Shades Of A Blue Orphanage (studio album) by Thin Lizzy

Shades Of A Blue Orphanage by Thin Lizzy
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 42,930th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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64/100 (from 33 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1972 (429th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (4,290th)
Award Best albums of all time (42,930th)
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Shades Of A Blue Orphanage is ranked 17th best out of 23 albums by Thin Lizzy on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Thin Lizzy is Jailbreak which is ranked number 654 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,750.

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From 01/09/2021 01:07
My least favorite Lizzy record but certainly not a bad one. Worthy of it's once a year visit.
Best song(s): Sarah; Buffalo Gal
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From 07/12/2019 03:53
This differs from the first album. The debut was a mixture of good/great ideas with some mediocre/bland ones, and it resulted in a confused album with some good songs but a lot of potentially good ideas thrown into "meh" songs. Shades of a Blue Orphanage differs in that it's maybe 2 good songs with 7 other either bland, boring, and bad songs. I can't understand what Phil was going through at this point, trying to find Lizzy's true calling, but this is hardly a rock album, as most of it's tunes are slower, ballad-y type songs with a few guitar riffs thrown throughout. I'm not bashing it because it's not a rock album, because Lizzy have plenty of great songs later in their career that couldn't really be called "rock" songs - I'm simply bashing this album because it's not very good. Their weakest studio attempt in my opinion.
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From 01/31/2015 14:20
This is my least favorite Thin Lizzy album. Probably not the place for most people to start.
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From 01/20/2015 21:03
The Rise and Dear Demise of the Funky Nomadic Tribes and Brought Down here. Sounds a lot different from most I have heard from them.
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