FUCK YEAH: Caught (or) Spotlight

MP3: Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation (BBC Session)

MP3: Thin Lizzy - That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart (BBC Session)

MP3: Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight) (BBC Session)

I guess some label somewhere released a deluxe edition of Bad Reputation, the best Thin Lizzy record there ever was. I don't know any of the officials on this, I just saw it on a blog I download from, but the remaster sounds great and the BBC Sessions included as a bonus are top notch.

From that session I leave you with a ripper, a tripper and a tearjerker. Buy this used - you can always find it cheap in record bins, but download a copy of this edition for the road when you wanna get technological. Enjoy.

Gary No Moore

MP3: Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi
MP3: Thin Lizzy - Got to Give It Up

Gary Moore has passed away, and I wanted to pay tribute. While he joined Thin Lizzy as a guitarist when (I feel) the spark was fading, "Black Rose: A Rock Legend", his recorded debut with the band, is still pretty solid. Dude was beyond capable, and him and Phil Lynott were tight bros so that makes him immortal.

Enjoy some songs he rips on from that LP. RIP brah, I bet you're shredding with Phil in the afterlife!

Our Kristofer Åström apology post

MP3: Kristofer Åström - A Song While I'm Away

Slow music month, this is. And it's not a bad thing, because we can look back on fonder times. This is more an apology post than anything else, because if memory serves me correct, we totally slacked on posting anything from the new Kristofer Åström record last year. So here it is, KÅ prettying up an oft-overlooked Thin Lizzy ballad. Phil Lynott would be proud.

Free music from Free Energy: dig it.

MP3: Free Energy - Free Energy

All I needed to read in the email I received with this mp3 in it was "Thin Lizzy". Sure, the fact that it's coming out on DFA didn't hurt, but I fucking love Thin Lizzy.

Free Energy are pretty rad too, they feel classic in the modern sense and are quite catchy to boot. Their self titled song appears on the 7 inch they've got coming out on the 21st of July (hey that's next week!). I can feel the TL influence and totally appreciate it, so Free Energy: if we ever meet, come claim a high five from me. We can party.

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak...

MP3: Susanna - Jailbreak

I've been sitting on this song forever. Seriously, I've moved it down on my uploaded mp3s list on the server countless times, hoping to one day write a post to do it justice. I uploaded it on October 29th of last year... jeez.

So I don't know if I can finally fulfill my self impossed obligation to "Jailbreak", but it's time to dust it off. Here is what you need to know: Susanna has a beautiful voice and put out a beautiful record of covers from all the best bands. She opens with this song, which is by Thin Lizzy who is honestly one of my favourite bands ever. Finally (and here's where it gets perfect) she gets Bonnie 'Prince' Billy to sing on it with her. Fuck yeah. You can't beat it.

Have a great weekend everybody, it felt really fucking good to do a full week of posts again. It's been... who knows how long. Hope to keep up the momentum even a little bit. See you soon!

The Best Song Ever: Cowboy Song

MP3: Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song

Sigh. I honestly could post almost every Thin Lizzy record ever in this column or even create a "best band ever" just for them, but I just took the needle off of side B of my "Jailbreak" record and this is where my mind is at.

The great thing about Thin Lizzy is you could fill a room up and everybody will find a song that spoke to them on any of their albums: from the heartbroken to the middle class, that one song is yours to cherish as it was written for you. Happy birthday. "Cowboy Song", the track featured here today, appeals to the boy in us men, who grew up loving and wanting to be a cowboy, just like our daddy's. Being grown up sure ain't fun, as our horses are automobiles (or bicycles if you're a badass) and getting into a gun fight at dawn will land you in the slammer. Bummer. But this song makes me feel like a cowboy, as it is written to work both in the historical sense and the modern sense... you see what Phil Lynott did there? You should give this a shot if you're not a Thin Lizzy fan, it is wonderful. It gets soft and it rocks, which gets thrown around a lot but this truly accomplishes the near-impossible feat of sounding like everything. Fuck yeah!

Oh, and to close out, I'd like to challenge the internet: please post high quality, awesome, new or old, LARGE photographs of this band. Seriously, doing a Google image search for this band is depressing. Once you've done this, email us and I will replace this post with your finding and credit you and shit, maybe you'll get some mail too!