Album · Bad Company
Straight Shooter by Bad Company
Straight Shooter is an album by Bad Company, released in 1975. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 206 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Feel Like Makin Love”, on 95 lists with a best position of #22.
Straight Shooter, Bad Company's second album, came out on Swan Song on 28 March 1975, and it's the sound of a supergroup that never bothered acting like one. Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke had come from Free, Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople and Boz Burrell from King Crimson, and together they played blues-soaked hard rock with no fat on it: Ralphs' riffs lean and meaty, Kirke's drums thudding dead center, Rodgers' voice doing the heavy lifting.
"Feel Like Makin' Love" struts from a loose strum into a crunching chorus, and "Shooting Star", which Rodgers wrote with the drug and alcohol deaths of Jimi Hendrix and other rockers on his mind, plays as a cautionary rock-and-roll tale. The album reached number 3 in both Britain and America and went gold within a month, and both songs remain classic rock radio staples.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Straight Shooter on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feel Like Makin Love#147 of all time | 95 | #22 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 2 | Shooting Star#317 of all time | 89 | #46 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 3 | Good Lovin Gone Bad | 22 | #84 | – | 1990–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.