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Open share drawer Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Thin Lizzy’s greatest album, one that embodies the myth and grandeur of classic rock. You don’t have to be a boy to be one of the boys. All you need are good times, good friends, and the kind of self-acceptance that comes with looking around knowingly and nodding in appreciation. When you hang with the boys, there’s a bunch that gets said, but there’s a bunch more that goes without saying—that you’...

Statues are problematic. We throw them up for the great and the good, but they all too easily paper over the bad traits and dirty bibs from which none of us are immune. These are the very things that make the person who is being venerated in bronze, a human rather than a symbol, and if we are able to relate to them on that level, then it only makes their accomplishments all the more incredible. I thought a lot about monuments watching this documentary portrait of Dublin rock icon Phil Lynott by Emer Reynolds. It made me think just how effectively they can communicate when executed with imagi...

8 min read With input from the late Dublin rock star’s close friends and family, Emer Reynolds’s new film, Songs for While I’m Away, puts forward a different narrative about the Thin Lizzy frontman Most of us have been saying Philip Lynott’s name wrong. Even Emer Reynolds, director of an entertainingly celebratory new film about him, Songs for While I’m Away, struggles with the actual pronunciation. “I can’t get my brain rewired,” she says. “Me and everyone else in Dublin have called him Phil Linnet forever. Lynott [lie-not] is the correct pron...

Director Emer Reynolds Starring Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham, Adam Clayton, John Kelly, Huey Lewis, James Hetfield, Jim Fitzpatrick, Cathleen Howard-Lynott, Sarah Lynott, Caroline Taraskevics Emer Reynolds presents a poetic and loving portrait of the Thin Lizzy hero in Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away but glosses over the full story Did anyone ever have a bad word to say about Phil Lynott? Well, how could anyone have a bad word to say about Phil Lynott? Seemingly the only black kid in Ireland in the 1960s, he was the mixed-race rock 'n’ roll flamingo who glided nimbly outta Crumlin and ...

3. THE YOBS – The Yobs Christmas Album (Safari, 1980) Once upon a time, original UK punkers the BOYS would invert their moniker during the holidays to become the YOBS and serenade the masses with songs of the season. Written, recorded, and mixed in just two days at Pete Townsend’s Eel Pie Studios, The Yobs Christmas Album was released in 1980 to forever enrich the world’s karaoke caroling selection. Featuring a blend of traditional Christmas staples, updated classics, and originals, this merry mix of hits is easily one of the finest punk Christmas records of all time. Some of these son...