Renegade - Thin Lizzy

This is thin lizzys 11th studio album and is one of the string of excellent albums lizzy had during the 74-83 period where almost all of there best work took place. This album itself was released in 1981 the band at that time was as follows:

Brian Downey -drums, percussion
Scott Gorham -lead guitars, guitars
snowy white-lead guitar
Phil lynott -bass guitar, vocals

Lizzy would go member changes throughout ...
...although it never will be real thin lizzy without Phil lynott who died January 4th 1986 of what I think if I remember correctly was a heroin overdose.

Track listing
1. angel of death (9/10)
Starts off with this deep bass sound and a bit of keyboard, then the guitars and the drums kick in with authority. As soon as lynotts vocals kick in the guitar changes to the main riff which is typical lizzy totally rocking riff. Although ... more

This is thin lizzys 11th studio album and is one of the string of excellent albums lizzy had during the 74-83 period where almost all of there best work took place. This album itself was released in 1981 the band at that time was as follows:

Brian Downey -drums, percussion
Scott Gorham -lead guitars, guitars
snowy white-lead guitar
Phil lynott -bass guitar, vocals

Lizzy would go member changes throughout the bands career and I believe they still play today although it never will be real thin lizzy without Phil lynott who died January 4th 1986 of what I think if I remember correctly was a heroin overdose.

Track listing
1. angel of death (9/10)
Starts off with this deep bass sound and a bit of keyboard, then the guitars and the drums kick in with authority. As soon as lynotts vocals kick in the guitar changes to the main riff which is typical lizzy totally rocking riff. Although I will admit lynotts vocals aren’t amazingly strong there's something about the way he say's them they sort of ooze out in a very cool way which makes up for vocal strength. A very cool solo on this one to after that another keyboard part building up to the end of the song which a vocal effect is used to give that kind of "demon" effect to his voice a good start to the album from lizzy.
2. ranegade (8/10)
starts off very softly with a quite clean guitar part and soft drum beat once the song kicks in there a more harder repetitive riff this also has a solo in it where instantly you know its lizzy, the solo is good but short the main riff is continued for a short while then it goes back to the clean guitar for another verse and then again back to the harder riff for another solo type lick which the song fades out on.
3. the pressure will blow (9/10)
This one starts off straight away with a great riff and an intro solo then lynotts vocals kick in with the riff continuing. the solo on this one is another typical lizzy solo very melodic and benefits with the riff playing behind it end very sudden lynott sings very well and cool on this one, one of my fav's on the album.
4. leave the town (9/10)
Very quick riff to this one as well as the drums and vocals played and sung quickly also. The riff is very cool on this one lyrics are good on this one to defiantly the most memorable so far on this album the guitar solo parts stick with the tempo on this song are very hard and fast yet another great song.
5. hollywood (down on your luck (9/10)
Starts off with a bass riff and the guitar riffing over the top the riff is a very good one which instantly gets into your head and this song features some good backing vocals to. another sweet solo on this which afterwards kicks back into the cool riff and more backing vocals aiding Phil another good song (starting to see a trend here lol) which fades out to end.
6. no one told him (8/10)
Starts with very short drum solo then kicks into the riff with lynott singing well on this one memorable lyric also yet another great typical lizzy like solo chorus repeated a few time towards then end with a nice rocking ending to.
7. "fats" (7/10)
Kind of funky edge to this one the guitars are very funky and the same with the drums lynott sings it kind of oddly there’s a little piano kind of solo which keeps with the funk/jazz kinda theme my least favourite song on the album.
8. mexican blood (8/10)
acoustic intro to this with a very Spanish guitar theme to it once the song gets going there's a little bit of keyboard this is a bit folk like which lizzy flirted more with during there first 3 albums (before they started the twin guitar rocking) lyrically its good all about a cowboy which lizzy have also covered lyrically before this is a good song nice for a change but lacks the lizzy hard guitar.
9. its getting dangerous (8/10)
Nice hard drum beat to this one to start off with some symbol tapping musically this one sounds like something they'd use in a war movie at the end of the battle type thing. once the main song gets going there's still a good drum beat but the guitars kick in with a good hard riff the war like music comes in again during the middle as it slowly builds up for the ending the band all kick in again for the end of the song with a nice riff and the song dies out for the end of the album

Overall album rating (8/10)
this is a very good album musically its very very good the riffs and solo are all excellent the only thing that lets this album down in my opinion is the lack of memorable choruses it has a few but not as many as say "jailbreak" and that’s its only down point.

p.s my apologies to people who read this yesterday because i listed all the wrong tracks the descriptions for this albums tracks were correct but the names of the songs were off the bad reputation album but everythings correct now.
 

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