Feel Like Makin' Love (Bad Company song)
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"Feel Like Makin' Love" is a song by British supergroup
Bad Company
. The song originally appeared on the LP
Straight Shooter
in April 1975 and was released as a single in August of the same year (see 1975 in music
). The song was named the 78th best hard rock song of all time by VH1
.
A cover was released by country music artist Philip Claypool
in 1995 on his debut album A Circus Leaving Town. It was the highest-charting of that album's four singles, peaking at No. 60 on Hot Country Songs
.
The pop punk
/ska punk
band Goldfinger
has a cover version featured on their live album Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live from Omaha
.
It was covered by Kid Rock
on his self-titled 2003 release
. His version peaked at No. 33 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
charts.
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
Bad Company
Bad Company
Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...
. The song originally appeared on the LP
LP record
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
Straight Shooter
Straight Shooter (Bad Company album)
Straight Shooter is the second studio album by British supergroup Bad Company. The album was released in April 1975, a month after the release of the single "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" and four months before the album's second single "Feel Like Makin' Love" .The album became a hit in America, making the...
in April 1975 and was released as a single in August of the same year (see 1975 in music
1975 in music
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). The song was named the 78th best hard rock song of all time by VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
.
Covers
Pauline Henry, former singer of The Chimes, covered the song in 1993, charting at No. 12 in the UK.A cover was released by country music artist Philip Claypool
Philip Claypool
Philip Claypool is an American country music artist. Between 1995 and 1999, he recorded two studio albums for the Curb Records label , in addition to charting four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
in 1995 on his debut album A Circus Leaving Town. It was the highest-charting of that album's four singles, peaking at No. 60 on Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
.
The pop punk
Pop punk
Pop punk is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. Allmusic describes the genre as a strand of alternative rock, which typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars...
/ska punk
Ska punk
Ska punk is a fusion music genre that combines ska and punk rock. It achieved its highest level of commercial success in the United States in the late 1990s. Ska-core is a subgenre of ska punk, blending ska with hardcore punk.The characteristics of ska punk vary, due to the fusion of contrasting...
band Goldfinger
Goldfinger (band)
Goldfinger is a Los Angeles pop punk/ska punk band that formed in 1994. Currently, the band is composed of vocalist/guitarist John Feldmann, guitarist Charlie Paulson, bassist Kelly LeMieux, and drummer Darrin Pfeiffer...
has a cover version featured on their live album Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live from Omaha
Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live from Omaha
Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live from Omaha is a live album by ska punk band Goldfinger.This album is a self-described 'stop gap' for Goldfinger during the release of their second and third full length albums. All tracks are covers almost all of which were recorded live, with only 3 receiving over dubs...
.
It was covered by Kid Rock
Kid Rock
Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...
on his self-titled 2003 release
Kid Rock (album)
Kid Rock is an eponymous album by Kid Rock, his sixth studio album overall, and his fourth Atlantic Records album. It was released in 2003. It was critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone Magazine, they named it one of the 50 Greatest Albums of 2003...
. His version peaked at No. 33 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
Mainstream Rock Tracks
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...
charts.
Bad Company version
Chart (1975) | Peak position |
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Canadian RPM Top Singles | 5 |
New Zealand Singles Chart | 2 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
10 |
UK Singles Chart | 20 |
Pauline Henry version
Chart (1993) | Peak position |
---|---|
UK Singles Chart | 12 |
Philip Claypool version
Chart (1995) | Peak position |
---|---|
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 60 |
Kid Rock version
Chart (2003) | Peak position |
---|---|
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 33 |