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Good songs but an incoherent album

Musicfan68 | Zug, Switzerland | 01/02/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"G-Force war Moore's second attempt at leading his own band and proved something of a short-lived failure. This album was recorded in 1979/1980 for JET records (the label of the first two Ozzy Osbourne album; Ozzy married the wife of the owner but left the label) but never properly finished because Gary Moore had troubles with the label and its owner (Ozzy's father in law). G-Force are: G. Moore, T. Newton (ex-Lifetime bassist), M. Nauseef (ex-Gillan drummer), W. Dee (keyboards). The sound quality of the album is weak because it was never properly produced and mixed. There are quite different music styles on the album whereby the hard rock elements dominate. There are some very good songs on the album which G. Moore often played live: "You" and "Rockin' And Rollin'" (two rockers), "White Knuckles" (a superb guitar solo), "Dancin' (melodic hard rock). The weakest moments are: "You Kissed Me Sweetly" and "Because Of Your Love". Women like "I Look At You" (very melodic).I love the album and think it's underrated. It's not one of the best G. Moore albums but still very good. I think if Gary Moore had overworked some of the songs and if the album had been properly produced, it could have been one of his best."

The g spot

Nicole Emery | Brussels Belgium | 12/04/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No words can describe this album!It is simply FANTASTIC!
I would consider it to be the best Heavy metal guitar hero album of all times at the same level of the first VAN HALEN.
It truely was a fist in your face when it first came out and still is.
Why this album remained so obscur is beyond me, GARY MOORE uses the scarriest guitar sound ever heard-from him or anybody else, the songs are filled with power and great arrangements, Mark Nauseef on the drums is a killing technical machine-check out DANCIN's middle part,I Look at you is one of the best Rock heavy ballads ever made while some other songs like HOT GOSSIP or The woman's in love features some reggae or funky parts.HEAVY METAL classics songs:ROCKIN AND ROLLIN, BECAUSE OF YOUR LOVE and again DANCIN'.
The sound of the album is very aggressive and those reggae/funk arrangements shouldn't scare you because they serve a real purpose: making the rest sound even Heavier.Gary Moore lets Tom Newton do the lead singin' and even if his voice is close to Moore's it has a deeper, soul-blues feel.
That band really had something, too bad they split-up shortly after this release.My favourite MOORE's album!Really!I mean it!!"