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Jailbreak

Thin Lizzy

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Plenty of rock bands kicked ass in the '70s, but how many of 'em did it with street-tough poetry as part of the equation? Thin Lizzy's imagistic hard rock was propelled by bassist Phil Lynott's tough-sounding voice as well as a snaking, twin-lead guitar sound that would prove hugely influential. The group really hit their peak on this 1976 album. Jailbreak contains the band's only US hit, "The Boys Are Back In Town," but all the songs on it swagger and bounce without the cheesy self-mythologizing most of their peers fell prey to. This is nothing less than a literate hard-rock record, as essential to your musical understanding of the '70s as anything by T. Rex, Skynyrd, AC/DC, or even Springsteen.

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Rock & Roll, Amazing LP, I pesonally gaurantee this one, All of these tunes rock. Give it a whirl.

Album for an era of Irish music

It's kind of hard to write a review here without seeming like a screaming snob, especailly when the review below or above this is probably going be something like "this album is F'ing awesome". Not that I disagree, quite the contrary, I absolutely agree. This album is awesome, but there again I'm Irish and I started listening to music just as Thin Lizzy were breaking up so there's a small amount of nostalgia mixed in there. There are a number of classics in here that rarely get play time such as Emerald and Jailbreak. For me the alure of this album is that it reminds me that our tiny little island of Ireland was able to produce some truly great music such as Thin Lizzy, The Boomtown Rats and others at a time when Ireland really didn't have much going on for itself. You could take pride in the fact that we had a band like TL making music you could revel in that had a symmetry with real life and was poetic at the same time. I think this album, like some of Phil Lynott's solo work such as Old Town, is very under-rated. Don't get me wrong I'm not blindly saying that everything they did turned to gold but their follow up to this album - Thunder and Lightening is probably one of the best live rock albums ever likely to be recorded. If you have to buy just single songs then Jailbreak, obviously The Boys Are Back in Town, Cowboy Song and the buried classic Emerald. Enjoy.

Jailbreak

This is one of the top 50 rock albums of all time. It's definitely this band playing at its best. Lynott's lyrics and singinging are at their peak. As always, the dual lead guitarists rock viciously, but still melodically. Jailbreak, "Boys", Warrior and Emerald are mighty rockers. Angel, Running Back, Romeo and Fight Or Fall are quieter, but great as well. Cowboy Song is both. The guitar work on Running Back is amazing and listen for the awesome dualing lead solos, from alternating speakers, on Emerald. All these songs have stood the test of time. Get this album.

Biography

Formed: 1970 in Dublin, Ireland

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Despite a huge hit single in the mid-'70s ("The Boys Are Back in Town") and becoming a popular act with hard rock/heavy metal fans, Thin Lizzy are still, in the pantheon of '70s rock bands, underappreciated. Formed in the late '60s by Irish singer/songwriter/bassist Phil Lynott, Lizzy, though not the first band to do so, combined romanticized working-class sentiments with their ferocious, twin-lead guitar attack. As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than...
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