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Artist | Thin Lizzy
Title | Fighting
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 99:35
Label | Mercury Records Store | 2012
Catalog | 2792227 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 241 kbps Size | 181.09 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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CD 1/2
01. Rosalie 2:58
02. For Those Who Love To Live 3:09
03. Suicide 5:14
04. Wild One 4:19
05. Fighting My Way Back 3:13
06. King's Vengeance 4:08
07. Spirit Slips Away 4:42
08. Silver Dollar 3:29
09. Freedom Song 3:33
10. Ballad Of A Hard Man 3:18
CD 2/2
01. Half Caste (B-Side of Rosalie 7" Single) 3:38
02. Rosalie (US Album Mix) 2:56
03. Half Caste (BBC Session 1975) 3:52
04. Rosalie (BBC Session 1975) 3:15
05. Suicide (BBC Session 1975) 5:18
06. Ballad Of A Hard Man (False Starts And No Vocal) 4:08
07. Try A Little Harder (Alternate Vocal) 4:07
08. Fighting My Way Back (Rough Mix With Alternate Vocal) 3:23
09. Song For Jesse (No Vocal) 2:13
10. Leaving Town (Acoustic, Bass & Drums, No Vocal) 4:51
11. Blues Boy 4:34
12. Leaving Town (Extended Take) 5:52
13. Spirit Slips Away (Extended Version, Take 4) 5:30
14. Wild One (No Vocal) 4:18
15. Bryan's Funky Fazer (Silver Dollar) 3:37
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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 clichΘd notions of literary significance, but Lynott's
limitless charisma made even the most misguided moments worth hearing.
It's hard not to interpret the 'fighting my way back' chorus of the title
track on Thin Lizzy's fifth album "Fighting" as the band's way of bouncing
back from the uncommonly subdued "Night Life". If that record was smooth
and relaxed, "Fighting" is a tense, coiled, vicious rock & roll album, as
hard as Vagabonds's toughest moments but more accomplished, the sound of a
band truly coming into its own. There are two key forces at work. First,
there's the integration of guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, who
get to unleash furious playing on every track here.
It's hard not to thrill at their harmonizing twin-lead interplay, which is
enough to excuse the rather pedestrian nature of their original tunes here
(Robertson penned the boogie "Silver Dollar," Gorham the closer 'Ballad Of
A Hard Man'). That's especially true because of the other development here:
the full flourishing of Phil Lynott as a rock & roll poet. Whether he's
writing hard-charging rockers like "Wild One", jazzy Springsteen-isms of
"For Those Who Love To Live" or combining both on "Freedom Song," his songs
manage to be both mythic and commonplace, and when delivered by the vital,
visceral lineup he has here, they're invigorating.
Strangely enough, that leap forward as a writer is somewhat overshadowed by
a triumph of the band, in how they completely steal Bob Seger's "Rosalie"
turning it into their own anthem, but that again is a testament to the
strength of this incarnation of Thin Lizzy, who truly begin their classic
era with this dynamic LP.
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We the kings of rock.