Thin Lizzy: Classic or Dud?

It's true. The rep on them is really grass-roots.

Don't forget Black Oak Arkansas. "Raunch & Roll."

Side One
1. Jailbreak
2. Angel from the Coast
3. Running Back
4. Romeo and the Lonely Girl
5. Warrior
6. The Boys Are Back in Town
7. Fight or Fall
8. Cowboy Song
9. Emerald
10. Killer Without A Cause
11. Dear Lord

Side two
1. Soldier of Fortune
2. Bad Reputation
3. Opium Trail
4. Southbound
5. For Those Who Love to Live
6. Suicide
7. Wild One
8. Fighting My Way Back
9. Spirit Slips Away
10. Sweetheart
11. Sugar Blues
12. Killer on the Loose

The Friendly Ranger at Clontarf Castle
Honesty Is No Excuse
Shades Of A Blue Orphanage
Rocker
Black Boys On The Corner
Whiskey In The Jar
Showdown
It's Only Money
Sweet Marie
Suicide
Rosalie
Cowboy Song
Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed
Jailbreak
We Will Be Strong
Cold Sweat
Dancing In The Moonlight
Opium Trail
That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart
Toughest Street In Town

What's the better subtle touch on "Whiskey in the Jar," the extended intro or the keyboards? (Or would you nominate something else, which you are welcome to do?)

Metallica bludgeoned all subtly out of that song for me! It's sad....I can't hear it with pure, un-Helfield damaged ears now! They took something from me I will never get back.

- "i would press delete"

Cooom on!

Love the Lizzy!

classic!

I'M A ROCKER!
I'M A ROCKER!
I'm a roooooller, too, baby.
I'M A ROCKER!

"Cowboy Song" is really becoming my favorite song of all time

so classic

man, fighting is all killer, no filler! probably top ten of all time material for me.

I had no idea they were this good. Somewhere along the line I picked up a prejudice against them, maybe based on my old brother's dismissals (not that I remember any) or a certain friend's snickering mention of them.

Thin Lizzy was/is godhead.

There was a repress of their first album at a record store in STL a few weeks ago. I got excited cuz I never see it anywhere, but it was priced $32.99 and it was already bent up at the corners. No way am I paying that much! So I went back to the used records section and found Bad Reputation for 7.99. It's a better record and I didn't own a copy already. So I won, I guess.

It was the fisheye photo jacket, not the skinny lady's hip.

Word going around that Gary Moore has passed on.

http://www.hotpress.com/Gary%20Moore/news/Gary-Moore-1952--2011-dies-in-Spain/7492280.html

Can't get that link to load but horrible news. I was hoping this was being bumped in light of the Jailbreak deluxe edition coming out this week and Johnny The Fox coming out later this month.

RIP, Gary, if this sad news prove true.

its on the bbc now.

RIP! ;__;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862

RIP

Just heard about Gary Moore. Gutted.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-TgDjcBL0

RIP :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3yXUunEq8
Still one of my favourite guitar riffs.

Wow, very unexpected. Saw him a couple of times back in the 80s, but he was in the gated drums and weird stage costumes phase so not that good. Funnily enough Phil Lynott guested at one gig in his last ever public performance, he looked awful.

This could be the greatest album cover of all time :

http://www.rockalbumreviews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/back_on_the_streets.jpg

CTRL + RIP

Very sad news. RIP. In addition to his contributions to Lizzy, he did some great work with Colosseum II.

There was a good piece + obituary in The Times (London) today. The online version is subscription only, so I can't get to it to link.

This is an unjustly overlooked Moore record. Nice mixture of soft rock and shredding:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/G-ForceCover.jpg

P.S. maybe a mod could add something to title of this thread?

Sad news...

sad news, although i have to admit i'm not as familiar with the Thin Lizzy records Gary Moore played on. what's the best stuff he did with TL?

Black Rose.

RIP to a great guitarist

RIP

I've probably listened to no other group more than Lizzy in the past 6 months. Rock gods.

A few of them were hard nuts.

Listening to "She Knows," the Van Morrison influence on Lynott's vocal is pretty charming, especially the brief scat at 2:40. And I really dig the exquisite guitar solos that follow, not to mention those smooth drum fills that punctuate them.

Anyway, great stuff - musically, the record feels like a lovely marriage between Hall & Oates's No Goodbyes and Steely Dan's Katy Lied.

This slipped by too - Thin Lizzy gets a LOT more press in the UK than the US, that's for sure - but here's Record Collector's review for the next box set that's out this week. This part is pretty insane:

"The first in a series of archive releases, Rock Legends will satisfy collectors disappointed with the Warriors, Kings, Vagabonds, Angels (2001) box set’s paucity of rarities. By comparison, this hits the motherlode, with 74 previously unreleased tracks, sourced from an extensive cache of newly recovered master tapes, long rumoured to exist. Nick Sharp, one of the consultants involved in compiling Rock Legends, told RC that the tapes were retrieved when outtakes from Johnny Thunders’ So Alone album appeared on eBay. Knowing of Lynott’s contributions, the seller was contacted and found to be the custodian of the Lizzy tapes. Despite having at one point been stored in the damp confines of a barge on the Manchester Ship Canal, the majority of tapes were salvageable, and the songs chosen for inclusion have been newly mastered."

Maybe it'll be in the booklet but how does a stash of master tapes like that wind up sitting in a barge?

This may be the greatest maritime rarities salvage incident since the Grateful Dead's houseboat tapes.

holy shit

I listen to Thin Lizzy like once a week, just a miraculously good band

holy shit

it's been a while for me, but Jailbreak and Black Rose are impeccable. need to finally dig through the rest of their oeuvre.

FIGHTING!

I, too, have joined the Church of Lizzy & Lynott.

Well that'll do ya

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/thin-lizzy-live-and-dangerous-super-deluxe-edition/

The super deluxe edition of Live And Dangerous finally puts to bed the myth that the album was extensively overdubbed in the studio, and demonstrates that Thin Lizzy was one of the best live bands of the 1970s.

Old Dan in a raincoat
hums the very, very, very special notes
Of a long lost favorite melody
It reminds him of a love affair
when he was young and did not care
And how he parted so soft, so sadden

Something so Irish about that verse. Reminds me of “The Dead”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At_rPiCCnpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXM3zCestm8

Peak Phil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SP6ZyCZsQM