Run with the Pack

The album peaked at No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart and No. 5 on the US Billboard 200.[http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/bad%20company/ "Bad Company Chart history"]. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 August 2014 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 & 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."{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=March 20, 1976|page=20|access-date=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1976/Cash-Box-1976-03-20.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}}

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."{{cite web|title=Top 10 Bad Company songs|author=Roberts, Janey|publisher=Classic Rock History|date=October 19, 2022|url=https://www.classicrockhistory.com/top-10-bad-company-songs/}} Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as Bad Company's 6th best song, praising its "panache and subtlety."{{cite web|title=The Top 10 Best Bad Company Songs|author=Dome, Malcolm|publisher=Louder Sound|work=Classic Rock|accessdate=2023-01-14|date=July 13, 2016|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-top-10-best-bad-company-songs}}

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

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Live for the Music

| writer1 = Mick Ralphs

| length1 = 3:58

| title2 = Simple Man

| writer2 = Mick Ralphs

| length2 = 3:37

| title3 = Honey Child

| writer3 = Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Boz Burrell, Simon Kirke

| length3 = 3:15

| title4 = Love Me Somebody

| writer4 = Paul Rodgers

| length4 = 3:09

| title5 = Run with the Pack

| writer5 = Paul Rodgers

| length5 = 5:21

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title6 = Silver, Blue & Gold

| writer6 = Paul Rodgers

| length6 = 5:03

| title7 = Young Blood

| writer7 = Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Doc Pomus

| length7 = 2:37

| title8 = Do Right by Your Woman

| writer8 = Paul Rodgers

| length8 = 2:51

| title9 = Sweet Lil' Sister

| writer9 = Mick Ralphs

| length9 = 3:29

| title10 = Fade Away

| writer10 = Paul Rodgers

| length10 = 2:54

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = 2017 Reissue Disc two

| title1 = Live for the Music

| note1 = Take 1 Alternate Vocal & Guitar

| writer1 = Ralphs

| title2 = Simple Man

| note2 = Take 3 Early Mix

| writer2 = Ralphs

| title3 = Honey Child

| note3 = Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo

| writer3 = Rodgers, Ralphs, Kirke, Burrell

| title4 = Run with the Pack

| note4 = Extended Version, Alternative Vocal

| writer4 = Rodgers

| title5 = Let There Be Love

| note5 = Take 1, Previously Unreleased

| writer5 = Ralphs

| title6 = Silver, Blue & Gold

| note6 = Take 1, Early Mix

| writer6 = Rodgers

| title7 = Young Blood

| note7 = Alternate Vocal

| writer7 = Leiber, Stoller, Pomus

| title8 = Do Right by Your Woman

| note8 = Alternative Vocal

| writer8 = Rodgers

| title9 = Sweet Lil' Sister

| note9 = Live/Studio Backing Track

| writer9 = Ralphs

| title10 = Fade Away

| note10 = Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo

| writer10 = Rodgers

| title11 = Do Right by Your Woman

| note11 = Acoustic Version

| writer11 = Rodgers

| title12 = (I Know) I'm Losing You

| note12 = Studio Jam

| writer12 = Whitfield, Holland, Grant

| title13 = Young Blood

| note13 = Alternative Version 2

| writer13 = Leiber, Stoller, Pomus

| title14 = Fade Away

| note14 = Island Studios demo

| writer14 = Rodgers

}}

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• Paul Rodgers – vocals, guitar, piano
• Mick Ralphs – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Boz Burrell – bass, backing vocals
• Simon Kirke – drums, backing vocals

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• [https://www.discogs.com/Bad-Company-Run-With-The-Pack/release/777094 Bad Company - Run with the Pack (1976) album releases & credits] at Discogs
• [https://open.spotify.com/album/41ItjIHmg4MQ5uR0PgcfQp Bad Company - Run with the Pack (1976, Deluxe Edition, 2017 Remaster) album to be listened] as stream on Spotify

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