Product Description

Thin Lizzy were not true heavy metal perpetrators; more accurately, out-and-out rockers with a feeling for pop. The late Phil Lynott has a growing core of younger fans, as word ispassed down that even though he had his demons he was an outstanding performer. This is their best studio album and it contains two classics; "The Boys Are Back In Town" and the title track. Both spit and crackle, bass and lead guitar burst out of the speaker at loud volume, and throughout, the gentle, laconic voice of Lynott delivers his poetry. Don't allow his death to see Thin Lizzy fade from the memory.

Track Listing

1. Jailbreak
2. Angel From The Coast
3. Running Back
4. Romeo And The Lonely Girl
5. Warriors
6. The Boys Are Back In Town
7. Fight Or Fall
8. Cowboy Song
9. Emerald

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2328 in Music
• Released on: 1996-03-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 36 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Jailbreak is arguably the only Lizzy album that's genuinely great all the way through (though some would argue for Bad Reputation or Live And Dangerous--but that's cheating), and it's surely their most exciting record; tough and touching, simultaneously barbarous and balletic. But then it'd be a great album just for "The Boys Are Back In Town", surely the finest and funniest song of its kind. It's Phil Lynott's infectious grin transmuted into sound, cheeky and totally irresistible--emerging unannounced from a jukebox, it can still make a whole room smile, and its brusque poignancy can't fail to touch the middle of the heart. But the rest of Jailbreak lives up to it, especially the riotous title track ("Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town"--yeah well, the jail seems a likely place). If Lynott's poetic pretensions sometimes seep through, most of the album shows off his effortless command of power and economy; if heavy rock has a tendency to wrestle each song to the ground with brute force, Thin Lizzy were uniquely capable of the quick kill, the knockout punch, graceful as a boxer or bullfighter. Jailbreak is sexy testament to that. --Taylor Parkes

Customer Reviews

Indeed a brilliant rock album/band
Thin Lizzy has always been big because they are one of the most famous rock bands and the fact that they are Irish and that type of hype never appeals to me it's happend to bands like U2 & Snow Patrol, and they arn't as good as everyone says they are. But Thin Lizzy are a great irish rock n roll band. Made famour by their songs The Boys are back in town & Whiskey In The Jar, they are more then just those 2 awesome songs. This album for example, all the songs are excellent and some brilliant rock n roll riffs.With classics likes Jailbreak, Angel From The Coast & of course The Boys Are Back In Town. This is a brilliant way to start with Thin Lizzy if you're curious about the band, you will already know The Boys are Back In Town so you won't be dissapointed with it. Yes Thin Lizzy are an awesome rock band, if you love you're rock then this is a must buy.

The classic album from a classic rock band!
Lizzy are my favourite band so I own pretty much everything they ever released. I always find it hard to nail one of their albums down as the best released as the choice changes daily. Ultimately most fans would argue this is it. The albums that preceeded Jailbreak improved with each output but as with many releases all had their weaker moments up to Jailbreak. This album is certainly the moment the bands star rose into view even providing them with some minor chart success.

Phil and the band were touring endlessly and honing their craft and this album was the fruit of that. Lynotts songwriting provides us with wonderful moments throughout and the band are rock solid musically too. This album was probably Lynotts creative peak lyrically although he still had his moments in later albums. So many facets of his personality can be found in these songs and his imagination was yet to be muddied by the rock n roll lifestyle that later took hold of him. His fascination with Irish history (emerald) and American history (Cowboy Song & Massacre) were both well represented here.

If you plan to explore Thin Lizzys journey through rock history this is arguably the best place to start - although I started with Live and Dangerous which is the greatest live rock album ever recorded bar none!

Go get em!

not half bad !
The general Consensus appears to be that this is a masterpiece,i can not go along with that notion,this is a sturdy piece of work but is let down with some drab enough sounding tracks,just two perhaps but they mean that for my opinions worth,this is good without being vital.
Released in 1976,and with the band a four piece,they would essentially perform as three piece in 1977,this album contains two tracks of notable distinction,firstly the title track with his snappy riff and the classic song 'the boys are back in town' a track synonymous with the group.
The album also contains some very confident and assured tracks such as 'warriors' and the mild but brilliant 'running back'.'Ange from the coast' and 'the cowboy song' seem filler in comparison to the albums flow and strengths and they ruin what could have been a very fine album,this isnt as good as 'bad reputation' no matter how you spin it but is still a good piece of work and some 31 years old to boot hey.