Life/Live [Import, Original recording remastered, Live]

Thin Lizzy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Polygram UK
• ASIN: B0000074FI
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,177 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Thunder And Lightning

2. Waiting For An Alibi

3. Jailbreak

4. Baby Please Don't Go

5. Holy War

6. Renegade

7. Hollywood (Down On Your Luck)

8. Got To Give It Up

9. Angel Of Death

10. Are You Ready

Disc: 2

1. The Boys Are Back In Town

2. Cold Sweat

3. Don't Believe A Word

4. Killer On The Loose

5. The Sun Goes Down

6. Emerald

7. Black Rose

8. Still In Love With You

9. The Rocker

Editorial Reviews

Thin Lizzy was a hard rock quartet formed by Philip Lynott out of Dublin, Ireland that had numerous charting albums throughout the 70's & 80s. Wounded Bird will be re-issuing five of those albums on CD. Life-Live is a two CD set of the double live album that was originally released in 1984. It features guitarists Gary Moore, John Sykes and Snowy White. This CD features a live version of their biggest hit Boys Are Back In Town. This release features 19 tracks on 2 CD's in a slimline jewelbox.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great live album, June 18, 2000

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"lexo-2" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life/Live (Audio CD)

Rock "experts" rate Lizzy's earlier "Live and Dangerous" as being their best live album, but for my money this roaring monster is both bigger in sound and in soul. "Life" was recorded on Thin Lizzy's last tour(s) and while there are couple of dodgy songs (I don't really think that "Thunder and Lightning" is quite up to the standard of the band that produced the glorious "Cowboy Song"), there's a big, fat, valedictory tone about the whole album that's very satisfying. The last twenty-odd minutes are the high point, as all of the band's old guitarists take turns guesting on signature songs; Brian Robertson on "Emerald", Gary Moore on a stirring version of "Black Rose" and Eric Bell thrashing up a storm on "The Rocker" which ends up with about five or six guitars at once, as all the old boys troop on for a last bow.

A suitably epic epitaph for a great band, easily the best Irish band ever, in this (young) Irishman's opinion.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "forgotten" live Lizzy LP..., June 11, 2000

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Stephanie Sandlin (Spokane, Wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life/Live (Audio CD)

This often ignored double vinyl album came at the end of Lizzy's 13 year career in 1983.

Recorded on the bands farwell tour, it offers the band stomping through old favorites as well as newer material from "Black Rose" right up to "Thunder and Lightning." The more diverse cross section of material performed on this release: make it superior to its higher grossing sibling live album "Live & Dangerous."

The mix is a little flat, but its the music that matters the most. Its great to hear the incredible versions of "The Sun Goes Down," Phil's delicate vocals on "Still in Love with you," and the amazing finale of "The Rocker." During "The Rocker" every nearly every guitarist who ever preformed reguarly with Lizzy is there - Bell, Gorham, White, Robertson, Moore, and Sykes. Its ear candy to hear all the Lizzy guitarists seguing back and forth.

The bottom line here is that for the wonderful cross section of material this is a must have set for the Lizzy fan. If you aren't familiar with later Lizzy this is a nice package to pick up to introduce yourself. Loaded with all the old favs and the '79 and later material its a special treat.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Rocker!, April 8, 2011

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Fernando "TallicLizzy" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Life/Live (Audio CD)

Great live album. I end up listening to it more then Live and Dangerous. Give this one a shot it's amazing. Nice and heavy, and the most beautiful version of Still In Love With You that you will ever hear. I always get originals opposed to remasters as they sound better, but took a shot with Life, since the original is a bit muddy. Not horrible but you get it. The metal blade remaster is better, it's cleaner, and the bass even more monstrous because of it. The only complaint I have is that on Renegade the bass fades in for a second, as opposed to the original CD it's just there. I don't know if that makes sense. Great live album, and fantastic remaster. I was even lucky enough to get one with John Sykes autograph. Seller didn't list this anywhere!