![]() They have also other good Hard-Rock songs, and to my mind, the albums became better and better starting with Jailbreak, from then on there were always really good songs on it. Even the lyrics are a bit like "Run to the Hills". As I already mentioned, they have songs which somehow made way for the Metal period and some songs sound like Maiden-precursor, as I mentioned "massacre" beeing the best candidat. When I discovered them, I thought they were really underrated. It would not do for us all to have the same taste or opinions so please continue to share yours as you have been. The point of the forum and the posts on the board are to promote discussion so absolutely no problem with you having a different view, this is what makes music so interesting. Thank you for your interesting post, MacabreEternal, and thank you for reading to all. I just thought I must defend the album and especially the "someday she."-song. I also like Heart Attack wich is a bit like "someday she." The waekest songs on this album are the slower songs. It has a Heavy dirty Rock beat in it which absolutely reaches me. The Intro is rather cool and catchy, the guitars are great (you also liked the guitar) and the song as the whole is one of my prefered Lizzy songs. The song I like most form it is " Someday She Is Going To Hit Back". To my mind "Thunder and Lightening" is with "live and dangerous" their best album. There are several songs which a bit in the maiden style, like emerald, Boogie, Woogie Dance.however Maiden cannot have influenced them, but the other way round.at least as far as the songs just mentioned are concerned. Actually massacre sound even in the Lizzy version a bit like Maiden. There is a maiden cover for massacre which brought me to Thin Lizzy. I hope that's okay, especially since it's my first post after introducing myself and then also going against a moderator's review. I hope not to seem rude, but I have to disagree a bit with this review. Not terrible but would have been nice for Phil to have left us with a more consistent swansong. Similarly closing track Heart Attack, although not sterling in quality, hits with enough punch to leave a mark as things draw to a close. ![]() Bad Habits is another one of those infectious tracks that slap away the memory of the albums weaker points and gets head and foot going again. The cheesy Baby Please Don't Go lacks maturity and it suffers badly from poor lyrical content and a lacklustre pace.Ĭlosing out the album strongly is one of the reasons why this rating kept the right side of three stars and didn't slip to a half star in the wrong direction. Unfortunately though, as with side A we immediately get lost in the overly melodic Someday She Is Going To Hit Back which even the guitar work can't save. This is perhaps the finest moment on the record kicking off side B superbly. This upward turn continues with the pounding rhythm of Cold Sweat driving the record along with an engine like efficiency, not afraid to mix up the structure along the way and fire in a few licks to keep things interesting. The track gets the blood pumping nicely after the early lull in the flow of the record. The more catchy The Holy War ramps up the pace again soon enough with its arrogant lyrics and thumping skins supporting the choppy riffs well. Again the lead work goes some way to performing a rescue job but it is glitter on a turd at the end of the day. To follow this with a slow-paced ballad seems to throw lacklustre after poor in all honesty, not that The Sun Goes Down is a sterling piece of songwriting with its over-brooding bass line quickly becoming overbearing, particularly alongside the underwhelming chorus. The excellent guitar work of Gorham and Sykes makes up for this to some degree though but overall it's a poor track very early on in the track listing. Unfortunately the album takes a sharp dip after this with the clumsy This Is the One stumbling along with a slight off-kilter rhythm seemingly a stretch too far for Phil to pace with and at times the track almost feels like the lyrics are somehow a word or two short forcing other words to be stretched out uncomfortably. Lynott's gruff vocal delivery complimenting the fast-paced track well. The album does open strongly with the title track stomping its authority early on with its stomping keys teeing things up nicely. You have to sit through some nonsense also unfortunately. ![]() Overall it is a patchy affair with the odd snippet of catchy brilliance and well played hard rock music to give the listener some flashes of what once was. Lynott's last album is not a high point by any means. Things have gone off the boil a tad with Chinatown and Renegade and so we are on a downward spiral now, right? Actually, half right. 1983 and album number twelve for Lizzy and by this point we have already had the likes of Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox and the superb Black Rose.
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