The band is often included in hard rock and heavy rock lists because of songs like “The Boys Are Back in Town” or “Jailbreak”. Thin Lizzy is a band that I call “metal by association”. “Jailbreak” sounded like it could be a little edgier. So, as I checked out the year 1977 for hard rock and metal, I came to Thin Lizzy’s “Bad Reputation” but found the album to have too much non-hard stuff. It was just the first rumblings of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and “heavy metal” as it was known in 1977 included mostly bands that we classify easily as hard rock today. I was listening to Judas Priest’s 1977 album “Sin After Sin” and began pondering the state of heavy metal in that year. The reason why I finally felt inclined to buy a Thin Lizzy album is thanks to 1977. But it’s often the case that I’ll become interested in a band, buy a couple of albums and discover that I’ve already heard a song or two countless times, I just didn’t know whose song it was.
I can’t think of any other Thin Lizzy songs I might have known. Classic rock radio tends to have that effect on music: it plays the same songs day in day out until they become as familiar and unnoticeable as the wallpaper in the staffroom at work. The song that was always on the radio was “The Boys Are Back in Town”, which for me was just another one of those classic rock songs that was played so many times that I became desensitized to it and basically ignored it. I’ve never been a Thin Lizzy fan, and that may be surprising given my deep interest in seventies hard rock and metal. Thanks to Pekka, Time Signature, Lynx33 for the updates Buy THIN LIZZY - JAILBREAK music Fight Or Fall (extended version) (rough mix) The Boys Are Back in Town (alternate, remixed version)ħ. The Boys Are Back In Town (remixed version)ģ. Remastered and reissued in 2011 by Mercury, Universal and Vertigo with a bonus disc with the following tracklist:ġ. Brian Robertson / guitar, backing vocals Phil Lynott / bass guitar, vocals, guitar
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