas) and not even close to John Lennon's tune (of which this seems a half-cover). "Movin On" is okay but far from compensates from many other faults (the unconvincing faux drama of the title cut –– "ooh, we're shaking in our boots, you're so bad!" –– and the silly paean to "Seagull").

Unimpressive, it’s very mellow, it has a couple good songs but nothing that gives you an overly impressed feeling. Expected more. Sounds like a live band at Loretta’s Last Call at times.

Decent dad music

Carefully calculated and thoroughly sanitized rock. A set of radio fillers with decent riffs and annoying vocals. Generic hard rock for malls.

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kjedelig

Yet another album that is *not* one you must hear. Seagull is a fucking terrible song.

dull

It was ok. I understand the genre, and the time this was released, it just doesn't seem to hold up as well as some of the others.

I came into this with pretty much no knowledge of this band. Turns out Bad Company is pretty unforgettable rock. For an album described as “hard rock” there was very little hard rock to be found. What was here instead was pretty run of the mill 70s rock and a surprisingly consistent Beatles derivations. This isn’t a bad album - just a very boring one.

Fine... not really my cup of tea, but it wasn't objectionable or anything.

Middle of the road dad rock but its not the worst

“vapid midcentury rock”

BLUUUUEEEEESSSSSS RROOOOOOCCCCCCKKKK. Bad Company is at its best when they stretch out their songwriting chops and get a little more ballady. And hey if blues rock is up your alley then these guys are what you want. if not, boy you are in for a long time. Crazy thing is they were english, even though I associate them with the Southern Rock sub genre. This is an album for divorced uncles.

Ja degelijk, prima om te luisteren maar meer ook niet.

Bad Company is vervelend gezelschap in bange muzikale dagen...

Ook best leuk voor een keer, maar wel erg braaf en gedateerd.

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Avec des écouteurs, le production est superbe et c'est là que j'apprécie plus l'album. Il y a des subtilités qui sont mieux perceptibles et qui améliorent les chansons. Par contre, je trouve que ça fini par devenir long. Il y a plusieurs balades. J'y reviendrai peut-être à l'occasion, mais ce n'est pas un essentiel.