Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox
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Free Music Review: A good Thin Lizzy album
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a very good Thin Lizzy album. Not quite up there with the sublime Live and Dangerous and Fighting albums but then what is! Several of the better songs on the album are also on Live and Dangerous (Johnny the Fox...,Massacre, Don't Believe a Word) although I do like the other songs too: Borderline, Fools Gold and Sweet Marie (surprisingly soft), for example.
I bought Bad Reputation and Black Rose before this -- I would recommend doing the same again. That may be splitting hairs - Thin Lizzy were great during this period and all of their albums are worth listening to. Here is how I think the albums compare (roughly), best first:
1. Live and Dangerous, Fighting -- joint first, perfection.
3. Bad Reputation, Jailbreak (excellent but overlaps Live and Dangerous a lot)
5. Black Rose, Johnny the Fox <--- Black Rose marks the end of the peak period
7. Nightlife, Thunder and Lightning, Renegade
10. China Town (I hate to say it, but the Snowy White period was a real low point, despite chart success with singles)
By the way, the CD version sounds excellent (unlike Live & Dangerous, which several of us think sounded better on vinyl, surprisingly). The title track, which starts the album, really makes you sit up and take notice...wonderful.
Free Music Review: Solid as usual
Hit: 4 Stars
"Johnny the fox" is the follow up album to the great "Jailbreak". Both came out in 1976 and that might be an explanation to the fact that this album is not a masterpiece like "Jailbreak". Don't get me wrong, "Johnny the fox" is a very good album, but one might suspect that the record company pushed Thin Lizzy to release a new album too soon.This time, Lynott and the boys go for a more laid back approach due to the fact that on this album there are more semi ballads than usual. I have no problem with that because "Borderline", "Fool's gold". "Old flame" and "Sweet Marie" are all good songs in the classic Thin Lizzy vein. The album is not slow all the way, and the opening "Johnny" is sure a rocker like the great "Don't believe a word" (one of the top five songs in Lizzy's career). Another highlight is the rather odd "Johnny the fox meets Jimmy the weed", a great song that shows Thin Lizzy's ability to be really original and creative.
With the release of "Fighting" (1975), Thin Lizzy became a stable rock act, delivering the goods time after time. The albums between the years 1975 and 1983 are all very good and I suggest you buy them all.
Free Music Review: excellent and a half
Hit: 4 Stars
It is amazing how well this work holds up almost forty years after release. While Vertigo had the best--if not the most well known--opf progressive rock, they also had hard rock units and Thin Lizzy was one.
Johnny The Fox is chuck riff heavy rock that still sounds great. This band locks tight and grinds hard on riffs more complex than they might actually sound.
While prog was for 1970s eggheads, Thin Lizzy were the turf of the kids not going to college, working in the factories and gas stations. There was a whole substrata after the counterculture of teens with limited prospects, who wanted to party, not protest. Thin Lizzy, like label mates Black Sabbath, where the voice and the bump and grind for these teens.
But listen today, and you hear the complexity of the riffs, the tightness of the playing, and the bands ability to make these tracks sizzle. Take any digitized rock band on your Ipod today, and this almost forty music still blows it out of the stadium at 25 paces
Free Music Review: Powerful album
Hit: 4 Stars
Most of the songs on this album are outstandingwith the exception of a filler at the end. Thin Lizzy stands out as an original band that pounds out rock music with style. "Johnny" conveys the mood of being in the back streets at night, while Brian Robertson burns out his solos in a new style unlike the Jailbreak album. Brian Downey rips on the drums all through "Massacre" and Scott Goham puts one of his heavier guitar solos on this one. The album contains some very poetic songs in "Old Flame", "Back on the Boarderline", and "Fool's Gold". Most of the songs are able to draw you away in the mood they convey. Phil Lynott lays down his poetry in his lyrics while his bandmates Downey, Gorham, and Robertson give him excellent backing and guitar solos.Free Music Review: Powerful album
Hit: 4 Stars
Most of the songs on this album are outstandingwith the exception of a filler at the end. Thin Lizzy stands out as an original band that pounds out rock music with style. "Johnny" conveys the mood of being in the back streets at night, while Brian Robertson burns out his solos in a new style unlike the Jailbreak album. Brian Downey rips on the drums all through "Massacre" and Scott Goham puts one of his heavier guitar solos on this one. The album contains some very poetic songs in "Old Flame", "Back on the Boarderline", and "Fool's Gold". Most of the songs are able to draw you away in the mood they convey. Phil Lynott lays down his poetry in his lyrics while his bandmates Downey, Gorham, and Robertson give him excellent backing and guitar solos.