Thin Lizzy Bad Reputations (Remastered) 1996. *FLAC*

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Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation.(Remastered) 1996.

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Artist...............: Thin Lizzy

Album................: Bad Reputation

Genre................: Rock

Source...............: CD

Year.................: 1977

Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520

Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917

Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 63 %)

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit

Tags.................: VorbisComment

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Ripped by............: Me on 15.02.2009

Posted by............: Me on 15.02.2009

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Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE

Covers...............: Front Back CD



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:03:13) Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

2. (00:03:30) Thin Lizzy - Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

3. (00:04:30) Thin Lizzy - Dear Lord

4. (00:04:15) Thin Lizzy - Downtown Sundown

5. (00:03:40) Thin Lizzy - Killer Without A Cause

6. (00:04:03) Thin Lizzy - Opium Trail

7. (00:05:19) Thin Lizzy - Soldier Of Fortune

8. (00:04:31) Thin Lizzy - South Bound

9. (00:03:25) Thin Lizzy - That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart



Playing Time.........: 00:36:27

Total Size...........: 231,12 MB



NFO generated on.....: 15.02.2009 10:28:40





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Review.



From strength to strength as a recording band, nevertheless Thin Lizzy were reduced to a three piece once more due to the temporary incapacitation of Brian Robertson.A sad mark to this album is the fact that it is the last time Robbo and Gorham put their guitar to fight together in a studio. But what a great way to say farewell to arms! I prefer Robbo a little bit, but Gorham is terrific, there ain't no such thing as a bad riff from the beginning to the end.



Some people may consider this album kinda laid-back stuff, but try to see from another side, it's hard rock, with melodic phrases, without being glossy or fancy Unfortunately for Robbo this would ultimately lead to his exit from the band. For 'Bad Reputation' most of the guitar duites fell to Scott Gorham who was often looked at as a second banana in this celebrated partnership. However Gorham produced arguably his finest work as an axeman and 'Bad Rep' is a better album for it.



Despite the hiatus of Robbo, 'BR' contains much of the trademark harmonies that defined the band's sound. The title track is an incredible piece of street metal which also includes another outrageous performance from Brian Downey. "Soldier of Fortune", "Southbound" and "Dear Lord" further demonstrate that sometimes less is more. Robertson does contribute killer leads in "Opuim Trail" and "Killer without a Cause" (another classic!) but Scott takes care of business quite well. And Philip? He's the same genius as always whether emulating one of his heroes in "Dancing in the Moonlight" (Van Morrison) or making one of his celebrated confessionals in "Dear Lord" (I believed your story now you believe mine!). "Dancing" proved to be a minor hit for Lizzy but their last real success in the States would have to wait til the live record. 'Bad Reputation' the album would prove to be the end of an era as far as the band's studio albums went, the last stand of troubled genuis Brian Robertson. For consistent, brillant hard rock in the mid to late seventies, there was none better than Thin Lizzy.



When I consider that Thin Lizzy released the following 4 STUDIO albums consecutively...."Jailbreak" (1976), "Johnny the Fox" (1976), "Bad Reputation" (1977) and "Black Rose" (1979), and when I listen to them now, scratches and all, ....I think that Thin Lizzy is still my favorite rock band, and I wish to god I could play guitar like Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, and be as cool as Phil Lynott. These 4 albums are rock nirvana to me.



If push came to shove, I consider "Bad Reputation" their best album. It is more Scott Gorham than Brian Robertson, and for that,I give it up to Scott Gorham. But I wish the two would have stayed together, especially when you hear them together on "That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart".



My biggest regret was not seeing them on November 1st, 1977 at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee WI, in support of this album. I was 14 at the time, and Thin Lizzy wasn't as popular as some of the other bands back then. Nobody really wanted to go to the show with me, and when your 14 you don't really feel comfortable going alone. As such, I never got the chance to see this band live, in person. But I hear that Scott Gorham and John Sykes have their version of Thin Lizzy touring this summer (with a date in my hometown, no less. Maybe I can fly there to see them)