Shades Of A Blue Orphanage (studio album)
by Thin Lizzy
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Shades Of A Blue Orphanage is ranked 17th best out of 25 albums by Thin Lizzy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Thin Lizzy is Jailbreak which is ranked number 677 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,569.
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Shades Of A Blue Orphanage track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/21/2025 02:31 |  AAL2014 | 3,575 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/26/2025 01:53 | TastyandTemptin | 2,920 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/18/2024 00:01 | mattmaster | 432 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2024 14:55 | TonySayers61 | 23,240 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2023 18:13 |  MW19704U | 6,990 | 59/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.5/100, a mean average of 61.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 62.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.3.
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AAL2014 05/21/2025 02:36 | #309081
Such a strange album, especially in that they had a pretty forged “Thin Lizzy sound” brewing on the first record and that’s not to be found very much in this outing.
I appreciate the mix of sounds and the attempt to stretch out a bit but the results come up short on most of these efforts. At their worst, the songs here are flaccid pastiches of landing pads Lizzy shouldn’t have been stretching to in the first place.
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
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.
This is my least favorite Thin Lizzy album. Probably not the place for most people to start.
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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