[FSN/US] Bad Company - Japanese Cardboard Sleeve Reissue (1974-1982)

xich_lo_vn · Aug 12, 2011

Bad Company - Japanese Cardboard Sleeve Reissue (1974-1982)
EAC Rips | 6x FLAC Images with CUEs and LOGs > 1.59 GB
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps > 535 MB
Genre: Rock / Hard Rock / Blues Rock
TT > 235:20 minutes
Label: Warner Music Japan

Cardboard sleeve reissue from Bad Company featuring the 2010 24-bit digital remastering. Part of a six-album Bad Company reissue series featuring albums "Bad Company", "Straight Shooter", "Run With The Pack", "Burnin' Sky", "Desolation Angels", and "Rough Diamonds". Features the cardboard sleeve faithfully repricating the original UK LP artwork with a color inner bag and a Japanese obi. Japanese original release.

Bad Company - Bad Company (1974)
34:53 min | EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 79 MB

Bad Company's 1974 self-titled release stands as one of the most important and accomplished debut hard rock albums from the '70s. Though hardly visionary, it was one of the most successful steps in the continuing evolution of rock & roll, riding on the coattails of achievement from artists like the Eagles and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. From the simple electric guitar lick on "Can't Get Enough" to the haunting bassline in "Bad Company" and the fast beats of "Movin' On," Bad Company exemplified raw rock & roll at its best. Erupting out of an experimental period created by the likes of Pink Floyd, Bad Company signified a return to more primal, stripped-down rock & roll. Even while labelmates Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy and IV featured highly acclaimed, colorful album artwork, Bad Company's austere black and white record cover stood out in stark contrast. Six years later, AC/DC used the same idea on their smash Back in Black. Throughout the 35-minute album, Paul Rodgers' mesmerizing and gritty vocals hardly vary in tonal quality, offering a perfect complement to Mick Ralphs' blues-based guitar work. Several songs include three-chord verses offset by unembellished, distorted choruses, filled rich with Rodgers' cries. Bad Company is an essential addition to the rock & roll library; clearly influential to '70s and '80s hard rock bands like Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Boston.

Tracklist:
01. Can't Get Enough
02. Rock Steady
03. Ready For Love
04. Don't Let Me Down
05. Bad Company
06. The Way I Choose
07. Movin' On
08. Seagull

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Bad Company - Straight Shooter (1975)
38:42 min | EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 269 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 89 MB

One year after Bad Company's multi-platinum self-titled debut, the British band returned to London to record a follow-up. Utilizing material written earlier in 1973, vocalist and songwriter Paul Rodgers wrote two acoustic-based rock ballads that would live on forever in the annals of great rock history. "Shooting Star" and the Grammy-nominated "Feel Like Makin' Love" helped Straight Shooter rise quickly through the charts to reach Billboard's number three spot both in the U.S. and U.K. However, critically and commercially the album never achieved the tremendous success of its predecessor, largely due to the lack of strong follow-up singles and supporting tracks. Simon Kirke stepped out from behind the drum-set to help produce and write "Anna" and "Weep No More," two slower and less aggressive ballads indicative of the overall diminishing quality of the album. Following the release of Straight Shooter, Bad Company headlined their first North American tour.

Tracklist:
01. Good Lovin' Gone Bad
02. Feel Like Makin' Love
03. Weep No More
04. Shooting Star
05. Deal With The Preacher
06. Wild Fire Woman
07. Anna
08. Call On Me

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Bad Company - Run With The Pack (1976)
36:28 min | EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 255 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 83 MB

It was no surprise when Straight Shooter, Bad Company's second album, came out sounding like a carbon copy of their first, Bad Company. After all, the first one had topped the charts. And with Straight Shooter also selling well, it was no surprise they wouldn't mess with the formula on this, their third album. But it was becoming increasingly clear that it was a formula, and an unusually restrictive one. (They tried adding strings on the title track, which is one of the rewrites of the song "Bad Company," but that was just a pretension, not a new direction.) With Bad Company slogging through the stadiums of the world and momentum on their side, Run with the Pack shot up the charts, too, but it didn't get quite as high or stay quite as long as its predecessors, mostly because of the lack of really memorable material -- the biggest single was a cover of the Coasters' hit "Young Blood," a tired warhorse. "Honey Child," one of the "Can't Get Enough" rewrites that was released as a single, didn't make the Top 40, an ominous sign the band did not heed. For today's listeners, well, you only really need one Bad Company album to get the idea, and why not just get the first one? (Or, for a more complete view, the greatest-hits LP 10 from 6.) Then, if you really love what you hear, this record is more of the same.

Tracklist:
01. Live For The Music
02. Simple Man
03. Honey Child
04. Love Me Somebody
05. Run With The Pack
06. Silver, Blue & Gold
07. Young Blood
08. Do Right By Your Woman
09. Sweet Lil' Sister
10. Fade Away

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Bad Company - Burnin' Sky (1977)
45:04 min | EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 295 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 103 MB

The string finally ran out for Bad Company with their fourth album, Burnin' Sky. Their approach was so simple that it almost inevitably became formulaic, and although Mick Ralphs continued to screech with his sparse guitar leads and Paul Rodgers continued to present his lust in a soulful voice -- well, one had heard it all before several times by now, hadn't one? A band that begins life declaring "I can't get enough of your love" doesn't really have anywhere to go, and by this, their fourth album, Bad Company were getting sloppy around the edges, tossing in a '50s pastiche in "Everything I Need," crooning "The Happy Wanderer" as if they were on a drunken pub crawl. There were plenty of those patented ominous midtempo rockers, too, of course, but nothing you'd want to add to the set list. Of course, the real reason this was the first of the band's LPs to miss the Top Ten in the U.S. and the U.K. is that last point: no hit single. Clearly, it was time to try something new, but after three years of stadium rocking, what Bad Company wanted to try instead was a vacation -- they weren't heard from again for two years.

Tracklist:
01. Burnin' Sky
02. Morning Sun
03. Leaving You
04. Like Water
05. Knapsack
06. Everything I Need
07. Heartbeat
08. Peace Of Mind
09. Passing Time
10. Too Bad
11. Man Needs Woman
12. Master Of Ceremony

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Bad Company - Desolation Angels (1979)
41:18 min | EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 305 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 92 MB

By the time Bad Company released Desolation Angels, it was evident that even Rodgers and Ralphs were getting tired of their '70s-styled, conveyor-belt brand of rock & roll, so they decided to add keyboards and some minor string work to the bulk of the tracks. Although this change of musical scenery was a slight breath of fresh air, it wasn't enough to give Desolation Angels the much added depth or distinction that was intended, and only the vocal passion of "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" really comes out on top, eventually becoming a gold single. The good news is that Desolation Angels is a noticeable improvement from 1977's Burnin' Sky, with Bad Company's sound taking on a smoother, more polished feel than its predecessor. "Gone, Gone, Gone," "Lonely for Your Love," and "She Brings Me Love" work best in Rodgers' favor, and fans did prove their loyalty, pushing the album to the number ten mark in the U.K. and to number three in the U.S. The campaign toward a new sound does cause a few of the cuts ("Crazy Circles," "Evil Wind") to appear a bit forced and overly glitzy (especially the use of electronic drums), and the album spawns a smattering of a few attractive moments rather than evolving as a complete, constructive listen. Things didn't get much better for Bad Company, and it was after the release of 1982's Rough Diamonds, a much weaker and unattached effort, that Rodgers decided to call it quits.

Tracklist:
01. Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
02. Crazy Circles
03. Gone, Gone, Gone
04. Evil Wind
05. Early In The Morning
06. Lonely For Your Love
07. Oh, Atlanta
08. Take The Time
09. Rhythm Machine
10. She Brings Me Love

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Bad Company - Rough Diamonds (1982)
38:54 min | EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 265 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 88 MB

Instead of capitalizing on their "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy" resurgence, Bad Company disappeared for another three years before trying it again with Rough Diamonds. Remember, it was not yet common in the music business for major groups to stay away from the marketplace that long. In Bad Company's case, the results were disastrous: the album didn't even make the Top 25 in the U.S. or go gold, much less platinum, and the music was softer and less distinctive than on their earlier records.

Tracklist:
01. Electricland
02. Untie The Knot
03. Nuthin' On The TV
04. Painted Face
05. Kickdown
06. Ballad Of The Band
07. Cross Country Boy
08. Old Mexico
09. Downhill Ryder
10. Racetrack

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[FSN/US] Bad Company - Japanese Cardboard Sleeve Reissue (1974-1982)

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