Can't Get Enough
by Bad Company
- 129
- BPM
- C major
- Key
- 8B
- Camelot
- 67
- Danceability
- 14
- Acousticness
Mick Ralphs tuned his guitar to open C, C-C-G-C-E-C, for "Can't Get Enough." He said it never sounded right in standard tuning and needed the open C to have that ring. The riff borrowed from one he had used in 1972 for "One of the Boys," a Mott the Hoople song from when he was in that band.
By 1974 Ralphs was in Bad Company, an English supergroup formed in London the year before by singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke, both formerly of Free, with Ralphs and former King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who managed Led Zeppelin, managed them too, until 1982.
The group recorded the song for its self-titled debut album and issued it as the debut single. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Cashbox magazine's Top 100 Singles chart. It remains Bad Company's biggest hit and is frequently played on classic rock radio. Burrell died in 2006 and Ralphs in 2025. Kirke and Rodgers are the surviving members of the original lineup.
Can't Get Enough runs at 129 BPM, the tempo of house, disco and most club dance music. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.86 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 465 ms. It is in C major, Camelot 8B, which shares its notes with A minor and mixes cleanly with F major and G major.
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