Bad Company

Desolation Angels gets a bad rap because it is generally considered Bad Company's last good record, but while the album is not made up of the strongest material, it does feature one of the group's trademark songs: "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy." On top of that you get a strutting cock-rock winner written by bassist Boz Burrell, "Gone, Gone, Gone," and a down-home soul blues number, "Oh, Atlanta," that, despite being pretty different from their entire catalog, comes off as one of the band's finest tunes. Warning, though, there is jazz rock on here

Mick Ralphs, Bad Company's lead guitarist, has been quoted as saying he left Mott the
Hoople because he "wanted to play a ballsier kind of rock & roll." There you have it. Ralphs'
description captures the strengths and weaknesses of Bad Company's erstwhile style in a
nutshell: balls, but less in the sense of nervy musical expansion than of macho bullishness
and the allocation of brutish power to the most simplistic riffs. There's riffing apl... More >

This is supposedly a return to form after Burning Sky, and it may be. I'll just say that if I'd never mistake them for Free anymore, I'd never mistake them for Foreigner either. I don't think. P.S. Are those syndrums on "Evil Wind"? Naughty, naughty. (Grade: C)