I heard they couldn't fight for toffee
― comorbidities in the BK lounge (stevie), Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
A few of them were hard nuts.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 9 October 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
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?
― birdistheword, Monday, 26 October 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
This may be the greatest maritime rarities salvage incident since the Grateful Dead's houseboat tapes.
― peace, man, Monday, 26 October 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
holy shit
I listen to Thin Lizzy like once a week, just a miraculously good band
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
it's been a while for me, but Jailbreak and Black Rose are impeccable. need to finally dig through the rest of their oeuvre.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
FIGHTING!
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
I, too, have joined the Church of Lizzy & Lynott.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 09:22 (two years ago) link
Well that'll do ya
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/thin-lizzy-live-and-dangerous-super-deluxe-edition/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 20 November 2022 05:54 (one year ago) link
Old Dan in a raincoat hums the very, very, very special notesOf a long lost favorite melodyIt reminds him of a love affair when he was young and did not careAnd how he parted so soft, so sadden
― Heez, Sunday, 15 January 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
Something so Irish about that verse. Reminds me of “The Dead”
― Heez, Sunday, 15 January 2023 03:14 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At_rPiCCnpY
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:46 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXM3zCestm8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:20 (nine months ago) link
Peak Phil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SP6ZyCZsQM
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 September 2023 05:26 (nine months ago) link