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.
*

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!
Add your thoughts?
Straight Shooter - Swan Song
1975.

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!
Add your thoughts?
Run With The Pack - Swan Song
1976.

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?
Add your thoughts?
Burnin' Sky - Swan Song 1976.

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.
Add your thoughts?
Desolation Angels - Swan Song
1979.

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.
Add your thoughts?
Rough Diamonds - Swan Song 1982.

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.
Add your thoughts?
10 From 6 - Atlantic 1985.

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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