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Probabilmente i Thin Lizzy sono il gruppo più sottovalutato nel panorama del grande rock dei seventies, sommersi dal quadriumvirato Zeppelin/Purple/Sabbath/Uriah Heep che imperava incontrastato sui fan della terra d'Albione. Eppure questo gruppo irlandese è di seminale importanza per tutto un certo tipo di musica che tra la fine dei '70 e l'inizio degli '80 farà la fortuna di band come Iron Maiden ed Angel Dust, a loro va quasi sicuramente attribuito il primo utilizzo delle twin guitars, le due chitarre soliste, che caratterizzeranno le produzioni dei già citati Maiden tanto per fare un esempio.
Capitanati dall'immortale Phil Lynott, bassista/cantante di origini brasiliane, con Jailbreak raggiungono l'apice della loro eccellente produzione. L'album si apre con la title-track caratterizzata da un riff spezzato tanto semplice quanto coinvolgente, il classico capolavoro da tre accordi, si arriva quindi a "Angel From The Coast" che passa godibilissima nei suoi tre minuti di durata. Senza infamia e senza lode "Running Back" che preannuncia la stupenda "Romeo And The Lonely Girl" in cui tutto il romanticismo di Lynott viene fuori con il suo tono triste ma nello stesso tempo scanzonato; passata "Warriors" ecco il pezzo più celebre della band ovvero "The Boys Are Back In Town", sfido chiunque ad ammettere di non averla sentita neanche una volta! 4:27 di elettricità pura con le twin guitars in evidenza nella parte finale. Dopo la nostalgica "Fight Or Fall" ecco "Cowboy Song" in cui tutta la passione di Phil Lynott per i film western e per la figura dei pionieri americani viene prepotentemente alla ribalta. Chiusura in grande stile con la superba "Emerald" in cui viene trattato il tema delle lotte per l'indipendenza irlandese con tutta la sua violenza e le sue tragedie; anche qui, oltre al grande Lynott, sono le due chitarre soliste a fare la parte del leone con intrecci e ricami che richiamano la tradizione folk/celtica della musica tradizionale irlandese.
Un grande album per, lasciatemelo dire, UNA GRANDE BAND, una batteria precisa, un basso martellante, due chitarre incendiarie, una voce suadente e nostalgica, ladies and gentleman i THIN LIZZY!!!
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01 Jailbreak (04:04)
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
See me and the boys we don't like it
So were getting up and going down
Hiding low looking right to left
If you see us coming I think it's best
To move away do you hear what I say
From under my breath
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
So don't you be around
Don't you be around
Tonight there's gonna be trouble
Some of us won't survive
See the boys and me mean business
Bustin' out dead or alive
I can hear the hound dogs on my trail
All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail
Like the game if you lose
Go to jail
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
So don't you be around
Tonight there's gonna trouble
I'm gonna find myself in
Tonight there's gonna trouble
So woman stay with a friend
You know it's safer
Breakout!
Tonight there's gonna be a breakout
Into the city zones
Don't you dare to try and stop us
No one could for long
Searchlight on my trail
Tonight's the night all systems fail
Hey you good lookin' female
Come here!
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
So don't you be around
Tonight there's gonna be trouble
I'm gonna find myself in
Tonight there's gonna be trouble
So woman stay with a friend
02 Angel From the Coast (03:06)
The sacred heart is bleeding
Go tell the Holy Ghost
That the junkie is still cheating
To get the thing he needs the most
Lady Luck has me covered
Keeping her watchful eyes over me
The lovers are discovered
The charge is first degree
Angel, she's a killer
Just flown in from the coast
Makes the hit, it's a winner
Leaves you dead as the post
Sally took to playing poker
The joker is her favorite card
The drunk he can't stay sober
He says it's much too hard
Meantime something seedy
Was happening across the hall
Somebody seemed to be groaning
You could hear it through the wall
The cops they came like lightning
The bullets flew astray
The noise it was frightening
The crook he got away
05 Warriors (04:12)
I am the warrior
I serve the death machine
Losers or conquerors
All flash past on my silver screen
Death is no easy answer
For those who wish to know
Ask those who have been before you
What fate the future holds
It ain't pretty...
I am a messenger
The message here, you must know
I am the warrior
I deliver the fatal blow
So fate will have to wait
Till time can heal the scar
My heart is ruled by Venus
And my head by Mars
06 The Boys Are Back in Town (04:30)
Guess who just got back today
Them wild eyed boys, that'd been away
Haven't changed, that much to say
But man I still think them cats are crazy
They were asking if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
Told them you were living downtown
Driving all the old men crazy
The Boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
(I Said) The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
The boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
You know that chick who used to dance a lot?
Every night she'd be on the floor, shakin' what she's got
Man when I tell you she was cool she was redhot
I mean she was steamin'
And that time over at Johnny's place
When this chic got up and she slapped Johnny's face
Man we just fell about the place
If that chic don't wanna know forget 'er
The boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
(I said) The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
The boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
Spread the word around
Guess who's back in town
Just spread the word around
Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar and grill
The drinks will flow and blood would spill
And if the boys wanna fight you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favourite song
The nights are getting warmer it won't be long
Wont be long till the summer comes
Now that the boys are here again
The boys are back in town (the boys are back in town)
The boys are back in town (the boys are back in town)
The boys are back in town (the boys are back in town)
(Spread the word around)
The boys are back in town (The boys are back in town)
(The boys are back, the boys are back)
The boys are back in town again
They're hanging out at Dino's
The boys are back in town again
08 Cowboy Song (05:18)
I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
A starry night, a campfire light
The coyote call, the howling winds wail
So I ride out to the old sundown
I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female
The nights we spent together riding on the range
Looking back it seems so strange
Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Riding in the rodeo
I was took in Texas I did not know her name
Lord, all these southern girls seem the same
Down below the border in a town in Mexico
I got my job busting broncs for the rodeo
Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Running free with the buffalo
Roll me over, and I'll turn around
And I'll move my fingers, up and down
Up and down
It's okay amigo, just let me go
Ridin' here in the rodeo
Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinnin' till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Ridin' here in the rodeo
Roll me over and set me free
A cowboy's life is the life for me.
09 Emerald (04:04)
Emerald (Lynott, Downey, Gorham, Robertson)
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Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords
To fight the fight they believed to be right
Overthrow the overlords
To the town where there was plenty
They brought plunder, swords and flame
When they left the town was empty
Children would never play again
From their graves I heard the fallen
Above the battle cry
By that bridge near the border
There were many more to die
Then onward over the mountain
And outward towards the sea
They had come to claim the Emerald
Without it they could not leave
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