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Rating: 
- Great album but could've been so much more
This is undoubtedly one of the best Lizzy albums and indeed that last great one they did, after this we only saw/heard glimpses of Lynott's greatness. He was my hero growing up and this album was one of the reasons but it also shows the signs of the cracks that were starting to appear. Track selection is one bone of contention for me. I would've left off Sarah, it is a solo track not a Lizzy track, Get Out Of Here is filler and S&M is an interesting idea but not an album track and doesn't fit in here. Instead of these I would've added in Parisienne Walkways,
A Night In The Life Of Blues Singer, Dear Miss Lonely Hearts (the rocked up band version they occasionally played live), and last but not least I would add in King's Call this song is one of Lynott's best but instead of the Knopfler sound it got it should've had the Gary Moore treatment. This would be my track listing
1. Toughest Street In Town - A great start to the album with a fresh sound
2. Waiting For An Alibi - Great song and a killer hook
3. Do Anything You Want To - I like this simple uplifting and optimistic song
4. King's Call - with the Elvis theme from the previous song this would fit in nicely here
5. Got To Give It Up - Lynott pouring his heart out and singing with so much soul, prophetic indeed
6. With Love - I just like the romantic nature of this song, it shows why Lynott was ahead of the rest because he could be the macho man but still pull off songs like this.
7. Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Again follows the romantic road and I feel this was always a Lizzy song, just needed the band to play on it and make it rock.
8. Parisienne Walkways - For me this was always Lynott's song, just love the lyric, Moore's playing is superb also and I think this would've fitted nicely in with the atmosphere of this album rather than being stuck on a Moore solo album.
9. Black Rose - A Rock Legend - A very ambitious track but they pull it off due to the passion with which Lynott instills in the song, he loved Ireland and it's history and you can hear it in the lyrics and the voice.
10. A Night In The Life Of A Blues Singer - Finish off with a nice easy blues song and another soulful Lynott vocal, Moore could let rip on this one and finish off in style.
Try making a CD of this I think this works, but try changing the tracks round it may sound even better!
Rating:
- Could have been a master piece
This record could have been a masterpiece if not for certain things.
Overall, it seems like a collection of very good songs lacking a certain cohesive structure.
Do Anything You Want To and Toughest Street in Town are decent rock album tracks, but nothing to lose your head over.
S&M sounds a bit odd with its fractured bass line.
Waiting For an Alibi is classic Lizzy. Lynott's lyrics about gangsters and drug dealers, twin guitars and his thundering bass make this song an instant classic.
Sarah is one of the silliest most sirupy ballads ever and should have been relegated to a Lynott solo album.
Got To Give It Up is a standout track. Lyrically it will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. This is Lynott openly and painfully admitting to the seriousness of his addictions and it makes you wonder how could the people around him have remained blind after such a frank admission.
Get Out of Here and With Love are ok.
Black Rose, well, perhaps a bit pretentious. An attempt to write an epic Irish flavoured track that does not fail but does not deliver either, I often find myself skipping this track when I listen to the album.
So a good effort but perhaps reflective of the turmoil the band was going through at the time.
Rating: - Almost perfect
To say previous reviews of this album are enthusiastic is an understatement. I'm with them all the way...almost. The sheer production brings the best out of the twin guitars and thumping percussion. 'Waiting For An Alibi' is one of rock's finest singles and the follow-up, 'Do Anything You Want To' provides a barnstorming opening to the album. With the exception of the light pop of 'Sarah', the rest is vibrant rock. 'Got To Give It Up' starts off like it's going to be a slow blues, but soon takes off. The marvellous 'With Love' sounds almost orchestral in form. Unfortunately, I can't agree that the title track is a classic. It's a high-energy seven-minute excursion into jig-like riffing, underpinned by a swashbuckling rhythm, but it's no 'Stairway To Heaven' or 'Freebird'. There's no memorable hook, musically or lyrically. Instead, it just meanders from one riff to another. 'Black Rose' is a fine album for all that. I just don't feel that the climax lives up to what goes before.
Rating:
- A True Rock Legend but also the Turning Point
This is the Album was the high before the fall. Fire Ball Bad Boy Brian Robertson having been replaced by Maestro Moore who's power and style re-ignited the Lizzy sound to make this Lizzy's most successful and best Album.After all this the band then fragmentend when Moore quit the band by going AWOL part way through the subsequent American tour owing to Lynott and Gorhams drug addictions/partying seriously affecting the quality of the live shows.
Do Anything you Want too, Waiting for an Alibi, Got to Give it Up, With Love, Black Rose are the Bands Killer tracks which to this day sound as good as ever. The quality of harmonies and interwoven sound twin guitar pioneered by Robertson and Gorham is raised again on this Album as clearly Gorham had to raise his game to compete with GM and the result is sensational.
'Sarah' is PL dedication to his first Daughter with a heart felt Ballad.
S&M is a funky-jazz song with experimentation in sound on drums and Guitars which nestles well amongst the stronger songs and Toughest Street in Town and Get Outta Here are heavy riff based songs which again fit well.
What is disappointing about this Album to me is that it so strong and yet Lizzy's decline thereafter was rapid with only a handful of songs with same musical and lyrical spark delivered across the rest of the 3 studio Albums.
Moore used this as his Launch pad to better things and Lizzy used this as their swan song as only on rare occassions did the band spark to this level beyond Black Rose with PL thereafter loosing his way and swaying into different genres unsuccessfully.I like so many bought all these later Albums always in hope of a return to form which other than the odd songs unfortunately never came.
Lynotts addiction potrayed so graphically in 'got to give it up' like so many Lizzy songs now seems so poignant
Remember - 'And in my youth I'm getting old, I'm waking up and it's wearing off - Junk don't get you far!!". A sad lesson to all would be /will be rock stars.
Rating: - The rose without a single thorn
As a huge Thin Lizzy fan, I felt compelled to write a review of this seminal album. The other reviewers have quite justably laden this album with five stars, but I do feel a note of caution is necessary. The first Lizzy album I bought was Jailbreak, unquestionably one of the true, great rock'n'roll masterpieces of our time. So I purchased Black Rose with sheer anticipation, only to be slightly dissappointed after listening to it through a few times. This is because the songs need more exploration than the Jailbreak tracks which stand out on the first listen. There is more depth and emotion to Lynott's songwriting on this album than any other, and it takes time to fully comprehend and appreciate the true genius of this collossul album. For me, the two best songs are 'Got to give it up' and the monstrous title track. It is here we see how truly incredible and underrated Lynott is as a singer. The passion and pain which he injects into his voice are unrivalled, and the way he croons about his love for his celtic heritage hits you on a new emotional level each time you hear it. The sad reality, though, is that depite the ever-present image we have installed in our minds of the grinning, leather-clad Lynott, with his nigh-perfect dentistry, Lynott was actually pouring his heart out in those songs, and the hindsight of his death in 1986 emphasises the power this remarkable record posesses.
- Great album but could've been so much moreThis is undoubtedly one of the best Lizzy albums and indeed that last great one they did, after this we only saw/heard glimpses of Lynott's greatness. He was my hero growing up and this album was one of the reasons but it also shows the signs of the cracks that were starting to appear. Track selection is one bone of contention for me. I would've left off Sarah, it is a solo track not a Lizzy track, Get Out Of Here is filler and S&M is an interesting idea but not an album track and doesn't fit in here. Instead of these I would've added in Parisienne Walkways,
A Night In The Life Of Blues Singer, Dear Miss Lonely Hearts (the rocked up band version they occasionally played live), and last but not least I would add in King's Call this song is one of Lynott's best but instead of the Knopfler sound it got it should've had the Gary Moore treatment. This would be my track listing
1. Toughest Street In Town - A great start to the album with a fresh sound
2. Waiting For An Alibi - Great song and a killer hook
3. Do Anything You Want To - I like this simple uplifting and optimistic song
4. King's Call - with the Elvis theme from the previous song this would fit in nicely here
5. Got To Give It Up - Lynott pouring his heart out and singing with so much soul, prophetic indeed
6. With Love - I just like the romantic nature of this song, it shows why Lynott was ahead of the rest because he could be the macho man but still pull off songs like this.
7. Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Again follows the romantic road and I feel this was always a Lizzy song, just needed the band to play on it and make it rock.
8. Parisienne Walkways - For me this was always Lynott's song, just love the lyric, Moore's playing is superb also and I think this would've fitted nicely in with the atmosphere of this album rather than being stuck on a Moore solo album.
9. Black Rose - A Rock Legend - A very ambitious track but they pull it off due to the passion with which Lynott instills in the song, he loved Ireland and it's history and you can hear it in the lyrics and the voice.
10. A Night In The Life Of A Blues Singer - Finish off with a nice easy blues song and another soulful Lynott vocal, Moore could let rip on this one and finish off in style.
Try making a CD of this I think this works, but try changing the tracks round it may sound even better!
Rating:
- Could have been a master pieceThis record could have been a masterpiece if not for certain things.
Overall, it seems like a collection of very good songs lacking a certain cohesive structure.
Do Anything You Want To and Toughest Street in Town are decent rock album tracks, but nothing to lose your head over.
S&M sounds a bit odd with its fractured bass line.
Waiting For an Alibi is classic Lizzy. Lynott's lyrics about gangsters and drug dealers, twin guitars and his thundering bass make this song an instant classic.
Sarah is one of the silliest most sirupy ballads ever and should have been relegated to a Lynott solo album.
Got To Give It Up is a standout track. Lyrically it will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. This is Lynott openly and painfully admitting to the seriousness of his addictions and it makes you wonder how could the people around him have remained blind after such a frank admission.
Get Out of Here and With Love are ok.
Black Rose, well, perhaps a bit pretentious. An attempt to write an epic Irish flavoured track that does not fail but does not deliver either, I often find myself skipping this track when I listen to the album.
So a good effort but perhaps reflective of the turmoil the band was going through at the time.
Rating:
- Almost perfectTo say previous reviews of this album are enthusiastic is an understatement. I'm with them all the way...almost. The sheer production brings the best out of the twin guitars and thumping percussion. 'Waiting For An Alibi' is one of rock's finest singles and the follow-up, 'Do Anything You Want To' provides a barnstorming opening to the album. With the exception of the light pop of 'Sarah', the rest is vibrant rock. 'Got To Give It Up' starts off like it's going to be a slow blues, but soon takes off. The marvellous 'With Love' sounds almost orchestral in form. Unfortunately, I can't agree that the title track is a classic. It's a high-energy seven-minute excursion into jig-like riffing, underpinned by a swashbuckling rhythm, but it's no 'Stairway To Heaven' or 'Freebird'. There's no memorable hook, musically or lyrically. Instead, it just meanders from one riff to another. 'Black Rose' is a fine album for all that. I just don't feel that the climax lives up to what goes before.
Rating:
- A True Rock Legend but also the Turning PointThis is the Album was the high before the fall. Fire Ball Bad Boy Brian Robertson having been replaced by Maestro Moore who's power and style re-ignited the Lizzy sound to make this Lizzy's most successful and best Album.After all this the band then fragmentend when Moore quit the band by going AWOL part way through the subsequent American tour owing to Lynott and Gorhams drug addictions/partying seriously affecting the quality of the live shows.
Do Anything you Want too, Waiting for an Alibi, Got to Give it Up, With Love, Black Rose are the Bands Killer tracks which to this day sound as good as ever. The quality of harmonies and interwoven sound twin guitar pioneered by Robertson and Gorham is raised again on this Album as clearly Gorham had to raise his game to compete with GM and the result is sensational.
'Sarah' is PL dedication to his first Daughter with a heart felt Ballad.
S&M is a funky-jazz song with experimentation in sound on drums and Guitars which nestles well amongst the stronger songs and Toughest Street in Town and Get Outta Here are heavy riff based songs which again fit well.
What is disappointing about this Album to me is that it so strong and yet Lizzy's decline thereafter was rapid with only a handful of songs with same musical and lyrical spark delivered across the rest of the 3 studio Albums.
Moore used this as his Launch pad to better things and Lizzy used this as their swan song as only on rare occassions did the band spark to this level beyond Black Rose with PL thereafter loosing his way and swaying into different genres unsuccessfully.I like so many bought all these later Albums always in hope of a return to form which other than the odd songs unfortunately never came.
Lynotts addiction potrayed so graphically in 'got to give it up' like so many Lizzy songs now seems so poignant
Remember - 'And in my youth I'm getting old, I'm waking up and it's wearing off - Junk don't get you far!!". A sad lesson to all would be /will be rock stars.
Rating:
- The rose without a single thornAs a huge Thin Lizzy fan, I felt compelled to write a review of this seminal album. The other reviewers have quite justably laden this album with five stars, but I do feel a note of caution is necessary. The first Lizzy album I bought was Jailbreak, unquestionably one of the true, great rock'n'roll masterpieces of our time. So I purchased Black Rose with sheer anticipation, only to be slightly dissappointed after listening to it through a few times. This is because the songs need more exploration than the Jailbreak tracks which stand out on the first listen. There is more depth and emotion to Lynott's songwriting on this album than any other, and it takes time to fully comprehend and appreciate the true genius of this collossul album. For me, the two best songs are 'Got to give it up' and the monstrous title track. It is here we see how truly incredible and underrated Lynott is as a singer. The passion and pain which he injects into his voice are unrivalled, and the way he croons about his love for his celtic heritage hits you on a new emotional level each time you hear it. The sad reality, though, is that depite the ever-present image we have installed in our minds of the grinning, leather-clad Lynott, with his nigh-perfect dentistry, Lynott was actually pouring his heart out in those songs, and the hindsight of his death in 1986 emphasises the power this remarkable record posesses.