Run with the Pack

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Run with the Pack
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Studio album by
Bad Company
Released30 January 1976
RecordedSeptember 1975
StudioGrasse, France, with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
Genre
Length36:14
Label Island
Producer Bad Company
Bad Company chronology
Straight Shooter
(1975)		Run with the Pack
(1976)		 Burnin' Sky
(1977)
Singles from Run with the Pack
  1. "Run with the Pack"
    Released: March 1976 (UK)
  2. "Young Blood"
    Released: March 1976 (US)
  3. "Honey Child"
    Released: July 1976 (US) [2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide B− [3]
Rolling Stone positive [4]

Run with the Pack is the third studio album by English supergroup Bad Company. It was released on 30 January 1976, by Island Records. [5] The album was recorded in France using the Rolling Stones Mobile Truck in September 1975 with engineer Ron Nevison, and mixed in Los Angeles by Eddie Kramer. It was the only original Bad Company album without artwork from Hipgnosis, instead featuring artwork from Kosh.

Contents

The album peaked at No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart and No. 5 on the US Billboard 200. [6] It has sold one million copies in the US alone.

The cover of the Coasters single "Young Blood" peaked at No. 20. The album also spawned rock radio classics "Silver, Blue and Gold", "Live for the Music", and the title track. "Silver, Blue & Gold" was never released as a single, but is one of the band's most popular compositions.

Cash Box said of "Do Right by Your Woman" that it "is an acoustic number, with some twelve-string work" and that "the harmonies are excellent, at times reminiscent of CSNY, and a low-down harmonical fill." [7]

Classic Rock History critic Janey Roberts rated the title track as Bad Company's greatest song, saying that its energy "just simply defines what Bad Company was all about" and praising the "great intros" and "pulsating verses that built up to superman style choruses." [8] Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as Bad Company's 6th best song, praising its "panache and subtlety." [9]

The album was remastered and re-released in 1994. The vinyl album had a shiny, silver cover, but CD versions feature a simple, light grey cover. The original album cover also came as a gatefold, with a photo of the band inside, sitting around a couch near a television tuned in to a Bugs Bunny cartoon. (It was revealed in the notes in the booklet accompanying the "Deluxe 2CD Edition", that originally the TV screen showed a still of "I Love Lucy" but it was not possible to get approval for its use on the album cover, so it was changed).

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Live for the Music"Mick Ralphs3:58
2."Simple Man"Mick Ralphs3:37
3."Honey Child"Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Boz Burrell, Simon Kirke3:15
4."Love Me Somebody"Paul Rodgers3:09
5."Run with the Pack"Paul Rodgers5:21
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Silver, Blue & Gold"Paul Rodgers5:03
7."Young Blood" Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Doc Pomus 2:37
8."Do Right by Your Woman"Paul Rodgers2:51
9."Sweet Lil' Sister"Mick Ralphs3:29
10."Fade Away"Paul Rodgers2:54
2017 Reissue Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Live for the Music" (Take 1 Alternate Vocal & Guitar)Ralphs 
2."Simple Man" (Take 3 Early Mix)Ralphs 
3."Honey Child" (Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo)Rodgers, Ralphs, Kirke, Burrell 
4."Run with the Pack" (Extended Version, Alternative Vocal)Rodgers 
5."Let There Be Love" (Take 1, Previously Unreleased)Ralphs 
6."Silver, Blue & Gold" (Take 1, Early Mix)Rodgers 
7."Young Blood" (Alternate Vocal)Leiber, Stoller, Pomus 
8."Do Right by Your Woman" (Alternative Vocal)Rodgers 
9."Sweet Lil' Sister" (Live/Studio Backing Track)Ralphs 
10."Fade Away" (Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo)Rodgers 
11."Do Right by Your Woman" (Acoustic Version)Rodgers 
12."(I Know) I'm Losing You" (Studio Jam)Whitefield, Holland, Grant 
13."Young Blood" (Alternative Version 2)Leiber, Stoller, Pomus 
14."Fade Away" (Island Studios demo)Rodgers 

Personnel

Bad Company

Charts

Chart (1976)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [10] 9
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [11] 13
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 11
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [13] 32
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [14] 11
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [15] 22
UK Albums (OCC) [16] 4
US Billboard 200 [17] 5

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [18] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [19] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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