Bad Company: Straight Shooter (Japanese Pressing) CD Track Listing

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Bad Company Straight Shooter (Japanese Pressing) (1974)
Straight Shooter (Japanese Pressing)\n\nOriginally Released April 1975\nCD Edition Relesaed 1987 ??\nRemastered CD Edition Released July 19, 1994\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: 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-winning "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. -- Gautam Baksi \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Their hot streak continues on this fine follow-up, with "Feel Like Makin' Love." -- Dan Heilman\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nSophomore effort from the rock legends, April 25, 2005\nReviewer: Darth Kommissar (Las Vegas, NV (USA)) \nINTRODUCTION: \nBad Company came suddenly, out of nowhere, onto the rock music scene in the mid seventies. Pulling together some of the most talented individuals from Free, King Crimson, and Mott The Hoople, the group's self-titled debut quickly became one of the world's most beloved rock records, and remains such to this day. The band's follow-up record, Straight Shooter, was another popular release from the group that proved they were more than one-album wonders. How does album number two fare? Read on for my review of Straight Shooter! \n\nOVERVIEW: \nBad Company released their second studio album, Straight Shooter, on Swan Song Records in 1975. For the classic six Bad Company albums, the band featured Paul Rodgers on vocals, Mick Ralphs on guitar, Simon Kirke on drums, and Boz Burrell on bass. The band produced the album. Tracklist consists of Good Lovin' Gone Bad, Feel Like Makin' Love, Weep No More, Shooting Star, Deal With the Preacher, Wild Fire Woman, Anna, and Call On Me. \n\nREVIEW: \nStraight Shooter, while very popular, never quite gets the critical acclaim and popularity that the first Bad Company album got. And appropriately so - the first album was a hard act to follow. Just the same, Straight Shooter stands on its own as another one of the classic Bad Company albums. And it's another quintessential rock and roll classic. There are no shortage of hits and underrated masterpieces alike on the band's second record. Keep reading for a track-by-track analysis. \n\n-SIDE 1- \n\n-Good Lovin' Gone Bad (Ralphs): \nThese guys know how to start a record. This is upbeat, fast-paced hard rock with pop appeal. Finding the happy medium between hard rock and pop rock is something these guys always did a great job of, and this opening track proves to be no exception. It was a pretty big hit for the group. \n\n-Feel Like Makin' Love (Ralphs/Rodgers): \nThis became one of the group's biggest hits ever, and it's not hard to see why. Slow and melodic verses combined with a classic hard chorus, and some of the most memorable lyrics ever heard in a rock song make this a classic. The appeal of this song is undeniable. \n\n-Weep No More (Kirke): \nHere's the one obscure, often neglected track. The fact that is often forgotten is a huge disappointment, since it's a great song. The band takes their classic, blues rock sound and throws in some mild country-rock elements. While this sounds like a recipe for disaster, the results are actually pretty solid! Give it a listen and see what I mean. \n\n-Shooting Star (Rodgers): \nArguably the biggest hit from the album, and arguably the best song. Paul Rodgers created a song here about the tragedies of the rock and roll world, and perhaps no one sums it up as well as he does in this song. The melodic rocker stands as one of the finest songs in the Bad Company catalogue. \n\n-SIDE 2- \n\n-Deal With The Preacher (Ralphs/Rodgers): \nThis is pretty straightforward, classic hard rock - the Bad Company way. When the band rocks, they rock, and perhaps no track on the album demonstrates that the way this one does. A very strong tune, and it's a shame it's not one of the more popular ones to emerge from the record. \n\n-Wild Fire Woman (Ralphs/Rodgers): \nThis is a mid-paced rock tune, in which the band combines the harder rock elements with the softer, more melodic ones. It has a sound that is distinctly Bad Company, but at the same time sounds different from everything else on the album. One of the many underrated gems the record spawned. \n\n-Anna (Kirke): \nHere's one of the album's ballads. Slow and melodic, it's another solid piece for the album, and one of the many underrated songs. Although this isn't one of the band's better-known songs, it probably should be. Not the best thing on here, but still nothing short of excellent. \n\n-Call On Me (Rodgers): \nClosing out the album is one of those uniquely Rodgers songs, done the way only he could do. Melodic stuff, hard stuff, Rodgers manages to put it all together nicely on the album's closing track. Underrated masterpieces are aplenty on this album, and might be the most overlooked gem of all. \n\nOVERALL: \nWhat it comes down to is that this is another rock and roll masterpiece. Granted, it's not as memorable as its predecessor, but then again, what is? But that doesn't mean it's a weak release by any means. Any fan of classic rock would be doing themselves a real favor adding this record to their collection. Final verdict? HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! \n\nEDITION NOTES: \nThere have been several compact disc releases of this album over the years, but sadly, most of them don't do anything special. The remasters, released a few years back, feature excellent sound quality, but don't add in expanded liner notes, bonus tracks, or anything special like that. This is disappointing since many tracks didn't actually make it onto an album (many of these forgotten tracks later surfaced on the Original Bad Company Anthology, but who wants to shell out a ton of money for the sake of a few stray B-Sides/unreleased tracks?) Of course, this doesn't change my feelings about the album. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nYes, there are two hits, but the rest if Bad Company filler, February 26, 2003\nReviewer: Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City: Duluth, MN United States)\n"Straight Shooter" is a rather ironic title because for Bad Company's second album, which came out in 1975 a year after their multi-platinum self-titled debut, because a lot of their material was written back in 1973 and obviously rejected for that first effort. However, the two best songs were added by vocalist Paul Rodgers, "Shooting Star" and the Grammy-winning "Fell Like Makin' Love," but those are counter-balanced by a couple of fillers from drummer Simon Kirke. Rodgers wrote two solid songs but you can pick them both up on "10 from 6," the Bad Company hits collection. If they had taken those two songs and added them to "Run with the Pack," then they would have had a second album almost as strong as their debut. Unfortunately, that did not happen and while Bad Company brought back stripped down back to the basics rock 'n' roll, they literally had half of their greatest songs on their first album.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nstraight shooter- badco at its best!, January 11, 2006\nReviewer: kyle cox "badcojunkie" (AZ, USA)\nBadco's debut album was nothing short of excellent, and the second album (straight shooter) revealed not only the confirmation of the talent and energy they owned, but it also had a lot to say about each member's creativity and desire to express themselves musically. "Weep no more" and "Anna", both penned by drummer Simon Kirke, are to this day a piece of this singer's daily humming repitoire. If you are a singer and own this album you know what i'm talking about. "Good lovin' gone bad", penned by Mick Ralphs, was another mainstay of a continuing strand of rock anthems that Mick never seemed to run out of. Being the obvious success that drove this band, Paul Rodgers (aka "The Voice") not only proved himself worthy of top 3 best male singers ever, but he also proved himself worthy of top 3 best songwriters ever. "Feel like makin' love" and "Shooting Star", both penned by Rodgers, will forever come to mind for every rightminded musician who just found a good enough and willing singer to deliver these songs as close to Paul as possible. There simply isn't enough to say about Paul. I met him behind the Wiltern Theatre during Mark and Brian's X-Mas show in 99' and he was very polite and sincere. He also seemed a bit suprised to see a 17 year old in shock of his presence. Although our meeting was cut short due to his flight schedule, I will never forget it. While Boz had no writing credits on the album, he delivered a very unique stylistic set of riffs on both rockers as well as ballads on this album. Boz is one of the only bassists I have ever heard who intensifies the ballads twice as much as the guitar and drums do. He understood exactly where he needed to be every step of the way and his sound was very evident. From the moment I heard Badco when I was 15 I have never found a more raw and straight forward energized sounding band. Simplicity in their music is why they are so appealing. This album has met my approval almost every day for over 8 years and i'm sure you won't be disappointed. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\n4.5 stars - every bit as good as their first album, May 22, 2004\nReviewer: Darth Kommissar (Las Vegas, NV (USA))\nIn 1974, Bad Company released their debut album, which proved to be nothing short of excellent. The band was the first band to be signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song record label (apart from Zeppelin themselves), and this helped to boost their popularity. The fact that the band could be considered a "supergroup" because they were composed of fairly popular musicians also helped to boost their popularity. Vocalist Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke came from Free, guitarist Mick Ralphs came from Mott The Hoople, and bassist Boz Burell came from King Crimson. How would the band's sophomore album, released in 1975, measure up? Read on and find out.\n\nBad Company doesn't waste any time rocking when it comes to this album. Good Lovin' Gone Bad, an excellent hard rocker that ranks amongst the band's finest songs of the stylings, kicks off the album. An opening track should always be an excellent one that will grab the listener's attention and hold it, and this one does just that. Two huge hits from the band also emerged from this album, the half-ballad Feel Like Makin' Love, and the melodic rock masterpiece Shooting Star. These two songs are played on the radio to this day for good reason - they flat out rock! But, as with any album by any band, the excellence doesn't stop there. The former song even won a Grammy! With Weep No More, the band experiments with country-styled rock, and the experiment pays off - while different from their other material, the song is excellent. And who could forget the excellent hard rocker, Deal With The Preacher? One complaint I hear many owners of this album make is that the songs that close out the album are weaker than the others and seem more like fillers. I don't really agree with this. Granted, some of the earlier songs on the album are superior to them, but these songs are NO fillers! Straight Shooter is a damn fine classic rock album, and it's worthy of a place in your music collection.\n\nTHE TEXT IN THIS PARAGRAPH REFERS EXCLUSIVELY TO THE REMASTERED VERSION OF THE ALBUM RELEASED IN 1994. In 1994, the record company remastered and rereleased Bad Company's albums. The remastering on these songs sounds great, certainly better than the original 1990 CD issues. However, in a lot of ways, these reissues were a wasted opportunity. For example, there was an assortment of rare tracks from this era that would have made fine bonus tracks (many of these later surfaced on the band's hits compilation, The Original Bad Company Anthology.) Likewise, in some cases, the band could have fit multiple albums onto a single disc. For example, the band's self-titled debut and this album, Straight Shooter, will fit on a single disc. Doing things like these would have made this remasters series a better value to the consumers, but I guess record companies are more concerned with profits. Oh, well. That doesn't change the way I feel about the album itself.\n\nStraight Shooter is one hell of a good classic rock album. If you're a fan of classic rock, or maybe you were a fan of one of the members of the band's previous band, this is well worth purchasing. If you need proof that Bad Company was one of the great classic rock bands, this album will give you all the proof you'll ever need.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nOne of the best Rock albums of all time., April 18, 2004\nReviewer: "nashvillestar" (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)\nWhen I remember the guitar oriented albums of the 1970's this one has to be at the top of the list. Paul Rodger's vocals are so soulful and Bluesy with the steady consitent rhythm section of Simon Kirke & Boz Burrell while Mick Ralphs plays some the best guitar licks ever. No doubt one of the best for young guitarists who want to learn the taste and style of one the most underated guitarist alive.\nHaving lost guitarist Paul Kossoff to drugs in early 1974 Simon Kirke and Paul Rodgers joined with Mott The Hoople guitarist Ralphs and bassist\nBurrell to form one of the first supergroups. Their debut album is also a top 5 choice for many of us as well. This was the day of not a bad song on the whole album and these releases are a prime example. To this day "Shooting Star" gives me chills. Others like "Deal With The Preacher" and "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" show why many of us in the recording industry would die to have Rodgers and Ralphs in our band. \n\nI saw Rodgers' current band at the fabled Ryman Auditorium (Grand Ole' Opry) in Nashville during the Summer of 2003. He can still take your breath away with his vocals. \n\nOf course I would be remiss not to mention that growing up Johnny Van Zant (JVZ / Lynyrd Skynyrd) considered Bad Company his favorite Hard Rock band next to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Not a bad endorsement.\n\nAt 53 going on 54 and a Hard Rock guitarist myself I recommend this album to any one who wants to hear what the guitar oriented Rock of the 1970's and 1980's were all about. Ralphs great guitar work in Mott The Hoople along side of the late Mick Ronson helped Ian Hunter & David Bowie become famous. He followed it through into 3 incarnations of Bad Company through the 1990's. This album was principle in his career establishing himself forever as one the tastiest guitarist to ever be recorded.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nSupergroup hits its stride, November 7, 2001\nReviewer: Mons. "Mons." (Stockholm)\nReleased in 1974, Straightshooter is regarded by many as being Bad Company's strongest album. It has the bluesy feel of its predecessor (Bad Co) but has the band turning their amps up 11 and rocking out the strongest set of songs of the band's career. Do not forget that Bad Co was a supergroup with 2 guys out of Free (Rodgers and Kirke), the bass player from King Crimson (Boz Burrell) and Mott the Hoople's guitarist (Mick Ralphs). They should have been huge, of course, but suffered from having to play second fiddle to Swan Song stablemates Led Zeppelin. The songs were great, their sound: a sort of supercharged, sexy blues-rock without the pretention of Led Zep. What let them down perhaps was their lyrics, some of which make Spinal Tap look like Leonard Cohen, but if you can take that - and I can - this album is a great listen from beginning to end. Bad Company were also one of the few hard rock bands that wrote great ballads (Anna), though it was Straightshooter's high-octane rockers like Good Lovin' Gone Bad, Feel Like Making Love and Shooting Star that helped secure them a place in rock history. Bad Company were a good, tight band, but I would recommend anyone to listen to them purely to hear Paul Rodgers' masterful rock vocals. New to Bad Company? Get this one first, and then Bad Co.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nStrait Shooter -- not as good as Free, but better recorded, October 25, 2000\nReviewer: Gavin Wilson (Thames Ditton, Surrey United Kingdom)\nIt is a matter of great regret that Free ever broke up. The death of guitarist Paul Kossoff was a tragedy for the rock world. But singer Paul Rogers and drummer Simon Kirke went on to form Bad Company with ex-King Crimson's Boz Burrell and guitarist Mickie Ralphs, who had the misfortune to play for Mott the Hoople, a slur on any serious musician's reputation. And they recorded 'Bad Company', which is a great album, by any standard. It also features, in its remastered format, a wonderfully clear sound, streets ahead of the muddy mix that was 'Heartbreaker', the last Free album.\nBut after 'Bad Company', they began to run out of ideas. There are a couple of great tracks on 'Straight Shooter': 'Good Lovin' Gone Bad' and 'Feel Like Makin' Love'. The re-mastered sound quality is also excellent. But Paul Rodgers's voice was by now past its best. And the lyrics are suspect, if you have any feminist sympathies whatsoever.\n\nI'm glad I have this CD, but I would always point the new fan to the first record as the best introduction to Bad Company.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nOne Of The All Time Great Album Covers!!!!!!!, December 16, 1998\nReviewer: G. J Wiener (Westchester, NY USA)\nThe above CD/record musicwise is of mereordinary value. The group more or less repeats their slam bam thank you maam formula from their debut recording with slightly less successful results. Shooting Star is a really beautiful song though and Deal With The Preacher, Feel Like Making Love and a couple of others are interesting as well. However, what makes this album stand out is the cover of the red dice on a craps table. The album jacket is a winner too as there is a shot of the band from the rear in cowboy duds and flip the jacket around and you see them dressed to the nines. Throw in the cover and album elevates to a 3 and a half rating.\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Bad Company \n\nAlbum Notes\nBad Company: Paul Rodgers (vocals, guitar); Mick Ralphs (guitar); Boz Burrell (bass); Simon Kirke (drums).\n\nRecorded on Ronnie Lane's Mobile at Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire, England in September 1974.\n\nDigitally remastered by George Marino.\n\nBad Company's second release, STRAIGHT SHOOTER, stays true to the bare-bones flavor of the band's stunning self-titled debut. While the group was one of rock's first supergroups (with members from Free, King Crimson, and Mott the Hoople), Bad Company was the antithesis of the pretentious excess that is usually associated with such formations. STRAIGHT SHOOTER exemplifies the band's no-frills approach: blues-based rock & roll distilled down the bare framework.\nThe album spawned a handful of FM radio staples, starting with "Feel Like Makin' Love," a prototype power ballad that served as a template for a legion of '80s rockers. The wistful "Shooting Star" revealed a softer side to the band's usual hard rock dynamic that was seldom seen but just as effective. The charging "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" was yet a third car radio favorite that further established the band as masters of the art of chugging riffs and firmly ensconced backbeats. The overlooked ballad "Call on Me" closes the album with a gentle vocal by Paul Rodgers, who by this album's release was firmly established as one of the premiere rock vocalists of the '70s.\n\nIndustry Reviews\n4 Stars - Excellent - ...STRAIGHT SHOOTER refined their irresistibly commercial melodic hard rock into perfectly consumable bite-size chunks, mixing up vigorous dandruff-shakers like `Good Loving Gone Bad'...with more contemplative material like `Anna'...\nQ (12/01/1994)
This rock cd contains 8 tracks and runs 38min 43sec.
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