Live And Dangerous

Typical 70's "Foghat Rule" album - double, live. The sound on this is really weird - apparently they overdubbed most of it in the studio and just left in the drums and audience noise from the live shows? You can tell the sound is really off. If you like Thin Lizzy I'm sure this is a fantastic record. Unfortunately, I don't like Thin Lizzy...

I like the parts that sound like Van Morrison. I don’t like the parts that sound like Kiss. This whole record is pretty standard toolbox rock but Lynott’s voice stands out as something unique among the standard 70s hard rock sounds.

Pretty bog standard hard rock mostly, obviously some important rockers in the mix, and also redeemed somewhat by some genuinely weird lyrical detours along the way.

A fantastic dive into thin lizzy’s best songs! it’s a real shame that it’s a live album. I do not like live albums man I do not like them sam I am. Saving grace: some of the solos are fire. best tracks (if they were not live versions: dancing in the moonlight, cowboy song, still in love with you. best track (live version specifically): emerald

Generic rock from the 1970s

Really enjoyed one ballad I’ve never heard before

If Boys, the only Thin Lizzy track I know going in, is anything to judge it by, Live and Dangerous contains nothing but solid renditions. The almost total lack of style change must be noted, but the record also contains a slowed-down moment of singing I didn't end up hating. The recording quality is consistently very good, the energy maintains for the full hour and change, and the band has a neat both-sides-of-the-Atlantic thing going on.

Couldn't get on with this, mainly due to the difficulty finding a copy to listen to and it being g a live album, but also classic rock. Shame as have liked thin lizzy sometimes.

J'ai remarqué quelque chose de curieux. Chaque album non disponible sur spotify et seulement trouvable en intégralité sur youtube commence par "yo tout le monde c'est Squeezie !", quelqu'un saurait-il pourquoi ? Au delà de ça, j'ai plutôt apprécié ce concert même si, ayant été placé au tout premier rang, j'avais le sexe moulé du chanteur en vis-à-vis pendant plus d'une heure. Désagréable.

Thin Lizzy ne laisse pas une minute de repis à sa guitare pendant les 1h15 d'album qu'il nous propose. Cette dernière a beau suffoquer, virer au rouge, et supplier Thin de la laisser respirer, Thin Lizzy continuera son travail de sappe tout au long de l'album.

You know I really like Thin Lizzy while simultaneously having simply no desire to ever listen to them. Phil Lynott is very charismatic and you can tell in this live album and you know what the songs are pretty good too but my life would basically be the same if I never listened to them. They are a band I would love to like but basically don't. Perhaps too many Liz songs ended up on Top Gear compilations and they have become indelibly marred. As far as this album goes, it's think Lizzy songs but live. There's some electricity in the air but otherwise there's limited benefit to the format. On top of that, the version I found was the deluxe edition which was perhaps overly deluxe. No one needs Thin Lizzy live for 1 hour 40 unless you were actually there. Felt like a slog by the end. I remain neutral.

This is fine. Fairly generic. Decent guitar work. Some good jams. 3 is probably too high

pretty good 70s era hard rock. I find myself hearing a lot of this in bands listen to now that are going for that throwback sound

I was beginning to wonder if there were no more live albums but here is another one. Nice performances although I’m reading it’s overdubbed. Well it’s a nice recording and lest leave it at that

Fine. Boys are back in town and all that.

Classic stuff and really listenable

2-3

Fun, energetic live album.

Tja best goed, misschien niet mijn genre

pas mal cet album de hard rock, bonne découverte

This was really fun! I struggle with live albums a bit - and this one (like many others) is cut from a few different shows. There's a bit too much instrumental (which works when you're there, but not so much when you're listening to it on your own at 9.30 on a Wednesday morning!), but that doesn't mark it down too much. Phil Lynott's voice and attitude is great, would've been great to actually see them live I reckon. Good, but not great. 3/5.

This Lizzy was a tour de force in the 70's. Whisky in the Jar followed by The Boys Are Back in Town spelled great success for the Irish lads. So, naturally, their 1978 live album serves as a testament to their success. Their best songs, a killer crowd, and the last Thin Lizzy release with guitarist Brian Robertson makes this an especially special live album. It's good! They mix their best stuff with their lesser-known stuff and make you work for The Boys Are Back in Town (on the second CD). I do think their less popular songs are like that for a reason, as they left very little impression on me. It especially loses me in the back half after The Boys Are Back in Town, which cements how overly long this live album this. Still worth a listen, but requires more of your time and attention.

Classic 70s rock Not much too it other than good recordings for 70-80s audio and catchy tunes The boys are back in town

the transition to boys are back in town was cool everything was what you would expect from rock of the time

Interesting album - lots of live performances

I think I finally figured out my problem with live albums. If it's really good then you keep thinking about how much better the concert itself must have been, and if it's bad you keep thinking about why you wouldn't just listen to the original song recordings. At least this one is pretty good (minus some stupid banter, but maybe in 1978 it was considered "fresh").

Estuvo ok, supongo. Leyendo la entrada de Wikipedia me entero que muchas partes de este disco fueron regrabadas en estudio, lo qu lo convierte, si bien no en el único ni el primero, uno más de la lista de discos en vivo que en buena parte no lo son. En cualquier caso, las canciones son las que acarrean el disco y las versiones en vivo suenan apropiadamente poderosas.

NICE

A good live album, a lot of hits I’m sure any thin lizzy fan would enjoy this.

OK

Solid live rock album. I thought the dual guitars sounded great without sounding too crowded. Thought the album was a bit too long.

This album is a pretty decent collection of the hits.

The boys are back in town

Pretty good. Kind of repetitive but still a good listen. Good guitar

It “live” but not truly live.

It was good and fun, especially when The Boys are Back in Town came out of nowhere. Sounds mixing is also pretty good. This is the lowest 3 that I can give though; nothing else REALLY stood out.

A good laugh. Jailbreak as an opener had me bought in.

je toho prostě moc halo

The epitome of 70s hard rock, so you already know if you love it or not

I enjoy live albums and had heard songs from this here and there on other Thin Lizzy albums but it just doesn't do it for me. Also learning that there a lot of overdubs is quite disheartening. 2.5/5

sounds good for a live album, a bit too long and too many blues jams

On my first listen I thought the live performance was missing a lot of energy. I didn't really notice anything that stood out until the album hit Massacre at track 6. That song was pumpin' - give me an album full of that! Alas, it went right back to a snoozefest with the softy Still in Love With You. Even The Boys are Back in Town had just average energy. It didn't really crank back up until Warriors, but I'll admit those last six tracks were busting with energy and swagger, especially the last two to close it out (way more fan engagement and oozing stage presence). So, side 4 epic but side 1 pedantic, with only a few highlights in between. Granted, when I went back for a second listen after finishing side 4, I was more amped up and felt more connected to side 1. Still, a little too uneven to be great.

Pretty straight-forward 70s rock with some great guitar solos. Before listening to this, I couldn't have even told you who played "The Boys are Back in Town." Fun listen, but I was definitely ready to move on by the end. Favorite tracks: Jailbreak, Southbound (really nice guitar solo), Still in Love With You, The Boys are Back in Town.

well produced live album

i was underwhelmed because i assumed this would be a very fun rock album but it just wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. i did still like it but it wasn’t spectacular :):

Carino, ma non capisco perché live

It’s good enough, but not consistent.

Good, manufactured in places, quite samey throughout, but a couple of tracks made me sit up and take notice

Fínt rokk. fagmannlega flutt og kröftuglega. Þarf samt ekki að hlusta aftur.

The exact same (absurdly amazing) hard rock song for 1 hour. I didn't have the right feeling to really enjoy this live album, but it's very likable and impossible don't to note how much influent (also influenced by their predecessors) it is. Somedays I miss hard rock like this, even not being so good

A good live album - if you like Thin Lizzy. And I don't mind them - had a good time listening to it, but not something I'd probably revisit often.

I enjoy the 2 guitars duking it out on tracks like Southbound and Massacre. Overall it is a nice collection of live performances, but doesn't really exceed any expectations that I have of the band, which were mediocre to begin with. Solid album, but this is a band that really does blend into a crowd for me. I found the record to be a little long as well. Fave tracks: Southbound, The Boys Are Back in Town, Warriors

Great live album

Spottarista ei kaikkia biisejä löytynyt, mutta testiin asti päässeet kappaleet ihan ok hyviä. Thin Lizzy on yksi niistä vanhoista rokkareista joilla on selkeesti tunnistettava oma soundi.

The Boys Are Back In Town is one of those songs that is always played on classic rock stations. Overall I guess the album was ok, Cowboy Song certainly raised the eyebrows.

Negative stars for the stage banter.

Pretty cool

Ik vind Live albums eigenlijk nooit leuk om te luisteren. Heeft ook geen toegevoegde waarde voor mij. Ook niet als ik er bij zou zijn geweest. De punten zijn dan ook voor Thin Lizzy en de mooie stem.

Best leuk voor een keer.

Dit was - op een aardig volume - nog een stuk leuker dan ik vooraf gedacht had!

Ik twijfel nog aan vier sterren en daar sta ik zelf ook van te kijken. Ik vind dit gewoon behoorlijk goed!

Un bon album live rock, je n’aime pas le rock live en akbum mais en promenade en foret tout kes albums sint bon, j’en gàrde un bon souvenir. 3.75

The songs that were available to listen to were good I guess.

This is probably a 2.5, but we’ll bump it to 3. Likes this more than I expected.

Was alright. Not a big fan of live music

I’m not a fan of live albums because I feel so much of the energy from the show comes from being present at the show. Because of this it was hard for me to get into the songs.

Thin Lizzy are good live musicians, but to me this is just more 70's arena rock that is technically well played but generic.

Huh. 2 live albums back to back. This is ok. Not listened to Thin Lizzy outside of the big hit but the first few tracks were kinda cool. Some were a bit more generic but yeah. I'd go to this concert.

Live & Dangerous would be a fucking A-M-A-Z-I-N-G if it was even close to being a live recording. According to producer Tony Visconti, about 25% of the album is recorded live. Very rocking and exemplary for the time. (6/10) FT: Still in Love with you

Classic rock.

nice. a bit too straightforward and simple. great guitar playing and lots of energy and sex appeal

Currently the complete album is not available to stream on spotify but youtube did the job. Quite enjoyable live album.

I mean it's Thin Lizzy but I just don't like Live albums. It's good in spite of that so a solid 3

This album excerpts the power of a truly great live album, capable of upbringing a mid-level band to so called greatness

Fine. Glam rock.

No están todas las canciones, pero es todo un disco de rock en estado puro. Grandes canciones.

Thin Lizzy is one of those bands that I'm a little surprised that I don't think of when I'm adding music to my personal playlists. I didn't want to skip any of their songs as I lsitened to this album, and they play some solid rock music. I can list four tracks that I know Thin Lizzy plays, but only one of them was on this album ("The Boys Are Back in Town"). For a live album, the recording and performance from the band are easy to listen to. The band represented their talents well in a live setting, and the background noise from the audience didn't overpower the music being played. I enjoyed hearing a full (double) album from the band, but I don't think the album has sunk in enough to get Thin Lizzy on my personal playlists.

7/10

Not really my cup of tea. But I can understand its appeal to rock fans.

This is a good album if this is your jam. Interesting the connection to Huey Lewis!

Urgh. I'm never sure how to rate live albums. There are a handful of top-tier Thin Lizzy bangers on here that deserve recognition. The transition from Cowboy Song to TBAIT is *chef's kiss*. Then there are half a dozen tracks that are kinda forgettable (though I prefer listening to this band's 'forgettable' over most 70s rock bands' 'forgettable'). I gave Live at Leeds 3.5 and I think I enjoyed this more. However, it's not all recorded at one show (and apparently there's some debate about how live it is in the first place), so that spoils the experience a bit for me. Another 3.5 it is then.

I like Thin Lizzy's style. I'm only really familiar with The Boys are Back in Town - would have liked to listen to one of their studio albums before listening to their deeper cuts but still a good listen that left me wanting more.

I am not that familiar with Thin Lizzy besides a couple of songs. This makes it a little bit harder to rate this live album. I know its considered an all time great live album, but for me it didn't do that much. Still pretty decent.

I always wanted a pair of leather pants. Did they steal those from Jim Morrison? I would've thought I'd have a harder time getting into those pants than I would getting into this album. But alas, it'll be easier to squeeze my 240 pounds of self into those sausage tubes than listen to this again. Great guitar work, leather pants (and balls-out presentation) isn't enough for me to enjoy this album. It's a shame, Thin Lizzy is one of those bands that I think I should like but never quite do.

Well, the 1001 educates again. Thin Lizzy is not what I thought they were. I knew the name, but would never have been able to identify one of their songs. I was expecting an 80s hair band. Instead, they somehow bridge both early metal and the 80s hair bands. Last week I posited that it seemed Bon Jovi and hair bands were a softening of heavy metal. And that still seems somewhat true, but the work of Thin Lizzy and other 70s hard rock and early metal are an important piece of the puzzle too. There is some pretty terrific guitar playing on the album. "Emerald" shreds, and at one point seemed to have guitar, bass, and drum solos all coexisting. Not sure why they are represented on the list by a live album though. If none of their studio albums are good enough, should they make the list for a concert? It's not even one concert - it's two stitched together! And a lot of it's not even live! They re-recorded huge chunks in the studio (75% according to their producer). This is not the first live album we've been dealt that did that. I'm not a fan of that whole concept. And then there was the shift from "Massacre" to "Still in Love With You" - who planned this set list? Were those even back-to-back at a single show? "Still in Love With You" felt like three different songs mashed together though, and the guitar solo in the middle part wouldn't have been too out of place after "Massacre," which was the most metal song in the set. These guys are from Ireland. Not that you can tell most of the time. And certainly not by "Cowboy Song." And their background is interesting, with the lead singer formerly from Skid Row (another band I had pegged in the wrong era/genre), and both Protestant and Catholic members. Favorite part of the research on this though was the discovery of the original version of "Whiskey in the Jar," of which I only knew the Metallica cover. I had no idea it was taken from a traditional Irish ballad! "Jailbreak," "Emerald," and "Massacre" are the most pleasant surprises. Overall uneven, but I enjoyed it more than I was expecting to.

There seems to be quite a controversy about how much of this album is actually from live recordings vs. in-studio overdubs. The producer, Tony Visconti, claimed 75% of the album was recorded in the studio and overdubbed while the band claims the opposite, that 75% was live. Who to believe? Regardless, I’m totally rocking out to the guitars riffs from a lot of these songs like Massacre, Suicide, The Rocker, and many others. I should pay more attention to Thin Lizzy based on this album. Does it matter how much of the album is live vs. in-studio overdub? I think so. I tend to believe the producer because I assume he know most about how the album was…you know…produced, but you never know. The answer is probably somewhere in between…50-50? Some of the appeal of a live album is the presumable authenticity of the album actually being recorded live. That it was one take, one crowd reaction, a one-off symbiotic experience. Does that even exist? I hadn’t considered how the live album sausage is made before. Aside from the in-studio overdubbing, Visconti also said Southbound was recorded from a sound check with the audience reaction was from another live song. What is this Frankenstein shit? It’s difficult to know. Will live albums in the future just be the studio recording with AI dubbed crowd interaction? And while we’re at it, will the studio recording just be AI produced on its own at some point? I don’t want to think about these things. I’d rather just enjoy the album that was laid down. When AI does take over the music industry, I know it won’t be the beginning of inauthenticity in its albums. Album judged based on the music alone, which was an enjoyable experience. However, it’s a less enthusiastic 3 knowing it’s a Frankenstein production.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Southbound, The boys are back in town

Iconic, fun, a little boring.

Pretty good stuff. 1RS

I was never super into Thin Lizzy, but never had anything against them either. It's good, straightforward hard rock. Phil Lynott had a really interesting and distinctive voice. Guitar playing is excellent. Would have been great to see them live. 3 stars.

Enjoyable albums. Simple & classic sound lacking some variety but they found their niche. Nothing really stood out for me too much they're good at what they do.

I love Thin Lizzy, but am not a fan of live albums. The music quality just tends to be lesser and it's no different here. I have a few songs that I adore and they just aren't better like this.

I don't know why a 'live' album by a band that some admit overdubbed 75% of the album in the studio is a 'must hear' - there are many better live albums that yield the same effect with better results (KISS ALIVE). On the whole, this is a good Thin Lizzy album and reflects why this forgotten band is cited as an influence.

This is a surprisingly high quality recording. I wasn’t familiar with this bands work beforehand. I had heard the boys are back song of course but didn’t know it was them. I found this to be pretty fun and medium-high energy rock. Some of the songs feel a little generic at times but the instruments all come through balanced and just work. I don’t know if I’ll intentionally revisit, but I won’t turn it off if I hear it again

Other than the Boys are Back in Town, I had never heard any of these songs. Decent filler for the oldies station I suppose.

Irish rock band! The boys are back in town

Not much of this album on Spotify

'tHe AlBuM iS nOt LiVe It UsEs OvErDuBs' stfu and enjoy music

Pretty fun live show - a bit generic, and the songs started to really blend by the end.

I have to be in a Thin Lizzy mood to appreciate them and I currently am not.

It's fine but Lizzy never really did it for me. I always felt like their sound lacked something. Soul, balls something. It sounds too polished or clean or something.

No es lo mío pero tampoco está mal

Pretty great album. I don't see the appraise that critics gave, but I also believe the other reviewers on this site underestimate the work. There's a lot of passion and drive into these songs... Much better than the studio versions although not as polished. I wish there was more audience participation or something. Doesn't feel like much of a live album otherwise...

23. Fugi. MotA: Southbound "Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak/ Somewhere in this town"

Classic rock. Good live performance

Sounds far too good to be live… but if it is incredible

Was alright.

Finally, some good guitar work in this 1001 album run. The first time I've ever sat down with Thin Lizzy. This is one of the best mixed live records I have ever heard. The bass is actually audible and the vocals don't drown everything out. Emerald is riff city. Rosalie is a Seger cover for a nice addition. Sounds like glory days rock and roll.

not bad for rock, and it was a live album too.

Vocalist leaves a lot to be desired. Dancing in the moonlight has a cool van Morrison feel and sax. Meh.

Aunque no soy muy fan de este estilo de rock, es un disco entretenido y dinámico. No me parece que tengan mucho carisma, como actuación en vivo tampoco tiene nada de especial y las canciones en muchas ocasiones son muy genéricas. Hay solos de guitarra molones. No lo he pasado mal escuchándolo, pero no me ha dicho gran cosa más allá.

Some classic dueling guitars, and the singer is talented, but most of the songs fell flat for me. I prefer the dips into metal, though The Boys are Back in Town is classic.

I knew some of the songs. It was a good live show.

A very compelling live performance of music I find less compelling. Some great songs in here, Thin Lizzy just never grabbed and held my attention.

Love the double lead guitars. While the vocals don't blow you away, they are always dependable. Appreciate the overall musicality of the compositions.

half of it missing on Spotify found it kinda fun

Some great songs but I don't really like live albums

fine, typically 70's rock. Probably not my favorite from the decade and probably won't go back to it.

Fun and bluesy. Would have enjoyed it more as a studio album.

I said m-m-m-maybe this is alot of fun.

Urgh, stupid live albums. Why?? The songs actually seemed really good. The studio versions of the songs would have maybe received a 5 from me, a 4 for sure. Might listen to some non-live Thin Lizzy later.

Certainly fun rock, and the singer has some swagger to him. Nothing that is keeping me coming back, however.

Good, but I associate it with old man's pubs.

Jag gillar dancing in the moonlight. Resten är bara tråkigt kanske 2,5/5

Quite a few good songs!

Classic

One of the greatest live albums?

the boys are back

This wasn't great or anything but it was better than expected, not a bad listen. I probably would have enjoyed seeing this concert. It sounded pretty damn good on this recording

Not amazing, not shit, will always just be the band from billy elliot to me

Perusrokkia. Onhan se jännä kuvitella, että nuokin jampat on joskus olleet nuoria ja rokanneet täysillä.

Live albums really aren’t for me but thin lizzy are great

3.0 - Admittedly, I struggled to keep an open mind with this one. I'm not a huge fan of that 70s cock rock sound and I generally don't prefer live albums. And why are Irish lads singing “Cowboy Song” and about motorcycle gangs? The album captures a band that's clearly honed their stage act and mastered their sound, but it’s a sound that I don’t love.

Nice compact power pop songs. Straight up, not over indulgent, good sound for a live recording. I was only familiar with the big hits but the other songs stand up well.

Biggest rebound. During the first song, I considered giving a preemptive 1, but I stuck it out and enjoyed myself for most of the record. Good rock.

Un álbum de rock muy clásico, algo que ya era considerado hard rock, sin embargo el disco es tan monónoto a veces que puede llegar a ser un poco aburrido

It's a live album, nuff said. Wonder how many there are left on this esteemed list.

This is the first album I ever bought. Some classic power rock anthems here. This is really the Phil Lynott show. 3/5

Really fun listen. I don't think I knew any songs but "the boys are back in town". Great energy on all of the tracks.

Too hair metal-ish for me, but must admit, more tolerable to listen to than other similar songs of the genre.

The Boys are back in town - verdammter Klassiker - 3

eh

I wasn’t sure I would like this, since it’s listed as hard rock, but I actually like it pretty well. I wonder if maybe I just like the 70s more than I thought, since I’d not had as much opportunity to listen to it growing up. Like I think the 70s hard rock is different from the 80s and even the 60s.

Solid live album.

It not my favorite

I wish there was a video version of this. Pretty good for a live version on these songs. I feel like this is the type of music that sounds amazing in person but back on the computer I'm like... ehhh. I only knew "The Boys are Back in Town", which I didn't even know that was Thin Lizzy.

Don't really like classic rock

There were a few standout tracks. Jailbreak, Boys, and the covers were great, but most of the others were not exceptional. The dual guitar work was incredible though.

Dangerous!

Meh

At first I was thinking I don’t want an hour+ live 70s rock album. Then I was thinking actually this kind of shreds and is super tight. Then I got a bit bored because it’s an hour+ live 70s rock album. Then I read that it’s a combination of different gifs and studio overdubs, which really detracts from how “tight” I thought it was. Aaah 3 stars even though I didn’t finish it.

Really fun, one track really made me think of David Gilmore!

Too bad it‘s a live album.

I’m not that much into hard rock but this was a very fun listen and I really enjoyed it, it had some amazing work with the guitar and still in love with you was a standout track 7/10

its nice but alot of the same, spotify doesnt have it also sucks

Typical Thin Lizzy, sounds like the regular album tracks

Exactly why I came to this list: an album I would have never listened to, and will never listen to again

1978. Key Songs: The Boys Are Back In Town, Cowboy Song, Dancing in the Moonlight

Why is a live album even on this list? Overall this is good! Songs are kind of just fine, sound pretty good but nothing stands out that much, guitars decent, good quality for a live album This rendition of The Boys are Back in Town is a bit iffy (as are the vocals on a few other songs) A bit repetitive in sound have had to skim through the second half Faves - Jailbreak, Massacre Overall - Okay! Not really into live albums but it's good quality and music's good. Musically just a bit repetitive Rating - 3/5

les ronflements....j'en peux plus de ce rattrapage qui n'en finit pas.......heureusement que j'ai un puzzle (far west) à terminer en même temps

I like thin Lizzy a lot but I'm not sure that this album is so spectacular that it warrants inclusion on this list.

Not much a fan of live albums. Most of it wasn't on Spotify anyways.

Well, I didn't really feel it.

miss me with this why is the extended version 43 hours long. sorry but just no. didn’t like any of what i heard and i simply wasn’t ready to give any more seconds of my precious life to this.

Boring

a couple of good classic songs on here but other than that a rather tired album

I couldn't get through the full album, to be honest. Its not that its bad music, it just gets boring after a point.

Live albums should not be on this list for the same reason greatest hits: they are both compilation albums. This one isn't even good. 'Live And Dangerous?' Nah, more like tepid and banal. Top track: "The Boys Are Back in Town"

Aggressively fine

I'm not even sure if this belongs on a list of 1001 Live Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, frankly.

I’m typically a sucker for live albums because of what I perceive as added emotion and passion. Not this one. Straight mediocre 1970s rock with little of either. To be fair I wasn’t raised in a “classic rock” home and therefore started with a negative bias toward this band but there was nothing here to dissuade me from my prejudice. A few interesting interludes but far too few to warrant coming back this way ever again. 2/5

Not really that live and not really that dangerous.

I don't think I have a lot to add to the other two-star discourse out there about this record. Having Thin Lizzy's only representation on here be a double "live" album (apparently remastered post-performance) is an objectionable choice. Double live albums would really be for the serious Thin Lizzy fans, and I can promise you I am not one of them. I might have liked to hear one of their studio records to get a sense of them beyond "Boys are Back in Town" but alas, after listening to this record I think I'm all set. Right now I just really don't want to listen to any more 70s rock dudes, for a while at least. I would say this album is boring because it's so one-note, but it's actually sort of motivating, because I just wanted it to end ASAP. There just seems absolutely nothing distinctive or interesting about this record or group. Everything about it (melodies, singing, solos) seems very mediocre.

i'm not the hugest hard rock fan so i didn't go into this album expecting to love it, but there were definitely a couple tracks on there that were pretty cool. after the first couple though, i did find myself getting kind of bored, and the rest began drowning out into background music. overall it wasn't my thing, but i can definitely see the appeal. favorite tracks: jailbreak, southbound

Not bad but nothing great

I kinda enjoy their music but I cannot stand a 10hr live album! Live albums to me are poorly recorded compilations, dont@me

This sounds like generic 70s rock. It's fine, I'm not listening to this again. 2* Recognized: the boys are back in town

Average

Did not care for this album

70s guitar rock isn't for me.

one or two good songs

To me, to be good a live album has to either a) sound unique compared to studio versions or b) transport you to a particular time and place. This does neither, even if the music itself is alright. I'd have rather just listened to studio versions.

It's competently performed and all, but I just personally find this style of music very tame and uninteresting. It's fine, just not for me.

Snooze rock

Kjedelig gubberock med et par lyspunkter her og der.

Seguro sea contradictorio en mí, pero este disco en vivo. No!

The song structure and writing is so generic and boring it made me feel like I was too hard on Van Halen. The solo’s make up for some of it but even they seem a bit formulaic. Could use some more energy and more talented song writers.

Another overdubbed live album

threw this on in the morning, i can see why the live album was picked, all their damn songs sound the same! good energy from the band though, not a lot of breaks in between.

not my roooooooooooooooock

Like gatecrashing a party that has no-one you like there.

Pretty standard late 70s hard rock. Pretty mediocre at that. Some energy but only a few songs

It must have been fun to hear them live back in the day, and the guitar work is amazing, but I didn’t need an hour plus of this, especially because only some songs were great.

Wish the boys would fuck back off

As good as I expected it would be.

Para la mierda que vengo escuchando zafa bastante, muy largo igualmente. 4/10

Live albums shouldn't be on the list, in my opinion. They just aren't the same as an actual album. Also, live albums with extensive studio overdubs are not really live albums. So, with those issues this goes from a 3 to a 2 for me.

Has anybody here with any Irish in them... a live study in one of rock's less elegant faces 1.5

tiene jn par de caniciones buenas y bdurnos solos

Overall not bad, I recognize a couple songs. I’d need to be in the mood to listen to it though 2.5 stars

je li trebao biti dugačak lajv album? mogli su na popis staviti neki njihov studijski album koji ima the boys are back in town (ova lajv izvedba te pjesme stvarno je slaba u usporedbi sa studijskom). ovako je dosta zamorna, i ne mogu podnijeti baš više ovog bumerskog roka, koliko god sama svirka bila okej, jebiga

Love Thin Lizzy, don't love live albums.

Not for me. 90 minutes of shredding guitars.

Very rock and roll and cool. Not my thing though.

Eeeehhhhhh.

It's an uphill battle unfortunately, being a hard rock album (sigh) from the 80s (sigh) that is also a live album (sigh). It's not...awful but it's nothing special at all.

I think any Thin Lizzy album would've been good but live albums are never albums that one "has to" listen before death.

It's grooving a lot, but a little bit too much solo

They’d probably be fun to see live, but the songs themselves aren’t really anything special.

no es puntualmente mi estilo, tiene buenos musicos pero se me hizo repetitivo no le encontré la vuelta

The boys are back in town is a fun song but the rest really is a great bore. Having trouble between a 2 and a 3 for this one.

This is the type of hard rock I don't get at all. The riffs, solos, style of voice, ballads, melodies... I find all to sound super inoffensive and dull, specially the ballad "Still In Love With You" which is super cheesy. The only thing I can give this album some credit is that it is "live", which gives it a more authentic and passionate energy than a studio album, and for an hour and a quarter, this wasn't as bad as other pure hard rock records I had to listen to. I used quotation marks in the word live because it seems there is a bit controversy around how much of this thing is live and how much studio recording they added after the recording. Either way, still hard rock, so I don't care for this album.

As a live album this was alright. Not a huge Thin Lizzy fan though. Mostly harmless.

I don't think this one's for me. 2 stars

Can't hear much here to like. Too long and not a great live recording. Probably sound good if you where there and loaded.

Overrated band with only a few good songs.

I think I’ll always struggle with a live album- it’s so overstimulating and hearing an audience can take me out of what I’m looking for when I’m listening to music. I think it’s also maybe not my genre. But Dancing in the Moonlight is always lovely. I’m committing to trying again in a different atmosphere, perhaps driving tomorrow. Wow especially because I’ve learned their lead, Phil Lynott, was Black which is wild for an Irish rock band.

Not my thing, I don't like most classic rock. I knew Dancing in the moonlight from the Smashing Pumpkins cover, but I much prefer that version. I can't stand saxophone in songs either.

- rokin räimet ja vielä livenä hell ye - ois kuvitellu et tää on jotenki aivan super livealbumi mut aika perus rokin räimettä

Not for me

Someone’s uncle balloted for this to be included.

This is getting 2 stars because it wasn’t enough to pull me away from Mr Styles (sorry not sorry maybe actually sorry)

Thin Lizzy have 1.5 good songs if I’m being generous. Dancing in the Moonlight is a fantastic song. One of the best songs of all time. Shame they couldn’t transfer that skill to other songs!

Some good songs.

holy lord another 70s rock album

не особо слушал их, и наверное и не буду.

I like some Thin Lizzy songs. This is certainly not a completely shit record. But by God, how the fuck do they warrant me having to listen to an hour-long edited live album?

another boring way too long live album

Нахуя это тут

5/10

I don't know why Boston is a 5 for me and Thin Lizzy is a 2, but life is mysterious. I do think it's a high 2. This album rocks in places but mostly is just replacement-level cock rock. The crowd cheers when they hear the intro to Boys are Back in Town, sort of like it's the first song they recognize. It's all a little soulless and not that distinct for me.

I like ‘The boys are back in town’

Ehhhh not as bad as I expected but stil dgaf. Still fun to listen to in the shower the boys are back in town because my uni friends are coming to visit today

A live album needs an impeccable catalogue (like Deep Purple) or fiery energy (like Jerry Lee Lewis) and this has neither.

Fine

Not great

Some say the boys are back in town

#269/1001. It's seems the band and the audience is having fun at a rock gig. So? Asking aloud "I don't know why I had to listen to this album before I die?" My wife answered:" well, it is much easier to listen to it before you die than after it." Nuff said.

Listening to this album was a slog. Many of the songs sounded too similar - with some obvious outliers (jailbreak, boys) Hated the weird overdubbing with the crowd between songs. Maybe just not my vibe. There’s better music from the 70s.

I listened to this album. I had an immediate impression of what it would be like based on the cover. It's for "the boys", whether they are back in town or breaking out of jail or whatever.

ну хз тупо білий мен хуячіт на гітарі бо більше нічого не вміє

Not a fan of live albums. Luckily the singer sounded good live. The album was long. I knew Jailbreak and The Boys are Back in Town.

When to listen: Guitar licks? IDK honestly I probably don't need to listen again. It all sounded very repetitive and didn't interest me.

Ei oikeen livelevyt oo mun juttu. Ihan ok-biisejähän nää on, mutta tiputetaan livehommien vuoksi kaggoseen.

Sometimes fine, most times a thousand years long.

A pretty run-of-the-mill classic/hard rock performance. Not a bad listen but nothing special. Best part was Huey Lewis playing harmonica!

So many albums, how did this one make the list

I never thought I’d be listening to a live Thin Lizzy album…. DNF

I did not need 60 minutes of live boogie rock from a band with 2 memorable hits and other songs that just fall flat.

I really don’t get the appeal of live albums, and this album didn’t help. The performances are fine, but the whole “this was recorded in front of people” thing mostly just gets in the way. These songs would’ve worked much better without the crowd and the reminder that this could’ve just been a solid studio album instead.

Some of these songs are tooooo long

Alright songs but the recording quality was poor

Couldn’t get into it.

I can see how Thin Lizzy was a big influence on 80s hard rock. The Boys are Back in Town was the only song on the album I was familiar with. Most of the songs were live & I don't care for live albums

Not a fan of live albums but the music isn't as bad as I thought it'd be for what wikipedia calls "Hard Rock"

Just archetypal rock and roll. Not unenjoyable, but pretty simplistic, exactly the kind of thing that the users of this site seem to love, quality music which is also safe, known, unchallenging, inoffensive, unimaginative... and already boring, by the time I was less than halfway through this hour-and-twenty-minute monster. A compilation of their best performances of their best tracks, which is an advantage not afforded to most other artists in this list, but even so this drags.

Actually better than I expected.

Don’t like live albums

I like the band/instrument playing, but not quite singing. The voice and the way he's singing keeps throwing me off. Not gonna add any

I'm all for Thin Lizzy - a multiracial multi-sides-of-the-troubles irish band, hell yeah. But a live album is not a good way to show them off

I’ve never really liked Thin Lizzy. 70s rock isn’t really a genre that holds its own these days. A live version at over an hour has not made me change my mind.

chắc là cũng hay đó nhưng nó dài 9h52p tao đéo nghe hết được cho đại 2 sao nhé

C’est looooong, mais du bon hard rock! Mais c’est long… 2.5+/5

I'm a fan of good live albums. This unfortunately isn't. I don't mind some Thin Lizzy. But the production here is just lacking. The live energy is just lacking.

Es un disco en vivo de hard rock donde probablemente vayan con sus mejores canciones, no puedo compararlo bien con los discos de estudio. De todas formas suena súper bien, las guitarras claritas, con distorsión, baterías que suenan muy bien y un bajo con unos graves bien potentes, me dio la impresión que el bajo es un rickembacker por cómo suena. No voy a mentir, no escuché todas las canciones completas pero yo creo que tienen claras influencias de otras bandas como led zepelin, kiss, pink floyd, etc y un sonido típico de rock más clásico. Las canciones en general se construyen en base a un riff que están bien buenos y alrededor de eso le agregan cosas donde para mí la estrella es el sonido del bajo. En términos de producción nada muy especial. Yo creo que alcanza el 2 peeero por ser un disco en vivo, largo y sin algo que me llamara mucho la atención está más cerca del 1,5, de nuevo redondeo para arriba Creo que no tuve canción favorita en este:(

This is #day512 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… if there's a band that has twelve studio albums in their roster and you decide to include a live record you must hear before you die, that's kind of odd. Especially when that live album is stitched together from recordings of different shows, then overdubbed to polish the sound. I don't think I needed to hear this before I die. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day513.

Meh 5/10

Definitely not the album I felt like listening too today. It’s very upbeat and would be great if I was feeling like that but wasn’t in the mood today. Typical late 70s-early 80s rock and always hits

This is a bit too much. Sounds very dated and not in a good way.

I didn't really enjoy listening to this, but I did enjoy reading about the band after listening to this. Nothing captured me. Not exactly bad, just not one I would choose to revisit.

sure was some live thin lizzy. those boys sure were back in town. 2.5

live albums are rarely good and this isn't an exception. at least there's some good thin lizzy songs

Why was this 10 hours long

I'm a bit torn that live recordings were overdubbed in the studio, which makes the whole point of a live album meaningless. This feels like betrayal.

That singer's voice was horrible

not really my cup of tea

It's a "no" from me. Since it was recorded across so many different dates and overdubbed so heavily, this is essentially just a greatest hits record. I don't mind Thin Lizzy, but I think this goes against the spirit of live recordings.

it was okay not my typical genre i liked the live aspect tho. stand outs : Rosalie , still in love with you 4/10

the boys are back in town the boys are back in town the boys are back in tooooooown

I’m going to lower rank all live albums. I will be downloading more by this band though.

I like Thin Lizzy, but I'm still not a fan of live albums

Classic early hard rock album, not the most great music to listen even if it lead to really good genre years later. It's really monotonous, the songs the way of singing. Some really great guitar solo but that's it. Maybe it's because of the a live album because some of the studios songs are more subtle.

The music is good but this sounds like it was recorded in a tin can.

It's ok as an album. Not great.

Classic rock album. Reasonable vocals. Guitars kept me interested. 41yo listener.

there were moments that surprised me!

i got really excited when the boys are back in town came on because it was a song i knew but then i remembered i hate the boys are back in town and i stopped enjoying it again

I like Garry Moore as a guitarist and think that Thin Lizzy has some bangers. I would have preferred a studio album. Sometimes the energy in a live performance gets lost in the mix, especially if its an older recording.

I'm ONLY nine songs in, and I feel like I've been listening to it ALL day! Not a very lively live album.

I appreciate that you can hear the audience and songs blend together like an actual live show and not a collection of songs that were played live. It is a product of its time and the eye-rolling joke after the first song dates it. Not a repeat listen for me.

Not my jam

I supposed it’s OK for hard rock.

I’m glad to get to know Thin Lizzy better but why is this on this list? It’s a very mediocre live album.

Thought I was gonna like this a lot more than I did. I like Thin Lizzy and I think Phil Lynott was a hell of a front man, but this live album just didn’t do it for me. There’s still some great songs but it’s a little uneven for me.

Singing reminds me sometimes of Hendrix. But no song as close as catchy as Jimi's

long and weirdly uneven. Who wants a collection of live performances from different venues? Every one of these songs are better recorded normally.

Live albums are almost always bad. A live album but the tracks aren’t even from the same concert is just baffling to me. You don’t even get the experience of being at the show… just listening to worse version of the songs you already like. Also way too long. I’m giving it an extra star because “The Boys Are Back In Town” is a banger

Eh, I don't love Thin Lizzy. The performance was good and they sounded pretty dialed in, but the music doesn't do much for me.

High 2. Good rocker. But mostly by the numbers. Need more jam.

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