Jailbreak

Artist: Thin Lizzy
Label: Universal/Polygram
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731453229426
EAN: 0731453229426
ASIN: B0000074FG

Release Date: 1996-03-21

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Tracks:

Jailbreak
Angel From The Coast
Running Back
Romeo And The Lonely Girl
Warriors
The Boys Are Back In Town
Fight Or Fall
Cowboy Song
Emerald

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Customer Reviews:

Tonight theres gonna be a jailbreak!........2007-02-18

This is from start to finish one of the best classic rock albums of all time. Thin Lizzy were the obsolute best rock group from the 70's and their album Jailbreak was a breakthrough success that also has some of their more recognisible and memorable hits like Boys are back in town, Jailbreak and Emerald. All the songs on this cd are great and there is no filler, check out the hard driving and heavy song called Warriors or the calm and slow excellent song called Fight or fall when Phil sings "brotha, brotha" it seems like an r'n'b or soul song that sounds very good, its one of my favorites along with Emerald and Jailbreak. Overall I suggest you pick up this album and check it out yourself cause its fantastic.

One of the Best LPs of the 70's.......2007-01-16

While this is certainly a great album by Thin Lizzy, containing perhaps their 3 best songs ("Jailbreak", "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Cowboy Song"), I don't agree with most of the other reviews that this is their best album. Don't get me wrong. This is a superb hard rock album without any filler, just good songs start to finish. But, the album that preceded this one, "Fighting", is the one I would consider their absolute best album. I owned both vinyl copies and they both got worn out on my turntable. But, it was "Fighting" that first turned me on to Thin Lizzy. If you like "Jailbreak", you have to do yourself a favor and purchase "Fighting" also. Two great albums by one of the best rock bands of the 70's.

Amazing !!!.......2006-12-07

As a teenager in the 70s, the Jailbreak LP stayed on my turntable for months. I just couldn't resist those fantastic power chords and melodic lead breaks. After losing track of my vinyl disk years ago, I recently picked up a CD copy. None of the brilliance of this LP has faded. This is truly one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time.

Besides the great guitar work, Phil Lynott's songwriting is at its peak. There isn't a weak song in the bunch. Besides the three songs that got all the airplay, Boys are Back in Town, Jailbreak & Cowboy Song, check out the hard driving Emerald and the R&B tinged Fight or Fall. My fav, Warriors, has one of the greatest wah-wah guitar leads ever recorded. I still get chills everytime I hear it. And the way the song ends - pure brilliance.

If you don't own any Thin Lizzy CDs, you can't go wrong in picking this one up. It's Thin Lizzy at its best and a classic rock album that has truly stood the test of time.

Breakout!.......2006-07-07

Finally, sweet success for the Lizzy boys! After three good to great efforts, Thin Lizzy finally crafted their breakthrough album with this 1976 classic. And man, what an album it is: nine classic slabs of brilliant rock, showcasing the trademark dual guitar harmonies of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, and the great songcraft of bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott (truly one of the great rock and roll poets).

Of course, everyone's heard "The Boys Are Back in Town," and it deserves all the praise it gets, but that's just scratching the surface of Jailbreak. The title track is a manifesto for the band - lean, powerful, dynamic - and Phil Lynott's swagger hits an all-time peak. "Hey you, good lookin' female...come here!" he sings with classic male machismo. Additional highlights are the impressive "Romeo and the Lonely Girl," "Warriors," "Cowboy Song," and "Emerald" (the last is one of the great, lost Lizzy classics). Honestly, though, there isn't a bad song on Jailbreak at all.

Jailbreak is a great album to start listening to Lizzy - perhaps the best - and I also recommend everything the band did from Vagabonds of the Western World to Chinatown. Like Mott the Hoople, Thin Lizzy is one of the great underrated bands in history. You'll be surprised at how many great songs slipped through the cracks.

One Of The Great Mysteries.......2006-05-08

Pop music is a very bizarre adjudicator. A band like Boston sells millions by pumping out a manufactured "hard rock" sound, bands like Journey, Styx and Foreigner sell millions playing non-descript, bland character-less pap, and Jim Morrison inexplicably gets called a poet. Meanwhile, a band of brilliant musicians, which played with flair and passion, led by a true poet who wore his heart on his sleeve, Phil Lynott, gets cast into the ignominy of music dustbins. Thin Lizzy was a hard rock band, and their presence loomed large over British hard rock in the '70's. Lynott was your proto-typical glib Irishman and their influence reached everyone from the NWOBHM bands - especially Maiden and Leppard, to Metallica to the likes of U2 (Bono cribbed his share of note from the Lynott playbook), and early punk and new wave. (Midge Ure, later of Ultravox, played on "Black Rose", while Lynott joined Paul Cook and Steve Jones in a one-off band called the Greedies, not to mention the likes of the Boomtown Rats.) Heck, Wilco even covered "Cowboy Song". "Jailbreak" is Thin Lizzy's finest moment. First of all, unlike most hard rock bands of their era and ilk, Lizzy could groove. Armed with a great rhythm section propelled by one of the all-time under-rated drummer, Brian Downey, Lizzy actually fell in the cracks between the hard funk of the likes of Funkadelic and the boogie of a bands like ZZ Top. One of the reasons given for Lizzy's failure to conquer the rock is that they were too while for black audiences, and too black for white rock audience. However, just give a listen to "Angel From The Coast", a riff that Price nicked for "Baby I'm A Star". There's plenty of sonic crunch - the title track, "Warrior" and Emrald all kick major butt. However, Lizzy could slip into an easy groove on "Running Back", while, Lynott spreads his Van Morrison influences all over the place on "Romeo And The Lonely Girl". And, Lynott could always turn a phrase with charisma, as in the gentle plea for racial harmony in "Fight Or Fall". And, of course, there's one of the greatest songs ever written, "The Boys Are Back In Town", a song that distills all of Lynott's Springsteen influence into a tidy "back with my crew and life's good" sentiment. "Won't be long 'til summer comes, now that the boys are here again", indeed!

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