Bad Company - Rough Diamonds (1982)

Three years is a long time between albums, but Bad Company’s Rough Diamonds — their first LP since 1979’s Desolation Angels — only makes one wish the band had stayed away even longer. Next to such mid-Seventies scorchers as “Can’t Get Enough” and “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad,” the witless, Free-style blues-rock shuffles and bloodless boogie tunes that make up this LP are embarrassing.
There are a few uncut gems here. “Electricland” actually opens the album on a promising note, with Simon Kirke’s tight drum trot pushing up against the song’s dark mood and Paul Rodgers’ chilling coyote howl. And “Cross Country Boy” sounds absolutely energetic, sandwiched as it is between an antique Chuck Berry stroll (bassist Boz Burrell’s “Ballad of the Band”) and a sluggish country-blues travelogue (guitarist Mick Ralphs’ “Old Mexico”).
But whereas Bad Company used to reinvest Sixties electric Anglo-blues cliches with energy and conviction, Rough Diamonds simply finds the group underlining those cliches in dull funk outings (“Untie the Knot”) and lame blues (“Nuthin’ on the TV”). In fact, the only cutting thing about this album is the cover’s serrated edge.
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Rough Diamonds is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Bad Company. The album was released in August 1982. Rough Diamonds, like its predecessor, Desolation Angels, was recorded at Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, England in March and April 1981 and engineered by Max Norman (famed for his work with Ozzy Osbourne).
It was the last album by Bad Company's original line-up and the most recent studio album to feature Paul Rodgers. The sessions were rough going from the beginning. First, their manager, Peter Grant, withdrew from view after the death of Led Zeppelin drummer, John Bonham in 1980. Then, on another occasion, a fistfight broke out between Paul Rodgers and Boz Burrell, the two bandmates restrained by Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke.
The album's opening track, "Electricland", written by Rodgers, was the album's biggest hit. Rodgers' "Painted Face" also received substantial airplay on rock stations. The album became the original line-up's worst-selling album, reaching a disappointing No. 26 on the Billboard album charts in 1982. The album was remastered and re-released in 1994.
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