OK. I'm putting an end to this shit right now. Ace of Spades = Best Song Ever!!!!!!!

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It's got the thundering bass and drums, kick ass guitar solo, and Lemmy ... fucking Lemmy!

It's the best song ever. Believe it.

― cw28 (cw28), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone care to disagree?

― cw28 (cw28), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

might be right!

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: the other dave q(namely David Quantick)'s fantastic comments on the song, which in my recollection included something along the lines of: "Lemmy doesn't so much end the song as bang its head against the wall until it drops off."

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

it's all the same to me

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

very very fine degrees of the same...OR SO IT SEEMS!

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaz, have you been at the sheepdip again?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't argue.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

sad but true, stew

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It's great, but it ain't the best song ever. I'll take that a step further and suggest it ain't even Motorhead's best song ever.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

....which is a title I'd sooner hand to "Bomber" or "Overkill".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

There was certainly a thread on this very topic, Alex (along the lines of 'Motorhead songs that are better than the ace of spades' - and indeed there are quite a few!)

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Motorhead > Overkill > Ace Of Spades > Bomber

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Motorhead" is indeed another fine track (ever hear the Hawkwind original?). "BOMBER" is fucking amazing Stew, you spinner of half-truths, you!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Killed by Death > Metropolis > Iron Fist > Damage Case > No Class > Ace of Spades

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Motorhead by Motorhead > Motorhead by Hawkwind.

"Please Don't Touch" should be in here somewhere too, or doesn't it count?

Also, while we're at it, I'd just like to say: Lemmy / Philthy Animal Taylor / "Fast" Eddie Clarke >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> every other line-up of Motorhead ever.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dancing on Your Grave" is AOK

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

MOTORHEAD! The 12" single!

Fattest grooves on a record ever!

Don't need a record player! just wave it in the air hard enough and you'll hear "SUNRISE!! WRONG SIDE OF ANOTHER DAY!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

no 'lover to fall' by scritti politti is clearly superior.
If you have to go along metal lines make sure its metallica. Any fool can see that master of puppets is vastly superior to anything in motorhead's vast back catalogue

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, tracked down the thread I was on about: Motorhead tracks that are BETTER than 'Ace of Spades'

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, while we're at it, I'd just like to say: Lemmy / Philthy Animal Taylor / "Fast" Eddie Clarke >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> every other line-up of Motorhead ever.

This is akin to saying "BREATHING OXYGEN >>>>>>>>>>>> BREATHING MAPLE SYRUP!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

TEENAGE KICKS IS OFFICIALLY THE BEST SONG EVER: As confirmed in the Guiness book of records

― Steve WC (Steve WC), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Any fool can see that master of puppets is vastly superior to anything in motorhead's vast back catalogue.

Well, I've been told on a great many occasions by any number of kind, thoughtful enormously well-qualified individuals that I'm a first-class fool - and I can't see that!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ace Of Spades" for best song ever? Hmmm...sure, why not? Sounds plausible. And while you're at it, add it to the "Band whose best known track sums up what they sound like" thread, or whatever it's called.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Breathing Oxygen vs. Breathing Maple Syrup

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Not quite related, but I just noticed that they released the Ace of Spades album on DVD-Audio. Because, you know, loud unrepenting metal is every audiophile's choice.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Lemmy's isolated vocals on "Ace Of Spades"

http://www.offnominal.com/temp/motorhead_aceofspades_acapella.mp3

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 3 April 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

loving the fan robot ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3RBSkq-_St8

― mark e, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:08 (twelve years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3RBSkq-_St8

― mark e, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:10 (twelve years ago)

humph ..
how do you get the proper youtube urls now ??

― mark e, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:10 (twelve years ago)

Just chop out the "feature=player_embedded&" part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBSkq-_St8

― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:12 (twelve years ago)

ta !

― mark e, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:14 (twelve years ago)

eight years pass...

Motörhead's ACE OF SPADES played on Netherland church bells. Holy mother this is amazing pic.twitter.com/MYqH9RHCtP
— Spence, Todd (@Todd_Spence) August 7, 2021

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 August 2021 19:29 (four years ago)

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