Bad Company - Burnin' Sky [Japanese Ed.] (1977)

Year: March 3, 1977 (CD Mar 7, 2007)
Label: Swan Song (Japan), WPCR-12545
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 45:08
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 296 Mb

Charts: UK #17, AUS #15, CAN #16, NDL #14, NOR #45, NZ #32, SWE #32, US #15. US: Gold.
Before you can even digest or vomit back up Run With The Pack (or "Run With The Night", as lameass North Carolina DJ "Cosmo" so eloquently called it that time I heard him play "Young Blood" - right before he declared it to be a "great song" off of a "great album." Lameass.), the "talentless boys of rock 'n' roll" are back to shove more poorly-written dreck down your listening ear.
I'll give 'em this though: even though all these melodies sound like they were written in about two minutes, most of them are amazingly catchy. The title track, "Morning Sun," "Too Bad," "Everything I Need," "Peace Of Mind" - all disgustingly simple, but not self-parodic like on the last album. It sounds, rather, like a postmodern lo-fi college band imitating Bad Company. It's not bombastic (except for a couple of really crappy numbers); it's just a bunch of poorly-arranged songs. I like 'em! It's actually a pretty good record, though definitely not worthy of classic rock radio play. If you see it in a dollar bin, get it. It's at least an interesting, semi-unpredictable record. A cover of "Valerie, Valerah?" A seven-minute groove jam? Wow. Bad Company stretches out and tries something new. Who knows how far this'll go? Embarrassing. And the cover of "Young Blood" is unlistenable.
(albumoftheyear.org/user/markprindlebot/album/119320-burnin-sky/)

01. Burnin' Sky (05:09)
02. Morning Sun (04:06)
03. Leaving You (03:23)
04. Like Water (04:19)
05. Knapsack (01:20)
06. Everything I Need (03:23)
07. Heartbeat (02:37)
08. Peace Of Mind (03:25)
09. Passing Time (02:30)
10. Too Bad (03:52)
11. Man Needs Woman (03:45)
12. Master Of Ceremony (07:13)

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Paul Rodgers (ex Free & Bad Company) - Midnight Rose (2023)

Year: 2023 (CD Sep 22, 2023)
Label: Sun Record Company (US), 5047806720
Style: Rock
Country: Middlesbrough, England (17 December 1949)
Time: 32:15
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 247 Mb

Midnight Rose is a studio album by Paul Rodgers, of Free and Bad Company fame. It is his first album of original material since Electric (1999). It was recorded in 2022 and 2023 at Roper Recording in Peachland and Bryan Adams' studio, The Warehouse, in Vancouver.
The song "Take Love" was previously worked on and played live by Rodgers as part of the Queen + Paul Rodgers project, although a studio version ultimately never materialised from the group.
The album has received mixed reviews with Blues Rock Review praising it as "a totally satisfying set of eight rocking songs that demonstrate why Paul Rodgers is considered one of the best singer/songwriter/frontmen of the rock & roll genre." PopMatters awarded it 6/10 with Michael Elliot saying the album, "signals the return of one of rock's greatest voices, which remarkably has not diminished over the decades and remains as expressive and powerful as ever, even if the material doesn't always match those golden vocal cords." In a 3/5 review, Loudersound.com suggests that "there are flashes of brilliance – class acts will always be class acts – but there are also moments when one wonders bemusedly what the hell is going on here."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Rose_(album))

01. Coming Home (03:19)
02. Photo Shooter (03:42)
03. Midnight Rose (04:00)
04. Living It Up (03:06)
05. Dancing In The Sun (03:49)
06. Take Love (04:20)
07. Highway Robber (05:05)
08. Melting (04:50)

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