One notable change of pace comes with the beautiful Still In Love With You.ĭisc 2 starts with another top 10 hit and acknowledged rock classic Waiting For An Alibi (UK No.9), the aforementioned hardy perennial Whiskey In The Jar (UK No.6) and Chinatown (UK No.21). Bad Reputation, the title track from their 1977 top 5 album follows ensuring pulses continue to race and for the most part the rest of CD1 keeps the listener rocking. Don’t Believe A Word (UK No.12) is next up and again is simply classic Lizzy at their best. Punk rock might have been raging at that point but it’s an irresistible slice of pop rock. Do Anything You Want To (UK No.14) follows before another certified A-grade classic, 1977’s wonderful Dancin’ In The Moonlight (UK No.14). They would score 7 further top 20 hits over the next 8 years and place no less than 8 albums in the UK top 20, 3 of which would make the top 10 and 4 the top 5.ĭisc 1 opens with one of their best loved singles and a timeless classic, The Boys Are Back In Town (UK No.8). Chart success was still a way off but when it came at the start of 1973 it was with the glorious single Whiskey In The Jar (UK No.6). Formed in Dublin in late 1969, by July 1970 they’d released their debut single whilst the first of their 12 albums would appear the following year. When it comes to ‘hard rock’ few would dispute that Thin Lizzy helped define the genre.
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