Run With The Pack
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Album Summary
Run With The Pack was laid down in 1975 and came roaring out of the speakers in June of 1976 on Swan Song Records — that's the label born out of the mighty Led Zeppelin organization, and honey, that alone tells you something about the company Bad Company was keeping. The band took the production reins themselves this time around, sharing duties with the legendary Roy Thomas Baker, the sonic architect behind Queen's most towering work. This was Bad Company's third studio album, and they walked into those sessions with the confidence of a band that had already set the world on fire — and they came out with something that proved they weren't slowing down for anybody.
Reception
- Run With The Pack climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard 200, earning platinum certification in the United States and confirming Bad Company's place at the very top of the rock world.
- The album achieved strong commercial performance internationally, further cementing the band's reputation as one of the premier arena rock acts of the era.
- Critical reception recognized the album as a cohesive and powerful statement from a band operating at a high level, balancing raw rock energy with genuine blues-soaked soul.
Significance
- Run With The Pack stands as a defining document of mid-1970s hard rock and blues rock, with Paul Rodgers' vocals riding over guitar work that hits like a freight train wrapped in velvet.
- The album showcases Bad Company's rare gift for moving between hard-driving rock and deeply soulful, slow-burn blues — a range that made them beloved by both the honky-tonk crowd and the arena faithful.
- Sitting right in the middle of the band's classic run, Run With The Pack represents the full flowering of a sound that influenced countless rock acts who came up in its wake throughout the late 1970s and beyond.
Tracklist
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A1 Live For The Music 96
3:58
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A2 Simple Man 143
3:37
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A3 Honey Child 126
3:15
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A4 Love Me Somebody 136
3:09
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A5 Run With The Pack 123
5:21
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B1 Silver, Blue & Gold 112
5:03
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B2 Young Blood 117
2:37
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B3 Do Right By Your Woman 158
2:51
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B4 Sweet Lil' Sister 131
3:29
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B5 Fade Away 145
2:54
Artist Details
Bad Company came together in 1973 out of the ashes of some of Britain's finest rock outfits — Paul Rodgers from Free, Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople, Simon Kirke from Free, and Boz Burrell from King Crimson — forming a supergroup in London that hit like a freight train with that raw, blues-soaked hard rock sound that felt like it was built for wide-open highways and late nights. Their self-titled debut in 1974 on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records was an instant classic, spawning anthems like "Can't Get Enough" and "Bad Company" that cemented their place among the titans of 1970s rock, with Rodgers' voice standing as one of the most powerful and soulful instruments the genre ever produced. Their stripped-down, no-nonsense approach to hard rock made them a defining force of the era, and their influence can be heard echoing through decades of rock and roll that followed.
