Another Fine Lizzy CD
This is a great hard rocking album. The addition of Gary Moore on lead guitar couldn't have been a better replacement for Brian Robertson. Phil Lynott's bass,vocals, and lyrics are excellent throughout the album. I liked this better than their previous studio album Bad Reputation. The whole album rocks hard with exception of Phil's ballad My Sarah about his baby daughter, which is a great song. WAITING FOR AN ALIBI, GOT TO GIVE IT UP, TOUGHEST STREET IN TOWN, and MY SARAH are the bests songs on this CD.
thin lizzy's next guitar phase
Obviously the critic listed here doesn't hold much affection for this album...but then I don't hold much affection for critics either.This was the next stage of Thin Lizzy's career...after Brian Robertson...when Phil Lynott's old pal, guitar master Gary Moore, stepped into the picture. Gary absolutely blazes away on cuts like "Waiting For An Alibi". And "Sarah" is a great little pop number. What the hell is wrong with writing a great pop song? I think Black Rose stands on its own as a great record and a document of one of the many different phases of this great band's career.
The group's personal best?
Thin Lizzy was a hit-or-miss band, but when they hit, they REALLY hit. I would probably call this their best album, mainly because more often than not here, Phil Lynott's songs kick in as consistantly as he gutsy singing and that great twin-guitar sound that the band developed over time. You may get turned off by the subject matter of "S&M," but it's one of Lynott's best set of lyrics and the jangly funk of the rhythm cooks! The title cut not only works well as a song but gives guitarists Gary Moore and Scott Gorham an opportunity to showboat, to great effect. Lynott's ode to his then-baby daughter, "Sarah," has a nice Latin-ish swing to it and doesn't cloy with it's sweetness. Altogether a great album, maybe this band's best.
THEIR BEST ALBUM BY FAR
PHIL'S BEST COLLECTION OF SONGS. GREAT RIFFS & SOLOS BY MOORE. THE FACT THAT THIS WAS NEVER PLAYED ON THE RADIO IS CRIMINAL. CRUNCHY YET MELODIC ROCK AT ITS BEST.
Trust Me!
Absolutely the BEST record by one of the most under-rated rock bands of all time.You must own this CD...This has some of the best rockers they ever recorded,like "Got to Give it up",Phil Lynott's confessional Drug & Drink number,and "Get Out of Here", a blazing number co-written with Midge Ure from Ultravox. Gary Moore is all over this recording,but this is Phil(RIP)'s shining moment as a songwriter.What a shame they didn't make it bigger in the U S. Hey,I love "The Boys are Back in Town" too,but this is the quintessential TL CD.
Digitally remastered 1996 reissue on Mercury of their 1979album for the label, with the original artwork intact. Ninetracks, including 'Do Anything You Wanna Do', 'Waiting ForAn Alibi', 'Sarah' and 'Roisin Dubh (Black Rose) A RockLegend'.
Digitally Remastered Reissue of the LP from 1979, Re-released in 1996. Features the Hits 'do Anything You Want To', 'waiting for an Alibi' and 'roisin Dubh (Black Rose)', plus Six More. Also Includes a Biographical Essay by the New Musical Express' Stuart Bailie.
