Track Listing

1. Thunder And Lightning
2. This Is The One
3. The Sun Goes Down
4. The Holy War
5. Cold Sweat
6. Someday She Is Going To Hit Back
7. Baby Please Don't Go
8. Bad Habits
9. Heart Attack

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21032 in Music
• Released on: 1990-05-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 40 minutes

Customer Reviews

LIZZY'S 'FULL ON HEAVY METAL ALBUM'...
If not their best, certainly the heaviest - with a hard as iron production, noticeably heavier drumming and some strong riffs and full on metal lead breaks. Even the keyboards duel with the shredding on the title track!
Highlights:
Thunder & Lightning - Very fast for this band, with great drums & awesome solo's. Lynnott's on real form, voice & bass wise here!
This Is The One - Great rhythm and chorus. Addictive!
Cold Sweat - Another heavy one, up there with Killer On The Loose! A guitar riff very worthy of the mighty Judas Priest!
Bad Habits - a bit lighter, with a great vocal from Lynott.

Metal fans will find a lot of Lizzy too light, but many will like this for it's extra edge & power (especially for 1983). It's not surprising Metallica cite these as one of many influences, with this heavier album in the can!

A Return to Form
There is something quite magical about this album, but we'll get to that in a minute..."Thunder & Lightning" sees Lizzy making a strong return to the form they hit in their absolute glory years with the classic "Robbo" line-up. This is an album that moved them on from the somewhat turgid (by their standards)period when Snowy White was on board. That is not to say that their out put then was poor, but it pales in comparison to this.

"Thunder & Lightning" gave them a new slant, a fresher direction and a more urgent sound when they let go...."Cold Sweat" features an genuine face-melter of a guitar solo and a real balls to the wall riff, with Lynott almost spitting the lyrics, "Holy War" is a genuine epic on a par with "Emerald", and the title track is classic rock at it's best.

The magic arrives on "The Sun Goes Down". The album is worth it just for this one track. It is a slow meandering ballady affair, and then at its mid-point comes one of THE very best guitar solos you are ever likely to hear. It is just sublime, absolutely flawless and without doubt amongst the best guitar breaks ever committed to record.

John Sykes (ex-Tygers of Pan Tang)brought a sheen and polish to Thin Lizzy, with a guitar style that is instantly recognisable and just mind-blowingly good, the tragedy of it all is that this was Lizzy's last album proper. That being said, what a way to bow out...

Poor
Whilst not as bad as Renegade and Chinatown, Thunder And Lightening is substandard and a poor quaility swansong from this once great band.

Whilst they don't go out with a wimper Thin Lizzy certainly don't go out with a bang. Yes, Thunder And Lightening is their hardest album; with the talented guitarist John Sykes very much at the forefront.

But with this album quite honestly, they sound like an average metal band. Gone are Lizzy's wonderful harmony guitars and melodic Irish laced songs. Lynott's bass is very much in the background. I love heavy metal, but Thin Lizzy were never a metal band and this sound really doesn't suit them.

You'd be much better advised to stick with the like of Black Rose, Bad Reputation, Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox.

There are some good songs such as Cold Sweat, but no way on earth is this a 5 star or a 4 star album.