Bad Company

Sorry, I tried. I really, really tried. But Bad Company does nothing for me, and this album as a whole did not even interest me enough to make me want to write a full-blown review. It's not even that it's bad (sometimes it's interesting to explain *why* you think a record is not for you). It's just that, apart from very, very rare highlights here and there, the music on "Bad Company" is neither groundbreaking nor particularly well written. Lyrics are fine, with some striking one-liners here and there. Yet most of the compositions are just too linear and predictable to seal the deal for me. They simply don't make me feel anything. I always try to keep an open mind, but clearly, I don't see what the fuss is all about here. What we have is more than competent musicianship, of course, even talent. But if you want to select a list of 1001 albums you should absolutely listen to, there are probably twice as many albums worthier of your time out there. Life's too short to waste it on stuff you consider bland. My loss, maybe. But that's the way it is for me. Number of albums left to review or just listen to:  more than 900, I've temporarily lost count here Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens:  approximately a half so far  Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: a quarter Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): the last quarter (including this one)

Listened while working and just can’t imagine listening in a more direct and attentive way.

Lol. OMG! Why is this on the list?! I know this album well. I've listened to it a few times, and I weirdly like the simplicity. However, the arrangements are simple, the singing isn't exceptional. But my biggest criticism is that the lyrics are terrible, and possibly the most basic lyrics of all time. If feels like they wrote this album just to make tons of money and get laid. The cheese factor is high with this album! Is it on the list because it was popular in the 70s? Ugh. And yet...I know the lyrics to some of the songs. I would 100% sing the song Bad Company in karaoke. Never mind, maybe they are geniuses... Story time: I worked at a record store while in college, and I heard this album for the first time when someone put it on in the store. The song Bad Company came on and I ask who the band was, and someone said Bad Company. And my co-worker said "you've never heard of Bad Company" and obviously I hadn't. I asked the name of the album and they said Bad Company...thought it was very funny (and still do) that we were listening to the song Bad Company, by Bad Company on the Bad Company album. How creative and original is this band?

7th April 2022 Listened on the way into the office. Went home after work (skipped Douggie’s birthday) and got ready to fly to the states. But dad rocky but liked the bluesy riffs. 2.5 if I could. Not very memorable.

Boomer rock.

I recognized more of these than I expected to. "Can't Get Enough" is catchy, so is "Rock Steady" but there's a - I don't know - brainlessness to the music that grates on me. If it was on in the background I wouldn't mind but listening closely to it get irritating.

Nije mi baš uhvatio pažnju iskreno

Not my thing

Thought it was a covers band but it wasn't

Rather dull, competent.ploddimg

I got all excited when I glanced at this album, because I love Bad Manners. Such disappointment! I get that this was probably ahead of the curve with a lot of blues rock, but I feel like it probably inspired a lot of middle of the road mid eighties crud, so that's not a good thing.

Predictable, plodding classic rock. This guy is ready for love.

Perfect music for the background when you are having a few tinnies with your mates.

Nothing special, just some good but bland blues rock.

Undistinguished. I guess one had to be there to get it.

What an incredibly boring album to come from a "supergroup." The title track is ok, but the only really good song off this is just a rerecorded Mott the Hoople track. This feels like a prototype for Bon Jovi - which is not a good thing.

*I already got this album before I joined the current group, so this review reflects my updated feelings.* Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Ready for Love Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Just as average as the first time I heard it. Don't get in the slightest what the big deal about this album is. Ready for Love was good, but turns out that was the only one not written by the band during these sessions, which checks out cus I didn't really enjoy the rest of these songs. M-I-D.

Okay

Meh

Only a few tracks here (mainly the title) stand out from a background of droll, almost muted songs that lack in originality and verve.

Me sentí en un bar de covers.

Not my cup of tea, but can appreciate the legacy

It's okay.

iTunes describes this as “no nonsense 70s hard rock” but I have a hard time believing this was ever HARD rock. Perhaps just a victim of following Metallica in my list, but easy boring songs.

Responsible for some dad rock I wish I never heard. I’m sure it sits high upon some people’s list that are a fan of blue eyed blues rock and bar rock but it’s not for me. It’s also 50 years old so this sound has become so stale to me I’m an unfair audience.

Didn't get through it all, a bit classic rock for my tastes, reminds me of Genesis a bit

'Boring' is the first word that comes to mind. Perhaps when this album came out, it was a bit more compelling, but listening to it today, there's nothing that really stands out to me.

trök

Unexpectedly boring.

Långsam us-lands rock

one good song

Hm. Somewhere between Country and Rock? Not my case.

While I think Bad Company's titular track is an absolute masterpiece, the rest of the record consists of predictable, bland, and overly radio-friendly generic rock. This ain't it. 2/5.

It's really boring and seems to be the origin point for so many terrible cliches but at least it's short? 4

Just very boilerplate hard rock. There are a couple tracks and moments that I enjoy, but the package as a whole is a big snooze.

classic, almost too familiar

Decent bar rock. Don't let me down is a great tune (could do without the sax solo tho). Don't really see why this is in the list instead of, I dunno, in a jungle groove by James Brown.

Why is this something I had to listen to before I died lmao its literally like every other classic rock album

I viscerally hated the repetitiveness the first two times and then I hated it even more and I hate Rock Steady, it is pretentiously long. However, I ended up letting it play as background music when I was chatting with a friend at 12:30 am. So, if you ask me? Decent song/s, first few songs don't work as an album, last few songs are not that great standalone. I would have to be raised in a pub where everyone sang this in a chorus every week for me to love this. I see the potential but majorly underwhelming as a 1001 albums you HAVE to listen to. Plenty albums like this, I feel this was picked for nostalgia, and I won't bash on that. 2+/5 like an iddle widdle plus

It was ok for what it is. Not really my thing. Rocksteady was pretty good.

Saved Prior: None Saved Off Rip: None Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: sounds like a lot of other guitar driven rock, probably inspired a bunch of the stuff i've already heard. Nothing overly good nor overly bad.

This band just sounds like "classic rock". Does that make sense? I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing or how to explain what I mean, but that's the only thought I have about this album.

The way I choose va lite bra men resten är inte riktigt min smak, lite för rockigt för min smak. 2/5 skulle jag nog säga

Meh

Very eh. Content, style, voice, spirit, interest, entertaining. All eh

For better or worse, Bad Company’s sounds will always be related to Free. This is largely the fault of the band. They sounds like they’ve all taken a light dosage of Xanax and are trying to write Free-esque songs and play a Zeppelin sound. On the whole, it comes out feeling cumbersomely heavy, slow, and hallow. It strikes me as a poppified version of Free (and it seems they were somewhat successful, given the relative successes of the two bands). The first half of this album is just bad. “Can’t Get Enough” is slow, the guitar is week, the drums barely register. It sounds like Paul Rodgers is trying his damndest to give song energy with his voice alone, but he is failing. The “solo” makes me weep, it is so paltry and powerless. “Rock Steady” and “Ready For Love” sounds like parodies of this genre, as if a band took all the most cliched aspects of this blues-inspired rock and turned them up to 11. Maybe I feel this way because they also just strike me as utterly uncreative. The sax on “Don’t Let Me Down” fucking depresses me. I get viscerally sad when I hear it, and the transition from that sax to the guitar solo makes me lose hope. “Movin’ On” is so repetitive, although the solo is better on this song than any song in the first half. The second half of the albums (sans “Movin’ On”) is a massive improvement. “Seagull” is a really interesting song, Rodgers’ voice immediately hooks me on each listen. The acoustic guitar is perfect accompaniment for his voice on this song. The lyrics are wonderfully cryptic. “The Way I Choose” is also a great song. It builds into the chorus slowly and deliberatively. Also, the effect on Rodgers’ voice (I assume it is just an echo on the mic, either that or some sort of overdubbing) produce this haunting choral sound that is incredible. I could do without the sax at the end, but it is better than “Don’t Let Me Down”. The title track is at the very least interesting. It is the song that does the sort of guitar driven rock that they are so well known for the very best on this album. The piano is pretty nice, a great opening for the song, and the payoff of the heavy sounds feels earned (although, the guitar does feel slightly denuded. The drums sound crisp, though). If it were just the first half of the album, it would be a 2 or even 1 out of 10. With the second half, it is a 3 or a 3.5 out of 10. I wish there was more acoustic on the album and I wish the non-acoustic songs sounded more like the title track.

Nothing noteworthy. Way less grit than a group called Bad Company should have.

Bad Company was the best song on the album, Bad Company by the band, Bad Company. Just seems like generic rock music. 5/10.

Ok, classic 4/4 rock and some ballads

I played it many times. I didn't like it. Not one song I could remember. It's not a bad record tho

Just... super boring. I've only ever heard Bad Company on the radio and nothing ever made me want to listen to a full album. I can only imagine the people who are super, super into this. Possible progenitor of butt rock. Favorite track: "Don't Let Me Down"

A short and sweet album. Fav song is ‘Don’t Let Me Down’.

Dull, generic 70s rock. I strggled to care to decide whether the sax in ‘Dont let me down’ lifts the mood up. It doesn’t, it just sounds dated. I imagine they though Seagull, they thought they were capturing Led Zeppelin et al, they were not This feels like what AI would create if i asked for a bog standard rock album. Move along, nothing to see here

I fell asleep

ja zo'n album waarvan ik denk. wat moet je ermee. cheesy, oninteressante jaren 70 rock. supergroups zijn sowieso lastig, toch altijd net te veel financiële belangen, en dit is echt 3x minder dan de sum of its parts. zou ook fijn zijn als paul rodgers over iets anders kon zingen dan dat ie zin heeft in seks

Recycled clichés.

Wenz: This is more “groovy” than the previous album, I felt. Haha, soft band musics, which I quite like compared to heavy metal. It didn’t save my review :( Shermz: I quite like the music in general but it does feel less like iconic. I like “the way I choose”

Old white men making old white men dadrock. Terrible.

Mostly know about this because of the Best Show and Scharpling.

Yuck. Do not like. Extremely corny cock rock for beer swilling teenagers, not really much of a lasting influence, were made irrelevant by punk within a few years of their existence. It felt like a classic rock radio station stuck on repeat. I will never listen to this again.

Best Songs: ?

So fucking bland and vanilla made worse by dumb name and evener dumber eponymous wet dream cowboy song .

The worst of dad rock, the stuff clogging up the used sections of record stores. It’s just so far down Main Street there is nothing interesting to it. Bad Company is still a decent song despite being overplayed and it’s a pretty quick listen. Still not quite enough to raise it from one star. Rating: 1.4

Bad Company are a skilled band who clearly know how to perform but I find listening to their compositions like wading through sludge. It's dreadfully boring and takes a long time. I was never going to be won over by a series of slowly unfurling blues tinged hard rock songs, so they never stood a chance really but I’ve heard others do it better.

I’m afraid its a high 1 for me, they didn’t pull me in even once and i found the whole thing so boring that i hadn’t noticed that it had ended for a few minutes after the final track

Never had a "hard rock" album make me so sleepy. You'd expect an album/artist called Bad Company to have a little edge to it, but this was just flaccid and toothless.

completamente chato, ruim meu deus como eu tenho preguiça de dad rock puta merda

bom, eh isso aí rock para papais monotonos e sem personalidade. não tem mto o que dizer não. dobro e passo pro próximo

Boring, boring, BORING.

Kinda the butt-rock of the 80s not into it

Kunde varit valfritt rockband på en finlandsfärja. Finns ingen anledning att lyssna på det här igen eller ens en gång. Mestadels dåligt, någon enstaka gång lyfter det till ordinärt ("Ready for love" och "The way I choose")

Didn’t do anything for me,

First impressions not strong, what on earth is this? Bunny Jacksons music. It's like pop tunes but 'rock'. Instrumentation is just bland. Beatles cover is so random doesn't fit with anything before it.

My God almighty this was as textbook, generic 70’s Dad rock as you are ever gonna find. Unbelievably dull, I honestly have pretty much forgotten it already.

Middle of the road group. Not bad. Just not that good either. Forgettable.

Claptonesque. In other words, an uninteresting and artificial attempt to be soulful.

I confused Bad Company with the group Bad English in my head and was excited to listen. I was disappointed. Not into this.

PRetty basic rock.

Not bad, just very forgettable

Dull.

The sort of stuff that yanks listen to on rawk radio stations. I’d have punched Peter Grant in the face for this shit.

1 stern

I've heard this band my entire life. The classic rock stations where I grew up love this band, and I was never able to figure out why. They are just so bland. This album does make sense though. Good order, good flow. Short is a bonus for me. But the songs just make me want to change the station.

This entire album feels soulless and I will not elaborate further.

The album “Bad Company” by the band Bad Company featuring the song “Bad Company” is trash. Timothy McVeigh ass music

Giving too much ac/dc

Horny, daft blues rock that obviously took inspiration from the "squeeze my lemon" side of Led Zepplin. The date rape rock of it's time. It's a thing that a dedicated ironist could like, I suppose. Although, stuff like this would soon be over-the-topped by Whitesnake and their priapic 80s ilk. Takes inspiration and cheapens it. There is a direct Beatles nod in Don't Let Me Down. And it's way worse than the Beatles song of the same name. Headscratcher there. The eponymous song Bad Company is the best song here. But still very stupid. The lyrics are entirely cliche. "I was born with a loaded six gun in my hand". Ok, sure. This would inspire the cringe of Bon Jovi's "loaded six-string on my back". Ok, just finished the album and "Seagull" is such a cliche stinker. I hated this. Could I hate it more? Sure. But, it's terrible

awful

OK now we’re in the real dregs of dad rock. Bad Company was always a band that just felt a little too safe and tame for me with classic rock radio. That said, I’ll soldier through a new listen here to see what comes up. “Can’t Get Enough” is such a classic rock standard it’s almost cliche to play it now. Everything about this guitar tone is the most generic sound you’ve ever heard. This song is literally only for teenagers in 1978 smoking weed in their trans am outside the Dairy Queen. Because no one would actually be seduced by this song. Maybe make out to it. God this song is so unsexy. “Rock Steady” loses any momentum immediately after the cowbell kicks in. These dudes think they’re so cool and they sound like such dorks. It’s pathetic. Led Zeppelin I’m ashamed of you for making this band part of your label’s repertoire. “Ready for Love” is actually a pretty good song, which is funny learning IT WAS ALREADY A MOTT THE HOOPLE SONG. Gee, wonder if maybe you four shouldn’t have been writing songs. Some of this hate is absolutely the production. It’s as though they recorded this album and said “let’s make everything sound like it’s played into a wall of carpets and make sure the guitars aren’t too loud so we don’t make our mom mad.” There’s no attack on the guitar, no punch to the drums, no nothing. It’s really frustrating for rock songs that should be dynamic to get absolutely leveled to nothing by bad 70s production. “Don’t Let Me Down” is actually a solid ballad, would be better if the first couple of songs hit harder. Didn’t hate it. “Bad Company” is the one song I actually love from the band. The structure and minor tones are cool as hell, and it feels super cinematic. Plus they actually let the guitars rip for once, which makes it the most rocking song. They’re redeeming themselves a bit after some rough patches to start. Although, my god, there’s so much reverb. Please, stop the reverb. “The Way I Choose” is…OK. I don’t really love it as a weird dudes in a garage ballad, nor with this guitar chorus. But as a song, there’s a lot good here. Would love a more stripped back version with less overproduction. “Movin’ On” is the first song I’ve heard that feels like an actual early 70’s classic rock jam. Guitars are bright and up front, drums are tight and grooving. Rodgers voice is nice and pointed, and the mix is just a little rough around the edges. If this is what the first half of the album sounded like, this would be much more tolerable. “Seagull” is here, a folky ballad that would’ve been better served for someone else’s album. This is the problem with supergroups - too often they’re just throwing shit at the wall because it’s dudes jamming and feeling good and not thinking about a cohesive product. It’s not as bad as it could be but it’s not great. And mostly, it’s what sounds like a killer live band ruined by squashed production. I love “Bad Company”; hate “Can’t Get Enough”; and find the rest just kinda blech. 1.5/5 but it’s rounding down.

their namesake describes them perfectly generally inoffensive but i'm giving it a 1 on premise. grateful it's only 30 minutes & that it's not the one with Shooting Star enough of this please

What a terribly boring album.

Oh my god, this album has absolutely no place on a list of albums one MUST listen to. I disagree with the inclusion of a lot of records so far, but this feels the most egregious, weirdly. Bad Company by Bad Company is the single most generic 1970’s rock album ever made. It’s so so boring. If you asked AI to make the most generic 1970’s rock album, this is exactly what you’d get. It’s not soulful, it’s not funky, there’s no exciting aspects or neat musical sections, it’s just.. straight forward, monotonous, and dull. Hard pass on this one. 1*.

Awful dad rock.

Poop

Ugh. Good time blues rock. Soundtrack of a million bar scenes in bad films. Has the verse opening melody in the title track been sampled or simply stolen elsewhere? I recognise it but nothing else. Utterly unmemorable from start to finish. What a strange inclusion. Hard rock? Don't make me laugh.

Boring

Bad memories of 70s overplay make this hard to listen to. Puerile, lyrically and musically. Simplicity masquerading as profundity. Notice how many songs rely on overplaying the chorus? No.

1. 2. 3. 4. douun - 1.5 5. bad company - 2 6. chooze - 1 7. moving - 1 8. zeagull - 1.5

mej

wow, that was forgetable.

Really thought I'd like this more

Calling this bland is an understatement of the century. This is just literally white noise. Plain oatmeal. ChatGPT output for the prompt "generate a generic 70s rock song". Insert other notoriously bland things here. Extra egregious, because the album cover made me think this could be Krautrock or something at least 1% cooler. Boo.

With hits like Can't get enough of your love and Feel like makin' love, this band is "classic rock" muzak of the highest order.

uncle music (derogatory)

The most generic rock

Cheese.

This is some of the blandest, uninteresting, and generic dad rock I've gotten so far. I rank them even lower than Deep Purple, because at least they had some genuinely influential and innovative songs. This is just boring shite - hard rock for people who find Led Zeppelin too "artistic".

it's easy rock with some good tunes here and there. There's nothing much apart from that. the songs start and end at the same energy level. actaully the more i listen to the album it sounds soulless to me. Like, it's just going through the motions, it's certainly competent and there are a few decent melodies as well scattered throughout the record but the more I listen to it I feel why am I listening to this? It's such an easy listen that at first it duped me into thinking it is good. On repeated listens the surface level is all there is. it just gets on your nerves the more you listen to it. one song that agreed with me a bit is the piano ballad don't let me down with it's group vocals which sound good. The album though did let me down, it's a 1 for me.

A thorough response to anyone who ever accused them of denying being bad company, this album is the factory settings of state fair rock.

Can stay in pub rock history

Nicht angehört. Langweiliger Dad-Rock, nehme ich an.

Truly awful.

Average at best.

Plain boomer music

bad company by name, bad company by nature although if they had called themselves "crap music" that would have been even more apposite

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.

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.

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

sucks

Couple songs I’d relisten to maybe

Classic rock just the way I don't like it.

This is ass. Okay, the title track isn't that bad but everything else is. Gross blues rock bullshit. I can't stand this type of rock.

Bland, meat and potatoes classic rock. Uninteresting if inoffensive.

I got more than enough from The first few songs. Bloated 70s rock with no discernible tune. Not my thing at all.

An album full of uninspired daddy rock. Boring and commercial. I despise everything it stands for.

Aquí sí paso. No tengo nada que decir. Es música que seguro le gusta a Tony Soprano. Rock clásico gringo. Culerón para mí gusto.

😒 Not for me, Clive.

I know these songs. I feel like I could live without hearing this album. It feels like cookie-cutter generic classic rock. They might have helped make the cutter, but I still enjoy this. I guess I might put it on a bit of a cheesy joke.

HE’LL YEAH BORTHER!!11

All that sound that when it comes on the radio I change the channel

Can't say I enjoyed. Pretty drab instrumentally, and the lyrics seem like an attempt to cram as many rock & roll cliches as possible into one album. The only time I got excited was when I thought "Don't let me down" might be a Beatles cover, but instead it was more poo

Dull, pointless

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classic rock ready for love is pretty good, love the chord progression and the lyrics The songs are good but the sound is very generic. It's from 1974, it was probably new at this time but now it feels just like any classic rock band that your dad listens to. I'd give it a 6/10