Thin Lizzy: Greatest Hits

Elly Roberts reviews

Thin Lizzy
Greatest Hits
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Universal Music TV

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  • Year: 2004
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Cat. No: 9821111

    Track listing:

    Disc 1:

      1.The Boys Are Back In Town
      2.Jailbreak
      3.Don’t Believe A Word
      4.Dancing In The Moonlight
      5.Rosalie
      6.Waiting For An Alibi
      7.Do Anything You Want To
      8.Sarah
      9.Chinatown
      10.Killer On The Loose
      11.Trouble Boys
      12.Hollywood
      13.Cold Sweat
      14.Thunder And Lightning
      15.The Sun Goes Down
      16.Dedication
      17.Still In Love With You

    Disc 2:

      1.Whisky In The Jar
      2.Out In The Fields
      3.Parisiene Walkways
      4.Emerald (live)
      5.Bad Reputation
      6.Wild One
      7.Fighting My Way Back
      8.Showdown
      9.Black Rose
      10.Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
      11.The Rocker
      12.Are You Ready
      13.Renegade
      14.King’s Call
      15. Angel Of Death
      16.Cowboy Song (live)
      17.The Boys Are Back In Town (live)

Get your tennis racquets out and plug in!

Out right now is a big fat double disc of Thin Lizzy’s Greatest Hits.This 36-tracker celebrates the glory days of a band that should have reachedmuch greater heights. They not only made some good albums, but they consistentlynotched up an impressive list of evergreen singles – charting 19 times between1973 and 1991.

Thin Lizzy was a hard – nosed band whose music was mostly distinguished by thestrong macho themes of Phil Lynott’s songs i.e. The Boys Are Back InTown, celebrating male camaraderie and comic book heroism, as opposed tothe Glamrockers of the day. After a slow start, they threw the jingly electricguitar intro of Whisky In The Jar at us (B-side The Rocker) andwe were eventually intoxicated by them.


It took a further 3 years in May ’76 for the hits to roll out, on average two ayear. Main features of their sound was Phil Lynott’s sublime bass playing andstrained vocals, the twin guitars, which over a period, included Gary Moore,Snowy White and Midge Ure. It wasn’t just pulsating decibel onslaughtsa la Jailbreak and Killer On The Loose, because they had a tenderside with lush hooks on the funky Dancing In The Moonlight and love balladSarah, which always included great choruses.

Two previously unreleased live tracks are added – Cowboy Song and TheBoys Are Back In Town – confirming their status as a great live band. Theyofficially disbanded in 1983. Lynott had hits with the storming single YellowPearl in 1981, with Gary Moore on the divine Parisienne Walkways (1979)and Out In The Fields in 1985 (all included).

Following a drug overdose in early ’86, he succumbed to pneumonia and heartfailure. Ah – great memories of Art College discos.

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