{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | name = Flying Doesn't Help | type = studio | artist = Anthony Moore | cover = Flyingdoesnthelp.png | released = 1979 | recorded = The Workhouse Studios, Old Kent Road, London | genre = Progressive rock, experimental rock, post-punk | length = 37:11 | label = Quango<br />Voiceprint | producer = Laurie Latham<br />Anthony Moore | prev_title = Out | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = World Service | next_year = 1981 }}
'''''Flying Doesn't Help''''' is a solo album by Anthony Moore (credited on the album sleeve as 'A. More'), released by Quango in 1979. The album was remastered and re-released on CD by the Voiceprint label in 1994.<ref>Flying Doesn't Help, CD booklet</ref>
The Moore/Blegvad song, "War" was originally recorded in 1974 by Henry Cow and Slapp Happy, and released on their 1975 album, ''In Praise of Learning''.
==Track listing==
{{tracklist | title_width = 65% | headline = Side one | all_writing = Anthony Moore, except where noted | title1 = Judy Get Down | length1 = 2:58 | title2 = Ready Ready | length2 = 3:09 | title3 = Useless Moments | length3 = 2:48 | title4 = Lucia | length4 = 4:38 | title5 = Caught Being in Love | length5 = 4:57 }}
{{tracklist | title_width=65% | headline = Side two | title1 = Timeless Strange | length1 = 3:44 | title2 = Girl It's Your Time | length2 = 3:19 | title3 = War | note3 = Moore, Blegvad | length3 = 4:23 | title4 = Just Us | length4 = 4:14 | title5 = Twilight (Uxbridge Rd.) | length5 = 2:22 }}
{{tracklist | title_width=65% | headline = 1994 CD reissue | title1 = Judy Get Down | length1 = 2:58 | title2 = Ready Ready | length2 = 3:09 | title3 = Useless Moments | length3 = 2:48 | title4 = Lucia | length4 = 4:38 | title5 = Caught Being in Love | length5 = 4:57 | title6 = | length6 = 0:35 | title7 = Timeless Strange | length7 = 3:44 | title8 = Girl It's Your Time | length8 = 3:19 | title9 = War | note9 = Moore, Blegvad | length9 = 4:23 | title10 = Just Us | length10 = 4:14 | title11 = Twilight, Uxbridge Rd. | length11 = 2:22 }}
==Personnel== *Anthony Moore – vocals, guitars, keyboards, electronics, backing vocals *Bob Shilling, Chris Slade, Robert Vogel, Charles Hayward – drums *Festus, Sam Harley, Matt Irving – bass *Bernie Clark – keyboards *Laurie Latham – saxophone, mouth harp, backing vocals *Edwin Cross – backing vocals
Produced by Anthony Moore and Laurie Latham<br /> Engineered by Laurie Latham and Edwin Cross<br /> Remastered for CD by Tony Arnold
==Reviews== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=Jourdan>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=flying-doesnt-help-mw0000049167|pure_url=yes}}|title= Anthony Moore – Flying Doesn't Help |last=Jourdan|first=Michael|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=8 June 2015}}</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot--> "Building dense sonic forests filled with jagged splinters and dry, incongruously delicate vocals, the results fall somewhere between Peter Gabriel, John Cale, David Bowie and Kevin Ayers. An extraordinary record that reveals itself a little further each time it's played." – Trouser Press<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=anthony_more|title=Anthony More|publisher=Trouser Press|accessdate=8 June 2015}}</ref>
"While much of Moore's earlier work is pleasant, yet dispensable, Flying Doesn't Help falls into a different class altogether. Elaborate yet accessible, the effects of More's (now minus one "o") masterwork can be felt on a number of levels." – All Music<ref name=Jourdan/>
==Variations== The album was released with at least four different colored covers—Red (as shown above), Silver, Purple<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6565205-A-More-Flying-Doesnt-Help|title=A. More* – Flying Doesn't Help|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=5 April 2025}}</ref> and Yellow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-anthony-moore-flying-doesnt-help.html|title=A. More (Anthony Moore) – Flying Doesn't Help, LP, 1979, UK|publisher=Mutant Sounds|accessdate=8 June 2015}}</ref>
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