Still Dangerous

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Still Dangerous
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Live album by
Released2 March 2009
Recorded20 and 21 October 1977
Venue Tower Theater, Philadelphia
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Label VH1 Classic
Producer Glyn Johns, Scott Gorham
Thin Lizzy live albums chronology
UK Tour '75
(2008)
Still Dangerous
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Metal Hammer (GER)6/7 [2]
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Still Dangerous is a live album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. It was compiled from two live concerts by the band at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, U.S., just outside of Philadelphia, at 20 and 21 October 1977 during the tour in support of their Bad Reputation album. No overdubs were made to any tracks so the album is completely live. [4] The tracks "Cowboy Song", "The Boys Are Back in Town", "Massacre" and "Emerald" were previously released on the album Live and Dangerous , while "Opium Trail" and "Bad Reputation" were issued on the Killers Live EP in 1981.

Contents

"Bad Reputation" and "Emerald" are bonus tracks made only available as downloads outside Japan. They are also available as a bonus 7" 45 RPM single on the U.S. vinyl version of the release.

The live recordings of "Jailbreak", "Cowboy Song", and "The Boys are Back in Town" from this album are available as downloadable content as a Thin Lizzy track pack for the music video game Rock Band .[ citation needed ]

The album features the common live Thin Lizzy practice of running one song straight into some more popular hit, typically using the ending note of one as the starting note of the next, notably with "Cowboy Song" which finishes with the first note of "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Soldier of Fortune" which leads directly into "Jailbreak". This live version of "The Boys Are Back in Town" is used over the end credits of the film The Expendables (rather than the more well-known studio version from Jailbreak ).[ citation needed ]

Track listing

  1. "Soldier of Fortune" (Phil Lynott) - 5:22
  2. "Jailbreak" (Lynott) - 4:28
  3. "Cowboy Song" (Brian Downey, Lynott) - 5:04
  4. "The Boys Are Back in Town" (Lynott) - 4:46
  5. "Dancing in the Moonlight" (Lynott) - 4:08
  6. "Massacre" (Downey, Scott Gorham, Lynott) - 3:02
  7. "Opium Trail" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott) - 4:51
  8. "Don't Believe a Word" (Lynott) - 2:25
  9. "Baby Drives Me Crazy" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Brian Robertson) - 6:11
  10. "Me and the Boys" (Lynott) - 6:48
  11. "Bad Reputation" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott) - 4:19
  12. "Emerald" (Gorham, Downey, Robertson, Lynott) - 4:35

Personnel

Thin Lizzy
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [5] 98
US Billboard 200 [6] 189
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [7] 30
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [8] 9

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