#145
April 18 1980
Phil Lynott
Solo in Soho
Genre: New Wave/Rock
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
King’s Call
You remember how kind of watered down Rick Springfield’s follow up to Working Class Dog, Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet, was? It’s good but the edges are shaved off, the menace, the crunch.
Take Thin Lizzy and do the same thing to them and you get Lynott’s solo record. I mention this because, dammit, “Dear Miss Lonely Hearts” sounds like a Rick Springfield song, don’t it?
And I’m listening to “King’s Call” and thinking…wow…this sounds like Lynott is trying to be Dire Straits. Only to learn after the fact that Mark Knopfler is playing guitar on it.
So…duh.
And, instead of sounding like the solo masterwork by the leader of a great rock band, he anonymizes himself with the gust player inclusions. Midge Ure. Billy Currie. Huey Lewis
I really would have hoped for more from Phil. The album is steeped in the mid-70s and the times are changing around him.
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