Product Description
Rare Actual 1974 Japanese First Pressing! Vinyl Still In Beautiful Condition, Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 6-Page Booklet With Lyrics. The Magnificent Debut LP By Bad Company Is Entitled ‘Bad Company’ & Includes The Song “Bad Company”! Also Other Great Tracks “Can’t Get Enough”, “Ready For Love”, “Don’t Let Me Down”, “Seagull” & More.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sounds wonderful!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Over 51 years old and still top notch!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Can’t Get Enough
Rock Steady
Ready For Love
Don’t Let Me Down
Side 2:
Bad Company
The Way I Choose
Movin’ On
Seagull
AMG –
Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke & Boz Burrell defined mid-'70s album rock with their all-time classic debut LP. 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.