Bad Company by Bad Company

Bad Company

Bad Company

3.24
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Muy buena ondita y don't let down roll on 3

A whole album of solid if unmemorable bluesy/boogie/classic rock, the title track being a huge standout. I actually really liked both that song and the Five Finger Death Punch cover when I was a kid, and after listening to this I went back and listened to that. Woof! That song sucks!

Pretty middle of the road rock, or at least that's how it feels to me. It's alright.

I was only vaguely aware of this band. Solid 'meat and potatoes' rock

Pretty decent blues rock of the era, successor to the group Free. Several amazing radio staples, with my favorites being "Bad Company" and "Ready for Love." It's a highly polished effort with excellent teamwork between the band members. You can tell their #1 influence is The Rolling Stones, evident by the bridges in mood within the tracks and gospel in "Don't Let Me Down." The two weakest tracks were "The Way I Choose" and "Movin On." The closing track "Seagull" sounded very folk-like, and was pleasant.

Listened to this a fair few times in the car with dad. Pretty solid classic rock album.

Smells like the 70's

Not a lot of bells and whistles — just a straight up rock album.

This sounds like a big chunk of my memories of the 70s.

I liked it but it didn't really catch me completely

I hadn't heard much bad company before. This is like the music rednecks think is best for seduction. But it's missing a sexy voice.

Decent album but bit inconsistent. The best song is also the name of the band.

Eh, this was fine, but didn't really excite me. I guess it's so foundational to classic rock that it now comes across as generic? Fave track - "Bad Company" which is admittedly the only track I recognized. Maybe with more familiarity I'd grow fonder of the other tracks...

Buen disco, nada espectacular. Cultura general

not the kind of music I prefer, but pretty solid disk

Past the hits; ok. I am not a generous god today. 3.4

It was good, pretty standard classic dad-rock. Seemed like a prelude to 80s rock. Doesn't stand out as anything amazing but just good, steady, stay in your lane rock and roll.

Big sound rock band

Listenable enough but a little paint by numbers.

This was a solid classic rock album. Seems like a cross of like Jackson Browne vocals with a somewhat Boston esque sound, but a little calmer. Some decent tunes but idk why but it didnt really stand out to me.

Pub rock

Good hard rock. I grew up with quite a few of these songs. They’re not terribly innovative but there’s something to be said for their mastery of their style. Paul Rogers is an excellent vocalist

Rätt schysst album. Rätt bra gung, men låtar som många andra rockalbum från 70-talet. 3/5. Bästa låtar: Can't Get Enough Rock Steady Don't Let Me Down

Would’ve preferred to give it a 3.5. Rounding down to a 3 instead of up to a 4, keeping in mind that there are definitely going to be some all-time rock albums further down the road.

Good classic rock album. Short and could’ve been longer. Enjoyed the hits and some other tracks were still solid. 7.6/10

Liked the guitar, would've preferred heavier drums. Could've used a bit more variation between tracks; decent vibe music, but quite monotonous as a whole. //Favs: Ready For Love

It's a pretty solid rock album honestly.

Generic 70s rock

The definition of 'Meat and 2 Potatoes' rock. Very competent, some good songs, nothing particularly interesting.

Blues rock, wasn't a fan of the voice. Forgettable

Chilled classic rock, nothing too exciting

just average to me, acceptable sound.

bonzinho

оооооо да, это же роккиди-боггиди-диггиди-ролл, прямо как в старые добрые времена! помните, как раньше мы надевали узкие левайсы и жилетки без рукавов, распускали курчавые волосы и отрывались в гаражах и бунгало под эти заводные рокенролл мотивы! наконец-то настоящая музыка, без автотюна, обосранных штанов и н-вордов! лонг лив грейт олд рок-н-ролл! Инстант классик! p.s. рад, что хоть ратников кончил от группы Bad Company — альбома Bad Company — песни Bad Company

The good guitar part in melodies and voice

Um álbum que passou me totalmente ao lado, nem foi bom nem mau, foi totalmente indiferente. Nota:5/10

Some classic, bog-standard blues rock. I've always felt a little lackluster towards Bad Company to be honest. They just feel so generic.

talk of premature ejaculation. this album shot its load with track 1. bang average after that. not offensive just a straight down the middle average. appropriate that we got this album on a wednesday because if the rating system was what day of the week is this album, it would be a wednesday.

I gotta say I was specting more of this one. It's not bad but it's not very good either. Just well produced generic AOR

great dad album

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was surprised to be as underwhelmed as I was.

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

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

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

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

Not quite anything but is trying to be.

Generic. Boring.

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

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

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

Average company

I in no way think Bad Company has any album you need to hear before you die. That being said, I thought this album was fine; it's just not for me.

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 supposed to like Bad Company based on all of my other 70s rock heroes. But they always fall on the Cheap Trick/REO Speedwagon side of the classic rock spectrum instead of Zeppelin/Queen/Sabbath. Meh.

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 too exciting or interesting in my opinion.

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

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.

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

So mid it's insulting

Insanely boring

God this band sucks!

Insanely boring

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…

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

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.

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.

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

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,,,