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Album: Bad Company
# Song Title   Time
1)    Can't Get Enough More Info... 0:04
2)    Rock Steady More Info... 0:03
3)    Ready for Love More Info... 0:05
4)    Don't Let Me Down More Info... 0:04
5)    Bad Company More Info... 0:05
6)    The Way I Choose More Info... 0:05
7)    Movin' On More Info... 0:03
8)    Seagull More Info... 0:04
 
Album: Bad Company
# Song Title   Time
1)    Can't Get Enough More Info... 0:04
2)    Rock Steady More Info... 0:03
3)    Ready for Love More Info... 0:05
4)    Don't Let Me Down More Info... 0:04
5)    Bad Company More Info... 0:05
6)    The Way I Choose More Info... 0:05
7)    Movin' On More Info... 0:03
8)    Seagull More Info... 0:04
 
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  • THE ORIGINAL BAD CO. ANTHOLOGY includes several previously unreleased tracks including four tracks recorded in 1998.
  • Bad Company: Paul Rodgers (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Mick Ralphs (guitar); Boz Burrell (bass); Simon Kirke (drums).
  • Engineers include: Robin Black, Ron Nevison, Chris Kimsey.
  • Recorded between November 1973 and November 1998. Includes liner notes by John McDermott.
  • Digitally remastered by Steve Croxford, Jack "Jacko" Adams, and Walter Coehlo
  • (Masterpiece Mastering, London, England).
  • Personnel: Paul Rodgers (vocals, guitar, accordion, piano); Sunny Leslie, Sue Glover (vocals); Mick Ralphs (guitar, keyboards); Mel Collins (saxophone); Boz Burrell (bass instrument); Simon Kirke (drums); Sue & Sunny, Sonny (background vocals).
  • Audio Mixer: Ron Nevison.
  • Recording information: Headley Grange, Hampshire, England (11/1973).
  • Photographer: Hipgnosis.
  • From the wreckage of Free came Bad Company, a group fronted by singer Paul Rodgers and featuring his drummer bandmate Simon Kirke, Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. The latter is something of a ringer, suggesting an undercurrent of adventure in the band, but as the group's eponymous 1974 debut decidedly proves, the band is proudly not progressive. If anything, Bad Company excise the excesses of Free -- there are no winding jams and very little added color by way of pianos or even air in the production; those two tricks are evident on their title track/rallying call "Bad Company," and the details make a difference, as do the pastoral acoustics of the closing "Seagull" -- reducing their rock & roll to a strong, heavy crunch; compare "Ready to Love," a tune Ralphs brought over from Mott the Hoople, to the original to see how these quartet members keep their heads down as they do their business. Appropriately enough given their name, there's a sense of slow, churning menace to Bad Company. Even the quickest songs -- the blues boogies of "Can't Get Enough" and "Movin' On" -- don't exactly proceed at a rapid clip, a steadiness that makes the quartet seem heavier. It's hard rock painted in stark black & white: cranked guitars mirrored by a deliberate wallop from the rhythm section, a rock & roll so loud and basic it wound up not aging much at all even though it pretty much defined mid-'70s album rock. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (4/9/99, p.77) - "While never on a part with '70s contemporaries Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd, these British medium-hard rockers made stern, lean headbanging rock..." - Rating: B

Q (1/95, pp.265-268) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "Sparse, unadorned and tuneful...alternates between good-natured...and soulful ballads....The title tracks became the blueprint for Bon Jovi's career..."

Q (5/99, pp.122-123) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Can't Get Enough of Your Love and Shooting Star reamin staples of mature drivetime radio and the band's chunky boogie, iced by Paul Rodger's lascivious holler, may still appeal to fanciers of The Black Crowes or Reef..."
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