Thin Lizzy: Classic or Dud?

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.

Was just thinking that the statue of Phil outside Bruxelles in Dublin looked like him in bloated late era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phil_Lynott_Statue_at_Bruxelles_Dublin.jpg
A bit like choosing to portray Elvis as he looked in the mid 70s over any other era that could be chosen, '56 or '68 much preferable.

I'm just picking up the remastered reissues.
Still not found out why the Eric Bell era ones got delayed for like 5 years or whatever.Grabbed them as soon as I got the chance when they did appear. Love that stuff.
Less familiar with the later era. Love Jailbreak now I've got it. Will gradually pick up the others over the next while.
Not sure why they skipped 2lps, are they going back to reissue them remastered? Did they just skip from the delayed reissues to the most popular lps, then intend to work on from there including those 2?

Hello:

A treasure trove of tapes stashed away by Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott will be released as a boxed set later this year.

Twenty six years after the Dublin rocker's death at the age of 36, more of his lost music will be heard by the public for the first time in June.

Shortly before he passed away in 1986, Mr Lynott gave 150 tapes to a third party for safekeeping. The cache of up to 700 songs has finally been released to record company Universal Music.

"This is an absolutely stunning find," Steve Hammonds, project manager behind the new Thin Lizzy box set, told the Irish Independent.

"In every group there's a member who lovingly collects their recordings and in Thin Lizzy that was Phil Lynott, because Lizzy was his baby and his band."

It will be the second boxed set in recent times to feature archive work by the band, following last year's 'Live At The BBC' release.

But the newly unearthed recordings stretch from Thin Lizzy's years with Decca Records, beginning in 1971, to their 'Renegade' album in 1981.

"There are out-takes, unheard versions of Thin Lizzy hits and, most exciting of all, material which was recorded but never released at the time," said Mr Hammonds.

That sounds amazing! I still need to hear the BBC box.

wow, really exciting news

thought it was really nice (if probably coincidental) that within months of Gary Moore passing away, Sade covered a Thin Lizzy song he's widely considered to have co-written:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW8HHw8kpfM

What fantastic news! They better make this a hefty release, I don't want 700 tracks whittled down to two CDs...

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