Jack says:
It's only the albums included in the box set I can review:
Bad Reputation
Black Rose
Fighting
Johnny The Fox
Nightlife
Jailbreak
Bad Reputation...mostly done as a 3 piece after Brian Roberston got sacked. Pretty solid album with some killer tracks like the title track and Dancing in the Moonlight
Black Rose...awesome album with Gary Moore on guitar. Pretty heavy for the most part apart from Sarah. Roisin Dubh is a celtic rock classic and also has Waiting For An Alibi
Fighting...Not bad, has Rosalie on it and Suicide but has a fair bit of filler. Slightly weak sound as well, they would get heavier
Johnny The Fox...I really rate this album, it came after Jailbreak and had a harder sound in general.
Nightlife...A bit like Fighting. Not a bad album but suffers from a slightly weak sound and some filler tunes. Has an early version of Still In Love With You but not a patch on the Live And Dangerous version. On this and Fighting they were still finding their feet as a proper hard rock band with twin guitars after being a 3 piece with Eric Bell and doing 3 albums of fairly confused but interesting stuff.
As you may gather, I am a massive Thin Lizzy fan!!!!