Run With The Pack - BAD COMPANY***

Live For The Music/Simple Man/Honey Child/Love Me Somebody/Run With The Pack/Silver Blue & Gold/Young Blood/Do Right By Your Woman/Sweet Lil' Sister/Fade Away

Run With The Pack was the third album from the British blues-rock band Bad Company. The natural successor to the earlier more creative group Free, their music was much less consistent. (US:5 UK:4)

“Bad Company are moderately catchy here but not particularly inspiring and quite shallow and flat. One of those ‘try not to listen too closely to the lyrics type of 70s record.”

“Still has that smooth blues vibe and nice blues guitar but the material is not up to their previous stuff. Still it is a worthy addition to any Bad Company collection.”

“Here we see Bad Company apparently attempting to mix the hard rock from their first two albums with some new sounds and styles. Well, new for this band, at least. Creatively, it works pretty well in some places and falls short elsewhere.”

“By now the two years of constant touring was beginning to take its toll and the songs on here are in places a little jaded or even ordinary. Despite a number of good cuts ultimately Run With The Pack suffers, mainly due to there being no major hit material. However, it is rescued by some classic tracks which converted well to the live set.”

“There are some terrific ballads on Bad Company's third record: Simple Man and Silver Blue & Gold, for instance, are gorgeously wrapped around Paul Roger's incomparable voice. A few rockers as well, like opening track Live For The Music or Sweet Lil' Sister. All in all, a very pleasant combination.”

“This album continues Bad Company's formula of strong blues based rock. Live For The Music is an average opening track, Simple Man is a very good song with Paul Rodger's haunting vocals and lyrics and Mick Ralphs fine guitar playing. Love Me Someday is a slow ballad that is a bit boring and is fortunately followed up by the title track, a toe tapping number that you'll keep singing long after it ends. Silver Blue & Gold continues the trend of piano/acoustic songs that Paul carried over to his solo career. Young Blood is just a fun cover tune that will make you smile while you're listening to it.”