Artist: THIN LIZZY
Album: CLASSIC ALBUM SELECTION (6CD BOX)

Year: 2012
Media type: CD

2012 UK 6-CD box-set from the Irish rockers containing a sextet of their classic albums packaged together.

Contains 'Nightlife' (1974), 'Fighting' (1975), 'Jailbreak' (1976), 'Johnny The Fox' (1976), 'Bad Reputation' (1977) and 'Black Rose' (1979).

In terms of their presentation, the discs come in gatefold cardboard sleeves with the original album covers fairly faithfully reproduced front and back, unlike the original CD releases, with the exception of the back cover of 'Bad Reputation', which is different (a B&W photo of the front).

The discs are all easily accessible via large cut-out circles. Other than that, 'Jailbreak', 'Johnny' and 'Black Rose' all have the blurb on the inside cover, 'Nightlife' has the panther-topped logo, 'Fighting' that very unfortunate bloody photo and 'Bad Reputation' has 4 individual photos.

There are no songwriting, performance or production credits and nothing about any remastering, although the discs sound fine.

'Black Rose' has the single version of "Alibi", which is a rare example of an edit making a superb song even stronger.

 
TRACKLIST:

CD 1: Nightlife

1 She Knows
2 Night Life
3 It's Only Money
4 Still In Love With You
5 Frankie Carroll
6 Showdown
7 Banshee
8 Philomena
9 Sha La La
10 Dear Heart

CD 2: Fighting

1 Rosalie
2 For Those Who Love To Live
3 Suicide
4 Wild One
5 Fighting My Way Back
6 King's Vengeance
7 Spirit Slips Away
8 Silver Dollar
9 Freedom Song
10 Ballad Of The Hard Man

CD 3: Bad Reputation

1 Soldier Of Fortune
2 Bad Reputation
3 Opium Trail
4 Southbound
5 Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In It's Spotlight)
6 Killer Without A Cause
7 Downtown Sundown
8 That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart
9 Dear Lord

CD 4: Johnny The Fox

1 Johnny
2 Rocky
3 Borderline
4 Don't Believe A Word
5 Fools Gold
6 Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed
7 Old Flame
8 Massacre
9 Sweet Marie
10 Boogie Woogie Dance

CD 5: Jailbreak

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

CD 6: Black Rose

1 Do Anything You Want To
2 Toughest Street In Town
3 S & M
4 Waiting For An Alibi
5 Sarah (Version 3)
6 Got To Give It Up
7 Get Out Of Here
8 With Love
9 Roisin Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend