Product Description
Hard To Find Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing Of The Superb Second Bad Company LP! Vinyl Still In Top Condition. Includes Inner Sleeve, Plus 6-Page Booklet With Lyrics In English & Japanese. Labels Are Clean. Features “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, “Shooting Star” & More!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Great sound!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Shelf wear, corner creases.
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. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Good Lovin’ Gone Bad
Feel Like Makin’ Love
Weep No More
Shooting Star
Side 2:
Deal With The Preacher
Wild Fire Women
Anna
Call On Me
Geoff –
The best record by this supergroup, who were formed from the ashes of Free, Mott The Hoople and King Crimson! 'Straight Shooter' is the excellent second album by Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Boz Burrell and Simon Kirke -- collectively known as Bad Company. It is also the best record by this supergroup, who were formed from the ashes of Free, Mott The Hoople and King Crimson. The single "Feel Like Makin' Love" was a smash hit, but every song here is a winner. The rock steady "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" opens things nicely, "Weep No More" has the plaintive sound of early Free, "Deal with the Preacher" features Rodgers stretching his vocal talents to the max and "Call on Me" is a suitably mellow way to finish. However, the true highlight of 'Straight Shooter' is "Shooting Star" -- the brilliant, swaggering tale of the rise and fall of a rock star, set to an irresistably rhythmic beat. If you like your rock in the style of Led Zeppelin or any of the afore-mentioned bands, then this album (along with the 'Bad Co.' debut and third record 'Run with the Pack') is a "must have" for your collection!
AMG –
Straight Shooter bears lots of different, vibrant colors: acoustic guitars are used for light and shade, pianos and organs alternate with the occasional wash of strings... Cut straight on the heels of Bad Company's 1974 debut -- just a matter of three months later; not quite long enough to know how big a success the first LP would be -- Straight Shooter is seemingly cut from the same cloth as its predecessor. It is, after all, a tight collection of eight strong, steady, heavy rockers that never, ever proceed in a hurry, but from the moment "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" kicks off the proceedings, it's clear that Bad Company have decided to expand their palette this second time around. Where Bad Company was stark, minimalist hard rock, Straight Shooter bears lots of different, vibrant colors: acoustic guitars are used for light and shade, guitars are channeled through chorus pedals, pianos and organs alternate with the occasional wash of strings, and the entire thing feels bigger and bolder than before. Sometimes, it is also better: the two big hits, "Feel Like Makin' Love" and "Shooting Star," became classic rock staples due to this expanded aural vocabulary, and even straight-ahead rockers like "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" and "Deal with the Preacher" benefit from this additional muscle, while they feel comfortable enough to settle into a soulful groove on "Anna" and "Call on Me." This dexterity shows that Bad Company can sound just as powerful and threatening when they're not concentrating on a heavy guitar crunch.