Bad Company

Bad Company have three hits-type collections to date, and without doubt, 10 From 6 is the most concise. This easy-to-digest collection cuts through the clutter of inferior material, leaving nothing but the hits. 10 From 6 the most perfunctory way to discover the band; those with more ambition should try the 33-song Original Bad Company Anthology.

Recollected in a best-of's serviceably tuneful tranquility, their gut-crunch is smarter and more laid-back than anyone cares to notice, its deterioration less striking than its formal fortitude. Their tales of priapism and peripatesis avoid posture because they are posture, lean and mean as a clean machine. Would all "hard rock" were so austere. Pure as punk, in their way. (Grade - B+)