Track Listing

1. Can't Get Enough
2. Rock Steady
3. Bad Company
4. Seagull
5. Superstar Woman
6. Little Miss Fortune
7. Good Lovin' Gone Bad
8. Shooting Star
9. Deal With Preacher
10. Wildfire Woman
11. Easy On My Soul
12. Whiskey Bottles
13. Honey Child
14. Run With The Pack
15. Silver Blue And Gold
16. Do Right By Your Woman
17. Burnin' Sky
18. Heartbeat
19. Too Bad
20. Smoking
21. Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy
22. Evil Wind
23. Oh Atlanta
24. Rhythm Machine
25. Untie The Knot
26. Downhill Ryder
27. Tracking Down A Runaway
28. Ain't It Good
29. Hammer Of Love
30. Hey Hey (Baby)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1373 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-29
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

CD Description
Bad Company's formation in 1973 signaled the arrival of a blues-rock supergroup. Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke came fromFree, guitarist Mick Ralphs was Ian Hunter's foil in Mott The Hoople and Boz Burrell had done time with King Crimson. ANTHOLOGY collects many of their well-known hits/classic rockstaples ("Can't Get Enough", "Shooting Star", "Rock And Roll Fantasy") on two discs alongside four new tracks recorded in 1998.
Bad Company was the first signing to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label. Songs such as "Bad Company" and "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" benefited from his Paul Rodger's rich, bluesy vocal delivery. Much of the band's material reflected a fascination with the Old West, particularly numbers such as "Deal With The Preacher" and "Whiskey Bottle". Other, overlooked numbers include "Silver, Blue And Gold" and "Oh Atlanta" (a favourite of Alison Krauss, who's been known to do it in concert). The newly recorded material finds the band returning to their blues-rock roots as they prepare to saddle up for the new millennium.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful collection of timeless classics
This collection of songs have been hand picked, and give us an excellect insight into the history of the bands inspirational brilliance. Disc 1 giving us the best of the best albums ('Bad Company' and 'Straight Shooter') a collection of some great songs such as "Can't Get Enough" "Bad Company" "Movin' On" "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" the list goes on. Disc 2 doesn't quite deliver as much as the 1st, but still has it's moments of brilliance from the later of the 'original' Bad Company line up.
Paul Rodgers has such a great voice and the bands best material camefrom their first six albums, if you don't own all six albums yet, this is definately a worth while purchase.

A truly excellent anthology
Unless you're a very devoted fan, this is pretty much all you'll ever need from Bad Company.
"The Original Bad Co. Anthology" collects twenty-three of their best singles and album tracks. It draws from all their records, yet the compilers have wisely chosen to lean heavily towards the group's first two albums, which were also their best.

Their eponymous debut album is represented by no fewer than seven tracks (out of eight!), and five are culled from "Straight Shooter". And Elektra Records have even managed to find two good songs from the awful "Rough Diamonds" album, and it's actually very hard to find anything to say against the track selection, which is one of the best and most thorough I've ever seen.

Six B-sides and unissued songs are also included, as well as four brand new songs which make their debut here...and believe it or not, they're great!

Most of this is lean, mid-tempo rock music, bordering on hard rock. Bad Company had the ability to combine cruchy hard-rock riffs with great melodies, and they had a magnificent front man in Paul Rodgers, and a fine lead guitarist in Mick Ralphs.

This music is somewhat less bluesy and more mainstream than Paul Rodgers' previous band, Free, but it has a timeless sound that makes you wonder just why Bad Company ended up being lumped in with all the stale 70s rock dinosaurs, and all but forgotten in later years.
They certainly deserve much better, as this excellent collection demonstrates.

Highlights include the slow, groovy rockers "Ready For Love" and the classic "Feel Like Makin' Love", the tough, guitar-driven (but exquisitely melodious) "Movin' On" and "Rock And Roll Fantasy", the ballad "Shooting Star", the bluesy hard rock of "Deal With The Preacher" and "Good Lovin' Gone Bad", and Bad Company's remake of Paul Rodgers' "Easy On My Soul", in a funky rendition that blows the Free version out of the water.

And the new tracks! Well, I said they're good, and they are. It's such a rare thing for a thirty-year old band to come up with truly credibly new material, but just listen to the swaggering blues-rock number "Tracking Down A Runaway" and the blustery rocker "Hey, Hey".

Virtually everything here is worth a listen, actually, even though the material on the first CD is slightly stronger than on the second.
All in all, this is a very fine collection by one of the best bands of the mid- and late 70s.
4½ stars - highly recommended.

Winning over another generation
I wasn't actually born when Bad Co.'s last album with Paul Rodgers was released. I always thought they were a great band, and their best material is here (Can't Get Enough, Good Lovin Gone Bad) along with some unreleased gems (Superstar Woman).
However, this album also unwisely charts the band's deterioration towards the end of the 70's and the second CD is largely missable, with the exception of four new songs which are highly impressive, especially "Hey, Hey". Worth getting for the new songs and the classics, and Bad Co. aren't just for middle aged blokes who drive Rovers.
Fans of bands such as Reef and the Strokes should definitely check this out