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- Holy Water
- - 99,279 plays
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Bad Company
Released 1990

Walk Through Fire
00:00
7,874 plays

Boys Cry Tough
00:00
7,199 plays

100 Miles
00:00
6,250 plays

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- 1
- Holy Water
- 00:00
- 19,212 plays

- 2
- Walk Through Fire
- 00:00
- 7,874 plays

- 3
- Stranger Stranger
- 00:00
- 6,106 plays

- 4
- If You Needed Somebody
- 00:00
- 20,345 plays

- 5
- Fearless
- 00:00
- 5,351 plays

- 6
- Lay Your Love on Me
- 00:00
- 4,727 plays

- 7
- Boys Cry Tough
- 00:00
- 7,199 plays

- 8
- With You in a Heartbeat
- 00:00
- 5,087 plays

- 9
- I Don't Care
- 00:00
- 4,256 plays

- 10
- Never Too Late
- 00:00
- 4,044 plays

- 11
- Dead of the Night
- 00:00
- 4,306 plays

- 12
- I Can't Live Without You
- 00:00
- 4,522 plays

- 13
- 100 Miles
- 00:00
- 6,250 plays

album review

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, All Music Guide