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Straight Shooter
Bad Company
Atlantic / Wea
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Good Lovin' Gone Bad- Feel Like Makin' Love
- Weep No More
- Shooting Star
- Deal With The Preacher
- Wild Fire Woman
- Anna
- Call On Me
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A Gem
I will now enter into the debate which was their best album, this one or the Bad Co. debut but I like this one better personally, it rocks more than the 1st album and has just a bit more intensity. Still many of the songs on this release are highly recognizable today. The ablum has stood the test of time even 33 years later.
As good as their first !
This is a classic rock album and you can put it up against anyones release. This is classic rock at its finest.
Richard in Austin, Texas
Straight Shooter
Bad Company's second studio effort was a tremendous drop off from their first. Unlike their debut album, this one has some definite filler. And, honestly, after this album, there's no need to delve any further into their studio albums, you'll hear a definite thud with each subsequent release. Best songs on this album are "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" & "Feel Like Makin' Love" (one of their best). Most people love "Shooting Star" but it's not one of my favorites (does trite come to mind?). "Deal With the Preacher" is a good album cut but the rest is filler. There was so much promise to this group that never happened, perhaps they were truly a dinosaur, already out of place before their eventual demise.
Great, great album. Bad Company at it's best
Don't need to look any further if you like Bad Company at all. This one's a winner.
Straight Shooter
Bad Company-Straight Shooter ****
There is not much to say about Bad Company. Nothing really exciting happand to the band and they dont really have any good storys, they were just your average good old rock n' roll band. Straight Shooter was the bands second album. They were still on Swan Song at this point, Led Zeppelins record lebel. While this is not as good as the self titled debut Bad Company this is still a great album.
'Good Lovin Gone Bad' opens the album and it is along the same lines as 'Cant Get Enough from the debut musicaly, but lyricly it is the flip side, where this is about love going bad the other is about not getting enough love. A nice way to open the album and Mick Ralphs plays some killer guitar on this track. 'Feel Like Makin Love' is a radio classic. Still to this day is played on the radio regularly. It starts off nice and acousticly and then kicks in to the hard rocking chorus. Easily one of the bands best songs. 'Weep No More' is very dixie. A nice little ditty about still loving a girl after she did you wrong. 'Shooting Star' is a longer song clocking in at over six minutes, and still managed to become a massive radio hit. While this is concidered to be one of the bands best songs, it was never a big hit with me, I can only listen to it so many times. 'Deal With The Preacher' is easily the best song on the album. The lyrics are the best on the album and it is clearly Paul Rogers best vocals performance of the album and probably one of his best ever. 'Wild Fire Woman' is a nice little rocker with a funky back beat and loose bass line which adds a little flavor to the album. The song has a great chorus and some killer vocals from Rogers. 'Anna' is a nice little love song, very cliche to the time of its release in 1975. Not very special other then it has a whole lot of heart and soul in the performance, see because the lyrics are nice but they seem to desperate like a cry for what he is singing about rather then what he really has. 'Call On Me' is the final song on the album. It is heavy in Keyboards and synth. Not very special and actually somewhat tedious, the album would have been stronger without it. Not a very good closer, though the guitar playing is pretty good.
Straight Shooter is not the album the debut was but you can not compare the two, that was a legendary album and this wasnt, but it is still good if you dont compare the two. That would be like comparing The Rolling Stones albums Exile On Main Street which is the best album to its follow up Goats Head Soup, while Soup is an amazing album itself if falters in comparison to Exile. Straight Shooter is a solid album through and through, and one that all classic rock fans should enjoy.