Bad Company

Did someone say "Bad?"
*special introductory paragraph!
*Bad Company
*Straight Shooter
*Run With The Pack
*Burnin' Sky
*Desolation Angels
*Rough Diamonds
*10 From 6
A mid-'70s hard rock supergroup signed by Led Zeppelin to record on the Swan Song record label. The singer and drummer were from Free (of "All Right Now" fame), the guitarist was from Mott The Hoople (of "All The Young Dudes" fame), and someone told me that the bass player used to be in King Crimson, but I wouldn't know and/or care one way or the other. I'll just tell you this about Bad Company. Their style was simple: four Brits playing generic American guitar style, all mid-tempo all the time, with an occasional acoustic guitar thrown in for "stylistic diversity." There wasn't a whole lot they could do with the style, but even with such limitations, these guys sure did a good job of making themselves look like talentless idiots. They started off as an amazingly refreshing simplistic rock and roll machine, quickly degenerated into a boring simplistic rock and roll cardboard box with some holes in it, and finally embalmed themselves as an atrocious country/disco wrinkly sheet of paper lying on the ground before singer Paul Rodgers left and the others carried on without him, sounding a little like Survivor "with an edge." Only the Paul Rodgers LPs will be reviewed here. It's hard enough to sit through those; I'm not about to try sitting through the others.
Reader Comments

quarlo@walrus.com (Todd)
King Crimson kicks freegin' arse! As a Floydfan you should know this.

MiaVKing@aol.com
Did King Crimson, Free or Mott the Hoople pay sell nearly as many records? I know that does not make Bad Company a better band, but if you are a musician, you strive to be successful, and play music you like. Paul Rodgers liked Otis Redding, Simon liked to bash it out, Mick Ralphs liked to play like a heavy metal James Burton, and Boz Wanted to boogie. They found each other, and they stooped to conquer. At the reunion show, they were all happy to be alive, sounding good, and a huge crowd adored every note sung and played. So the problems of one's complicated adolesence were not solved... Want to hear about people being tormented by their horrible childhood? listen to NIN or Korn, or all the other people, who not only didn't have it any worse than the average person, they didn't feel the need to manafacture a false pesonality to express their RAGE. Shut up and rock!

Paul Rodgers is a pleasant, contented lad, and he can destroy most every other vocalist with one note! Every multi pierced, pretentious, anger consumed, fake ass gloom rocker, should bow down before him, and bathe his Parrot!


* Bad Company - Swan Song 1974. *
Rating = 10

Any man who lacks the testicles to award a perfect ten to the first Bad Company album might as well start wearing a little nametag that says "pansy." This is essential redneck rock; take it from me - I grew up in Georgia. Yeeeeee-hooooo! These songs - simple, mindless, macho statements of sexual longing and rebellion for the hell of it - will continue to flood classic rock stations until the end of the 27th century because they were made for classic rock radio. No frills. No cleverness. Just distorted guitar, bass, drums, and a white guy with a fantastic, underbearing voice kickin' it home without putting too much thought into it.

The hits? "Can't Get Enough," "Rock Steady," "Ready For Love," "Bad Company," and "Movin' On," dark and light, dumb and dumber, and they all, every one, make you wanna whip your penis out and shake it around like a man would. Plus, they show their tender sensitive side with the two should-have-been-hits "Seagull" and "Don't Let Me Down." And yeah, "The Way I Choose" kinda sucks, but still - a TEN, goddammit, a TEN. An essential '70s pre-punk document.

Reader Comments

dswalen@concentric.net (Doug Swalen)
A 10 for this? You gotta be kidding me! Bad Company NEVER put out a record deserving of a 10 and this is no exception. I heard this album for the first time all the way through a couple of months ago. Actually I was forced to sit through it by two women whom I was going on a Road Trip with. For whatever the reason we got lost in the Sierras and missed our destination by 20 miles and had to head home. I blame the CD.

Sarcasm aside, this record is mostly 70's fluff. If you give this album a 10 then you have to give Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album a 10 as well because it's practically the same crap. And I know you detest Skynyrd.

Baiting incendiary commentary aside, the hits, like Boston and Foreigner's "hits", are really inexplicable to me. The title track is pretty cool but "Can't Get Enough"? Come on! This album sounds like a recycling of The Faces with Paul Rodgers subing for Rod Stewart!

I don't get the "70's pre-punk document" comment at all. The album was released in 74, the year the Ramones started. And MC5, Iggy And The Stooges, David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) and Alice Cooper had already set the pre-punk era on fire. This album has no fire! This album has no speed! To somehow equate this as a pre-punk document boggles the mind, especially coming from a guy who is into punk in as big a way as you are.

This album only serves two purposes. To get chicks into bed and as a coaster for a drink.

I'll wear my "pansy" nametag with pride, thank you very much. And my testicles are hanging just fine and dandy. Consider yourself properly chastized!

Glenn.Wiener@entex.com
Never did simplicity sound so good. "The Way That I Choose" and "Don't Let Me Down" drag in spots. Overall, a very auspicious debut.

bodie@pconline.com
"the way i choose" kindasucks? ever bennon shrooms?

carl.hamre@revisor.leg.state.mn.us
While it's sad to see what they degenerated into, carrying a second guitarist on tour, and now with their third or fourth singer?, this is a great album. "The Way I Choose" is slow, but a good tune nonetheless. This album is only about 35 minutes long as I recall, but it would've rated an 11 if they'd have left "Can't Get Enough" off of it. It's the worst BadCo song I've ever heard.

ianmcin@istar.ca (Ian Macintyre)
Granted, the lyrics are a tad weak but "Can't Get Enough" is a kickin' tune nonetheless.

richard.ford2@virgin.net
The debut album Bad Company was a benchmark for all blues/rock albums that followed. Those who do not appreciate the brilliance of tracks like 'Can't get enough', 'Moving on' and 'Seagull' and Rodgers' outstanding vocals have my sympathy, for they truly do not know what they miss!

Dipietrodj@aol.com
I love this CD. I have a little girl and she loves Bad Company too. They were in Philadelphia in 1999 and the concert was great....

Mapboy410@aol.com
There is no Bad Company album worthy of more than a 5, nonetheless a 10!!!!!

Paulisallthat@webtv.net (Vicki Kern)
This is destined to be one of the greats especially with the great vocals of The Voice himself. If you don"t like it well this is a free country afterall, don"t listen. It"s your loss and lack of good musicical taste

PeckerHeadQball@aol.com
I loved the way the song; "bad company" was recorded! any rock-n-roll with half (mind you) a mind would dig the way this was recorded! absolutly ballsie in that era! right on, get of your asses do something more!! Qball.

miavking@aol.com
Even the B Sides from this album's singles were better than alot of the stuff that came out during this period of the 70's (see Anthology for more) Unless you liked the Eagles better (which I didn't, and still dont) Mick Ralphs brought a guitar sound with him from Mott the Hoople, that can only be describes as a "Yak in heat"... a giant metallic Yak moan! I'm baffled that Boz ever played (not to mention sang LEAD) with King Crimson before joining Bad Company... maybe it was his evil twin? Anyways... my favorite albums of the 70's. Rock On!

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Straight Shooter - Swan Song 1975.
Rating = 7


Same style, same number of songs, but not quite as satisfying because (a) they've already done it once, and (b) the two songs written by the drummer are positively wretched. Howe'er, the throat-curdling Paul Rodgers screams of "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" successfully mask the fact that the melody is pretty much lifted straight from Yes's "Yours Is No Disgrace," the acoustic anthem "Shooting Star" is just beautiful, "Deal With The Preacher" and "Wild Fire Woman" rock like a bad man, baby, and "Feel Like Makin' Love" is...well, overplayed, quite frankly. No masterpiece, but if you didn't get enough jollies from the debut, pick it up. And for Christ's sake, avoid the rest of their catalog.

Reader Comments

ftlauderdale@earthlink.net (David Aurand)
Straight Shooter is the only B.C album that I bothered to purchase. I know there are a couple of good tunes, that do/did get way too much airplay. These days, I long for those songs to replace the REMish/Grunge mush on the dial.

Glenn.Wiener@entex.com
Without a doubt one of the best album covers of all time with the dice and the Crap Tables. The inside jacket is cool as well with a back photo of the band in western apparel and a front shot of them dressed to the nines. A definite 10.......for the cover that is. As for the album........a seven is appropriate due to a slow finish.

richard.ford2@virgin.net
Worth a 10 for the title track alone.

miavking@aol.com
More is better, and with songs like "Deal With The Preacher" (which is "Cinnamon Girl" turned sideways) "Good Lovin' FGone Bad" and "Feel Like Makin' Love" you cant go wrong for 70's FM ear candy!

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Run With The Pack - Swan Song 1976.
Rating = 5


Ehhhh..... You know something's wrong when the riff of the lead track consists of one chord repeated over and over again for three and a half minutes. And you know something's terribly wrong when aforementioned lead track turns out to be one of the best songs on the record. The title track, "Silver, Blue, And Gold," and "Simple Man" are wonderful, emotionally-charged mature rock anthems. The rest of this crap is uninspired, crazily generic AOR garbage. Tryin' for hits when the well's run dry. Embarrassing. And the cover of "Young Blood" is unlistenable.
Reader Comments

Glenn.Wiener@entex.com
Run With The Pack deserves much better treatment. Some artistic growth exists here. In addition to such good rockers as "Live For The Music", "Run With The Pack", "Honey Child", and "Sweet Little Sister" you have the mysterious ballad "Fade Away", Acoustic gem "Simple Man", and the beautiful piano driven "Silver, Blue, and Gold". The version of "Youngblood" is very listenable thank you and darn good. Did you actually expect them to sound like the Coasters when doing this song?

I will admit your writing style is very funny on this and all the other Bad Company reviews.

richard.ford2@virgin.net
not their best, but still very listenable. Bad Co never claimed to write fancy stuff, just good rock. This album deserves an 8

penguin@showme.net (Billy Baltzell)
Run With the Pack is a great album that deserves at least an eight. The title track, Silver, Blue and Gold, and Love Me Somebody are magnificent. However, I believe this is the last real classic album for Bad Company.

hjek@online.no (Kenneth Hjelm)
can someone give me the lyrics to Bad Company's ( fade away ) from the album Run with the pack.

miavking@aol.com
The Yak is still there! But what's with the little plinky guitars on "Silver Blue and Gold"? Gimme loud! Oh well... still gotta love that they have Bugs Bunny on the TV set (see inside album cover).... how early was that photo shoot? I thought musicians didn't get up that early?

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Burnin' Sky - Swan Song 1976.
Rating = 6


Before you can even digest or vomit back up Run With The Pack (or "Run With The Night", as lameass North Carolina DJ "Cosmo" so eloquently called it that time I heard him play "Young Blood" - right before he declared it to be a "great song" off of a "great album." Lameass.), the "talentless boys of rock 'n' roll" are back to shove more poorly-written dreck down your listening ear.

I'll give 'em this though: even though all these melodies sound like they were written in about two minutes, most of them are amazingly catchy. The title track, "Morning Sun," "Too Bad," "Everything I Need," "Peace Of Mind" - all disgustingly simple, but not self-parodic like on the last album. It sounds, rather, like a postmodern lo-fi college band imitating Bad Company. It's not bombastic (except for a couple of really crappy numbers); it's just a bunch of poorly-arranged songs. I like 'em! It's actually a pretty good record, though definitely not worthy of classic rock radio play. If you see it in a dollar bin, get it. It's at least an interesting, semi-unpredictable record. A cover of "Valerie, Valerah?" A seven-minute groove jam? Wow. Bad Company stretches out and tries something new. Who knows how far this'll go? Embarrassing. And the cover of "Young Blood" is unlistenable.

Reader Comments

McCay99@aol.com
I am a HUGE Paul Rodgers fan. And I'll listen to anything he does. I completely agree with your review of this album. The songs have potential, but it's sounds like they just weren't trying hard enough. The title track is obviously the highlight (the song moves!). Burnin' Sky was an example of a band that needed a vacation.

richard.ford2@virgin.net
made just before they left for the US, I suspect the album was forced out of them by the record company. Not their best and 'Master of ceremony' is acutely embarrassing. The cracks were showing. Their worst album but still a 7, because Paul Rodgers' voice alone can never be less than that!!

shelleyk@twcny.rr.com (Shelley Klukiewicz)
I beg to differ with any bad reviews of this album. Paul Rodger's sounds hot enough to melt steel on most of the songs included in this album, i.e. Burnin' Sky, Leaving You (ouch!), that's good enough for me.The other guys talents are admirable also.

Paulisallthat@webtv.net (Vicki Kern)
Richard and Shelley, you two are probably the only two intelligent writers here. As it has een said before, Paul Rodgers could sing the dictionary and have a number one best seller. He is a ten all by himself

MiaVKing@aol.com
I think it was the first album I ever bought with my own hard earned money, and while, when I lam not rivited by the simplistic rhymes and subject matter (Love, baby! Wanting it, getting it, losing it and wanting it some more, of course!) Paul Rodgers voice is still the best in rock.

The first 10 seconds in "Morning Sun" is enough to get my dead ass outta bed with a smile (important thing, when working retail, or just plain working, for that matter) and I totally disagree with "Master of Cermony". It's not bad at all... they just sound like they are sitting around a giant Hookah (sic) getting blasted and having a groovy old time.

When you are a 13 year old, who takes up the bass, because Boz looks so relaxed and cool, but switch to lead vocals, because Rodgers voice moves you (can you say Phil Lynott? I did, and still do!) what else do you need. Want deep lyrics? Listen to Elvis Costello, or the Clash. Give me "Big Dumb Rock"!!

Long live Foghat and Humble Pie for the next greatest of guilty pleasures.

SandJNovak@aol.com
Burning sky did it for me. I don't care much for the rest but that effort was epic. I will alway own that one. Paul Rodgers is still very cool.

Maybe they wrote this one just for me. I loved it and still do. It's very likely I have been on the same shit they were on. Who knows? Even still that was a long time ago and I still love it.

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Desolation Angels - Swan Song 1979.
Rating = 4


I know how far it's gonna go. NOWHERE!!! After a three-year hiatus, Bad Co return to the fore with their worst album yet. Sadly, it starts off great. The stupid disco rocker "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy" and the gorgeous acoustic "Crazy Circles" are heavenly, and "Gone Gone Gone" is pretty good, too. Then suddenly, they turn into a horrible country-western band. Ever heard "Oh Atlanta"? You know - "On my way back to Georgia!" Yeah. I like that song. But the others are godawful.

I try to look within myself and understand why it is that I own six Bad Company albums, and I just can't seem to do it. Hope for some artistic growth? Irony? Boredom? Who knows.... BUT I'VE GOT 'EM AND I'M KEEPIN' 'EM!!!! DON'T EVEN TRY TO TAKE AWAY ALL MY CRAPPY BAD COMPANY ALBUMS!!!!!!!! AND HEY!!!!! HEY!!!!!!! GET YOUR COTTON-PICKIN' HANDS AWAY FROM MY TWELVE MONKEES ALBUMS!!!!!!!! HEY!!!!!!

Reader Comments

Glenn.Wiener@entex.com
Another album that starts out strong but runs out of gas at the end. Bad Company is beginning to lose its edge.

richard.ford2@virgin.net
A very underrated album, perhaps showing that the group were starting to go their own ways, yet nevertheless, still well worth listening to. 8 out of ten.

miavking@aol.com
What is it with those "disco drums"? you know.. the ones that go "boom-boooooom!" Arghhh! ZZ Top was using them in concert around the same time ("Cheap Sunglasses") but THEY at least had the good sense to not commit them to wax in the studio (that is why the latter is a better song than "Rock & Roll Fantasy").

For the record- this album was going to be called "Vanishing Point" because the phot on the inside of the cover was from the set of a movie of the same name. They decided to change the title, because they were afraid that people might think they were breaking up. Think they knew something as far back as then, eh? This would be the last album they would tour in support of.

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Rough Diamonds - Swan Song 1982.
Rating =2


A yucky stinky record that stinks. No hits. All crap. "Downhill Ryder" and "Untie The Knot" are hilariously wretched country/western disco, and both "Racetrack" and "Electricland" sort of come within about six or seven miles of actual decent melodicism, but the other six songs are impossible to enjoy, even if you're a real real dumb guy. I'm still curious as to how, out of four band members, not a single one suddenly blurted out, "you know, these songs blow!" and boycotted the project altogether. Strange, strange. If you put down good money for this poop, consider yourself duped.
Reader Comments

ftlauderdale@earthlink.net (David Aurand)
I could probably put Paul Rodgers on a list of my favorite singers....even though his reputation is somewhat sullied with "The Firm" debacle. However, you are quite correct about his replacement....whatever his name is. I believe the guy who replaced him actually sang with Ted Nugent on an album where the "MotorCity Madman" decided to turn the vocals over to someone else. Thankfully, that was a one-time experience. But, like old quarterbacks, old singers seem to pop up with another group......till the drugs, booze or lack of Geritol ends their careers for good.....(Now, don't mention Brian Johnson....cause I still think he is good....not quite as good....)

winfield@biggrub.com
Man, you must have a really, really narrow taste for Rock. Hmmm, maybe I do. All I know is "Electricland" is one of my all-time favorite Bad Company tracks. It's the epitome of the kinda bluesy rock that first caught my ear with the title track of Bad Company. All the same, I think time has told that the band ran out of steam by this point. Paul Rodgers cranks, he proved that with The Firm, but he also proved it with Cut Loose, his solo, and I mean solo album!

richard.ford2@virgin.net
Now you can hear that they are going to split up! Still a 7 though.

SWC555@aol.com
Actually, at some point during the recording of this album ALL FOUR band members shouted out similtaneously "These songs blow!", and then abandoned the project, which was completed by the studio janitor and his pet monkey "Sid"

penguin@showme.net (Billy Baltzell)
I agree this isn't the best album for the group. It only has one hit on it with Electric Land, but how sweet it is.

PDigug3606@aol.com
Hey, the new Little Feat album. Oh shit, this is Bad Company..........Well, the songs on this album kind of remind me of Little Feat. Bad Little Feat mind you, but, oh, what the hell. Most of the songs have a kind of funky beat, Untie The Knot, Downhill Ryder, and Racetrack are my favorites. Electricland sounds like old Bad Company, if you like old Bad Company. Strange, I almost never hear it on the radio. It was obvious that this would be the last hurrah for the band, as Paul Rogers had already let it be known that he wanted out. Well, pick it up, its not horrible........its not great, but its not the mess that most reviewers say it is.

MiaVKing@aol.com
I had given up all hope by this time. My friends were razzing me ("Whatchya think of that new album? huh?) and it was obvious the fire was gone, and no more screaming metallic yak moans would ever come out of Mick Ralphs Les Paul again.

I nearly wept at the results of this album.

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10 From 6 - Atlantic 1985.
Rating = 9


Another one of those greatest hits compilations that make you go "huh"? No "Rock Steady"? No "Good Lovin' Gone Bad"? No "Oh Atlanta" or "Gone Gone Gone"? No "Silver Blue And Gold"? I mean, what's here is great, but why is there so little of it? And why the hell isn't "Burnin' Sky" on here? In fact, that whole damn ALBUM is missing from this collection. 10 From 6??? More like 10 From 5, ya buncha lyin' pieces of dickass! You find room for "Live For The Music," but you can't put "Burnin' Sky" on here? Screw you and everybody you grew up with.

Hey reader! Don't get any of those newer Bad Company albums (Holy Water, Fame And Fortune, Dangerous Age). Paul Rodgers is gone, and the band's talent is...uhh...non-existent at this juncture.

Reader Comments

bodie@pconline.com
You SUCK DOG SEMEN-simple basic hard hitting rock-the kind Bad Company INVENTED-can blow intricate cerebral shit out of the sky when done right

piller@fan.net (Lucy Piller)
I DO HOPE NO BAD COMPANY FANS EVER READ WHAT YOU THINK OF BAD CO

YOUR REVIEWS SUCK

thutley@e-z.net (Thomas Hutley)
Who knew Bad Company had such a passionate fan-base? For the love of Paul, let's stay in the realm of reality here people. You got yourself a 10 and a 9!! Be happy! Go produce more Bad Co. listening, talentless, sexually overdriven offspring!

Completely ignoring -- as good Mr. Prindle has also done -- Poor Business's recent history, there's STILL a good 2/3rd's of this band's "art" that even a starving Ethiopian boy would turn down. It's rancid. Putrid. Jordan cries foul. To indulge a little Homerism here, it couldn't suck worse on the suckiest day of it's life with an electrified sucking machine. On top of that, it blows.

And give Prindle an extra brownie for the excellent call on their Half of a Dozen greatest hits package. When ONE good tune gets left off a 'best of' disc, I get a tidge-bit cranky. That would be for just one song, mind you. Not, say, two or three. FIVE SONGS!!! FIVE FRIGGIN' SONGS!!! Can they honestly not tell the difference between what is good and what is truelly evil? Oh I see, the regular producer wasn't availible so they hired the Samsonite Gorilla to throw this thing together! Now THERE'S some marketing stratego for ya'! Ya' ask me, these guys belong in the Hall of SHAME for that little stunt!

So quit whining about people being hard on the Company that was Bad, because they earned it. My personal suggestion would be to pop in some Oreo Speedcookie and ride the storm out straight to Hades. Take it on the run. Babies...

boon@idirect.com (Kirk Boon)
I CAN,T BELEIVE THAT I,M READING THIS. YOU ALL SIT THERE BAD-MOUTHING B.CO.BUT WHEN YOU WANT IN YOUR FAT-ASSED WIFE,S PANTS,YOU PUT ON A BAD CO. ALBUM AND ROLL HER IN FLOUR.I,LL TELL YOU THIS,WHEN ALL YOU PISS-HEADS ARE WONDERING WHO;S ALBUM ARE WE GOING TO LISTEN TO NOW,(BECAUSE ALL YOUR NEW BANDS SUCK) I,LL STILL BE ROCKIN WITH THE REAL MUSIC. WHILE YOU SIT WITH YOUR THUMB,S UP YOUR ASSES.LONG LIVE 70,s ROCK & ROLL.

bodie@pconline.com
let's see how much money you can make with YOUR soul, slave

bevan@voicenet.com (Casey)
I haven't heard any of the Bad Company records straight through before but after hearing this greatest hits album 10 from 6 i would probably agree with you on how much they suck. Some of their hits are good but they are a dull, generic band. I just got this album for free from a music club (i wouldn't of paid regular price for this) and i listened to it; All the songs on here or midtempo and kinda boring. Hey there are some good rock hits on here but they aren't anything really special. There you go ..my review. Maybe i'd give it a 6 out of 10....though i should probably give it a 5 out of 10 for not having songs from all 6 albums like its supposed to!!

terry@launchnet.com (Terry Hagin)
their music is bad company. as soon as you hear them coming you wish they would leave asap. enough said...

richard.ford2@virgin.net
A naughty attempt by the record company to make money. Not their best tracks but pretty good nonetheless. 8 out of 10.

And the Bad Co knockers will be forced to eat their words when they see the public support for the LONG awaited original line up reunion tour in 1999. 'Rock Steady' and 'Live for the Music', people.

vomrowhaus@erols.com (Dody Miller)
As far as I am concerned they are one of the gratest bands in HISTORY!! Paul Rodgers has the smoothest most sensual voice I have ever heard, and he is also a very good songwriter.

NOSPOL@aol.com
10/10 for this CD. Bad Company is best heard on a compilation I bought this album about 3 years ago and it rocks.10 great songs. Althought I agree tha the title is definitely misleading. If tehy had put Burning Sky (the song) on here it would have been even better.

mjhaag@webtv.net (Michael Haag)
Sometimes when you see an artist whose past work you really respect get involved in a project you find inferior you just have to ask - 'what were you thinking?' Why would Don Knotts ruin the great memory of Barney Fife by appearing on 'Three's Company"? Why would Mick Ralphs turn his back on one of the most underrated groups in rock history - Mott the Hoople - to put out the pedestrian tripe of Bad Company?

taosterman@yahoo.com (Rich Bunnell)
I know I'm not bringing anything really new to the table by saying this, but I really don't like this band. It's nothing that no one's already said, but the thing is that my dad loves the band and thus I'm constantly tortured by constant play of the band's banal, generic debut album (if I have to hear the title track or "Movin' On" one more time I will KILL SOMEBODY) and airplay on classic rock radio. Thus, I feel I'm justified in giving my opinion on them. I accept the band as fine radio ear candy, but I really just wish that MY ears in particular didn't have to hear them. I'll give them one okay song--"Rock And Roll Fantasy," which is musically funny (as Prindle says) considering it's Bad Company trying to do some sort of rock/disco fusion, but really, the rest I can do without. And has anyone heard some of the songs on that album of Beatles/ex-Beatles bastardizations Paul Rodgers recently released? Hearing a version of "Imagine" with cheesy British synth bells in the background is not my idea of a good four minutes.

Dawgieee2@aol.com
Paul Rogers was probably the greatest rock singer ever. Don't Blame the band for finding out that simple easy to dance to and sing along with music was popular in the 70's The Bad Co.. Album was fresh for its time and the time was "a good feel" rock bands of that era were like super heroes, each had its unique power and comparing mc5 and Faces to Bad Co. would be like comparing wonder woman to batman. There is something to be appreciated in the simple but appealing style of Bad Company, and if you happened to be a musician in a band during that time, you know how much fun it was to cover them, simple nice sounding double leads and the audience danced to the tunes, what's so bad about that?

shelleyk@twcny.rr.com (Shelley Klukiewicz)
To Mark Prindle
If someone lifted you up say 50 notches, you still wouldn't be high enough to lick the mud off Paul Rodgers boots. Have a nice day!

DENISEHUSEN@aol.com
I have gotten into Bad Company, and they KICK ASS. NEVER have I ever LOVED a group like I love them. Everything they do is so damn cool...I get chills just thinking about them. I travel 4 1-/2 hours home one way, each weekend, and it just ROCKS to listen to loud BAD COMPANY music and drive FAST...That is the best way I can think of to spend my day... I lOVE BAD COMPANY... Bad Company...till the day I die..........

Paulisallthat@webtv.net (Vicki Kern)
Way to go Shelley!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any one who doesn"t see the greatness in Paul Rodgers can go out cut some tapes and thensee if theycan be named BEST ALL TIME ROCK VOCALIST!!!! IREALLY DOUBT THAT THEY CAN. The only ad Bad Compay tape "ve bought was the Live "What You Hear" ande that was becaus the aker Brian Howe was trying to sound like Paul. He needs to GET A REAL JOB!!!!!!

Lighttight@aol.com
Just want to know if anyone has anything to say about Paul Rogers replacement Brian Howe.
a non fan

shelleyk@twcny.rr.com (Shelley Klukiewicz)
Like they say, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything.

rjaros@kenton.com (Ron Jaros)
Back In the 70's & 80's, Bad Co. Kept alot of people in the time frame that Some of us were in, Relax and have a glass of beer or wine, while passing a power hitter around the room with your friends...!

Lately it appears as though everyone is more inclined to hurry up get to work forget the friends and family....

So Yes Bad Co. still reflects alot on our Past ...and Present , because we all look back just to Relax.... Rather than listen to New wave, Rap, Biogenetic crap that they refer to as music today !

jplynn@hewitt.com (Jesse Lynn)
Bad Company... first of all, the only Bad Company that exists in my mind included Paul Rodgers, Brian However/whoever was in the unfortunate position of having too little talent to properly follow up one of the best rock vocalists of all time. But, Bad Company with the real lineup was one of the coolest bands ever. This music was all simple sexy rock and roll, with heartfelt vocal emotions, that somehow still managed to capture the macho bravado of the seventies rock star. Simon Kirke's style perfectly accentuates The Boz, who lays the mood for Rodgers universal everyman lyrics, and the basic rock sound of Mick Ralphs guitar highlighted, without overshadowing, what was perhaps the most clear portrayal of Rock and Roll outside Zepplin. There have been bands with more talent, or bands with a better legacy, but there are very, very few bands with a better understanding of Rock.

Bad Company was one of my first favorite bands as a child, and to this day, everytime I hear a classic cut, make me feel a whole lot better about rock and roll.

DaliTiger@aol.com
Hi I am 25 hanging in Chicago and a vocalist and pianist for what it's worth as was my father and grandfather. I understand that you have probably erected this site to in a reverse psycholistical( the George Bush in me) way get people to take interest in music right. You get the benefit of the doubt ok buddy? What I do have to say for Bad Company is that I haven't always been familiar with their materials but, my ex- boyfriend is way into them from his youth ( by the way the new Fender twin cyber modeling amp kicks ass and is worth every penny). And maybe I am stuck in that genre but I think that Paul ( I think that that is his name) is a great vocalist and what they offered was cool. I am not the best judge of anything and likewise neither are you but until you have the opportunity to do anything with you product which you won't but I sincerely hope that you do don't dis another musician man, that is soo tacky, you make yourself look like a self centered unenlightened individual. There are many bands and types of musicality to delve into,which is after all the beauty of being a musician or artist. Did Salvador Dali condemn Shakespeare for not biting into a writhing mass of anything still living, no, that is his M.O., we are all artists my friend, I hope that you are a young soul who can look past things you typed not fully understanding shit. I am only 25 but my dad was a pianist and I respect people of all sorts who try at the very least to use the right side of the brain, youknow, Wouldn't life be boring if everyone thought like some desk jockey and there was no Bjork to lighten up the Academy Awards? See what I mean? Anyway, once I saw your little commentary, which is your right to hold, you also were looking for feedback by being so close minded , I had to write.

Foursquaremusic@aol.com (Bill Wilson)
The best Bad Co. albums are all of the ones with Paul Rodgers, with the exception of Rough Diamonds. They are all very inspired albums. Their real magic is in their ability to take a simple thing and turn it into an amazing thing... Pure magic!

MiaVKing@aol.com
No live tracks? ever? I am saddened that none were put on the Anthology, as a never before released track, instead of things from Rough Diamonds, and some new tracks. Some of the B-sides are pretty good though... some leftovers from Free ("Easy on my Soul") and some of the stupidist lyrics ("Whiskey Bottle") but with a song like "Little Miss Fortune", Mick Ralphs lets the Yak loose for a short grunt or two and all is forgiven.

I am more dismayed that people go onto a Bad Company web site to rank on Bad Company, how many people had mullets in the 80's and make fun of them now. You cancel yourself out of the equation by doing that, oh children of Def Leppard!

Bad Company Rules! My childhood dreams were rewarded by seeing them with David Lee Roth (twice did I see VH with him fronting in the early 80's) a few summers ago. It was big dumb rock at it's finest. I would have yelled and screamed and jumped around, but a 25 year old 230 lb jock/state policman in training was sitting in the seat next to me. He showed no emotion, and probably wanted to hear something off of "Holy Water" the jackbutt!

I still had a great time as did my wife... she was not sure at first, but she has seen the big dumb light and I have lead he by the hand into it!

miavking@aol.com
I had a bad Company poster when i was a kid. The concert photo was not the greatest, but no other poster of them existed. Without seeing pictures of them in concert back then.. I had to guess who played what... I think I guessed that Mick played drums, Simon played bass, Paul was the lead guitarist and Boz was the singer!

MSVMAAS@aol.com
Bad Co. takes you to a water that you find in your mind. Their music and lyrics flow down a stream and then takes you to a sea. Once you get to that sea, they help you go to depths you have never experienced before. Some of you out there know what I am talking about. The rest of you have no clue. But that is alright. They are a great band! Like what Jimi Hendrix say's, are you experienced. Go with the flow and feel that Love.

AKCHOW2@aol.com
EVERYBODY WHO DOES NOT LIKE BAD COMPANY SUCKS THE TALLEST COCK EVER GROWN!! GO BACK TO YOUR FAG BOY,WUSS FRED DURST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. (YOU TURD TAPPERS!!)

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