Thin Lizzy

Jailbreak is the record for which Thin Lizzy is best remembered. Packed from top to bottom with songs that became radio hits (and still see constant airtime in classic rock formats), Phil Lynott was at the peak of his powers as a songwriter, guitarist and arranger. "Cowboy Song" is awesome, and that Thin Lizzy twin guitar sound is all over the place.

Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy's fifth and best American album, culminates their assimilation of
various rock influences into a hard-edged, self-assured style. Guitarists Scott Gorham and
Brian Robertson have incorporated stylistic tricks from Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townshend
into an Allmans-like attack that works equally well on the gutsy title song and the soft
rocker, "Fight or Fall." Bassist/writer/vocalist Phil Lynott's full-bodied voice is oc... More >

The proof of how desperate people are for new Springsteen is that they'll settle for this--even "The Boys Are Back in Town" is the sort of thing that ends up in Bruce's wastebasket. If Irish teen traumas are as boring as Phil Lynott's descriptions of them, it's no wonder they have trouble maintaining their birthrate. And if Irish teen traumas are as secondhand as Scott Gorham's guitar lines, the Irish will probably end up preferring Springsteen too. (Grade - B-)