Reviews (page 7 of 8)
A pretty bland rock album, really. Nothing terrible but also not very exciting.
I only got through one song, so I really can’t rate this fairly. It sounded like standard 70’s rock
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Singer is pretty awesome
Going to play this for my dad to gain street cred with him.
Solid enough rock album, nothing exciting though.
Enjoyable.
Decent album but not really my thing. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for a bit of classic rock. Preferred it to Supertramp though.
Blues classic
O ile sama nazawe bad company kojarzylem, to nie slyszalem w calosci zadnego ich albumika, a z tego co slyszalem bylem przekonany, ze to banda hamerykanska, a tutaj takie zdziwenie ze to wyspiarze jeszcze z zlotych czasow brytyjskiego rocka, gdy crimsoni jeszcze tworzyli, a zeppeliny byly w szczycie popularnosci, nie dziwne ze przy takiej konkurencji nawet takie dobre grania gdzies przemykaja bokiem, a z tego co patrze na wiki to ich albumiki sprzedawaly sie o wiele lepiej wlasnie w stanach niz na wyspach, ciezko mi wyjasnic czemu, ale jak dla mnie brzmia one wlasnie bardzo hamerykansko, moze z tego wynika ich popularnosc za wielka woda, jest to rokowanie, ale w blusowych klimatach, polaczonych z bardzo gladkimi wokalami, na plejke wrzucam tytulowy bad company oraz movin on
Sonidos agradables, bien producido y remasterizado (supongo?), pero nada más allá de ello, no me emocionó el disco tbh. Mood: momentos genéricos de montaje triste o motivador en una rom-com del siglo pasado.
No es un mal álbum, por supuesto, pero pienso que no tiene mucho que se le destaque, que lo haga particularmente bueno. Todo suena bien, pero tan igual que hasta está ese homenaje (quiero pensar) o rip-off? a los Beatles y su "Don't Let Me Down" (quizá y me gustó más esta, de todas formas, jaja). Las canciones que más me gustaron fueron "Ready for Love" y "The Way I Choose", esta última todo suena bien, la voz así medio desgarradora y los instrumentos en su punto. Le doy un 7/10
had radio music feel like i had heard it a bunch but never really heard it
It’s a decent rock album, but just lacks a certain passion and emotion.
Decent enough hard rock, but nothing stood out to me or grabbed my attention.
Not bad
Slower than I expected, but not bad
Saw them live opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were better than what Skynyrd has become.
Eh not bad. But feels pretty repetitive
Realz flyff/4
It's fine for a classic rock album, but nothing special.
Decent classic rock.
Kult enøff, fint å ha i bakgrunn.
Fav Song: Seagull
Perfectly fine dad rock. Something to turn on while driving across some barren part of the american countryside late at night.
Instrumentalt bra, bare litt kjedelig.
Acceptable stuff, nothing very special in my opinion.
Nothing too standout for me, but I enjoyed the title track "Bad Company"!
The album sounds like classic rock radio used to sound when I was a kid. There's a reason for this, I'm sure. Bad Company had obvious influences from Led Zeppelin to Cream to Deep Purple, but they made the sound their own.
Not bad but ultimately expected a bit more, no song really stands out or is memorable
Definitely some great tracks on here, but unfortunately much of it came across as indistinguishable 70's rock
okay background music
Toi hymyn huulille ja kuuntelin kahdesti läpi
Nice album, not my favorite but something nobody "hates"
The song Bad Company on the album Bad Company by the band Bad Company from the movie Bad Company
my attention span is very short and loads of these songs were too long and sounded the same. it wasn’t awful though.
Better than I expected. Somewhat generic, but still very good. closer to a 3.5
I saw another review on here that described this as "iconically bland" and that seems about right. Hugely talented ex-members of Free, Mott The Hoople, and King Crimson join together to play the sort of basic, pub rock stuff that sits firmly in the middle of the road. It's like it was designed 50 years ago for Nostalgic middle aged men. On that level it's fun and if you put it on at a backyard party full of 60 year olds keen to recapture their youth and celebrate Dave's retirement, it'd go off like a frog in a sock.
Boring dad rock. About as vanilla as it could possible be
If this isn’t the definition of Dad Rock, then I don’t know what is.
not for me
Booooring. Same basic riffs you've heard on countless other albums. What's the point?
Another album with one big hit song.
I'll keep this brief: It's what you think of when someone throws out the term "Classic Rock". It's not doing anything special but is so fucking accessible that if you ever tuned into your classic rock radio station at any point between 2000 and modern day, you WILL hear a song from this album within the hour. It's iconically cliche, euphonically uninspired, and ironically bland. As another reviewer suggested, it's what's playing in the background while you do "dad" stuff like working on your restoration project car or fixing the kitchen cabinet in the shop. Props to the song "Bad Company" by the band Bad Company on their album "Bad Company", really made sure you knew which track to listen to before falling asleep. It's by no means a bad album, it's just boring. Paul Rodger's voice is the only stand-out musically, the other instruments sadly just sound animatronic and soulless. That's the downside to SuperGroups is that every member has a way they want the music to sound so the result is overproduced and over-refined music. It's a 5/10 even though my nostalgia is begging to rate it higher.
It's a pretty basic, forgettable dad rock album, which is typically basic, forgettable music anyways.
Wasn’t great company
Competent and harmless enough, but reminds why and how in the mid-70s the arrival of punk changed music for me.
⭐⭐ När rock är som bäst andas den attityd, sex, är skitig, och lite "farlig". Inget av det finns på det här albumet. Det är inte dåligt utan bara tråkig middle of the road rock. Så det blir en 2a. Bäst är Rock steady, kanske enda spåret med lite attityd.
I'm starting to get incredibly tired of these blues rock albums that are just bland and don't have anything interesting worth talking about. The only thing setting this apart from other projects of the same style are the decent voice and the inclusion of a female choir and some saxophones here and there. Apart from that, is just the same combination of boring slow songs and dull riff oriented blues rock tracks. When I said that I am growing a bias towards this genre, I'm afraid is becoming very clear that it is true.
This album is pure classic rock from 1974 and is best suited for people born before its release. There is so little going on that I sometimes wonder if this is just material for a rock band 101 play-along book. It's nice to listen, but there were hardly any highlights.
Not bad per se, but generic and boring as hell... "Ready For Love" is a good song. Other than that, no reason for me to revisit. 2/5 - below average
Bad Company by Bad Company on the album Bad Company.
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Can't Get Enough Ready for Love Bad Company
Paul Rodgers - incredible singer, but maybe only an ok songwriter.
I found this album a bit boring. Not really my thing. Nothing exciting or interesting.
fine
Nothing that great album this album. Generic rock with ok songs and ok players
Boring dad rock
Partially known. OK.
I have previously enjoyed 15 seasons of the TV Show Supernatural, so I can't hear things like this and not picture a Winchester driving an Impala down a random US highway. This despite Bad Company being British. This mostly passed me by, with very little that made it stand out to me in any way. The only real thought I had while listening was that I don't think I previously realised how few lyrics the song Can Get Enough has. It's just not very interesting to me. It should get a 1.5, but as I don't find it terrible, just boring, it's getting a: 2/5
2.5
Generic dad rock
2/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bad-company/bad-company/ Some okay songs (Bad Company with the song Bad Company on the album Bad Company; always love that), but mostly very very boring! No I gotta say that hard rock is hardly my genre, but even so this has so many slow boring fluff.
Dad rock squared, or rock for truckers
What separates Bad Company from the slew of rock bands of the 70s? Nothing
So the name of this band is Bad Company. The name of the album is Bad Company, okay this is pretty typical -- nothing unusual. But there's also a song called Bad Company?? On the album Bad Company by the band Bad Company... seriously??? Are they just advertising a lack of creativity? And that pretty much sums up the album... nothing inspiring or different to see here. This sounds like a run of the mill 70s rock band found in every basement or garage in that era that is fully committed to bland mediocrity. The musicianship is adequate, but nothing outstanding-- just enough to put this above a one star rating.
Straight rock…no sé, seguramente que es la banda que inspiró a PJ y al grunge, pero como que le falta algo de modernidad…demasiado clásico
Bastante meh el álbum, no es una mierda pero no se compara con un led zeppelin, stones, ni nada por el estilo. A veces tiende a ser muy genérico, pero tiene buenos temas!!
This album is great if you view it from the standards of Foreigner. Crunchy power chords seem able to fill arenas. A competent rhythm section and strong vocalist make it clear why this debut became a huge success, and I recognized nearly all of the eight songs on the record. This is hard rock 1970s corporate style. But you can’t hear the Jack Daniels bottles rolling through the aisles. This album cannot cross into guilty pleasure, because there is little fun here, nor soul. Bad Company intones everything with such seriousness you would think they were addressing pressing social and personal matters. Instead they offer cliche filled lyrics that in this day and age could come off as A.I. The limits with lyrics would not matter if the band offered an ounce of fun or humor. After all AC/DC has no Nobel level insights, but they recognize it, and lean into their limitations. Bad Company seems to really believe that they are “Bad Company” in the title track like some ominous bluesman. They come closer to Bon Jovi “Dead or Alive” John Lee Hooker. When Bad Company sticks to its hard rock sound they can produce an enjoyable head bob-fist pump song. Mick Ralphs knows how to write a good (not great) riff, and Paul Rodgers has the vocal ability to almost make you forget the banal lyrics. Unfortunately, as stated earlier, the band’s approach weakens the better songs. When they try to conjure up Stax-like soul tracks, including a horn section, they just cannot pull it off. This is a boilerplate version of soul with nothing individual to distinguish them. To me Bad Company portends even worse versions of this genre to come rather than stretching it into interesting directions like the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin. In fact their straightforward, overly serious style makes a derivative band like Aerosmith seem inventive.
Pretty middle of the road
Vaguely thought this was going to be UK ska punk. … just really American Dad Rock.
Eh. Titeltrack is zo corny dat ik er toch plezier uit kon halen maar verder gebeurt er bar weinig.
boringg
I could not care less about this strain of blues rock. The musicianship is impressive and its clear these guys have a firm grasp on their genre, but it does absolutely nothing for me. It doesn't have the panache of a Led Zeppelin or the gusto of a Steppenwolf. Made entirely for beer belly dads and Republican recruitment videos.
Five Finger Death Punch ruined the song for me. The rest of the album was okay.
I’ve had worse company. This isn’t my stuff
I love classic 1970s arena rock but these guys somehow make it sound boring. The hit song has the same name as the band and the same name as the album, very creative!
Apple describes this as "no-nonsense" and I think that's about right. I found it uninteresting but inoffensive.
Kind of fun. Got boring after a while though.
Bad Company? More like completely forgettable company. Gottem. Bet they'll care about that anonymous zinger. Again, there's not much I can tell here other than that it was -perfectly fine-. But the flip side of that coin is that it also wasn't much to write home about. The lyrics are all about hankering after a woman, and the guitars are your general rock n' roll that you've heard a hundred times by now. If you skip this album, you're not missing out.
Fav- movin on 2/5
Straightforward to a fault. There’s not much here that challenges or surprises, it just kind of exists.
Having gone to listen to Badfinger, Bad Religion and finally realising I was meant to be listening to Bad Company, I found myself listening to a completely bog-standard 70s rock album. I don’t know whether the other Bad bands would have been any better but I know that by tomorrow I will struggle to tell you anything about this album.
Exceptionally bland and plodding for practically the whole thing. Found very little emotional connection with any of the music or lyrics and was glad when it was drawing to a close. Good musicians does not necessarily good music make.
This album is about half average white guy blues rock, with a few good songs mixed in. The title track is pretty good, as is Seagull. Can't Get Enough is just annoying. 2/5
Felt too safe for too much of it.
A high 2, competent but boring
would argue this is my usual vibe, but it didn't really hit for me
Classic 70’s guitar rock. How did this become popular? Yet I know half the songs by heart. They are pablum. And Paul Rodgers voice is pleasant when singing verse, but when trying to belt out the chorus it cracks… c’mon man!
Rock générique fait par du AI de 1974.
Nothing stands out. It was okay.
You know…that song “Bad Company” from the album Bad Company by the band Bad Company.
Very capably played and recorded blues/hard rock but incredibly generic and boring.
meh
If every song we’re like the title track, I will give it four or five stars
Bog standard blue's rock really. Not my thing but it was short. It seems to be listed as hard rock but it was quite peaceful. Mid 2
Never got the appeal This "super group" fails to equal much less surpass the sum of it parts
This was so dull
Aside from Can't Get Enough, a reasonable earworm, this is all mediocre blues interpretations without any spark or invention. No idea why this album was so popular back in the day.
Одне з найбільших неспівпадінь назви і того що гурт грає. Як на мене трохи дефолтний радіо рок, є один хіт.
Ніколи не любив бед компані, такий собі батя рок на максималках. Єдина пісня яка мені в них подобалась це seagull і я навіть чув її наживо, коли Пол Роджерс разом з Квін грали той самий легендарний концерт у Харкові, це було навіть неочікувано, бо я не думав що будуть грати щось з бед компані. Нуль негативу в мене щодо цього гурту, але не моє. 2.5
Nothing that truly stuck out separate then the frequent albums in similar category.
I listened to the whole album, which I never thought I would get that far. I'm not sure why this album made the list. IMHO, it was mid at best.
Meh. This is rock music that is tame. Too polished, not enough bite. The tunes aren't bad, but they're not exciting.
Plodding, uninspiring rock. This band called itself a supergroup. This is so mid, it's invisible. Nothing at all to redeem the blandness of this.
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.
5/10
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