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Song Of The Day - 21st August 2008: Sugar Blues
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Thin Lizzy / "Sugar Blues" / Chinatown (4) / 1980
Artist: Thin Lizzy
Original Album: Chinatown
Track:
Sugar Blues
Not my favourite Thin Lizzy album or track by a long way, but for some reason has a very catchy rhythm, courtesy of Phil Lynott and Brian Downey. Solos aren't half bad either, but I'm tempted to call it one of Lynott's rare weak moments as far as lyrics are concerned. Unless there's some hidden meaning I'm missing completely.
Also the song whose rhythm part I can for some reason imagine fitting quite well with the vocal part to yesterday's SotD. You're looking at me like I'm mad now aren't you? Almost certainly one would have to be electronically (or mentally) adjusted for tempo and key, although I haven't checked I'm willing to bet on the first, but in my head it sounded good yesterday.
Regular readers may notice I've become a regular slacker at checking the month of release. It's too much effort for such a small detail to take on a regular basis. I remember years not months. It's quite rare that a band releases two albums in a year (although Lizzy did it in '76), and there aren't a lot of other cases in which the month is of any interest unless we're thinking about the large number of thrash bands who used 'If I die before I wake...' in songs in the year 1991 and considering whose idea it was first.
Artist: Thin Lizzy
Original Album: Chinatown
Track:
Sugar BluesNot my favourite Thin Lizzy album or track by a long way, but for some reason has a very catchy rhythm, courtesy of Phil Lynott and Brian Downey. Solos aren't half bad either, but I'm tempted to call it one of Lynott's rare weak moments as far as lyrics are concerned. Unless there's some hidden meaning I'm missing completely.
Also the song whose rhythm part I can for some reason imagine fitting quite well with the vocal part to yesterday's SotD. You're looking at me like I'm mad now aren't you? Almost certainly one would have to be electronically (or mentally) adjusted for tempo and key, although I haven't checked I'm willing to bet on the first, but in my head it sounded good yesterday.
Regular readers may notice I've become a regular slacker at checking the month of release. It's too much effort for such a small detail to take on a regular basis. I remember years not months. It's quite rare that a band releases two albums in a year (although Lizzy did it in '76), and there aren't a lot of other cases in which the month is of any interest unless we're thinking about the large number of thrash bands who used 'If I die before I wake...' in songs in the year 1991 and considering whose idea it was first.
Comentários
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sablespecter escreveu:
Well, I don't know this song, so I can't mentally create what you're suggesting, but even if I could I wouldn't look at you like you were mad. I do those same kind of "metal mashups" all the time.
I don't know the song because I don't (yet) have the album. Maybe that's because it was after Gary Moore and before John Sykes, so I've never had a compulsion to pick up either this or Renegade, and I have the awesome title track from Dedication. So what else am I missing?
About using the month: I generally only remember years, too, for most albums, but like to look it up and include it if it's not too hard to find (October for this album here). I look in three or four places, and sometimes if I'm really determined I'll do a finely crafted Google search or cruise a vinyl resale site. But sometimes you just can't find it easily within a couple of minutes and I skip it, too.
It sometimes comes in useful for when I want to judge when something entered my collection relative to what was happening in my life at the time. I may not remember when in a given year I did something or something happened, but since buying albums have always been significant milestones that I can tie to other events, I can use their release dates to place those other events.
Also useful for the purpose you mentioned, which just came up when I was trying to determine the oldest 2:42 song in my collection, though I couldn't since I coud not find the month of one of them! -
GrantRS escreveu:
You don't have Chinatown? I had always assumed you had the full collection. I'm currently missing Renegade too though, so I can't help you on the latter. Chinatown isn't their strongest album by far. The title track and
Killer on the Loose are both awesome, but none of the other tracks quite parallel them. This one has a nice grooving rhythm to it that I think is similar to the sound you described on your recent UFO selection. Kind of a 'bop' really.Probably shuffle rhythm though I'm not going to check exactly. ptrack artist=thin lizzy]having a good time[/track] is nice as it has a kind of introducing the band kind of thing in it which is sort of rare for a studio album. However it does give an opportunity or a few solos and is quite a fun track despite not being one of the greatest Thin Lizzy ever produced. The majority of the album is good, but just nowhere near the level of our favourites. It's probably worth having this for curiosity's sake and for Killer on the Loose if you don't have that (which I can't believe...that song is really good!).
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sablespecter escreveu:
Yeah, yeah, agree with you about Killer on the Loose. So I guess I have the two best tracks from this album since I have it live from Life Live. I just never bothered to look at which studio album it's from.
I suppose I'd have "Sugar Blues" if I ever get the "Vagabonds Kings Warriors Angels" box set...though it would probably be cheaper just to get the rest of the albums I don't have! -
GrantRS escreveu:
This is one of a series of comments I've only just found. I apologise for that, but I think I've said all I need to in this particular thread anyway. To summarise: Chinatown is a good album, but not one of their best. I'd rank it above the level "for completists only", but not an essential.
