Bad Company 80

The self titled Black Album although simple in arrangements is definitely pure and honest. Paul Rodgers proves to be the meal ticket in this fine band with an awesome vocal style that grabs the listener by the throat. The delivery and stylings are textbook of how a lead singer should sing. The rest of the band provides ample support. Whereas the songs (especially the lyrics) are extremely basic, the format is definitely appropriate for this fine rock n roll band.

Straight Shooter 73

The thing that grabs me the most about this collection is the cover with the dice and the crap tables. Very appealing to the eyes. The jacket is pretty creative too as one side shows the rear of the band in workman's clothes and in the front they are dressed to the nines. As for the music, the style is the same slam bam thank you mam style as the first except the last two songs are just a little too slow and are not suited to the band's talents. The rockers are basically good but for my money I somehow desire something more. Like some depth.

Run With The Pack 82

This is my personal favorite album by this band as the music varies somewhat from hard rock. Fade Away and Love Me Somebody show a more restrained tender side of this band while the cover version of Youngblood work well due to a great backbeat. Simple Man is a beautiful acoustic gem. Of course Bad Company's strong suit is their hard driving rock n roll but the diversity demonstrated here makes this album stand pretty tall.

Desolation Angels 66

Here the diversity is a little bit overdone. The band tried to incorporate some slick synthesizer sounds on this disc and it just does not hold up over the course of an entire album. The limited song-writing abilities of the band members seem to be more evident here as the last few songs on the record sound incomplete. Don't get be wrong, this is not a bad album. Its just not a very good one.