Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love

I often wonder how rock and roll rock and roll can get. What’s the upper limit? Two Chuck Berry’s standing on each other’s shoulders? A bag full of everyone who’s ever been in Iron Maiden? Everyone who contributed to the soundtrack to Queen of the Damned squeezed into a particularly small café? I could and would go on with these metaphors if all the payroll machines in our HR department didn’t just start smoking at the thought. 

In reality, your supergroup is as close to rock royalty as it gets, which means Bad Company are even closer than that. Queen, Free, King Crimson, Mott the Hoople, the list literally goes on and on when you look at the bands they’re associated with via the stock of talented musicians that have thrown their hat into the project. Throw in legendary manager Peter Grant, and you’ve got a stew that’s been boiling hot since the 70s and, barring a short period in the 80s where the pot fell off the stove and stew went all over the floor, they continued to cook. Interestingly, it took them nearly twenty years to be that popular again; most bands don’t get to be in the big time once, let alone twice, two decades, a split, and three new members apart. 

Quite frankly, this is a lot of preamble for a song that you likely know all the words to (though please don’t tell the man who pays me that, I’ve got a bid on a Thunderbird bass right now). Feel Like Makin’ Love is as stone cold a classic as it gets without smashing two beers together, so don yourself a big ol’ moustache, open this one up, and let this all-timer Rock Song of the Week pick do its thang.