Way back when I got into Bad Company in my high school days, I
\nwent down to the used record store (before they knew me on a
\nfirst-name basis) and grabbed the two Bad Company albums I could
\nafford at the time, one of them being their third album
\nRun With The Pack<\/i>. (I vaguely remember hearing the title
\ntrack a few weeks previous at a concert I had attended.)<\/p>\n
Unlike their previous two efforts, this release didn’t have a
\nsmash top-40 single, and Mick Ralphs and crew dared to go past the
\ntraditional hard rock that had catapulted the band into
\nsuperstardom. This could be why
\nRun With The Pack<\/i> has not held up as well.<\/p>\n
The album opens up with “Live For The Music,” a song that I
\ncan’t believe made it onto the post-breakup\/pre-reunion greatest
\nhits album,
\n10 From 6<\/i>. The song lacks a cohesive rhythm unit – indeed,
\nit sounds like the guitar, bass and drum lines were thrown
\ntogether. This is a mishmash that just doesn’t work. Surprisingly,
\nPaul Rodgers and band bounce back on the very next track with
\n“Simple Man,” a rock ballad that has more emotion than you could
\nimagine in Rodgers’s vocals.<\/p>\n
While
\nRun With The Pack<\/i> has been criticized for proving that Bad
\nCompany was a formula band, it is when they turn to the rock side
\nthat this formula works the best. “Honey Child” and “Sweet Lil’
\nSister” are the unsung classics on this one, the latter being a
\npersonal favorite. However, when they turn to a doo-wop standard on
\n“Young Blood,” they fall flat.<\/p>\n
Another hidden gem on this one is the track “Silver, Blue &
\nGold,” which merges the vocal talents of Rodgers with Ralphs’s
\nsubdued guitar lines. Simon Kirke adds just the right touch on the
\ndrums, as does Boz Burrell on bass.<\/p>\n
As for ballads, well… let’s just say they need a little more
\nwork. “Do Right By Your Woman” is a pretty number, while “Fade
\nAway” almost succeeds… and “Love Me Somebody” simply blows. Oh
\nwell… two out of three ain’t bad.<\/p>\n
For those who are intrigued to hear what Bad Company had to
\noffer past the “best-of” set,
\nRun With The Pack<\/i> is an okay effort, but is probably not the
\nbest place to start exploring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5720],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-35596","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bad-company","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35596"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35596"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}