THIN LIZZY

Jailbreak through Bad Reputation a run of perfect albums.

DON'T STICK YER SIGN ON ME, I AIN'T GOT NO LABEL

(I'm not sure why Black Rose hasn't clicked with me yet, but rest assured that once it does I will return to this thread to defy you once again)

This'll keep ya busy

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/your_new_car_jam_one_hour_and_twelve_minute_megamix_of_just_the_guitar_solo

when i'm tired of acca dacca, i let my neighbours listen to thin lizzy. i sang 'the boys are back in town' at an open mic last night for a giggle. had the entire pub singing along - all nine patrons. i recently learned that phil lynott's mum used to manage a (then) hotel on the next street from me, here in manchester - the song is purportedly about a gang who used to frequent it. the building still stands. pop fact!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Street_Gang

now that's what i call music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13sLQbqeWuA

fighting

these fuckin’ guys

i was cruising around this morning listening to Bad Reputation, and it just reinforced how absolutely sick the guitar on that album is. and on their other albums. and so many amazing tunes, Van Morrison would have killed someone to have written Dancing in the Moonlight.

Pretty much all the guitar on that album played by Scott Gorham! Brian Robertson just does a handful of solos/harmony parts.

fine as jailbreak clearly is it shouldn't have won by such a margin. the next three are all better at the very least.

i trust live and dangerous would have won had it been there.

starting a run-through of their catalog, listening to the s/t debut, you always heard bad things about the early stuff but this is kinda groovy!

Nightlife and S/T were robbed on this poll. still my faves.

this is really cool, there are obvious references here like cream, hendrix, maybe fairport but it's got it own identity, i can't think of anything that sounds exactly like this

also he had that great voice and delivery from day one apparently, goes a long way

Vagabonds is so awesome too.

I consider the song “shades of a blue orphanage” a classic Irish song

Bought Johnny the fox on vinyl this past weekend

i notice this a lot reading old reviews of 70s bands that were written in retrospect for record guides and stuff like that...it's like the band is known for a certain iconic album or period (jailbreak, rumours, etc etc) and then the entire catalog is framed as either the evolution to or the decline from that period...and anything old is only picked over for the bits that might look ahead to what they became famous for and anything else is sort of viewed as juvenalia that they shed later. people don't listen to them in the mind of "what if this was some old forgotten band that wasn't thin lizzy" and judging it on its own merits.

anyway this album is great.

I think that's just common with people in general. they see things within the context of what they know already and how it fits in with that they know. kinda hard not to do it. i was reading this book about Columbus's kid and they had this part where they talked about Columbus and other Spanish people seeing the native peoples on islands and they didn't see the people and what they did and what they had built. they saw the people and immediately thought: okay, how do these people fit in with the Bible. or: how can i fit them into my Bible world. they could never see them on their own. this is true for people who worship Rumours as well.

I'm not saying it's their best but I listen to the debut more than any other album of theirs. It's got the mystic Celtic stuff, great riffs ("Look what the wind blew in") and "Honesty is no excuse" is heart wrenching, maybe my favourite tune of theirs

I love Black Rose the most, and not only cuz of "Roisin Dubh," which everyone loves, but cuz of "Toughest Street in Town" which, if you only know the hits but dig the fukk out of 'em… well you should listen to that fucking song right now…

Black Rose is also my favorite…the only weak spot is S&M which isn’t even all that weak as far as 70s rock goes.

I bought Johnny the Fox a couple of years ago and it really blew me a way. I mostly only knew Fighting and Jailbreak. Still haven't gone beyond that except I know the song Old Town (great video, I got a beer at the pub in Dublin where they filmed part of it).

Something about Lynott's delivery and story just hits me in an emotional way beyond the "weight" of their actual catalog. I can't even really put into words. Even when he is being macho he makes me want to cry.

Definitely check out nightlife then

Waitin For An Alibi is my fave, especially the long version

I know music too, you see

ums otm re:first album, scott otm re:nightlife

here's what i had to say about the first album when i heard it for the first time in 2012:

Thin Lizzy — self-titled (1971)

Thin Lizzy's first album is an odd mixture of post-electric blues, folky Irish textures and that undeniable Lizzy slant of thoughtfully rocking out. The opener 'The Friendly Ranger at Clontarf Castle' is a weird, half spoken venture through a post-Dylan stream of consciousness and the resonating tunefulness that was to come. Wah-wahed out psychedelic guitar tones and a surprising restraint in the arrangement and, before you know it, 'Honesty is no Excuse' comes in like a total winner. And, before you know it AGAIN, 'Diddy Levine' makes a mockery of any contemporary attempts at an actual buildup in a pop song. 'Look What the Wind Blew In' points towards the band's rockin' future and the proper album closes out with the thoughtful extended piece 'Remembering (Part One).' I picked up the expanded edition of the album from 2010, so it features the New Day EP also from 1971 and a batch of revised tracks from 1977 (inexplicably featuring the one and only Midge Ure). Among these extras, 'Dublin' (from the New Day EP) stands as one of the band's best ballads. 'Remembering (Part Two): New Day' is a really uplifting rocker, while 'Old Moon Madness' seems to anticipate no-wave in its frenetic pace and chaotic riffs that don't make sense until halfway through the song. The 1977 re-recordings are generally more rocked up. 'Honesty is no Excuse' just seems to be a great song, no matter the rendering and it's probably my favorite of the revisions here (the power-ballady stance that 'Dublin' takes on, for instance, just doesn't hit as hard). Overall, this must've sounded like a complete anomaly when it first came out. I'm along the thinking that it's actually among the band's best albums, especially in this expanded edition.

finally, would have voted nightlife. i love soft rockin phil.

oh yeah i was into giving star ratings (out of a possible 5) back then and i placed a lot of value and put probably way too much thought into it.

anyway, if that review wasn't gushy enough, i also gave it 4.5 stars

enjoyed that review

"don't believe a word" off Johnny the Fox would make a great country song. sing this to the tune of Waylon's "the door is always open"

Don't believe me if I tell you
Not a word of this is true
Don't believe me if I tell you, especially if I tell you
I'm in love with you

Don't believe me if I tell you
That I wrote this song for you
There just might be some other silly pretty girl
I'm singing to

Don't believe a word
Words are only spoken
But your heart is like a promise
Made to be broken

Don't believe a word
Words can tell lies
And lies are no company
When there's tears in your eyes

Don't believe me if I tell you
Not a word of this is true
Don't believe me if I tell you, especially if I tell you
I'm in love with you

Don't believe a word
No, don't believe a word
Don't believe me, don't believe me, don't believe me
Don't believe me, don't believe me, don't believe me
Don't try