!The rock band:
* CoveredUp:
** "Oh Atlanta" is more widely known as an Music/AlisonKrauss song.
** Conversely, "Ready for Love" was originally a Music/MottTheHoople song sung by Mick Ralphs.
* EpicRiff: The chorus riff of "Bad Company", which stands out due to its bass-heavy tone (caused by Mick Ralphs playing through a Fender Bassman bass guitar amplifier instead of a guitar amplifier).
* FirstInstallmentWins: While most of their albums from their initial run are well-regarded, their self-titled debut still stands as their most famous and most often praised album.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Big in their native Britain, even bigger in America.
* HarsherInHindsight: Bad Company friend, (and former bandmate to Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke in the band, Free), Paul Kossoff died of drug-related heart problems in 1976 at the tender age of 25. Almost a year earlier, Bad Company had another big hit with "Shooting Star", a song about a young rock star who has a fatal drug overdose, much like Music/JimiHendrix, [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]], Music/JanisJoplin, and eventually, Kossoff.
* MemeticMutation: Referring to the song "Bad Company" as "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Bad Company by the band Bad Company from the album Bad Company]]".
* ToughActToFollow: Their debut album is the most remembered by many people, going on to feature in plenty of "best rock albums of all time" lists. The others don't have this much love, despite ''Straight Shooter'' and ''Run with the Pack'' being well-regarded by fans.