After the war
After the war | |||||||||
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Studio album by Gary Moore | |||||||||
Publication |
January 25, 1989 |
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admission |
1988 |
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Label (s) | Virgin Records | ||||||||
Format (s) |
LP, MC, CD |
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Title (number) |
9/11 |
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running time |
53:01 |
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occupation |
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Studio (s) |
The Townhouse , London |
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After the War is a music album by Northern Irish hard rock and blues guitarist Gary Moore . It was released in January 1989 and was Moore's last hard rock album until Dark Days in Paradise (1997).
history
With After the War , Moore returned in parts to his harder riffing of the mid-1980s, e.g. B. Speak for Yourself or Running from the Storm . In other places, the songwriting is catchier and more pop-oriented, such as B. at Ready for Love . Moore paid homage to his late friend and musical partner Phil Lynott with Blood of Emeralds . The title After the War refers to the Vietnam War . The instrumental piece The Messiah Will Come Again - a composition by the American guitarist Roy Buchanan - has been repeatedly added to the set list of Moore's live performances. It shows the typical elements of his expressive playing on the guitar: fast passages, long sustained notes, extreme and emotional bendings , the use of the volume control for swell and swell effects and running through the entire fingerboard of the guitar from the very low to the highest notes .
Although the album was successful in some countries - it reached number 2 in Germany, but only number 23 in Great Britain and number 114 in the USA - Moore broke off the following tour due to "unsuccessfulness" and turned to the blues .
criticism
For Frank Trojan from Rock Hard , After the War was a mixture of Moore's three previous albums ( Victims of the Future , Run for Cover and Wild Frontier ), which lacked the fresh element, however. The guitarist quotes himself too often. Despite some mediocre performances, the LP is overall a solid work (8 out of 10 points). The Allmusic website wrote that mixing metal riffs with pop gave "mixed results". It gave the rating 3 out of 5.
Track list
Unless otherwise noted, all songs were written by Gary Moore.
Vinyl release
Side one
- "After the War" - 4:17
- "Speak for Yourself" (Moore / Neil Carter ) - 3:42
- "Livin 'on Dreams" - 4:14
- "Led Clones" (Moore / Carter) - 6:07
Side two
- "The Messiah Will Come Again" (Instrumental) ( Roy Buchanan ) - 7:29
- "Running from the Storm" - 4:45
- "This Thing Called Love" - 3:22
- "Ready for Love" - 5:39
- "Blood of Emeralds" (Moore / Carter) - 8:19
CD release
- "Dunluce Pt. 1" (instrumental) - 1:17
- "After the War" - 4:17
- "Speak for Yourself" (Moore / Carter) - 3:42
- "Livin 'on Dreams" - 4:14
- "Led Clones" (Moore / Carter) - 6:07
- "The Messiah Will Come Again" (instrumental) (Buchanan) - 7:29
- "Running from the Storm" - 4:45
- "This Thing Called Love" - 3:22
- "Ready for Love" - 5:39
- "Blood of Emeralds" (Moore, Carter) - 8:19
- "Dunluce Pt. 2" (instrumental) - 3:50
Bonus tracks from the 2002 CD re-release
- "Emerald" ( Scott Gorham / Brian Downey / Brian Robertson / Phil Lynott ) - 4:06 (B-side of the single After the War )
- "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Live) - 10:16 (B-side of the single After the War , recorded on April 25, 1987 at Isstadion in Stockholm)
- "Military Man" (Live) (Lynott) - 6:26 (B-side of the single Ready For Love , recorded April 25, 1987 at Isstadion in Stockholm)
- "Wild Frontier" (Live) - 5:01 (B-side of the single Ready For Love , recorded on April 25, 1987 at Isstadion in Stockholm)
Note: on the cassette version there is only one track called Dunluce , the last track on the album.
Awards for music sales
Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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Germany (BVMI) | gold | 250,000 |
Sweden (IFPI) | gold | 50,000 |
United Kingdom (BPI) | silver | 60,000 |
All in all |
1 × silver 2 × gold |
360,000 |
Main article: Gary Moore / Discography # Awards for Music Sales
proof
- ↑ a b c d https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000198827
- ↑ http://www.griffbrett.de/2011/01/gary-moore/
- ↑ Rock Hard # 32: After the War (Album Review)
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Guld & Platina 1987-1998. IFPI Sweden , accessed January 10, 2020 (Swedish).
- ^ BRIT Certified. British Phonographic Industry , accessed January 10, 2020 .
literature
- René Aagaard, Finn K. Jensen, The Gary Moore Bio-Discography 1969-1994 , Søborg: Bidstrup, 1996. ISBN 87-983242-6-8 .