ALBUM: Straight Shooter (1975)
MVC Rating: 3.5/$$
This is Bad Company’s second album. The best one may be the first but I didn’t need to buy that one. My brother had it and we wore it out in his basement bedroom on Cedar Creek Circle (or Court). I would have had a lot more than my 678 records if I didn’t have a younger brother who was pretty cool, and not a bad drummer to boot. (Wasn’t all that excited about the KISS albums, though, bro.) But David did have debut Dire Straits album with Sultans of Swing and Knopfler’s quietly revolutionary finger picking style.
So I taped (cassette) the first Bad Company and bought the second LP called ‘Straight Shooter.’ Pretty strong hard melodic rock. Perfect music for a high school soundtrack in a Night Moves-y sort of way.
I’d have been about 15 or 16 here. I haven’t listened to this in years, but still know the words to ‘Shooting Star,’ ‘Good Lovin’ Gone Bad,’ and ‘Feel Like Making Love.’ The last song sounds romantic and starts slow, but then segues into a power slam crunchy guitar riff that explodes off a drum beating. Picture four heads in a car, a la Wayne’s World, snapping forward in rhythmic unison. Good stuff.
Paul Rodgers used to get pegged as having one of the best vocals in rock. And it’s true.
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.