My favorite band of all time!!!! For me: 1. Thin Lizzy (1971) 2. Johnny The Fox (1977) 3. Renegade (1981) 4. Jailbreak (1976) 5. Vagabonds of The Western World (1973) Every album in their catalog is priceless
5). Chinatown (i once regarded this as a Huge step backward until I found myself reaching for it again and again) 4). Johnny The Fox- Another grower. A couple of filler tracks. Jailbreak may have better songs start to finish but this one is more satisfying 3). Thunder & Lightning- Heavy and very well could be the best farewell album of all time. Yes the solo to " Baby Please Dont Go" is the best heavy metal solo of all time IMO 2). Black Rose- Pound for pound maybe thier most varied album. Every song is terrific. Best Lizzy guitar album maybe with Gary Moore 1). Bad Reputation - Lynotts best vocal performances. Dripping with emotion. Scott Gorhams best guitar spots as well.Just a majestic, fantastic album
My Top 5 Favorite Thin Lizzy Albums. 5. Thunder and Lightning 4. Fighting 3. Jailbreak 2. Vagabonds of the Western World 1. Johnny the Fox Honorable Mentions! Thin Lizzy Shades of a Blue Orphanage Nightlife Bad Reputation Black Rose: A Rock Legend Chinatown And Renegade (I had to Mention the Rest)
5 Johnny The Fox 4 Bad Reputation 3 Jailbreak 2 Renegade 1 Black Rose No 1-3 are totally interchangeable to me and a step above the rest. Renegade was my introduction to the band, love the record.
As everyone says, the rankings could change next week, however as of today (because I'm in a bit of a Gray Moore mode at the moment) 1. Black rose 2. Jailbreak 3. Bad Reputation 4. Thunder and lightning 5. Johnny the fox Even counting the Eric Bell albums theres no real clunkers, though Fighting through to Thunder and LIghtning is one of the great run of albums from any band ever. Its also interesting, being a Brit, to hear about how they werent that known in the US, as in the UK from the mid 70's until the end they were an absolute staple of any heavy rocker's album collection. Phil Lynott was and remains an absolute legend.
When I was a child, watching Top of the Pops in the UK there were three rock bands that were often on the show and that I thought "wow I would love to see these bands in concert". These bands were Queen, Status Quo and Thin Lizzy. I was lucky I got to see all three in their pomp and saw Lizzy on the Thunder & Lightning tour. 1: Bad Reputation 2: Johnny The Fox 3: Black Rose 4: Jailbreak 5: Thunder & Lightning
1. Thunder and Lightning 2. Johnny The Fox 3. Jailbreak 4. Bad Reputation 5. Black Rose 6. Renegade 7. Fighting 8. Chinatown 9. Vagabonds of The Western World 10. Nightlife 11. Thin Lizzy 12. Shades of A Blue Orphanage
What Martin said in the Black Sabbath video about producing your best work when your back's against the wall, that is why Chinatown is my favorite album. It is a flawed album, others may be "better", but not for me. Also, We Will Be Strong is my favorite song of all time. I just bought Martin's book, The Sun Goes Down and I'm looking forward to reading it! I am hoping to learn more about the lost track from Thunder and Lightning, Don't Let Him Slip Away. That song is fascinating! It's such a shame it remained unfinished because it's fantastic. Thanks, guys! 🤘
Great show! I'm so happy you are "promoting" Thin Lizzy one of the most underrated bands and easily in my top 5! My top 5 (the order may vary for the last two) - Johnny the Fox, Renegade, Black Rose, Bad Reputation and Jailbreak.
1- vagabonds of the western world 2- Johnny the Fox 3- nightlife 4- bad reputation 5- black rose I dig every album they ever created but these 5 are high on my list.
Great show gents! Thin Lizzy listening at its finest- everything said! Like many others I missed this band growing up but I’ve been filling in the gaps. Thank you GH, Pete and Martin!
I was 15 when I bought Chinatown in 1980. I still remember the shop I bought it from (long gone now.) Thin Lizzy had a huge mystique for me back then. I was fascinated by London and big cities and all the Soho and red light stuff going on and when I read the album notes I was bedazzled when I read a line at the bottom telling us the album was recorded in London's Chinatown. I could only imagine what it was like back then because this was decades before the internet but Phil described it beautifully in this album. I remember seeing the Chinatown video on Top of the Pops and it was the coolest shit I'd ever seen in my life. It looked edgy and dangerous and I was captivated and has there every been an opening guitar riff better than Chinatown? I can't think of one. I hated it when critics slated the album. Being 15 I thought their opinion mattered and in a way it did because people who hadn't heard the band may have read all the negative shit and decided against giving the album a go. Critics are nothing but vermin.
Awesome show! Lizzy is literally the only Band, where I have like the 7 albums that are all on the same level of quality, for me. My Top 5 (for today): 1. Jailbreak 2. Black Rose 3. Bad Reputation 4. Thunder And Lightning 5. Renegade/Johnny The Fox (had to lol)
Hard to pick just 5 favourites but for me they’ll be from the classic twin lead guitar era. Live & Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums and has definitive versions of the songs featured - as for the studio albums: 1. Black Rose 2. Chinatown 3. Jailbreak 4. Renegade 5. Nightlife
1. Live and Dangerous 2. Bad Reputation 3. Black Rose 4. Jailbreak 5. Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed... If you don't accept Live....then Thunder and Lighting.
Fighting (1975). Black Rose (1979). Thin Lizzy (1971). Johnny the Fox (1976). Renegade (1981). Vagabonds of the Western World (1973). Chinatown (1980). Jailbreak (1976). Nightlife (1974). Shades of a Blue Orphanage (1972). Bad Reputation (1977). Thunder and Lightning (1983). Nine years I got the Black Rose tattooed on my right shoulder in tribute to Gary & Philip, just a day before what would have been Philip's birthday.
I got into Lizzy in 1978 & they've been my favourite band ever since. Like you said, they were huge in the UK. I used to go and see them whenever they played the City Hall in Sheffield, which is Def Leppard's home town.. I never understood the negative comments about Snowy. I know he looked disinterested but that's just Snowy's style. As for his playing, I thought it suited Lizzy perfectly. He's a blues player and his tone and technique fitted in beautifully with the band's sound. For me Chinatown and Renegade are as good as it gets. The guitarist I loathed was John Sykes. He's a metal player & Lizzy weren't ever a metal band. His playing was too aggressive and flash for Lizzy. I don't rate the Thunder & Lightning album highly at all. There are a few good tracks but it doesn't have the sparkle or creativity of their previous work. Putting Sykes in Lizzy was like putting a swastika on a wedding cake. His sound and style was just too over the top and I got the impression he just wanted to use Lizzy as a stage to promote himself and his shredding. Maybe I'm wrong about that & if I am I apologise to John but for me he was the wrong guy for the band. I also loved Phil's solo albums plus his work with Grand Slam. At the time I refused to listen to or buy Grand Slam's material and I didn't go to see them when they played the Nostell Priory Festival which is just a few miles from my home. I've kicked myself ever since because I bought the stuff after Phil's death and loved it. I was just young and angry at the time because Phil had broken up the band. He was essentially writing Lizzy material with (what I considered to be) imposters in the band. Their support band was Marillion too. Why the hell didn't I go? It's sad that Grand Slam played the Sheffield Polytechnic rather than the City Hall where all the big bands played when they visited Sheffield. I saw many bands there such as AC/DC, Judas Priest, MSG, UFO etc. I also consider the silent member of the band to be artist Jim Fitzpatrick. Album covers don't get any better than Black Rose, Chinatown and Jailbreak. You could tell Lizzy were coming to an end when their management dropped him and opted for substandard covers, oh and the Thunder & Lightning cover has to be among the worst covers of all time. It was clearly concocted on a budget by someone who knew nothing about Lizzy. The only mistake they made regarding Jim Fitzpatrick was Chinatown. the artwork on the back should have been on the front. It's stunning!
Bought Jailbreak when it came out, I was 11 years old, they instantly became my favorite band and they still are to this day! 2 other bands I've always championed especially their 70's albums are UFO & GOLDEN EARRING both of who have just recently called it a day. Like everyone on the show my list would change depending on the day. Awesome Band!!! 5. Renegade 4. Black Rose 3. Thunder And Lighting 2. Bad Reputation 1. Jailbreak 🤘😎🍺
Thin Lizzy is just a great band. Their guitar solos and hamonies are just top class. The guitar solo in Romeo and the Lonely Girl is the solo !! Forget your Lailas and Hotel Californias of the world. That is the goddamn guitar solo !!
My top 5 5. Fighting 4. Johnny The Fox 3. Thunder And Lightning 2. Bad Reputation 1. Jailbreak Honorable Mentions Black Rose Chinatown Renegade Nightlife
Awesome Pete! 1. Correcting the Fender bass on the cover ( I wrote that comment on SOT) 2. I have the exact same top5 Thin Lizzy ranking + black rose sharing position 5 with Thunder & Lightning (Gary Moore and John Sykes shine on those albums) Tip: get hold a hold of the compilation Remembering Part 1: it has the best of the Eric Bell era + 2 great tracks with Gary Moore (little darling and sitamoia). This was actually my first Lizzy album before buying Johnny the Fox in 1976.
I left my list before the show but it doesn't show on the reply. 1. Jailbreak 2. Bad Reputation 3. Live and Dangerous 4. Johnny the Fox 5. Chinatown If the live album is out, then I love Thunder and Lightning.
all you purists need to get over yourselves listen to thunder and lightning again, I don't care about this or that phil's condition , that album ROCKS!
I'll never understand for the life of my why 'Don't Play Around' wasn't on the Chinatown album. It was perfect for the mood of the album. I'd had sacrificed 'Didn't I' to include it. For some inexplicable reason it was the B side of the killer on the loose single.
So since I am relatively new to the channel, I’ve been going back over your playlist and watching a lot of these videos and this one was especially great. Thunder and lightning is my favorite Thin Lizzy album and it just totally kicks ass from the first track to the very last track. It’s hard to pick a favorite from that album but I think I’ll go with Cold Sweat.
I remember Nightlife coming out at the time and it was a bit of a flop commercially. Great songs and playing though; subtle and really interesting to listen to. Certainly in my top three. In the U.K. they never really hit the big time until the Jailbreak album, but there was a following for the early Lizzy, and Whiskey in the Jar was a huge radio hit. Most fans don't have much love for the Eric Bell years but Vagabonds would top my list all day long. It's pronounced Ro-sheen Dub by the way.
I missed this when you went live! My top 5 which is very difficult to choose. I might be biased on this list because its based on playing these and a shitload more TL songs in my old Thin Lizzy Tribute band called "Black Rose". We played over 100 Lizzy songs in our setlist: 1. Waiting For An Alibi 2. Baby Please Don't Go 3. Bad Reputation 4. Emerald 5. Opium Trail
@@jimmycampbell78 Hey Jimmy! Duh yes albums LOL! BTW here is a link to my playlist of our band playing several TL songs. Guitar solos are hard to hear cause the club recorded it via VHS! I'm playing the Les Paul on the right. ua-cam.com/video/EvdW7NLgQWs/v-deo.html
Wrong. I am. And the Brian Downey told me so. I named songs to them no one ever heard of in the us at the time. I asked Phil who played guitar on Little Darling. He said. That was a fellow by the name of Gary Moore while he was picking up two women. I’ll put my Lizzy knowledge up against anyone. At least with the fab 3 and original fab 4 and anything Gary
Later Thin Lizzy is heavier and better than the earlier material in my opinion. 1. Thunder and Lightning 2. Chinatown 3. Renegade 4. Black Rose 5. Bad Reputation
Hi Guitar Hack. Such fine company you have there. Sorry that i didn’t see this before. But i watch it now. Lizzy is my favorite band of all time after the Beatles. I grew up way up north in Northern-Norway in a little town called Tromsø. In that town - in the seventies, we had five or six record stores. Unbelievable shen i think about it now. Anyway, when i was 10 years old in 1976, i started to frequent all the record stores just looking through the stacks of albums as long as i could before i was shown the door not buying anything. I had no money, but loved music, rock and that lifestyle i guess. The coverart. Then i began as a paperboy selling newspapers on the streets of Tromsø, and in the late summer of 1977, i had enough money to buy my first record. Or cassette, as it turns out. I had my eye on one cover i really liked (the LP), and that was "Jailbreak". Another was Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog". Two great covers. I didn’t have a turntable, just a tiny cassette deck, so i bought my favorite, Lizzy’s "Jailbreak". A year later i also brought home the Nazareth cassette i mentioned. I just felt like telling this now. I only had homemade cassettes with Beatles, Elvis and Simon & Garfunkel before i bought that Lizzy cassette. My first album. And what an album that is. Talk about luck with my pick right there from the get go. It still is one of my favorite albums of all time. Here’s my pick for today: 5. Night Life 4. Johnny the Fox 3. Bad Reputation 2. Thunder and Lightning 1. Jailbreak I have all their album now, needless to say, and i love ‘em all. True love. Every song. Every tone, every noise. All of it. Great show boys. Greetings from Elverum, Norway. -
1 Black Rose 2 Fighting 3 Jailbreak 4 Thunder and Lightning 5 Johnny The Fox Live and Dangerous for me trumps all the studio albums. The great songs sound sonically superior to their studio versions.
I thought Snowy White was a very odd choice to join the band but Chinatown is one of my favourite Lizzy albums. I love the production of Bad Reputation.
1. Black Rose 2. Jailbreak 3. Johnny 4. Thunder 5. Chinatown...today at least :-) Fighting is awesome...Bad Reputation, don't like the production (very flat) but love the songs, and Renegade is really strong too ( a grower!).
I can always tell who listens to Thin Lizzy the most and loves them by these lists. Martin is obviously a longtime hardcore fan. Snowy is my favorite guitarist of all of them. I play Bass so I appreciate guitarists for different reasons. I wouldn't wanna play with Sykes or Gary...too busy and flashy for me.
Black Rose all day long, if just for Gary Moore. Jailbreak is probably most peoples' choice (due to the airplay), but Johnny The Fox, Fighting & Bad Reputation are excellent records & would be basically tied for my #2. Renegade for "newer" Lizzy. The real early stuff doesn't do that much for me, kind of spotty records overall (until Nightlife which has grown on me over time)...At The BBC is fantastic for live TL. For TL "alternatives": Black Star Riders (Gorham), Brian Robertson solo, Lynott solo (naturally), Märvel, Pride Tiger, Wild Horses (Brian Robertson). Check out 21 Guns' cover of "King's Vengeance"
Cracker of a show.I first heard Lizzy on a middle-of-the-night show on AM Radio Luxembourg called 'Jensen's Dimensions' introduced by Canadian DJ David 'Kid' Jensen,when the first album came out.He was a great supporter of the band right from the start and subsequently appeared on the 'Vagabonds...' lp.I was lucky enough to see them on the tour when 'Fighting' came out...went straight to the record shop the next morning and bought it...my first and maybe fave of their albums.Then saw them again on the Johnny The Fox tour.A big influence on the early Phil/Lizzy is Van Morrison,I reckon and then he became heavily inspired by Springsteen's first albums as well.Live,Lizzy were dynamite.Another great band with that Celtic,twin-guitar Lizzy vibe is Scotland's Big Country.Just discovered Guitar Hack and subscribed.Think there will be some TL going on the player today!
Greeting from Northumberland UK. Lizzy sold out nearly every tour over here. What a band should of been huge. My favourites are Renegade Jailbreak Black Rose Bad Reputation Fighting But god damn there all classics.
1. Jailbreak not one filler on there 2. Fighting 3. Bad Reputation opium trail downtown sundown 4. Johnny the fox some great songs some shit production ain’t all the way through great 5. Black rose
I recently saw a ranking of every Thin Lizzy record on the channel "Tastes Like Music". It is sort of similar to this but very different opinions. Interesting to hear! Won't spoil to much for those interested in watching that but the debut "Thin Lizzy" ranks high with all of them (Tastes Like Music).. Which I rarely seen anywhere else. Both this video and that video take up a subject, "Where do Thin lizzy as a whole rank against other big acts?". As they state Thin Lizzy never really made it in America but did quite well in other places. A successful band in it's own right but probably could been even bigger. I personally like all their albums and they have very few songs I don't care too much for. Compare Thin Lizzy to Rush, Dire Straits, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Scorpions, Rainbow, Queen, Wishbone Ash, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Budgie, UFO, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Europe, Heart, AC/DC, Blue Öyster Cult, Whitesnake? Where would they rank.. Quite high for me!
Not really, Phil was born in England, Brian Robertson is Scottish, Scott was American, Snowy is English as is John Sykes. Phil considered himself Irish of course and that's great but calling the band Irish is a bit of a stretch.
@@Renegade-g2w Most of the original band formed in Dublin in 1969 were Irish, yes Phil was born in England but his mother was Irish and he was brought up in Dublin, so he's Irish as far as we Irish are concerned. But I do get your point.
@@CloseToTheEdge-Prog I know, I was into the band from 1978 onwards. Jim Fitzpatrick, who I consider to be the silent member of the band was also Irish and Phil was very proud of his Irish heritage and identity but in reality Lizzy were perhaps the ultimate hybrid band in terms of origin and it wasn't until Scott and Brian Robertson arrived that Lizzy really found their sound. It was all a bit folksy in the early days. They clearly needed an injection of something that wasn't Irish and boy did it work out well?
For me, those are my faves: Jailbreak, Fighting and Bad Reputation by a large margin, after that I'd say Black Rose and the debut, even if still pretty 'unripe'... After Black Rose they kinda lost the plot in my opinion. Last three weren't that good imo. What a fantastic band. May Phil rest in peace.
My favorite band of all time!!!!
For me:
1. Thin Lizzy (1971)
2. Johnny The Fox (1977)
3. Renegade (1981)
4. Jailbreak (1976)
5. Vagabonds of The Western World (1973)
Every album in their catalog is priceless
Gary, Brian and Sykes are Flash and Balls, but SCOTT is the heart and soul of the LIZZY guitarists!
1.Live & Dangrous
2.Jailbreak
3.Figting
4.Nightlife
5.Chinatown
I saw Lizzy 5 times in Stockholm Sweden. 79 80 81 82 83. And 83 in Reading England . ❤
1) Johnny the Fox
2) Chinatown
3) Renegade
4) Jailbreak
5) Bad Reputation
But it's like choosing you're favourite Miss World to sleep with.
5). Chinatown (i once regarded this as a Huge step backward until I found myself reaching for it again and again)
4). Johnny The Fox- Another grower. A couple of filler tracks. Jailbreak may have better songs start to finish but this one is more satisfying
3). Thunder & Lightning- Heavy and very well could be the best farewell album of all time. Yes the solo to " Baby Please Dont Go" is the best heavy metal solo of all time IMO
2). Black Rose- Pound for pound maybe thier most varied album. Every song is terrific. Best Lizzy guitar album maybe with Gary Moore
1). Bad Reputation - Lynotts best vocal performances. Dripping with emotion. Scott Gorhams best guitar spots as well.Just a majestic, fantastic album
My Top 5 Favorite Thin Lizzy Albums.
5. Thunder and Lightning
4. Fighting
3. Jailbreak
2. Vagabonds of the Western World
1. Johnny the Fox
Honorable Mentions!
Thin Lizzy
Shades of a Blue Orphanage
Nightlife
Bad Reputation
Black Rose: A Rock Legend
Chinatown
And Renegade
(I had to Mention the Rest)
Thankfully they were huge here in Aus and always one of my favourite bands.
1. Jailbreak
2. Johnny The Fox
3. Chinatown
4. Fighting
5. Bad Reputation
1. Johnny the Fox
2. Fighting
3. Bad Reputation
4. Thunder and Lightning
5. Renegade
5 Johnny The Fox
4 Bad Reputation
3 Jailbreak
2 Renegade
1 Black Rose
No 1-3 are totally interchangeable to me and a step above the rest. Renegade was my introduction to the band, love the record.
As everyone says, the rankings could change next week, however as of today (because I'm in a bit of a Gray Moore mode at the moment)
1. Black rose
2. Jailbreak
3. Bad Reputation
4. Thunder and lightning
5. Johnny the fox
Even counting the Eric Bell albums theres no real clunkers, though Fighting through to Thunder and LIghtning is one of the great run of albums from any band ever.
Its also interesting, being a Brit, to hear about how they werent that known in the US, as in the UK from the mid 70's until the end they were an absolute staple of any heavy rocker's album collection. Phil Lynott was and remains an absolute legend.
5. Thunder and Lightning
4. Jailbreak
3. Fighting
2. Bad Reputation
1. Johnny the Fox
1. Johnny The Fox
2. Bad Reputation
3. Black Rose
4. Chinatown
5. Jailbreak
When I was a child, watching Top of the Pops in the UK there were three rock bands that were often on the show and that I thought "wow I would love to see these bands in concert". These bands were Queen, Status Quo and Thin Lizzy. I was lucky I got to see all three in their pomp and saw Lizzy on the Thunder & Lightning tour.
1: Bad Reputation
2: Johnny The Fox
3: Black Rose
4: Jailbreak
5: Thunder & Lightning
5. Renegade
4. Fighting
3. Jailbreak
2. Bad Reputation
1. Black Rose
Scott Gorham is criminally overlooked!
1. Thunder and Lightning
2. Johnny The Fox
3. Jailbreak
4. Bad Reputation
5. Black Rose
6. Renegade
7. Fighting
8. Chinatown
9. Vagabonds of The Western World
10. Nightlife
11. Thin Lizzy
12. Shades of A Blue Orphanage
1. Johnny The Fox
2. Bad Reputation
3. Black Rose
4. Jailbreak
5. Chinatown
+ Fighting and Thunder together at number 6....
Killer episode!!! My top 5 is
1. Johnny the 🦊
2. Chinatown
3. Vagabonds
4. Fighting
5. Renegade
Nice t c chinatown gettin some love,great album
Saw them on the Renegade and Thunder and Lightning tours.
1. Bad Reputation
2. Black Rose
3. Renegade
4. Chinatown
5. Jailbreak
5. Bad Reputation
4. Thunder and Lightning
3. Fighting
2. Black Rose: A Rock Legend
1. Johnny the Fox
Nightlife is definitely in my top 5 - it has an incredible mood to all the songs and its really worth checking out - its a grower !
I'm with you on that.
What Martin said in the Black Sabbath video about producing your best work when your back's against the wall, that is why Chinatown is my favorite album. It is a flawed album, others may be "better", but not for me. Also, We Will Be Strong is my favorite song of all time.
I just bought Martin's book, The Sun Goes Down and I'm looking forward to reading it! I am hoping to learn more about the lost track from Thunder and Lightning, Don't Let Him Slip Away. That song is fascinating! It's such a shame it remained unfinished because it's fantastic. Thanks, guys! 🤘
Best lyric of all time: "Hey man, I know your name." JTFMJTW
Great show! I'm so happy you are "promoting" Thin Lizzy one of the most underrated bands and easily in my top 5!
My top 5 (the order may vary for the last two) - Johnny the Fox, Renegade, Black Rose, Bad Reputation and Jailbreak.
Love Thin Lizzy! Got into them in the ‘80s… had to go back and get their discography after the fact. Phil was an amazing frontman and bass player…
Thank you for covering Thin Lizzy.
They are Gods here in Ireland!
1- vagabonds of the western world
2- Johnny the Fox
3- nightlife
4- bad reputation
5- black rose
I dig every album they ever created but these 5 are high on my list.
1. Fighting
2. Jailbreak
3. Johnny the Fox
4. Black Rose
5. Bad Reputation
Black rose
Jailbreak
Bad reputation
Chinatown
Thunder and lightning
Martin Popoff bright. Renegade and Chinatown absolutely perfect
I agree 100%.
Great show gents! Thin Lizzy listening at its finest- everything said! Like many others I missed this band growing up but I’ve been filling in the gaps. Thank you GH, Pete and Martin!
I was 15 when I bought Chinatown in 1980. I still remember the shop I bought it from (long gone now.) Thin Lizzy had a huge mystique for me back then. I was fascinated by London and big cities and all the Soho and red light stuff going on and when I read the album notes I was bedazzled when I read a line at the bottom telling us the album was recorded in London's Chinatown. I could only imagine what it was like back then because this was decades before the internet but Phil described it beautifully in this album. I remember seeing the Chinatown video on Top of the Pops and it was the coolest shit I'd ever seen in my life. It looked edgy and dangerous and I was captivated and has there every been an opening guitar riff better than Chinatown? I can't think of one. I hated it when critics slated the album. Being 15 I thought their opinion mattered and in a way it did because people who hadn't heard the band may have read all the negative shit and decided against giving the album a go. Critics are nothing but vermin.
This was such a great discussion. Really enjoyed.
Awesome show!
Lizzy is literally the only Band, where I have like the 7 albums that are all on the same level of quality, for me.
My Top 5 (for today):
1. Jailbreak
2. Black Rose
3. Bad Reputation
4. Thunder And Lightning
5. Renegade/Johnny The Fox (had to lol)
Hard to pick just 5 favourites but for me they’ll be from the classic twin lead guitar era. Live & Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums and has definitive versions of the songs featured - as for the studio albums:
1. Black Rose
2. Chinatown
3. Jailbreak
4. Renegade
5. Nightlife
Johnny the Fox is my favorite Thin Lizzy album.
It was the album that made Thin Lizzy my all time favorite band.
Back in 1977
It doesn't matter if they were big in the states. I was there...and they were big to me! If the rest of the country get it...not my problem.
Great show! Guitar Hack, great contrarian pick with Nightlife. Love that album too!
It's very cool. Thanks for listening and welcome to the channel. Cheers
1. Live and Dangerous
2. Bad Reputation
3. Black Rose
4. Jailbreak
5. Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed...
If you don't accept Live....then Thunder and Lighting.
Fighting (1975).
Black Rose (1979).
Thin Lizzy (1971).
Johnny the Fox (1976).
Renegade (1981).
Vagabonds of the Western World (1973).
Chinatown (1980).
Jailbreak (1976).
Nightlife (1974).
Shades of a Blue Orphanage (1972).
Bad Reputation (1977).
Thunder and Lightning (1983).
Nine years I got the Black Rose tattooed on my right shoulder in tribute to Gary & Philip, just a day before what would have been Philip's birthday.
I got into Lizzy in 1978 & they've been my favourite band ever since. Like you said, they were huge in the UK. I used to go and see them whenever they played the City Hall in Sheffield, which is Def Leppard's home town..
I never understood the negative comments about Snowy. I know he looked disinterested but that's just Snowy's style. As for his playing, I thought it suited Lizzy perfectly. He's a blues player and his tone and technique fitted in beautifully with the band's sound. For me Chinatown and Renegade are as good as it gets. The guitarist I loathed was John Sykes. He's a metal player & Lizzy weren't ever a metal band. His playing was too aggressive and flash for Lizzy. I don't rate the Thunder & Lightning album highly at all. There are a few good tracks but it doesn't have the sparkle or creativity of their previous work. Putting Sykes in Lizzy was like putting a swastika on a wedding cake. His sound and style was just too over the top and I got the impression he just wanted to use Lizzy as a stage to promote himself and his shredding. Maybe I'm wrong about that & if I am I apologise to John but for me he was the wrong guy for the band.
I also loved Phil's solo albums plus his work with Grand Slam. At the time I refused to listen to or buy Grand Slam's material and I didn't go to see them when they played the Nostell Priory Festival which is just a few miles from my home. I've kicked myself ever since because I bought the stuff after Phil's death and loved it. I was just young and angry at the time because Phil had broken up the band. He was essentially writing Lizzy material with (what I considered to be) imposters in the band. Their support band was Marillion too. Why the hell didn't I go? It's sad that Grand Slam played the Sheffield Polytechnic rather than the City Hall where all the big bands played when they visited Sheffield. I saw many bands there such as AC/DC, Judas Priest, MSG, UFO etc.
I also consider the silent member of the band to be artist Jim Fitzpatrick. Album covers don't get any better than Black Rose, Chinatown and Jailbreak. You could tell Lizzy were coming to an end when their management dropped him and opted for substandard covers, oh and the Thunder & Lightning cover has to be among the worst covers of all time. It was clearly concocted on a budget by someone who knew nothing about Lizzy. The only mistake they made regarding Jim Fitzpatrick was Chinatown. the artwork on the back should have been on the front. It's stunning!
Great Show!!!! I caught this in my ride on a few mile trip, Thanks for doing!
Bought Jailbreak when it came out, I was 11 years old, they instantly became my favorite band and they still are to this day! 2 other bands I've always championed especially their 70's albums are UFO & GOLDEN EARRING both of who have just recently called it a day.
Like everyone on the show my list would change depending on the day. Awesome Band!!!
5. Renegade
4. Black Rose
3. Thunder And Lighting
2. Bad Reputation
1. Jailbreak
🤘😎🍺
My top 5
1 Black Rose
2 Live & Dangerous
3 Jailbreak
4 Bad Reputation
5 Johnny the fox
1.Bad Rep.
2 Johnny the Fox
3 Back Rose
4 Fighting
5 Jailbreak
Jailbreak
Black Rose
Renegade
Johnny the Fox
Thunder and Lightning
Chinatown
…all great albums.
Thin Lizzy is just a great band. Their guitar solos and hamonies are just top class. The guitar solo in Romeo and the Lonely Girl is the solo !! Forget your Lailas and Hotel Californias of the world. That is the goddamn guitar solo !!
My top 5
5. Fighting
4. Johnny The Fox
3. Thunder And Lightning
2. Bad Reputation
1. Jailbreak
Honorable Mentions
Black Rose
Chinatown
Renegade
Nightlife
Forgot you were on at 7pm. Catching the replay!
No worries 👍
#1. Bad Reputation #2. Jailbreak #3. Fightin' #4. Black Rose #5. Nightlife.
Awesome Pete!
1. Correcting the Fender bass on the cover ( I wrote that comment on SOT)
2. I have the exact same top5 Thin Lizzy ranking + black rose sharing position 5 with Thunder & Lightning (Gary Moore and John Sykes shine on those albums)
Tip: get hold a hold of the compilation Remembering Part 1: it has the best of the Eric Bell era + 2 great tracks with Gary Moore (little darling and sitamoia). This was actually my first Lizzy album before buying Johnny the Fox in 1976.
I left my list before the show but it doesn't show on the reply.
1. Jailbreak
2. Bad Reputation
3. Live and Dangerous
4. Johnny the Fox
5. Chinatown
If the live album is out, then I love Thunder and Lightning.
Boys are back in town is great and holds its ground against other lizzy songs. Still not sick of it, easily in my top 3.
all you purists need to get over yourselves listen to thunder and lightning again, I don't care about this or that phil's condition , that album ROCKS!
I'll never understand for the life of my why 'Don't Play Around' wasn't on the Chinatown album. It was perfect for the mood of the album. I'd had sacrificed 'Didn't I' to include it. For some inexplicable reason it was the B side of the killer on the loose single.
So since I am relatively new to the channel, I’ve been going back over your playlist and watching a lot of these videos and this one was especially great. Thunder and lightning is my favorite Thin Lizzy album and it just totally kicks ass from the first track to the very last track. It’s hard to pick a favorite from that album but I think I’ll go with Cold Sweat.
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Thin Lizzy............................................ Rules
I like FIGHTING and JAILBREAK the most. And the runners up are RENEGADE, BAD REPUTATION and JOHNNY THE FOX.
I remember Nightlife coming out at the time and it was a bit of a flop commercially. Great songs and playing though; subtle and really interesting to listen to. Certainly in my top three. In the U.K. they never really hit the big time until the Jailbreak album, but there was a following for the early Lizzy, and Whiskey in the Jar was a huge radio hit. Most fans don't have much love for the Eric Bell years but Vagabonds would top my list all day long. It's pronounced Ro-sheen Dub by the way.
I missed this when you went live! My top 5 which is very difficult to choose. I might be biased on this list because its based on playing these and a shitload more TL songs in my old Thin Lizzy Tribute band called "Black Rose". We played over 100 Lizzy songs in our setlist:
1. Waiting For An Alibi
2. Baby Please Don't Go
3. Bad Reputation
4. Emerald
5. Opium Trail
Hey Brian. Thanks for watching. We were picking our favorite albums. Cheers
It was albums but I like your top 5 songs though 👍🏻
@@jimmycampbell78 Hey Jimmy! Duh yes albums LOL! BTW here is a link to my playlist of our band playing several TL songs. Guitar solos are hard to hear cause the club recorded it via VHS! I'm playing the Les Paul on the right.
ua-cam.com/video/EvdW7NLgQWs/v-deo.html
Great picks!
Butch (from Pete's show) should have been here as well for the discussion. He's probably the biggest Thin Lizzy fan out there.
Wrong. I am. And the Brian Downey told me so. I named songs to them no one ever heard of in the us at the time. I asked Phil who played guitar on Little Darling. He said. That was a fellow by the name of Gary Moore while he was picking up two women. I’ll put my Lizzy knowledge up against anyone. At least with the fab 3 and original fab 4 and anything Gary
So I would have them like this:
5. Thunder and Lightning/Bad Reputation
4. Black Rose
3. Jailbreak
2. Fighting
1. Johnny the Fox
Thanks guys
1. Fighting/ Nightlife
2. Nightlife/ Fighting
3. JTF
4. Bad Reputation
5.Jailbreak
Great work 👏 Big LIKE Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
I half expected Popoff to come back with a beer can signed by the brewer.
Later Thin Lizzy is heavier and better than the earlier material in my opinion.
1. Thunder and Lightning
2. Chinatown
3. Renegade
4. Black Rose
5. Bad Reputation
So my ALBUM picks top five would be:
1. Black Rose
2. Jail Break
3. Thunder and Lightning
4. Bad Reputation
5. Fighting
My favorite lizzy song of all time is a tuff choice between suicide, emerald or genocide killing of the buffalo
Anthrax did a killer version of Cowboy Song with John Bush 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hi Guitar Hack. Such fine company you have there.
Sorry that i didn’t see this before. But i watch it now. Lizzy is my favorite band of all time after the Beatles.
I grew up way up north in Northern-Norway in a little town called Tromsø.
In that town - in the seventies, we had five or six record stores. Unbelievable shen i think about it now. Anyway, when i was 10 years old in 1976, i started to frequent all the record stores just looking through the stacks of albums as long as i could before i was shown the door not buying anything. I had no money, but loved music, rock and that lifestyle i guess. The coverart.
Then i began as a paperboy selling newspapers on the streets of Tromsø, and in the late summer of 1977, i had enough money to buy my first record. Or cassette, as it turns out. I had my eye on one cover i really liked (the LP), and that was "Jailbreak". Another was Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog". Two great covers. I didn’t have a turntable, just a tiny cassette deck, so i bought my favorite, Lizzy’s "Jailbreak". A year later i also brought home the Nazareth cassette i mentioned.
I just felt like telling this now.
I only had homemade cassettes with Beatles, Elvis and Simon & Garfunkel before i bought that Lizzy cassette. My first album. And what an album that is. Talk about luck with my pick right there from the get go. It still is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Here’s my pick for today:
5. Night Life
4. Johnny the Fox
3. Bad Reputation
2. Thunder and Lightning
1. Jailbreak
I have all their album now, needless to say, and i love ‘em all. True love. Every song. Every tone, every noise. All of it.
Great show boys. Greetings from Elverum, Norway.
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Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel. Cheers
@@GuitarHack66 Thanks.
To me, _Thunder and Lightning_ is their best. They knew they were done, so they just went full on, balls to the wall heavy metal with it.
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1 Black Rose
2 Fighting
3 Jailbreak
4 Thunder and Lightning
5 Johnny The Fox
Live and Dangerous for me trumps all the studio albums. The great songs sound sonically superior to their studio versions.
I thought Snowy White was a very odd choice to join the band but Chinatown is one of my favourite Lizzy albums. I love the production of Bad Reputation.
The jazz fusion chords progression on the bridge of Someday she's going to hit back is the strongest stuff they ever recorded in my opinion
John Sykes
1. Black Rose 2. Jailbreak 3. Johnny 4. Thunder 5. Chinatown...today at least :-) Fighting is awesome...Bad Reputation, don't like the production (very flat) but love the songs, and Renegade is really strong too ( a grower!).
Chinatown was my first, still love it. I actually had Johnny the fox on 8 track.
I can always tell who listens to Thin Lizzy the most and loves them by these lists. Martin is obviously a longtime hardcore fan. Snowy is my favorite guitarist of all of them. I play Bass so I appreciate guitarists for different reasons. I wouldn't wanna play with Sykes or Gary...too busy and flashy for me.
Seen then live 5 times, first time before they had a record contract. Great live, the best.
Cool!
Great video Guitar Hack, I subscribed.
Thanks for the sub!
@@GuitarHack66 No bother at all. If you could do likewise. Thanks
Black Rose all day long, if just for Gary Moore. Jailbreak is probably most peoples' choice (due to the airplay), but Johnny The Fox, Fighting & Bad Reputation are excellent records & would be basically tied for my #2. Renegade for "newer" Lizzy. The real early stuff doesn't do that much for me, kind of spotty records overall (until Nightlife which has grown on me over time)...At The BBC is fantastic for live TL.
For TL "alternatives": Black Star Riders (Gorham), Brian Robertson solo, Lynott solo (naturally), Märvel, Pride Tiger, Wild Horses (Brian Robertson). Check out 21 Guns' cover of "King's Vengeance"
Live life..!
Cracker of a show.I first heard Lizzy on a middle-of-the-night show on AM Radio Luxembourg called 'Jensen's Dimensions' introduced by Canadian DJ David 'Kid' Jensen,when the first album came out.He was a great supporter of the band right from the start and subsequently appeared on the 'Vagabonds...' lp.I was lucky enough to see them on the tour when 'Fighting' came out...went straight to the record shop the next morning and bought it...my first and maybe fave of their albums.Then saw them again on the Johnny The Fox tour.A big influence on the early Phil/Lizzy is Van Morrison,I reckon and then he became heavily inspired by Springsteen's first albums as well.Live,Lizzy were dynamite.Another great band with that Celtic,twin-guitar Lizzy vibe is Scotland's Big Country.Just discovered Guitar Hack and subscribed.Think there will be some TL going on the player today!
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Just giving Chinatown a spin inspired by Martin - so damn good!
You guys should do another video but rank all the albums
Greeting from Northumberland UK.
Lizzy sold out nearly every tour over here. What a band should of been huge.
My favourites are
Renegade
Jailbreak
Black Rose
Bad Reputation
Fighting
But god damn there all classics.
Renegade and Chinatown are awesome records.
Love Pete’s Presto Ballet shirt!!! 🤘
He said it was a gift from Kurdt Vanderhoof himself.
@@independenceltd. Kurdt Rules!
K tel....Boys Are Back In Town .... Hit Machine ... pic of the band was off the Nightlife album
Agree wholeheartedly with pete even the weaker albums have some class songs, THE KILLING OF THE BUFFALO FROM CINATOWN is top notch
It's called Genocide lol.
@@j.j.4150 yes and in brackets (the killing of the buffalo)I'm starting the nit pickers world association, are ye interested in joining as leader
@@patrickmurphy1803 Wasn't meant to come across as mean.
@@j.j.4150 OK my mistake
EVERY DAY GOING T WORK I TIP MY HAT /HEAD T PHILS STATUE, ITS IN HARRY ST. IN DUBLIN ALL WELCOME
How ironic that the last song on the last Lizzy album was called heart attack...heart failure being the cause of Phil's passing I believe
RIP
1. Jailbreak not one filler on there
2. Fighting
3. Bad Reputation opium trail downtown sundown
4. Johnny the fox some great songs some shit production ain’t all the way through great
5. Black rose
I recently saw a ranking of every Thin Lizzy record on the channel "Tastes Like Music". It is sort of similar to this but very different opinions. Interesting to hear! Won't spoil to much for those interested in watching that but the debut "Thin Lizzy" ranks high with all of them (Tastes Like Music).. Which I rarely seen anywhere else.
Both this video and that video take up a subject, "Where do Thin lizzy as a whole rank against other big acts?". As they state Thin Lizzy never really made it in America but did quite well in other places. A successful band in it's own right but probably could been even bigger.
I personally like all their albums and they have very few songs I don't care too much for. Compare Thin Lizzy to Rush, Dire Straits, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Scorpions, Rainbow, Queen, Wishbone Ash, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Budgie, UFO, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Europe, Heart, AC/DC, Blue Öyster Cult, Whitesnake? Where would they rank.. Quite high for me!
A great Irish band and they are Irish and not from the UK. I saw them back in the early 80s here in Rep Of Ireland and they were amazing live.
Not really, Phil was born in England, Brian Robertson is Scottish, Scott was American, Snowy is English as is John Sykes. Phil considered himself Irish of course and that's great but calling the band Irish is a bit of a stretch.
@@Renegade-g2w Most of the original band formed in Dublin in 1969 were Irish, yes Phil was born in England but his mother was Irish and he was brought up in Dublin, so he's Irish as far as we Irish are concerned. But I do get your point.
@@CloseToTheEdge-Prog I know, I was into the band from 1978 onwards. Jim Fitzpatrick, who I consider to be the silent member of the band was also Irish and Phil was very proud of his Irish heritage and identity but in reality Lizzy were perhaps the ultimate hybrid band in terms of origin and it wasn't until Scott and Brian Robertson arrived that Lizzy really found their sound. It was all a bit folksy in the early days. They clearly needed an injection of something that wasn't Irish and boy did it work out well?
@@Renegade-g2w That it did work out very well.
Renegade one of my favorite later tracks on T&lL
Man martin really surprised you put renegade and Chinatown on your top 5 I love those albums
For me, those are my faves:
Jailbreak, Fighting and Bad Reputation by a large margin, after that I'd say Black Rose and the debut, even if still pretty 'unripe'... After Black Rose they kinda lost the plot in my opinion. Last three weren't that good imo. What a fantastic band. May Phil rest in peace.
Martin, what are the 15' really good non album songs you were talking about? Thanks!
@Martin Popoff thanks man!
Check out the TL Rock Legends box set for unreleased tracks (and lots of really good demo versions). 6 cd/s & 1 DVD
Jailbreak through Black Rose was a great run. All of them are at least good.