Review by Eduardo Rivadavia This ill-advised compilation rudely splices ear… Read Full Bio ↴Review by Eduardo Rivadavia
This ill-advised compilation rudely splices early ballads from Gary Moore's "metal period" ("Empty Rooms," "Johnny Boy") with his better-known latter-day blues experiments ("Midnight Blues," "Story of the Blues"). It's mostly solid material notwithstanding; however, this record can only be described as a doomed marriage -- the kind that could only have made sense to awful people like record company execs. Even worse, the record exposes the troubling similarity between 1979's "Parisienne Walkways" (co-written by Thin Lizzy main man Phil Lynott) and 1990's "Still Got the Blues" (Moore's biggest stateside success) in a blatant case of self-plagiarism.
This ill-advised compilation rudely splices early ballads from Gary Moore's "metal period" ("Empty Rooms," "Johnny Boy") with his better-known latter-day blues experiments ("Midnight Blues," "Story of the Blues"). It's mostly solid material notwithstanding; however, this record can only be described as a doomed marriage -- the kind that could only have made sense to awful people like record company execs. Even worse, the record exposes the troubling similarity between 1979's "Parisienne Walkways" (co-written by Thin Lizzy main man Phil Lynott) and 1990's "Still Got the Blues" (Moore's biggest stateside success) in a blatant case of self-plagiarism.
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Ballads & Blues 1982 - 1994
Gary Moore Lyrics
Always Gonna Love You It's not the same when I look in her eyes. The…
Crying in the Shadows Sometimes he sees her walking by. He never looks her in…
Empty Rooms Loneliness is your only friend. A broken heart that just won…
Falling In Love With You When I'm close to you, I feel my heartbeat Telling me…
Johnny Boy When I hear that wind blow All across the Wicklow mountains …
Jumpin' At Shadows What can you say? There isn't much to tell. I'm going downhi…
Midnight Blues It's the darkest hour of the darkest night It's a million mi…
One Day I've seen that look somewhere before. Your sorrow's like an …
Parisienne Walkways I remember Paris in '49 The Champs-Élysées, Saint Michelle a…
Separate Ways What is it that you want from me? I really wish…
Still Got the Blues Used to be so easy to give my heart away But…
Story Of The Blues My baby she left me, my baby she's gone. My sweet…