#269
December 1983
Gary Moore
Victims of the Future
2.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Victims of the Future
Shapes of Things
It feels like ages since we heard some high-octave/high-octane soaring vocals to go along with gigantic guitars so, here we are, closing in on the end of this project and we have Gary Moore. It takes balls to have a sound like this that isn’t accompanied by a name like Excelsior or Gigantasaur or even The Gary Moore Project. It’s just him. Everyone else is along for the electric six string ride.
What songs lack in, say, quality choruses (Teenage Idol) they make up for it with blistering guitar solos. Can we talk for a minute about how forceful and great Deep Purple’s drummer Ian Paice is? On the tracks he plays on, especially the Yardbirds cover “The Shape of Things”, he’s positively a force a nature.
“Empty Rooms” was probably left lying around some Journey sessions and Moore needed a ballad so he grabbed it but I don’t care cuz, after all that synth-pop I’ve forgotten what guitars sound like.
The second side starts out with less promise, as Moore unleashes his internal Malmsteen on a 7 minute masturbatory epic that is also every bit the worst Scorpions you’ve heard and from there it’s shitty Van Halen (“All I Want”) & crappy Ozzy “Law of the Jungle”.
This album should be called The Law of Diminishing Returns.
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