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Run for Cover

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Contrary to some of the reviews written before, I REALLY love 80s rock and metal. I wont use the term 'hair metal'...That was the image. What came out of that great era is great musicianship, great shows, cool videos, and most important...Great songs..Yes Gary's album "Run For Cover" sounds like it came out in 1985, because it did.In 1985, there were a lot of advancements in recording that had been introduced, and Gary uses alot. Yes, there is the heavy reverbed 80s drum sound on here..I love it! 80s hard rock sounded huge and I thought it was great. Id rather have it sound powerful and huge than it sounding like it was recorded in a garage. And yes there is keyboards aplenty, which I think enhances the emotion on GREAT tracks like "Empty Rooms", "Once In A Lifetime", "Run For Cover", and the epic "Out in the Fields" featuring Phil Lynott. His vocal performance on here is fantastic, the solos amazing. And the hooks, I love catchy choruses, VERY MELODIC. If you love melodic rock from the 80s(think the best from Dokken, early Bon Jovi, early Def Lep with edge) you will LOVE THIS! And to haters of 80s hard rock, dont listen with your eyes, listen with your ears..Great musicians from that period. The image was just what rock looked like back then. The songs still stand up. Then again Ive played drums in bands for 15 years so Im partial to musicians. Gary Moore is amazing and this is just another great chapter in the recording career of the great Gary Moore. Thank you for putting out this album.

The line above is from'Nothing to Lose',a great cut on this album where the vocal duties are performed by none other than Glenn Hughes.Stellar musicians accompany Moore on this record:Phil Lynott,Bob Daisley,Don Airey.It's a very diverse album showcasing Moore as vocalist,songwriter('Empty Rooms','Listen to Your Heartbeat'),guitar virtuoso(sometimes reminiscent of Santana).Check out the ZZ Top-ish'All Messed Up'.Very much underrated,this is Gary Moore at his strongest.

...chime in on this one, this may be my favorite Gary Moore album of all...including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Skid Row, early solo stuff and whatever else is lurking out there. It's a bit of a toss-up between 'Run For Cover' and 'We Want Moore!', only because I saw the 1984 tour (opening for Rush on their 'Grace Under Pressure' tour). The live album is absolutely mind-blowing, as was GM in concert. For studio LPs, 'Run For Cover' has to take the biscuit. From out-and-out rockers to melodic ballads to in-betweeners (whatever happened to that series by the way?), it has something for everyone and bonus tracks too! The production is excellent, unlike a lot of 80s 'metal' albums. If you are uncertain as to where to start with Gary Moore, this is a good place. The live album DOES have a monster version of the Yardbirds' 'Shapes Of Things', so you may have a bit of a decision to make, but as I said if you need help choosing a place to start THIS IS IT!

Wish Gary was still rockin like he use to do,even though some of the blues is cool.He can Jam with the best Hard Rockers.Rock on G.M.!

In a lot of ways, this feels like a reunion album - Gary Moore used to play guitar for Thin Lizzy, and on this album Thin Lizzy bassist and vocalist Phil Lynott makes an appearance, not only doing the vocals on a couple of songs, but also doing some writing. The result is a hard rock / metal album that sometimes has a social message to add.

Lynott wrote "Military Man", and he sings vocals on "Military Man" and "Out In The Fields" - the rest of the vocals on the album are done by Gary Moore and bassist Glenn Hughes (formerly of Deep Purple). As you would almost expect from Phil Lynott, both songs have a social message to them, about war and death... but they still rock - quite hard.

Most of the songs are very much Moore-style metal and rock, especially "Run For Cover", "All Messed Up", "Nothing To Lose" and "Out In The Fields"... and the rest of the album rocks as well. There are a few 'quieter' songs, such as "Reach For The Sky", "Empty Rooms" (which is always a favorite with Gary Moore fans) and "Out Of My System".

This is an excellent album to get if you're a Gary Moore fan, or if you just like some righteous guitar work - Moore hasn't lost a step with this one; this is an excellent follow-up to his Corridors of Power album.

was shipped fast and was well packaged, great customer service. great cd for all gary moore fans,I would highly recomend this cd to all gary moore fans that was into his 80's rock era. Note this ain't his blues era.

"Run for cover" is Gary Moore's fifth solo album in the 80s rock genre originally released in 1985 featuring some of his greatest hits in the decade. Being accustomed to session musicians, Moore utilizes an extensive lists of players on "Run for cover"; having said that "Run for cover" demonstrates a solid creative core which is Gary joined by two legends of rock, Glen Hughes ("Deep Purple", "Black Sabbath") and Phil Lynott ("Thin Lizzy").

Glenn Hughes plays bass and sings on "Reach for the sky", "Out of my system", "All messed up" and "nothing to loose" being the more uplifting, glamorous and popular side of the album. Phil Lynott, on the other hand, performs lead vocals and bass on "Military man", a song he had intentionally written for his own project as well as sharing a vocal duet with Gary on "Out in the fields" which turned out to be Moore's biggest European hit single to that point. Both songs represent the album's more aggressive side with strong ties to the previous album "Victims of the future". Moore, for his part sings lead on "Listen to your heart beat" and "Empty Rooms" the album's ballads with the latter standing as the record's second hit single. As before Gary's guitar work is extraordinary delivering the appropriate tone (melody-wise) for each and every tune on "Run for cover".

Overall "Run for cover" was another step up the ladder to hard rock stardom while baring the same high quality standards as any of Gary's previous albums in hard rock. "Run for cover" also balances ideally the two sides of Gary's song-writing the catchy/party hard rock and the protestant-impact driven- metal.

It's a really good album, and has some great tracks like "out of my system" and "once in a lifetime". Shame that Gary Moor didn't let Glenn Hughes sing on more of the tracks, because he has a terrific voice and a great range.

Gary tried some new sounds and different musicians on this, his most commercially ambitious album. Most of it works, some doesn't.

For me, Out In The Fields is Gary's best song of all time. Other standout tracks are Run For Cover, Out Of My System, and Once In A Lifetime.

The sound of some songs is very 80s and dated. Empty Rooms is a bit of a misfire, the original version on Victims of the Future is much better.

Overall a worthwhile if inconsistent album. I think it is a good companion piece to previous album Victims of the Future, which was a much more straight-forward rock album.

There was a LOT of 80's Hard Rock/Semi-Metal Garbage that sold a bunch more copies and got bunch more airplay circa-1986 than this, and that was a shame. Gary Moore refers to music from this period as his "Billy Idol" phase and if you don't look at photos, it's not a totally inaccurate comparison. Gary got a bit more contemporary, refined his songwrighting, and still kept the guitar chops as sharp as ever. A little disjointed due to the lack of a solid band. Too bad the Gary Moore/Glenn Hughes partnership couldn't work out as it appeared to have much potential, and it is REALLY too bad we never again got to hear Gary work with the dear, departed Phil Lynott.

Bonus points if Amazon gives you an offer to buy this one and Gary's follow-up disc Wild Frontier at a special price. Do it now.