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Love seagull
Possibly the most competent soft rock album I've heard. And what, more than anything, do we want from our rock supergroups? Competence. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Don't Let Me Down Date listened: 16/08/23
Don’t care for the vocals, got some good moments here and there but just not for me. I still appreciate some of the riffs and tracks like the opener rock study and bad company are pretty nice but still don’t think I’m returning kinda stale listen personally strong 5-6
70s rock. Easy to listen to. Lots of ballads and the occasional hard rocker. The genre has been done to death in 70s and 80s, so I'm not really impressed. It's definitely above average, though. Favorite song: movin' on.
This is like an album from a fictional band in a movie set in the 70's
Sometimes bluesy, but no chills in me like e.g. Chicago Blues. Songs do not really touch me, just average or below average for me.
Vraiment tr`s bon. Une bonne rrecette pour du bon rock, j'ai écouté 2 fois de suite 5
Great 70’s rock
I've seen these guys live, listened to them on the radio a thousand times or more, but for some reason have never listened to this whole album. My older siblings had it on 8-track so I'm sure I've heard the whole thing but this was the first time I recall hearing the whole thing. It's a lot more mellow than I expected. Still reasonably good.
I've heard many Bad Company songs, but only one of their albums and it wasn't this one. I've always been a fan of them, especially their title song. This debut album really shows where they were headed as time went on and has some hits on it including the infamous title song. Interesting that it's only 8 songs at 35 minutes but I guess they didn't want to fill the album up with fluff.
Damn, this was the third album in a row of 4 stars, that's worth something these days. Bad Company has been in my heart for a while thanks to Dad, he put us on. Their title track on their self-titled album, that's what we're all here for. It's really just absurdly good, the way the song builds to the "drop" if you will is just killer. The run up of songs on this album to that point are quite good too, I know a lot of these well. Loses steam on the back end, but the highs are high enough to make this a great album. Favorite tracks: Bad Company, Can't Get Enough, Ready for Love, Rock Steady. Album art: Simple and effective. Band name in white over black background. I do find it annoying that they write "Bad Co." when everywhere else it's "Company" written out. 4/5
Eh. It’s standard 70’s dad rock, so fine. None of the songs are bad, but they don’t really feel unique in any way, and this doesn’t do a great job at what it seems like it’s trying to be. I do have an interesting anecdote about the band, though. When I was in the car ride - somewhere, I forgot - one day, my dad played ‘Shooting Star’. I asked him to turn it off (I don’t really know why, I don’t hate that song or anything). He proceeded to play it THE WHOLE TIME. It got on my nerves so much. Anyway Bad Company is an ok album I guess.
Genres: Arena rock, blues rock, hard rock Formed: 1973 Run time: 8 songs, 34 min, 44 sec Bad Company are an English rock supergroup formed by singer Paul Rodgers (Free), guitarist Mick Ralphs (Mott the Hoople), drummer Simon Kirke (Free) and bassist Boz Burrell (King Crimson). Spotify: Least popular song: almost 2M Most popular song: >97M plays. It should come as no surprise that if you liked Free, you’ll like Bad Company (and vice-versa). "Can't Get Enough", is about the singer's desire to win a particular lover. Then comes the intensity of the love the singer feels, but this is unrequited, followed by the eventual rejection. "Rock Steady" is about sharing the healing power of music and its ability to reach a state of contentment. "Ready for Love" is about the journey through life and the desire to share it with someone. "Don't Let Me Down" is about the desire and need to find a deep connection with someone. "Bad Company". The name of the group and this song comes from a western film. This song continues this theme and describes those who keep bad company and a life of violence are perpetually trapped in that life. "The Way I Choose" is about being true to oneself and being open and honest with others. "Movin' On" describes the lot of a touring musician - that of constant travel and never settling for a while. "Seagull" is a metaphor for going through life alone. Nobody knows where the gull came from or where it is going. I would suggest an albatross would have been a more appropriate bird to choose for the song, as they fly many solitary miles. A seagull on the other hand is usually part of a flock and not alone. It’s a melancholy and poignant song, slightly spoilt by the fact nobody actually likes seagulls, especially if you’ve ever tried eating fish and chips by the seaside. On the whole, the album conveys a yearning for love. The real love of a soul-mate. I imagine given the stories of excess we hear about rock groups, particularly from the 70’s that they would struggle to find anything more meaningful than sex and lust. It must have been such an unfulfilling life. Listen Again?: Yes My Rating: ****
Boring dad rock
Pretty generic 'classic' rock outside of the big songs. Don't Let Me Down is especially tedious. Bad Company (the track) earns an extra star for completing the 'song name/band name/album name' hat-trick. Not as good as Talk Talk by Talk Talk from Talk Talk but better than Living in a Box by Living in a Box from Living in a Box.
Didn’t like it
Halfway between Led Zeppelin and boring drivetime rock ballads of the late-70s/early-80s.
Even better than I expected
I wasn’t real excited about this album, but BC is actually a really solid band. I mean, are they great? No. But I love the early 70s blues-rock genre and they were one of the originals. I also like how this album is noticeable under-produced. It sounds like they put one mic on everything and just went for it. At first that was a little annoying and empty-sounding, but I ended up appreciating it by the end. This is a high 3.
Average at best.
3.6 - I mean, it’s Bad Company. It’s like the Budweiser of Rock - definitely not a first choice but you always know what you’re getting and it’s pretty good if a little tired and bland.
Inte jättespännande direkt.
More like BlAnD COMPANY 🍞
Like the Ramones, every song sounds the same. Unlike the Ramones, this isn't very good.
Great album!
It's OK company I guess. Somehow this album has 4 songs that would be on "classic rock" radio all the time
Boring
amazing album - 10/10 whoever that singer is, he has the voice of a god
I remember listening to it in high school in the late 80's. Any album that could make my 1975 pinto wagon feel like a sports car gets a 3/5.
Every other song is a slog. But the half that doesn’t is awesome.
Don't know a great deal about this band at all. I recognised the first song after about 3 notes, good song, hear it a lot on those "All The Hits All The Time" radio stations that have 20 minutes of adverts for 40 minutes of music. Anyway. I kind of drifted off after that, and the record is nearly finished, and I haven't got much more to say about it. How many bands can say they have a Band Name - Album Name - Song Name, song? It can't be many! 2 / 5 stars.
OK it's Dad Rock but it's good Dad Rock.
Great rock albu.
The original buttrock
Some really nice slow jam stuff here, don't let me down is an absolute classic for sure. I'll call this a high 3
Absolute classic from front to back. Brings me back to my teenage years. Great vocals throughout, powerful if sometimes formulaic songwriting. Seagull is a hidden gem at the end of the album
The ultimate in inoffensive butt rock. Totally groovin’ and nothing too far out there. You wouldn’t get any complaints or compliments playing this at a backyard BBQ.
It's slower and more boring than I remember any of it being. It's like Zeppelin zapped of groove and creativity. Rock on the its gentle plod to boring before punk came along.
Great album! I was familiar with "Can't Get Enough," "Ready for Love," and the title track, but a couple of the others sounded slightly familiar as well. "Rock Steady" was a standout - reminded me of a 70's Whitesnake song. Good old rock 'n' roll!
There’s so much good rock music from the 70s. I knew it existed but never really listened to it. But it’s great.
Pretty good
Mid rock album: nothing outstanding on the record and it just sounded like stereotypical rock music listened to American dads trying to feel cool (even tho the band are British...I think). Overall I wouldn't say I'd listen to it again.
I don’t think this was a bad album - but I can’t really remember it. Which kinda speaks volumes.
Maybe
So I have to say I have a couple memories of listening to this one in the el camino. What a solid album. Honestly not one skip. Soulful blues-tinged rock by a group of guys who had already been doing their thing in their respective groups for several years.
This album was forgettable and seemed pretty uninspired. Really did not care for the lyrics or sound and it just felt like a cookie cutter of other much more talented bands of the same era.
I love Bad Company. Bad Company the song was my pump up song before exams in college. The album is really good. 8.5/10.
Матгей и Евгей сегодня трахали меня в уши под эту музыку. Не особо понравилось!
Can’t Get Enough, Ready for Love (best song), The Way I Choose and Movin’ On. The title song sucks ass and is the worse song. The guitar and drums were the best part.
don't let me down
Nope 👎
Another album I've heard *way* too many times on classic rock stations when I was a kid. It's competent. But it's so boring. Apple Music says this is "the definition of no-nonsense '70s hard rock." Great studio value. Excellent vocals. Splendid musicianship. But we're not doing anything here. This is proto-dad rock. Jurassic yacht rock. Hearing the rest of the album beyond the heavy-rotation classic rock tracks, I can confidently say that I will never seek out this album again.
Bad company, self titled song on the self titled album slapped. The rest just ok.
basic dad rock, not bad but forgettable
Bad Company never did much for me. They're not bad, but they're just sort of boring. I somewhat enjoyed listening to this - they were definitely a talented group of guys. My favorite Bad Company-related story. Many many years ago I went to a high school dance where a band was playing made up of students. They played Feel Like Makin' Love and dedicated it to Mrs. Olds, our 70+ year old English teacher. Classic rock n' roll subversive chaos move. 3 stars.
Take out the excitement in hard rock and Bad Company is what you get. Slow bluesy classic hard rock without any edge, power or fun.
I remember when I bought a used copy of this album in the early 80's I was slightly disappointed. I knew this "super-group" had many radio hits and were highly regarded, but it was duller and less dynamic than I hoped. It's not to say the album wasn't good, it has many memorable songs on it, but I was still underwhelmed. I always liked Mick Ralphs from his time with Mott the Hoople and he wrote the best songs on the album. Can't Get Enough is a solid rocker and I prefer the Ralph's sung, Mott version of, "Ready For Love". Movin' On was also recorded with Mott before he joined B.C. Still, this is one of Bad Company's best albums and worth having in your collection. 3.5/5
When rock bands could be rock bands and just put out a great album. Bonus points for real drums and guitars (goes without saying).
At first was a little unsure of getting this album because when I think Bad Company, I think overplayed FM rock radio. However, this album is just about everything you could ask for from 1970’s rock music: good energy, memorable riffs and melodies, killer lead vocals from Paul Rodgers, and a concise album that’s less than 40 min. Extra point for real drums and guitar, this one honestly flirted with 5 stars for me. Enjoyed the deep cuts just as much as the hits.
Certainly some highlights, but even those don't really move me the way you would expect from an alltime classic. It does still surprise me this was like the first big signing to the Beatles label. 2.5/5
Nothing ground breaking but a pretty fun rock record. I enjoyed this one quite a bit.
Kinda my dads blues rock band, fairly shakey singing and some decent tunes but not inspiring
Pretty much what I was expecting. I knew the two hit tracks from this album, and the rest of the album, while varying some tempos and topics, didn't really wow me. Just not for me.
This is what you would get if you typed “generic 70s rock” into an AI generator
Meh
Very Meh
Vocals are great. I see why it belongs on the 1001 cause it embodies that 70s hard rock thing so well. But the problem is the mediocrity of the songs. Title track doesn’t even rock as hard as I remember. Can’t Get Enough is pretty good.
:)) lol
Best Song: Bad Company. This is the second best song I know of where the song is the album is the band. Worst Song: Don't Let Me Down. Worse than the Beatles version in every way. Overall: Uninspired dad rock. At its best, it feels like a poor imitation of CCR. Can't imagine ever returning to this.
This all seems a bit over-produced and thin. There are hints that it might not be like that: the title track, Can't get enough and (musically) Movin' on (although lyrically - ugh) all have a bit more drive and background to them. The rest just feels too pretty - the drums in particular are just too nice for an iconic hard rock album of the time. I was only peripherally aware of Bad Company - stuff that comes up on classic rock or road trip playlists. So it was interesting to listen to this. Although I wouldn't object violently to listening to it again, it was all just a bit boring and safe. I'd prefer some early Status Quo to this.
Actually pretty good!
I just didn't find this interesting or engaging at all. They can sing and certainly are good with their instruments, but the songs are all 13 in a dozen, rock by numbers. It feels like this band isn't even subtop in the 70's rock ranks, even though it's apparently a 'supergroup'
- Never heard of Bad Company before - Pretty good but pretty much standard 70s dad rock - Better than some others I've heard though so 3* - Fav songs: Ready for Love, Seagull, Can't Get Enough
The first songs were good, but they ended up being the definition of generic music. I liked the first ones precisely because they remember some other bands and other songs.
Just some classic rock from the 70's. Pretty uninteresting compared to a lot of other music which was created around that time.
Et par gode sange, men rimelig gennemsnitligt
A decent album of classic rock songs, but not much stands out here.
Solid classic rock album. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s exactly what you think it would be.
Good old people rock?
Bad Company man.
Great album. I much prefer this over Free. Less blues. More rock. It really rocks! Miles better than the average album from the 21th century.
This is really not bad, the songs are absolutely ok, but I hear nothing special. Makes me wonder why this is on the list while so few albums from the 2000s are included.
I knew quite a few of these tracks so this band had plenty of exposure. Not sure I liked this. It's very much of it's time. It's well put together but it didn't really do anything special for me.
Good rock album with some known songs
Thoroughly boring
Musicalmente é fixe. Enjoyed
solid debut album by paul rodgers and the boys. plenty of rock to go around with this one. in fact, one could say “i can’t get enough”. highlights: “can’t get enough” “ready for love” “bad company”
I have no expectations going into this. Bryant: These feel pretty quintessential 70s rock jams. It's not a bad album, a little hit or miss. Erica: This was the first album from Zeppelin's studio. It seems like a step backward from the strides Zepplin made in the genre to this. It's more bluesy and simplistic. I really like the songs' beginnings but they don't know what to do with it after that.
Going in, I was very familiar with about half the songs on this album (mostly the first half). A tight 34 minutes of good old fashioned straight up 70’s rock with a great lead singer. But like I alluded to, while I was familiar with half the songs, I had never heard the other half as I had heard the hits so much on the radio so I never needed to buy or even listen to the album. Tracks 1-3 are all-timers (in that they’re great songs that have earned their place wherever you hear them) and #5 (the title track) is even above THAT level. #4 is a Beatles cover and felt like on the track listing it would’ve worked better after the title track but it was the age of the album so I get why they’d put that as the side ender and start fresh with Bad Company (the song, not the album…..or band, lol). #6 is The Way I Choose and it’s a pretty solid bluesy ballad. I actually like this in an early Springsteen kinda way. #7 is Moving On and even though I don’t think I’ve heard it, it earns its place along with the first three songs. Great forgotten song. #8 is titled Seagull and I’m guessing it was a Free Bird homage of some sort but more folksy. Almost like a Led Zeppelin track. It’s ok. 4 great songs (including an all-timer) and 2 new really good songs. The two side-enders are the weakest of the 8 but aren’t terrible. I love how there’s no filler on here. Add 2 or 3 blah songs and this album would be getting a 3. 34 minutes of half straight up rocking and half ballad-y type love songs and this really is a 70’s gem. I was expecting a 3 but this is a 4 from me, dawg.
Listening to this album made me 25 years older, 30 pounds heavier, and 100x more straight (but just so I can talk about how much I hate my ex-wife). 1.5/5
Good execution of the genre. Nothing too creative or noteworthy, but enjoyable for what it is.
There's been a dull, pervasive melancholy eating away at me recently. Conversley, while I listen to this album I find that there's an equally dull -- but slightly less pervasive -- rock-an-roall go-get-em have-good-sex sound. I thought this was a bit sensual: "Well, when I want to rock steady, yeah I know I got to get ready Close my eyes and let myself go"
"Can't Get Enough" and "Bad Company" are definite classics, but the rest of the album's not quite good enough to earn 4 stars. Call it 3.5.
Classic rock done right. Great album.
I’ve written more than I care to about the weird symbiosis I’ve had with the Random Album Generator over the last 8 or so months, but I wouldn’t keep bringing it up if it didn’t keep happening. So, on today’s installment of “The Matrix is Real”, we have Bad Company’s self titled debut record. Every Tuesday night, for the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve listened to The Best Show (with Tom Scharpling). It started its life as call-in comedy radio show during the tail end of the Clinton Administration on New Jersey’s WFMU, the greatest radio station in America - a free form, listener supported station…you can and should stream it sometime. By the mid-aughts, the radio show was being podcast the next day after the show aired on terrestrial radio. In 2013, Tom Scharpling left WFMU to do the show independently as a streaming call-in show/podcast. Currently, The Best Show still operates as podcast, but also streams on YouTube each Tuesday night. If you like indie rock and comedy, the Best Show should be right up your alley: they have live in studio performances from the likes of Lou Barlow, The Black Lips, Mike Watt, and more; comedic guests like Patton Oswald, Marc Maron, Matt Berry; weekly calls from Superchunk/Mountain Goats/Bob Mould drummer Jon Wurster, where he calls in as a fictional character, typically from the fictional town of Newbridge, NJ; and, of course calls, from listeners on a variety of lighthearted and funny topics - a personal favorite was “Who is the dumbest member of CSNY?”. It’s one of my favorite things on earth. It’s truly the *best* show around. Right now, you’re thinking “holy fuck, dude, get to the point”…hang on, I’m almost there. One of the staples of The Best Show, for the last decade plus, is the song Bad Company by Bad Company from the album we are here to discuss, “Bad Company”. The premise is simple, but might take a minute to explain. Because the Best Show is a call-in show, sometimes they get great callers, sometimes they get mediocre callers and, you guessed it, sometimes they get truly awful callers. When a truly awful or especially boring caller calls in, Tom will often lose interest and/or patience with them, and that is where Bad Company comes in. While an insufferable caller is rambling on about something off topic or idiotic, Scharpling will discreetly begin to fade in the song Bad Company (”Company…always on my mind”) into the background of their call. With the studio setup, everyone but the caller can hear the opening strains of the song kicking in. Listeners become giddy, because they know what’s coming. Scharpling will deftly keep the caller rambling, feigning interest in their tale, pushing them closer and closer to the first chorus of the song. Then, as Paul Rodgers sings “That’s why the call me…[snare hits] Bad Company!”, Scharpling hangs up of the caller, often mid-sentence. It is unbelievably hilarious to me and, at the same time, maybe the dumbest thing that makes me laugh…It never fails to make me laugh. [there’s a super cut of people getting Bad Company’d on YouTube, if you’re interested.] Anyway, that the generator recommended this record on a Tuesday, the day I always listen to/watch the Best Show is just another coincidence in a long line of increasingly specific coincidences I’ve experienced during this project. If there was ever a song I associated with Tuesday’s, it’s “Bad Company”. Who knows, maybe I thought this project would be a good way to pass some time, but it’s actually going to be the thing that causes a mental breakdown. Who knows. At this point, I’m just here for the ride. Oh, and you should listen to the Best Show. Tuesday nights on YouTube, BestShow4Life, the next day on the podcast platform of your choice and archives of the first 14 years over at WFMU.org. There’s literally like 24 years worth of shows you can listen to and, let’s face it, if you’re doing this project, you’ve probably got some other time you’re looking to kill.
Title track is still good, I he Rest just ok
I was thinking about the joke in Spinal Tap about turning the amp up to 11 and how the maxim “play it loud” goes unquestioned in much of rock. But Bad Company is a band comfortable with restraint. They like to turn things up to 7 or 8 and leave it there. This is a tasteful album of strong songs and excellent playing. I don’t even mind how much they rip off The Beatles on “Don’t Let Me Down” — it’s nicely done.
It's so funny to me that this band is "Bad Company", known for the song "Bad Company" off of the album "Bad Company". There's just something humorous about the idea of finding a good name and then running with it I guess. I spent so many hours and hours of my youth sitting in a room with bandmates trying to think of band names and track names and those little revelations that sometimes arise through the weed smoke and beer burps really are magical and I can see how easy it must have been for this band to just keep running with that. I've never been a big listener of this band because frankly their sound always came across as kind of cheesy and that of that classic rock generic-ness. But from the start of the first track I really did feel something... maybe it's because it is a Friday and it's nice out and Spring is just around the corner but I imagined myself being a young rock songwriter and having this release come out in my late 20's and that really made me get a sort of vicarious nostalgia hit. If I was a member of this band I would be really proud of this record. It does what you think it will do, for better or worse. It's a 3/5 for me. Like a 3.4 though; not close enough to round up to a 4.
Very straightforward classic rock. Enjoyable enough I suppose. I do prefer my rock to be less simple than this. When I say I love hard rock I do not mean this. I bet my dad would like this; he likes a lot of the arena pop hard rock acts of the 80s, like Scorpions, Foreigner, or Bryan Adams. So in that respect, I'd say Bad Company were ahead of their time, just cause they remind me of that music in a lot of ways 2
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No es malo realmente, de hecho pienso todo lo contrario, pero, en general, simplemente no toma los riesgos necesarios para que llegue a ser sobresaliente
Unabashedly oozing with Rock. Simple yet satisfying
Very soft rock but a very good listen. Feels very familiar, with sounds I've encountered around rock, suggesting it influenced many modern rock forms, or was itself influenced by beatles, stones etc. Overall very enjoyable listen and feels as if it grows in a tenderness as it goes along. Maybe not a recreational one for me personally but good to get an appreciation for earlier and more classic (albeit not the most famous or well-known) sounds of rock.
There is a type of rock that sounds like it could have been from any time between 72 and 2008. This is that.
Enjoyable classic rock
If you really want to hear Paul Rodgers sing, go for Free over Bad Company. A largely dull and repetitive record-no wonder the title track is the only one played on rock radio these days.
I sure loved this album as a teenager, and I am very fond of it since it’s one of the albums my wife and I listened to early on in our relationship. Standouts to me are Rock Steady, Ready for Love, Bad Company, The Way I Choose, and my favorite Segull. 4 out of 5 album, still crazy it was the first album released on Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records!
This album has definite highpoints displayed in"Can't Get Enough" and "Bad Company" but the rest of the album seems to blend. The peak of dad rock tracks can't save the snorers that are "The Way I Choose" and "Seagull". The remaining tracks on the album aren't offensive, but struggle to grab attention. At the very least, they had the sense to spread out the two standout tracks. If this album's greatest tracks were combined with the band's follow-up's best selection, they would have agenuinely had a 4 or 5 star album. Overall a dated uneven album.
It's rock alright. It's fine but it doesn't excite me that much? Don't Let Me Down is boring. Yeah I mean it's rock alright.
Finally, some nice, classic dad rock. And no grandoise AOR either, just some blues-inspired hard rock. As an album, it’s not really an artistic statement. More like a collection of songs with no underlying theme. So if you’re looking for that in your albums, you won’t find it here. The music is par for the course hard rock. No new invention or improvisation to be found here. But the songs themselves aren’t hindered by this fact. The band sounds full of life, and the sound has a head-nodding punch to it, akin to a less-wild The Who. Worth the listen if you’re looking for a good album to drive to, but not really an “album” to come back to. Standout Songs: “Can’t Get Enough” “Don’t Let Me Down” “Bad Company” “Seagull”
Solid with nothing overwhelming one way or another.
There's something about an album called Bad Company by a band called Bad Company with a song called Bad Company on it. For real though, great classic rock here. Heavy instrumentation with a lighter singing voice pairs so nicely here. Favorite track: Can't Get Enough
Overall not a bad album at all. Sounds of the Doors and Tom Petty in there, bit of a bluesy vibe there too.
Proper dad rock
This is a good easy listening rock album, I like this guys voice. Reminds me of the rock bar I used to frequent in Greece where it was played daily 😊
Not Bad
Pretty ordinary hard rock album with a couple of hits, one of which has become a rock standard and a bunch of inconsequential songs to fill the album out. 3 stars
Blues rock. Me ha gustado bastante. ¿Hasta vinilo? Venga, va.
Nice to hear a bit of rock and roll after a week of blip blip "mood" albums. Very much of its time but hey, it's the rhythm and blues as it should be before the tuneless people stole the genre.
7/10
I've heard of the title track, but otherwise am largely un-familiar with the rest of their music. I am loving the classic 70's rock sound they are putting out. Another surprise 5/5.
Listened to this album many times in my youth so its like putting on an old coat, still comfortable and full of memories. Good quality straight down the line rock songs here, not much filler
Je trouve que mon père est toujours en mauvaise compagnie quand il sort à la fête forraine avec eltrapeze.
Le répugnant robpoullaillère nous avait promis un excellent album, il n'en fut sans surprise rien. rob a une fois de plus tenté de renouer le contact avec son père en forçant sa passion pour un album moyen de rock, malheureusement le père en question (avec qui j'entretiens d'excellentes relations je le rappelle) m'a confié qu'il n'aimait pas tant que ça cet album. Un nouveau coup d'épée dans l'eau pour l'affreux rob.
Pretty bog standard blues rock 2*
Serviceable classic rock. Not good, not great.
meh
A good rock album, i imagine listening to it on a solo road trip. Besides that, I will probably never listen to it again. (I do admire their technique)
While not bad to me, this didn't leave much of an impact in regards to making any sort of impression. Maybe some Bad Company was what was needed in the landscape of rock and roll when this album came out and it may have succeeded in whatever goals it was looking to obtain. Favorites: Can't Get Enough, Don't Let Me Down, Bad Company, Movin' On.
Le petit rayon de soleil de ma journée
une compagnie somme toute convenable
Bad record more like.
Rock
Plain boomer music
my dad would like this sax player was good
Straight forward, inoffensive, if not rather boring, dad rock. All competently and appropriately played. Good enough, it just doesn't really have anything making it great. It gets a slight bump for being so short, and a bump for the classic rock radio nostalgia (how did this record get so much airplay?). 5.5/10
With all the musical experimentation that happened around the '70s, I think that these straightforward, no-fuss albums are still among those that'll stand the test of time. It's classic, "classic rock" and Bad Company does it really well. There are no frills, no gimmicks, no real risks but that's exactly what makes it great. It's just a good old fashioned rock record that's a lot of fun to listen to. Standout tracks were Can't Get Enough, Don't Let Me Down, Bad Company, and Movin' On.
Surprisingly pedestrian. Punk required to sweep this sort of stuff away
chill blues rock vibes!!
bad bad company..
I haven’t listened to Bad Company in years, and thoroughly enjoyed this!
Kende het album of de band nog niet. Can't Get Enough: 2,5/5 Rock Steady: 3/5 Ready for Love: 2,5/5 Don't Let Me Down: 2/5 Bad Company: 3/5 The Way I Choose: 2,5/5 Movin' On: 3,5/5 Seagull: 2,5/5 Totaal 2,5/5
Just not my vibe
Mercifully short generic dull "rock" that picks a line and repeated it 1000x. I get it, you are "ready for love." Blah.
So polished, but not in a good way. It's like someone in the UK focus grouped how to sound like Creedence but forgot to go to Nam
Angsty rock.
Boring
Nothing really bad about or good about it
Actually pretty damn good, remove one star for lack of imagination in naming.
Bland. I rather listen to Led Zeppelin and Blue Oyster Cult than this.
Highlight: Bad Company
There are a couple of hits on here but it’s boomer rock and doesn’t add anything special to the genre. People joke that the Eagles are bland and haven’t added to the genre. This is a far more bland album than anything the Eagles have put out. I see almost no impact to the music world if this album hadn’t been made. This list doesn’t need this album.
Dad rock🤟
Uncompromising rock.
3.5 Solid rock
meh
Meh fine but sooooo forgettable
"Can't Get Enough" is a great track. As for the rest of the album, it's ok when it picks up the pace a bit, but the majority is just too slow. Ok Company.
Bad.
bad company by name, bad company by nature although if they had called themselves "crap music" that would have been even more apposite
Thought it was fine but nothing stood out. Might listen again
Paul Rodgers is a classic. His voice never gets old. This record is at once of its time and timeless!
This is a bad ass debut album. Almost every track is solid...I could personally leave The Way I choose off of it, but aside from that a pretty straight forward rock and roll type album.
Solid debut
As someone who spent a lot of time in my teenage years listening to classic rock radio, there are definitely some songs here I do not need to ever hear again "Ready For Love, " "Rock Steady" and the title track for instance. "Can't Get Enough" might also be a bit overplayed but it's a real banger. A couple of the deep tracks, "The Way I Choose" (horn section!) and "Seagull" were the best Bad Company songs I've never heard. I felt like this was gonna be a straight up 3 star album but I'm giving it four despite being permanently sick of a couple of the more popular songs.
More like Dad co. This is straight up 70s dad rock. Not a bad thing, but nothing too interesting here. Definitely a product of its time. Still a good listen. Classic classic rock.
Best album so far
Pretty sure I enjoyed this a lot more when I was younger. I think I was hoping for an album of ‘Feel like making love’ - that’s how I remembered this. Reminds me a little bit of a luke warm cup of coffee. You know you’d have enjoyed it more when it was first made, but it’s still ok. Perks you up. Bit underwhelmed by it now, although there’s still a few decent highlights to it. Better than a lot of this type of rock of that era.
Classic rock, was an enjoyable half an hour, would be great on guitar hero. Not really sure I ever need to hear it again but nice enough.
Enjoyed the sound, but a few too many tracks were on the forgettable side.
Fantastic rock album, short and sweet. Must have listened to it about 4 times. Apart from "Bad Company" and "Can't Get Enough" they're fairly forgettable songs but that didn't stop me enjoying the album.
Never heard of these before.... Kinda wish it had stayed that way. Inoffensive enough but Christ it was boring. Nothing at all stood out. Overproduced, sanitised, yawn. Completely forgettable Did Leibach do this to me? Without jahs, neins and raus' I was lost...
4 stars
I love this album! Love the blues rock sound of it and the mix is flawless. They lost me a bit in one or two songs, but overall a nice album.
Basic, bland 70’s rock.
Really just a great classic rock record, Seems I've listened to five finger death punch's cover of the song bad company more than the original but the hook is really catchy in both
Very enjoyable from start to finish
A bit bland..
This is rock and roll from the early 70s although they clearly weren't in the same league as The Who, the Stones or Led Zep. The lead guitarist and bass player are quite good at playing their instruments but the songs aren't very interesting. I can't understand why they would think it was a good idea to make a song titled (and having the slowly sung chorus) "Don't Let Me Down" given Lennon's classic was released only a few years earlier. This album has aged like a 1974 Chateau le Vinaigre.
The singer has a good rock n' roll voice, but this is bad commercial rock. I remember hearing this in '74 and thinking "it's time to move on, my hard rock days are over."
Bland Company, Bad Music, all of the above. I hated this bad when I was a teen and almost 50 yrs later it sounds even worse now. Nuff said.
Must have inspired Bon jovi
Already done this one Can’t get enough: ROCK Ready for love: sounds like Eric clapton Don’t let me down: think I know this one
One of the best debut albums of all time. True classic rock classic.
Ok
Great album. Masterpiece for a debut album
I love the music from this album….
Meh, only good thing was the bad company song on bad company by bad company
Bad company by bad company on bad company written by bad company and produced by bad company... I get it in all seriousness really enjoyed this album - they have a really strong and unique sound. it reminds me a lot of something but I cant figure out what it is (its another bad company album I just checked)
It opens and closes with great songs, making this a seem truly a supergroup. The six in between passed without major circumstance, save for a Beatles cover which served only to piss me off. Middle score, because the two good tracks are really good.
Can’t get enough: ROCK Ready for love: sounds like Eric clapton Don’t let me down: think I know this one
Pretty boring
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Can’t get enough, Rock steady, Ready for love, Don’t let me down
Solid Blues Rock Album but not much besides that.
A much listened to album from my teen years. Loved it then. Loved it today.
Really nice groove, very comforting
Beetje standaard jaren 70-spul. Niet echt slecht, maar het heeft een grote 'waarom moet ik dit eigenlijk luisteren?'-factor. Daarmee ben je nog geen classic album, kortom.
De rest van het gezin viel binnen één nummer in slaap in de auto...Ik moest rijden, anders had ik ook even een uiltje geknapt.
De beste nummers doen me een beetje denken aan Lynyrd Skynyrd, andere nummers zijn gewoon 13 in een dozijn 70s rock. Luistert prima weg
Turgid
Nice slow classic rock album
Good selection of rock tunes. I did lose interest on some of the slower tracks though. Favourite: Bad Company
Not too memorable but nice
Middle of the road forgettable dad rock
classic and cool
Man what an amazing record. Almost a 5!! Out of everything so far, This is the first record that I have listened to many times and will listen to it many more times.
I would say it’s Pretty Good Company.
Hell Yeah!
Geen uitschieter, maar wel een oké album
Overall a good album, classic 70s rock. Can't get enough, ready for love and the classic song Bad Company, of the album Bad Company, by the band Bad Company, were all hits.
So many British bands in this list
first listen average 70's rock, remarkably short
Average hard rock band. Not a bad album, but nothing special
Better than I expected
Funcionou bem para conhecer uma sequência boa de rock clássico
3.5, lyrics abit cheesy
The title track has been a go-to karaoke jam for ages. On the whole, it's solid MOR rock and/or roll.
Bad Company? More like the Boring Company. Forgettable white man blues.
This is such a blast back to high school for me. It came out in my freshman year and it is the soundtrack for much of high school for me.
Dad? Is that you?
The dads everywhere are going to love this one!!! Pretty solid rock album, I think all of the songs are pretty good.
My dad doesn’t like this so I don’t like this
Was okay
Started out great, got boring halfway through
Favourite song: Can’t get enough Pretty good but songs all sounded quite similar
Aaaaand it's 70s English rock again. Didn't they ever think "gee, anyone who listens to every album here is gonna get sick of English rock" while putting the list together? 2/5.
Pretty straightforward classic rock. Nothing too noteworthy or incredible, but still some nice songs. 5/10
Nice continuity with yesterday’s Mott The Hoople with the Mick Ralphs connection. A good 70s blues rock album very much Free part 2, but with a strong Led Zeppelin feel. High 3.
Worse company Cover rating: 3/5 covers like this are usually a 2/5 but I actually kind of like it
This is classic and well-craft rock n roll.
Paul Rodgers? How can you miss?
I felt nothing.
Good dad rock baseline with some catchy hooks.
I thought I would like this more but it's pretty boring and kind of generic 70s rock sounding. Even the song I used to like, "Bad Company," did nothing for me (although I hadn't listened to it in a long time). Just a 2 I guess.
Paul Rogers is one of my all time favorite singers, just love his voice. While I like his work in Free better this first Bad Co album is really good. Yeah a little more radio friendly and less bluesy but a fun album. Rock Steady can't get enough of that song.
I haven’t listed to record in several decades. SEVERAL. I had pretty much written off most “classic rock” after hearing this stuff ad nauseum growing up as a kid. I wasn’t looking forward to listening to this. Objectively, I gotta say this record is fucking fantastic. Rodgers vocals set the template for a rock lead: from soulful to stone hard. The backing vocals blend, support, and enhance. Ralph’s guitar is huge and heavy with solos that shine but don’t seek the spotlight. If I were to nitpick… I would cut the saxophone. But that’s a tiny distraction in a nearly flawless record that should only be listened to at speaker shaking levels. A totally unexpected 5 for me.
A good bit of stadium rock. Knew a lot of these from the classic rock stations. Pretty good all the way through.
Sometimes you get an album to listen to that you haven't heard the whole album before (that's me with this one) but by the time you're done you realize you know 3/4 of the album because it got so much airplay. This album is full of great songs from beginning to end. Staight up rock, done extreemly well. Good stuff here, will listen to again and again.
Feels like a centre point of classic rock...and in being so is quite a dull ride.
Decent and soulful. Only “classic” album on here I’ve liked so far
It wasn’t bad, but I just didn’t have a lot of fun listening to it and had no standout songs to remark on. It just floated by.
Very dull, vanilla rock. It’s almost as if someone made a checklist of rock tropes and these guys just went by that.
Can’t believe Bad Company is in the list, but Free is not. 3.5/5
Ehh it's pretty bland generic rock. Completely forgettable.
Pretty underwhelming. Songs aside from Bad Company are fairly generic.
Going to need a second listen, but I enjoyed this one a lot.
Great mom rock
Liked: The Way I Choose
A decent classic rock album.
A classic for a reason, driving guitars and drums, lyrics have the outlaw vibe. A very consistent album
kind of shit tbh,
Not really my cup of tea but it was defenetly not bad. I enjoyed the song bad company
Who doesn't love some cheesy rock to make love to?
Some bangers on this one
Favourite song: Seagull One for karaoke: Rock Steady One for the car: Can’t Get Enough A band being called Bad Company naming an album Bad Company with a song on it called Bad Company is the type of of overkill I can get behind. 3 stars.
Today the queen died while surrounded by her family. So it turned out to be fitting that the album 'Bad Company' was suggested. I listened to the first track and thought they were shit. Listened to a couple more and their title track and they're underwhelming rock. So i put on Escape by Desire instead. I give it 3/5, it was decent and i'll check out their first album.
Best song - Bad Company One for karaoke - Bad Company One for a run - Rocksteady Alright. Moving On got me good because I could only think of Vic and Bob covering it.
Yawn
Prima album
Listened to on 9/7/22 3.5/5 Favorite song: bad company, can’t get enough I enjoyed this album - it was really easy to listen to and some of the songs were really upbeat but no standouts
Between a 3 and 4 for me. It was fine overall.
Sure, it's direct and clean, but also sounds a bit light and tinny, doesn't it? Maybe even tame. Rodgers' voice frays noticeably on "Rock Steady," undercutting the promise of the title. Takeaway: people in the '70s would buy anything sold to them, musically. This feels like testament to the dodgy taste of mid-'70s rock and roll simpletons, of which there were clearly many. "Don't Let Me Down" is homogeniety itself -- beat and rhythms, solo and vocals (but no doubt would sound great if one were waving a lighter about in one of that benighted era's acoustically unsound arenas) and not even close to John Lennon's tune (of which this seems a half-cover). "Movin On" is okay but far from compensates from many other faults (the unconvincing faux drama of the title cut –– "ooh, we're shaking in our boots, you're so bad!" –– and the silly paean to "Seagull").
Basic British Rock band, kinda bland
Honestly, this is just a cool album. I'm not sure if it was groundbreaking at the time because I lack a lot of context for what was happening in the sort of straightforward rock groups at this time. Certainly, this sound is present in a lot of 70s groups, but I'm not sure if it originated before Bad Company (it's blues rock, so...probably). However, it's a groovy album with a bunch of hits 4/5
Unimpressive, it’s very mellow, it has a couple good songs but nothing that gives you an overly impressed feeling. Expected more. Sounds like a live band at Loretta’s Last Call at times.
Enjoyable but very standard classic rock album. Not sure just sounds all a bit polished to me, big Dad rock vibes.
Will my kids look back on Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc. and think of that as "dad music" like I do with this crap? I mean, my dad had good taste! He got me into Zeppelin, Sabbath, Creedence! Why did he think this garbage was worth his time? Guess it's something to talk about at Christmas this year...
horrendous utter garbage 2/10
Some serious radio hits along with a bunch of decent 70s hard rock. I liked it.
No frills classic rock. Foundational, but also somewhat mundane.
Powerfully simple Easy to listen to but not much worth remembering
Decent dad music
Carefully calculated and thoroughly sanitized rock. A set of radio fillers with decent riffs and annoying vocals. Generic hard rock for malls.
An amazing piece of music overall. Has the right amount of distortion to musicality with a good voice to boot. Every song is very well done and mixed.
I enjoyed this album. My favorite songs were Rock Steady and The Way I Choose. I feel like I have to be in the right mood for this style of music, but when I am, it hits the spot.
Decent album but somewhat forgettable. I'm starting to see the British influence on the list. Best Songs: Bad Company Worst Songs: Movin' On
me gustó!!! pero un toque no es mi estilo jeje, mis temas favs fueron the way i choose (me encantó) y seagull. del 1 al 10 le doy 7.5
If Bad Company, Seagull and Ready For Love weren't on here, this would be chucked into the abyss of bland rock albums.
Lief ganz eingängig runter. Kaum gemerkt, als die Platte zu Ende war und Spotify automatisch etwas ähnliches gespielt hat. Hat nicht gestört, werde aber auch nicht explizit nochmal nach suchen.
sucks
cool
One hit wonder with a few other decent tunes. I get why it's on this list, but it's not going to make my list of essentials. Best track: Bad Company
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kjedelig
Very solid rock album with elements of soul and blues.
Some fun songs. They're never in the top 5 or 10 bands I think of when I think classic rock, but they could be.
It was okay but I don't remember any standout tracks.
Yet another album that is *not* one you must hear. Seagull is a fucking terrible song.
Eh. Clean sounding well produced classic rock album. Nothing that stands out with "wow" factor for me with any specific song. 3/5
I liked this album.
Great finding. I liked this album. Rock, hard rock, ballads, etc. It has a little bit of everything, very well executed.
Warm slice of apple pie 29/07/22
dull
Couple songs I’d relisten to maybe
It was ok. I understand the genre, and the time this was released, it just doesn't seem to hold up as well as some of the others.
Easy, good quality classic rock.
Not quite sure what I think of this. A little bit overblown - despite not even being 35 minutes long, each of the tracks felt a bit longer than they needed to be. That said, other than that there's nothing bad about it, but there's not really anything that makes it stand out either. A bog standard, middle of the road 3 for me, Clive.
I came into this with pretty much no knowledge of this band. Turns out Bad Company is pretty unforgettable rock. For an album described as “hard rock” there was very little hard rock to be found. What was here instead was pretty run of the mill 70s rock and a surprisingly consistent Beatles derivations. This isn’t a bad album - just a very boring one.
Fine... not really my cup of tea, but it wasn't objectionable or anything.