What's your current favorite song on "Jailbreak"?

"Boys Are Back in Town"
has survived Bon Jovi's versh,
but "Jailbreak" still rules

Phil was no dummy:
put the best song first, each side
just like Motown did

*spelling way off perhaps, I didn't check, just being half-Irish doesn't give me a good memory for this stuff

angel from the coast just a bit over emerald

i'm currently quite fond of "romeo and the lonely girl."

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:51 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

me too! such a perfect album

LORD I AM JUST THINKING ABOUT A CERTAIN FEMALE

emerald is the only one that can even come close to the boys are back in town

you know what maybe i'll just listen to all of them to test yr little hypothesis, JOHN

"Cowboy Song" is so incredible

yeah I can't front on Cowboy Song either I got my preferences but seriously what an amazing band. work-related story I've probably told before, first time I went to Dublin I played at a club where the soundman is the guy who got all Thin Lizzy's road equipment after PL died & I got to play through a PA stamped THIN LIZZY TOUR 1976 and I was freaking out. started my soundcheck with like 3 chords of "Dancing in the Moonlight," not really recognizable as such because I am a terrible guitarist & wasn't singing the lyric, just strumming the chords nervously, and immediately dude walks up and says "you'll make a lot of friends around here playing that song."

that's so awesome -- "Moonlight" was on the playlist at my wedding (as was "Boys")

o poor romeo
sitting all on his owneo

^ one of the GLOAT folks

love the prolly apocryphal story that they were called tin lizzy until a booker misunderstood lynotte's brogue

love the rhythm guitar on romeo

For the last six months I just cannot get enough of "Emerald." It is just so massive - that instrumental chorus! - and I want it to go on forever. I imagine them just jamming it for twenty minutes and no one getting close to tired of it. I've made it past 30 minutes of straight repeats but eventually life had to start up again. So good.

played "waiting for an alibi" on my radio show tonight. no it's not on this record.

also not on this record - but awesome: Honesty is No Excuse from the first record...

"somewhere in the town"? everybody knows where the jail is.

EMERALD. Dual-guitar nirvana.

Will always be "Emerald"

I really like the Eric Bell stuff. Think I'm going to slowly complete my set of the remasters. Still lacking Black Rose, the 1st 2 4-piece lps and a couple of others.

Should have said something between Bell and the later stuff sorry, misspaced that.
1st lp & 3rd especially good, 2nd not bad.

4 piece I wasn't familiar with until the remasters. Commonly thought of as classic line-up were great, does that continue to Black Rose or was scottish geezer gone by then. Replaced by Gary Moore who had been in in shortly before the classic line-up.
John (du) Cann of Andromeda/Atomic Rooster/hard stuff sat in for one tour that there's at least one recording from in '74 too.

"somewhere in the town"? everybody knows where the jail is.

― pvmic bellvm (goole), Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:45 PM

Maybe in your town, but here in Philadelphia there are so many jails it's ridiculous

EMERALD. Dual-guitar nirvana.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:46 PM (1 hour ago)

^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qp9wPvcJwM

live on john peel '76

Last time I checked (week or two ago) it was "Angel From The Coast"... I can't even remember which song "Emerald" is, tho

O okay it's this one. Yeah this is pretty awesome/epic.

"cowboy song" is the greatest fucking thing in the world

yeah totally

the build to "I AM JUST A COWBOY" is basically the only thing in any song that has basically the same effect on me as "ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF, MY NAME IS HOV"

Phil was no dummy:
put the best song first, each side
just like Motown did

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:43 PM (11 years ago)

Still "Emerald"

it sounds like he sings 'down from the glen came the marching band'

good review! https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/thin-lizzy-jailbreak/

Interesting, thanks!

Was just listening to this a couple days ago. Was struck by how Springsteeny a lot of it was; I’m intrigued & about 1/2 convinced by the PF reviewer’s assertion that both Phil & Bruce were drawing from Van Morrison instead.

Good review, thanks for pointing it out! (Although it spends precious little time on anything but the couple biggest songs on the album, odd for a 9.1 review, no?)

^you must be new to Pitchfork’s retrospective Sunday reviews!

I love the dunk on Bono in that review

^you must be new to Pitchfork’s retrospective Sunday reviews!

So are you saying we should subscribe?

Was struck by how Springsteeny a lot of it was

I hadn't thought of that but it makes perfect sense and partly explains why I don't get Thin Lizzy at all.

i like that the review spent some time on “fight or fail,” a song I’ve always loved, and gave it some shading that i hadn’t thought considered

thought

Was just listening to this a couple days ago. Was struck by how Springsteeny a lot of it was; I’m intrigued & about 1/2 convinced by the PF reviewer’s assertion that both Phil & Bruce were drawing from Van Morrison instead.

My memory is hazy on this, but I think when I first the Boss' "Spirit In The Night" on classic-rock radio ages ago I thought it might be Thin Lizzy--lots of Van-isms along with the Dylan moves on Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle