Thin_Lizzy-Still_Dangerous-(Advance)-2009-RVP

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| Artist : Thin Lizzy |

| Album : Still Dangerous |

| Bitrate : VBR kbps |

| Label : VH1 Classic |

| Year : 2009 |

| Genre : Rock |

| Rip date : Feb-18-2009 |

| Store date : Mar-03-2009 |

| Size : 73,2 MB |

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|Track Listing: |

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| 01 - Soldier Of Fortune 05:23 |

| 02 - Jailbreak 04:28 |

| 03 - Cowboy Song 05:04 |

| 04 - Boys Are Back In Town 04:45 |

| 05 - Cancing In The Moonlight 04:08 |

| 06 - Massacre 03:02 |

| 07 - Opium Trail 04:51 |

| 08 - Don't Believe A Word 02:25 |

| 09 - Baby Drives Me Crazy 06:11 |

| 10 - Me And The Boys 06:55 |

| 11 - Bad Reputation 04:19 |

| 12 - Emerald 04:36 |

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| 56:07 min |

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| Despite a huge hit single in the mid-'70s ("The Boys Are Back in Town") |

| and becoming a popular act with hard rock/heavy metal fans, Thin Lizzy |

| are still, in the pantheon of '70s rock bands, underappreciated. Formed |

| in the late '60s by Irish singer/songwriter/bassist Phil Lynott, Lizzy, |

| though not the first band to do so, combined romanticized working-class |

| sentiments with their ferocious, twin-lead guitar attack. As the band's |

| creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than |

| many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love |

| and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all |

| of the Irish literary tradition. Also, as a black man, Lynott was an |

| anomaly in the nearly all-white world of hard rock, and as such imbued |

| much of his work with a sense of alienation; he was the outsider, the |

| romantic guy from the other side of the tracks, a self-styled poet of |

| the lovelorn and downtrodden. His sweeping vision and writerly impulses |

| at times gave way to pretentious songs aspiring to clichéd notions of |

| literary significance, but Lynott's limitless charisma made even the |

| most misguided moments worth hearing. |

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| After a few early records that hinted at the band's potential, Lizzy |

| released Fighting in 1975, and the band (Lynott, guitarists Brian |

| Robertson and Scott Gorham, and drummer Brian Downey) had molded itself |

| into a pretty tight recording and performing unit. Lynott's thick, |

| soulful vocals were the perfect vehicle for his tightly written melodic |

| lines. Gorham and Robertson generally played lead lines in harmonic |

| tandem, while Downey (a great drummer who had equal amounts of power and |

| style) drove the engine. Lizzy's big break came with their next album, |

| Jailbreak, and the record's first single, "The Boys Are Back in Town." A |

| paean to the joys of working-class guys letting loose, the song |

| resembled similar odes by Bruce Springsteen, with the exception of the |

| Who-like power chords in the chorus. With the support of radio and every |

| frat boy in America, "Boys" became a huge hit, enough of a hit as to |

| ensure record contracts and media attention for the next decade ("Boys" |

| is now used in beer advertising). |

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| Never the toast of critics (the majority writing in the '70s hated hard |

| rock and heavy metal), Lizzy toured relentlessly, building an |

| unassailable reputation as a terrific live band, despite the lead guitar |

| spot becoming a revolving door (Eric Bell, Gary Moore, Brian Robertson, |

| Snowy White, and John Sykes all stood next to Scott Gorham). The records |

| came fast and furious, and despite attempts to repeat the formula that |

| worked like a charm with "Boys," Lynott began writing more ambitious |

| songs and wrapping them up in vaguely articulated concept albums. The |

| large fan base the band had built as a result of "Boys" turned into a |

| smaller, yet still enthusiastic bunch of hard rockers. Adding insult to |

| injury was the rise of punk rock, which Lynott vigorously supported, but |

| made Lizzy look too traditional and too much like tired old rock stars. |

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| By the mid-'80s, resembling the dinosaur that punk rock wanted to |

| annihilate, Thin Lizzy called it a career. Lynott recorded solo records |

| that more explicitly examined issues of class and race, published a now |

| -out-of-print book of poetry, and sadly, became a victim of his longtime |

| abuse of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol, dying in 1986 at age 35. Since |

| the mega-popular alternative rock bands of the mid-'90s appropriated |

| numerous musical messages from their '70s forebears, the work of Phil |

| Lynott and Thin Lizzy will hopefully continue to be seen for the |

| influential rock & roll it is. |

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| In 1999, Thin Lizzy reunited with a lineup featuring guitarists Scott |

| Gorman and John Sykes, and keyboardist Darren Wharton, which was rounded |

| out by a journeyman rhythm section of bassist Marco Mendoza and drummer |

| Tommy Aldridge. The quintet's ensuing European tour produced the live |

| album One Night Only, which was released in the summer of 2000 to set |

| the stage for a subsequent American concert tour. |

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