Bad Company - Holy Water (1990)

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Artist: Bad Company
Title: Holy Water
Year Of Release: 1990
Label: Atco Records[91371-2]
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 53:44
Total Size: 360 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01 - Holy Water
02 - Walk Through Fire
03 - Stranger Stranger
04 - If You Needed Somebody
05 - Fearless
06 - Lay Your Love on Me
07 - Boys Cry Tough
08 - With You in a Heartbeat
09 - I Don't Care
10 - Never Too Late
11 - Dead of the Night
12 - I Can't Live Without You
13 - 100 Miles

personnel :

Brian Howe – lead vocals (all but 13), saxophone
Mick Ralphs – guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Terry Thomas - guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Felix Krish – bass guitar
Simon Kirke – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals and acoustic guitar on (13)

Bad Company's last platinum album, Holy Water is a formulaic yet reasonably engaging collection of AOR hard rock. Although the only original members on Holy Water are guitarist Mick Ralphs and drummer Simon Kirke, the band does a fair job of approximating the sound of classic Bad Company while adding enough elements of '80s pop-metal to make the record appealing to teenagers who grew up on power ballads. And the band does turn in a first-rate power ballad with "If You Needed Somebody," which rose all the way to number 16 on the singles chart. Surprisingly, that was one of three hits from the album -- "Holy Water" and "Walk Through Fire" also received a fair amount of airplay. What that success signals is not a creative rebirth for Bad Company, but that the group knew how to follow a formula very well. Holy Water hasn't aged as well as their original hit albums -- instead of the clean, ballsy attack of Bad Company and Straight Shooter, it's awash in echo and synths -- but it is a finely crafted, big-budget record of the late '80s and early '90s. It's just as indicative of its era as Bad Company is.~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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