Thin Lizzy: Classic or Dud?

reminds me i need to wdyll beside the newly restored phil statue right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANIkF5Ar4GE

About 3 or 4 times a year I think to myself BEST FUCKIN' BAND EVER. EVER.

Just got Black Rose (finally) which is making me think that at this very moment.

otm

holy shit you guys i just bought this record called "jailbreak" and it might be the like, best thing ever

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so this just happened to me approximately 35 minutes ago.

where has this been all my life

That's a good thing to have happen to you, for sure.

It's unbelievable that there are only two mentions of "For Those Who Love to Live" on ilx.

― how's life, Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:12 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would like to take the time to mention it again though. This song is hard as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N454-BOIhfI&feature=kp

i literally knew no thin lizzy other than BABIT before now. And I have listened to shit-tons of classic rock in cars all my 44 years of life. Weird how these blind spots can happen. Weird and awesome because hello new thing to flip out over!

whoa 'Emerald' here's the egg for all of Slough Feg's oeuvre!

Yeah, the other stuff doesn't make it on the radio at all ever and it's fucking criminal.

my wife seems to think 'Jailbreak' (the song) is pretty standard FM staple. She's from Boston and I'm from Minnesota, maybe it's regional AOR variances...

i turned on the radio a few months ago just as "Cowboy Song" was ending and was like nooooooooooooooooooooo

waht?

nooooo as in like wait i wanna hear the whole thing run it back

Yeah, no, I get that you wanted to hear it. I'm just surprised it was played!

Like, maybe this world is changing.

tbf my local classic rock station goes pretty deep in the crates. i just hadn't heard that particular song on there before.

What station is it though? I mean, I would be listening to the same station. Last time I listened to the Bay (which was for like a month straight) it was all the same old stuff, and 98 rock seems more modern rock oriented.

oh right, yeah, you live around here! it was The Bay, i'm pretty sure. it's pretty same-old-stuff-ish but i still hear pleasant surprises on there fairly regularly.

cowboy song gets a turn on the classik rock station in Sac every now and then

grotesquely swollen Sac

in this heat you're not kidding D:

the extra cymbal hits in the live and dangerous version of "jailbreak" make it even more awesome

http://i.imgur.com/QMBMslN.jpg

heard night life for the first time ever recently. i've listened to it many times since then. what a great band

on such a Lizzy jag at the moment. no diss on other heavy rock and metal bands, but were any ever as romantic and vivid and joyful and witty and poetic storytellers as Phil fuckin' Lynott?

I heard "Got To Give It Up" for the first time about 2 weeks ago and it's been running through my head a LOT.

CLASSIC!

Ridiculously catchy song

the video for Old Town is my happy place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2OcIqwmSaY

Everyone is so over-familiar with 'The Boys are Back in Town' by this point that I wonder just how many people have caught on to how neat the chord changes in the verses are?

I love "got to give it up" but I always sing the "back in town" lyrics over the verse. They match up really well

man, bad reputation is good, good times

i actually had an ecstatic reaction while listening to thin lizzy today. like a religious experience. i felt the blood rush into my brain and i honestly felt like i could die happy at that moment. i even said this to maria. that i could die happy right then and there. it was a very visceral and physical thing. powerful. right there in public at the store too.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:03 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bless you scott

TL is great music to take a shower to

Where's a good place to start with this band?

jailbreak, bad reputation, or black rose. they have several awesome albums and ways in tbh hard to go wrong

Their self titled debut is amazing too, winning combo of Lynott's Celtic mysticism/Van Morrisonesque childhood nostalgia/hard rocking riffage

They went downhill after Black Rose imo

Yeah, start at Jailbreak is an easy enough answer, but just make sure you don't STOP at Jailbreak. I'm a fan of Fighting, in addition to the albums Brad mentioned.

They went downhill after Black Rose imo

― The World According To.... (Michael B), Monday, December 2, 2019 7:28 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thunder and lightning is great though! sometimes my favorite

Just listening to Emerald and dang the guitars are magnificent. Also, I'd not realised how much Iron Maiden copped from Lizzy: this is the template for a whole bunch of Maiden stuff - sonically and structurally.

the iron maiden s/t is just faster thin lizzy, and that's why it rules

jailbreak is as good a starting point as any imo, cause it has some of their (deservedly) best-known songs and the rest of the tracks are as good or better. and it cuts a great balance between muscular hard rock and heart-on-sleeve pub rock. 'fight or fail' has always been a personal favorite of mine.

The Boys are Back in Town is a song that cannot be worn out.

Great driving music as well.

I really love the Eric Bell era. 1st lp has everyone playing rhythm and lead simultaneously.2nd lp is a bit less intense.
Hadn't really looked into the later era before the deluxe editions 10 years ago and I still need to pick up a couple.
I have a live set with John du Cann on one of the 2 guitars somewhere not sure he stands out as much as elsewhere.
But band was pretty great for a long time.
& Phil is among the guests on the Johnny Thunders solo lp So Alone too.

No-one has mentioned LIVE AND DANGEROUS yet either

Oh should have done. It was the one post 3piece lp I had by them for years.