Look, I love Priest, but when you compare Sad Wings of Destiny's flimsy execution to the death march assault of "Emerald" there's no goddamn comparison. It's fucked up how Jailbreak gets passed over in metal circles in favor of Rush, Priest and others who released an album in 76. This album should serve as more of a beginning of a long, rewarding journey. While it serves as their breakout moment, by no means should any self-respecting rock/metal fan stop at this point.
Jailbreak is hailed as the highlight of Thin Lizzy's career. It's definitely worth buying it won't be long til summer comes and the boys are back, so get a bunch of tunes that are conducive to good times so you don't have to listen to Agalloch on a perfect summer day. I guess to finish this weird, rambling review, it is pretty redolent of Hendrix's more upbeat tracks, and I really like Hendrix's upbeat tracks so I really like this. It's probably one reason why modern throwback hard rock sucks so much- when they were recording this album it would've been a heavy one for it's time and they fairly threw themselves into the recording, whereas now it's a comfortable throwback the sound is there, but not the spirit that albums like this were made with. It's not exactly Reign in Blood, I mean if anything it's probably one of the least heavy albums on Metal Archives, but you can tell dudes are htiting their instruments hard, and it's recorded at a fairly fierce volume. "Energy" is a pretty impossible thing to measure in music, it's about as subjective as "atmosphere" but whatever, this is a very energetic album.
The very energetic drum performance, lyrical (and relatively spartan) guitar lines and Phil’s fantastic sing/ramble mashup is what keeps it so good I reckon. There is something pretty timeless about it the production dates it, but Angel from the Coast could get played on any rando indie station nowadays and it would still sound pretty fresh and vital. But personally it’s the bouncier tunes, Angel of the Coast, Romeo, The Boys et al that I find more exciting. Bit of early Black Sabbath, lots and lots and lots and lots of Hendrix, filtered through a bunch of very celtic scales. 70s hard rock is something that I can confidently say I don't give two shits about, but there's something about Jailbreak that makes me very tingly in that special place.The harder songs will probably be what gets a lot of dudes excited, Warrior goes respectably hard (and the choir-ish? breakdown is light years ahead of its' time), the title track and Emerald - all very engaging tunes somewhere in that very grey hard rock/heavy metal continuum. Damn, this is a fun album and i'm glad I stumbled upon the CD.
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