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  • DRUGS DESTROYED THIN LIZZY!!!

  • If you like this studio version then I suggest you check out the "live" version from Toronto...

    Awsome solo from Robbo!!!!

  • all u fellow irish and otherwise lizzy freaks forgot the most influential son hailing from cork none other than the incomparable rory nuff said

  • Great song! Thin Lizzy best version of course but check out John Norum version which is good too. My buttocks quivered like jely when I first heard this track, by the end of it my nipples had exploded with delight.

  • Bongos just shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite

  • bass near the end kicks in "nice" .

  • The GREAT Thin Lizzy!

    

  • just listen to the music, thats all they could ask for. they dont care about popularity of whos the greatest band out of dublin. they just want to please their fans and rock out and have a good time with their fans. all that matter is that you like their music and are fans of thin lizzy for life.

  • one of the best bands ever. they have such great songs.one after another.peace out,,,,rest in peace phil.

  • Phil rocks that chorus in almost an inverted fashion.. no one had his swagger then or since

  • Thin Lizzy's best song - in my opinion.

  • @jakobcarlsen This,and" Johnny The Fox meets Jimmy The Weed"

  • Yep, that's just about my favourite guitar solo of all time.

  • WOW! I've listened to this song more than I humanly should haha

  • Rifftastic number brilliant!

  • this song fucking rules! i cant believe there isnt a live video of them playing it somwhere

  • Dude, you get no argument from me brother...when I heard this tune I thought,

    Fuckin' wow and they'll never do it live...wrong, there's some versions that are so intense live it's freakin unreal, I started listening to them in 79 so I missed this tour I guess...13 then...!

  • 1 person had a good reputation

  • excellent song...one of the best. If you like it, try listening to the awesome John Norum's (EUROPE) cover.

  • this sound is stellar-innovative style vocals and amazing instrumentals.

  • sou vat huus pleing kitaar kreit sonG laik all tl olmoust this band

  • Can anyone tell me what tuning this song is in? I've been playing it in standard is that correct?

  • @Tonybasskicker2 Lizzy usually had their guitars tuned to D# so id have thought this would be tuned to that.

  • @Arcturo767 Yeah thinks! That's what I thought, the live version was tuned to D though!

  • i found this song because kirk hammett mentioned it in an interview, or one of his lesson columns, so glad i found it, been a lizzy fan ever since

    that was like 15 years ago

    these guitar players are fucking crazy

  • GREAT BAND!!!!! 

  • THIN LIZZY---Greatest ROCK BAND from Dublin.

    Why do U2 get all the credit,and Thin Lizzy get none?

    Thin Lizzy deserve just as much credit as U2 ,but more than likely deserve

    way more,,Thin Lizzy are Dublin,Ireland's Alltime Favourite ROCK BAND!!!!!!!!!

  • a great Thin Lizzy song but it does explain the downside of takeing the drug Heroin if you lisen to the words propley. Very simlar that song Goden Brown by The Stranglers both very true powerful songs by both bands it's so sad this was the very thing that killed Philip Lynott just wish that somebody would of got him clean like Scott Goram his guitarist he got off Heroin wish Philip Lynott would of done the same thing at the same time and everything would of been ok. Real shame he died R.I.P.

  • @helraiser666painkil survive & stop crying silly ;-) who are the lords of the new church? its their martyrs!

  • another Downey bravura..

  • Been a fan of Lizzy for years and I still only just discovered this track. What a song.

  • there are some killer guitar lines going on in the verse low in the mix behind the vocals

  • Phil has to be one of the best front men I think I've ever heard. Not overbearing or never showing off he just flowed lyrically. I don't know how else to describe. I just always pictured him telling a story through his voice with every song. Put on the headphones, close your eyes and just lay back and go somewhere else than where you physically are. I don't get this with a lot of front men but I do with Phil. RIP

  • Fucking kicks ass.

  • @SuperWhoopass Dude,

    Totally!

  • wow, i don't understand why i never listened to this band, i love this music

  • best lizzy song ever 

  • I would have loved to see them played this live ! EXCELLENT !

  • who wud thumb this down?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • I don't wanna get a spam flag.But this song was used in a XXX movie

    back in the 70's. I remember. Thin Lizzy's best album !

  • This, Wild One, Massacre and Jailbreak. One of the best songwriters ever.

  • Who was that jerk that didn't like it?

  • @MrLoppas j****n B****r probabl saw it and got jealous, and in all his rage mustve accidentally hit the dislike button.

  • I agree. Their best song. Period.

  • I like this for the first moment....

  • @jaktmark same here. Great song!

  • Gorham shreds on this

  • @dawggybonz

    is it not brian robertson on this track? only a selected few of the tracks on bad reputation was by robbo and i think this is one

  • @korrayls it is brian robertson on this track.

  • @banklikefrankwhite1 Not sure Brian was even on this album...it is either Scott or Gary Moore.

  • @MrNoshies he has credits on the album for lead guitar on this song, and killer without a cause.

    if you are referring to robertson

  • @banklikefrankwhite1 Ahhhhhhh...tks I havent read the album cover for years...I knew Gary was on it though. It was a strange time for the band.

  • @MrNoshies only reason i know, is because i read something with kirk hammett and one of his topics was the guitar solos of this song...can't remember who did what, but he pointed it out..by saying "brian robertsons solo on opium trail" blah blah it was related to wah pedal use

  • @MrNoshies My Dad has this album. It's Brian & Scott.

  • @MrNoshies Robbo was on this album , he was and is still going through an drink problem. He busted up his hand during the recording, and Phil had enought of his behaviour and fired him. He is on all the tracks on this album and did the tour but after that he was gone, Brian was a wonderful guy sober, but this all went to his head, He was 17 when he joined Lizzy .

  • @prsfrank Sorry, Robbo did not play on every song - only 2 or 3. Scott recorded most of the parts before Robertson joined them in Canada. Robbo played both solos on this song though. Anyone who knows their style and tone knows it's Robertson, especially the wah solo at the end. He also does the solo on Killer Without a Cause" - another great song. I thought this record was a little dissappointing when it came out. I only wanted to hear kickass rockers, not ballads, LOL.

  • Not the best version of this song ever !, its great but listen to the live version from Philly, live killers ep, absolutely the greatest power riff and solos to die for by the greatest live band ever

    Robbo wah wah king

    Phil RIP always missed every day

  • theres no tabs anywhere on this,goddamit

  • @tomnez I believe Guitar World transcribed this song 2 or 3 yrs ago

    check out thier website.

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  • Phil Lynott is the wizard wandering through the world of dreams

  • I love the Wah wah in this song, it's a real shame its at the end and fades mid riff.

  • do they mean "opium" like in "heroin"?

  • @TheDatanet

    yes. Heroin is derived from the opium poppy. Unfortunately Phil was addicted to this. This song is the story of the descent into that addiction; as well as the quasi mystical fascination that he as an artist had with this drug; and the euphoric world whose doors the drug opened for him.

  • Gary Moore is so raw

  • @44SuperShredder He's not on this..

  • Wow this is fucking amazing!

  • pass me the opium fuker,

  • i would put jailbreak first then fighting,kings vengence is my pick for that albumn

  • This is great! were so lucky to have this music. rocknroll saves my soul on a daily basis! I would humbly accept any musical contribution this band gave us, the lucky few. as they say in the islands, it's all good.

  • i think that bad reputation is there best album.

  • Got this album for Xmas around the time it was released. brilliant album.

  • Vagabonds to Black Rose was Thin Lizzy in their prime.I don't care what anybody says.

  • It just struck me that this one is Ironmaiden-ish. Only done better. :)

  • Bad Reputation may actually be their best album - better than Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox. However, in my opinion, they were at their peak during this period so take your pick along with Live and Dangerous (perhaps, THE BEST live album ever).

    Black Rose and Chinatown are also good, but the drugs must have taken over by Renegade. I have always wondered if this song represented the beginning of Phil's heroin usage.

  • As far as I know, Phil started heroin while recording Black Rose in Paris in '79, but this song was inspired by a documentary Phil saw on tv about the passage of opium from the far east, so it at least represents the beginning of his interest in the drug.

    So sad how his life turned, and its all right there in his tunes, people probably didn't realise how much truth was in his lyrics until it was too late.

    Philip Parris Lynott was born to be a rock god, and he always will be.......R.I.P

  • It sounds like Gorham and Lynott both had a problem and agreed to split in order to clean up. Gorham followed through, but Phil spun out of control.

    The videos of Phil from 83 through 85 tell the story. He aged rapidly and looked bloated as all hell. Anyone can see something wasn't right by 85.

    The break up of Lizzy, failure of Grand Slam and his wife and daughters leaving accelerated his downward decline. No one intervened until it was too late.

  • Fighting is their best album, followed VERY closely by Johnny the Fox and then Jailbreak. Bad Reputation doesn't hold a candle to those three.

  • tbh, I'd argue that none of those albums are as good as Vagabonds of the Western World - one bemusingly left out of most people's lists.

  • Personally, I think Thin Lizzy continued to get better and hit their peak in 76-78. You can argue which album from Jailbreak to Live and Dangerous was best. I think they hit their stride with Jailbreak and their next 2 studio albums were better, L&D is the best live album ever.

    Black Rose is good and so is Chinatown, but they were clearly sliding down at that point.

  • Agreed. Vagabonds is superior. I prefer the first 3 albums over their later catalogue...

  • @TheGargantuanSock

    Personally, i think Black Rose is one of their best :D

  • @reecedillon hell yeah!

  • You will note that I said MAY have been. Lizzy was at their peak with Robbo so take your pick. Gary, Snowy and Sykes were great guitarists, but Lizzy was at its best with Robbo.

    I am an American and I agree that Thin Lizzy is the most underrated band in rock history. It is their record company's fault. There was no support after Jailbreak.

    Live and Dangerous was HUGE on my college campus in 78-79, but apparently it did not sell that well in America.

  • @DSENNsation

    Bad Rep is MUCH better than fighting, imo. For example...this song blows anything on fighting away. 

  • @666sigma

    my favorite album of theirs is Jailbreak then Bad Reputation second

  • phil was a genious

  • in fact, turn it up and play some air drums and guitar! i know it makes you feel like a young buck again!

  • been rockin this since i was 15.....35 years later positively no difference.... turn it up!

  • My favorite Lizzy song.

  • GREAT SONG!

  • beautiful music and spiralling tones...magical

  • spiralling is a great word for this song..."the wizard wonders through the world he made from dreams..." i feel like i'm flying through some kind of vortex when i'm listening to this great great song!!

    where are the great rock bands today?????

  • Robbo, King Wah Wah!

  • the absolute ,most versitile band there was at the time, ...sad thing is most people from that time period were never even aware of these songs ...too afraid to stray from the mainstream..well all I can say is they missed out big time

  • Pure Brill, most under-rated band in Rock-n-roll history!

  • If you think this is good - check out the LIVE Opium Trail from the Live an Dangerous Tour. Mysteriously it was left off the album but its out there somewhere. I think it came out on 'Live Killers' durin the Snowy White era. By far the best track ever put down by Lizzy.

    Long live Pippin the friendly ranger at Clontarff Castle!!

  • Oh an while I'm on...does anyone know where Dino's bar and Grill is? I was told by a roadie once it was on Whitworth Street in Manchester (now a car park - I have a shot of the exact spot if anyone wants to see). However I've also seen it mentioned in a book that it was in LA someplace. I'd like to think the author is wrong but hey I still like to think it's here in MADchester! Anyone got a clue???

  • I dont , but I really like to know.

    If you find out, would you tell me?

  • Heard it...

    LOVE IT!!!!!!!

  • Is Bad reputation one of the most underrated albums or what? When it came to dope they new what they were talking about, thats why opium wars is so intense. All of the tracks on this record are brilliant. All of it. Like a final breath before going deep 6 it was "Lizzys" swan song.

  • IT IS . I LOVE IT PHIL IS A GENIUS

  • Classic tune ... R.I.P. Phillo

  • Intelligent, heart-felt, and relentlessly powerful.

  • @getmetwobeers I grew up listening to this band.Most young people today have no idea who this band is which is a shameI hope to one day see Phil and the rest of the band be given their due,amd to be inducted in the rock n roll hall of fame.

  • @getmetwobeers

    Superb Lyrics and music, so under rated

  • by far the best solo of brian robertsons career he was way underrated as a guitarist he had a killer tone and great phrasing with a wah wha pedal awesome

  • It was Scott Gorham who handled ALL the lead guitar work on the Bad Reputation Album,as Robertson had left the band by 1977.

    The album was recorded in Toronto,Canada in '77.

    I love this song-one of Lizzy's best.

  • im sorry but youre wrong robertson was fired then hired back as a "guest" he does three solos on bad reputation, this one, killer without a cause, and that woman's gonna break your heart. just check the notes he's credited on there gorham did the bulk of the work then lynott gave robertson another chance and brought him back before the record was finished

  • His statue in Dublin is on my rock memorial list.

  • i don't care if i get thumbsed down, this is the best thin lizzy song. that's all there is to say.

    it's the best one.

  • no way thumbs down dude

    i just cant choose a favorite lizzy cut

    too many to cull doen to a best

    this one is massive tho for sure

    whole album was

    from one lizzy fan to another ...

    peace

  • @wegreenall Agree buddie, one of the best Phililp ever recorded.. anyway i love all his catalog.. he he

  • @wegreenall This song is incredibly badass. I love this album. They needed to put out Bad Reputation II. The solos are so amazing and perfect. Dancing in the Moonlight always really impressed because the solo had an awesome section around 2:20.

  • @wegreenall It's also my dad's favourite and I have to say it fuckin' rocks.

  • A masterpiece! the guitar tones are of the hook.

  • My fave off of the Bad Reputation album. A very underrated album. Phil's Bassline is killer. He inspires me both as a bassist and as a singer/songwriter. R.I.P. Phil and I have to visit his hometown of Eire in Dublin to check out the statue that is made in his honor. I hope I got the city right. I know that he was from Ireland. Best band of all time period!

  • Thin Lizzy is the greatest band ever, they are so underrated and it pisses me off

  • Dublin is in Ireland. Ireland isn't in Dublin. Ireland is a contry and Dublin is a city...

  • wowness! the bass on this song is AMAZING!

  • great track on a great album... RIP phil!

    gorham WOW.. great looking in his younger days... over all best guitarist in thin lizzy.. he last longer than gary moore and many more guitarists! truly great !

  • Crackin' Lizzy song-one of their best.

    Would love to hear Messers Sykes & Gorham playing this in concert,it would be a real joy.

  • Love this song. God Bless Thin Lizzy. Philip Lynott R.I.P. Missed Too Much.

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