Motorhead: C or D

The image: classic, no two ways about it.

The music: Very enjoyable in small doses, but as with most Metal, it all ends up sounding a bit samey to me after the fourth song.

According to AMG he'll be 57 on Christmas Eve

The album suffers from a very weak sound, so it's the live recordings that make this song so great.

The remaster work is much improved over the old CD master of "No Remorse" that I had until it got lost. (My first copy of No Remorse was a cassette that I bought at a truck stop on a road trip.)

Motorhead make riding a big Harley hog and doing mounds of speed seem like a good idea.

Also, what's their best recenbt album? Recommendations?

Overkill is great, maybe just a hair below Ace of Spades as an album. Bomber isn't quite as great, but it is still pretty good.
Both were produced by Jimmy Miller, which was a bit of a surprise.

I'm sure all of Motorhead's early records were done on a tight budget. Lemmy plays chords with a distorted bass tone on quite a few tunes, which tends to blend with the guitar into a big overdriven pudding.

The thing I dig about the albums compared to Motorhead comps is that they leave off many good mid-tempo boogie numbers.

'Damage Case' may be the best Motorhead song

but

'Killed by Death' is the best video clip in the history of hard rock. It has Lemmy and the gang riding around with chicks on motorcycles and dirt buggies, then a bunch of cops shoot Lemmy with shotguns, then it cuts to Lemmy's funeral, where he rides out of his grave on a motorcycle.

The thing with Motorhead is that every single one of their albums has at least three songs, and sometimes four or five, that are totally mind-destroyingly brilliant. Hammered, the most recent one, is no exception, but of their "recent" stuff (since 1991, say), I'd pick Overnight Sensation. Not just for the title track and "Love Can't Buy You Money," but for "I Don't Believe A Word," which is, I think, even better than "Orgasmatron" for total everybody-sucks-and-there's-no-hope fatalism.

I really actually love 1916, even thought it's maybe a bit of a "leftfield" album for them....How is that album regarded by hardcore MH fans?

No Voices in the Sky, the title track, Ramones, and a bunch of others are pretty great imo.

http://www.motorhead.ru/art11damagecase.htm

I couldn't sleep last night and stumbled across the Classic Albums episode on Ace Of Spades. There's some extras which made it onto YouTube - the one to check out is the semi-reunion (Clarke is in a different studio) of Lemmy, Clarke, and Taylor who blast through "We Are The Road Crew" as an instrumental. Amazingly fantastic even with Clarke effectively pasted in.

I've been listening to the reissues today and I love how inverted the early records are compared with subsequent metal albums. Guitar solos aren't mixed up higher, bass solos are (check out the reissue version of "Stay Clean"!). Drums sound more like Keith Moon or Chuck Biscuits rather than the same Bonham mix every metal band goes for. For all the press that Jimmy Miller gets for his work with the Stones, I think Overkill and Bomber are his best production jobs.

Anyone who says "dud" should be ripped apart by famished hyaenas.

Soooo true then. Soooooo true now.

alex in nyc otm

i don't much go for metal, but i love those two records (and have the reissue versions)

lemmy is the only bass player that makes playing full voiced chords through the whole song fucking ROCK.

Anyone else heard Motörizer yet? I haven't listened to anything since 1916, which was a long, long time ago. In other words, I don't know if they were still this great the whole time, but it's amazing how much 2008 Motörhead is every bit as kickass as 1978 Motörhead.

Which of the late-period albums are worth looking for?

Inferno is as solid a Motorhead album as there's been since Orgasmatron.

I quite like Sacrifice too, and the last one Kiss of Death was good fun.

first thing i see when i click that article is a photo of fucking dave grohl

so sick of dave grohl.

saw a nice clip of Triple H's speech at the memorial

listening to Motorhead and On Parole today. i prefer the On Parole versions of these songs, especially "Vibrator", which has a really cool trippy Revolver-style drone ending. i can't seem to find that version on youtube otherwise i'd post it.

On Parole is such an incredible album. i have a hard time picking between it and Space Ritual

they recorded it in 1975. that is insane. had anything as fast as this album in rock been done before?

its GOOD to be FREE again

its GOOD to be ME again

stop me now before i kill myself
stop me now before i kill myself
stop me now before i kill myself
stop me before i kill somebody else

you never know who's gonna be the next to go

really the only analogs i can think of are proto-rock garage and psych speed freak anthems like "My Generation" and "Psychotic Reaction"

this would be a really nice day for someone to leak a Lemmy-Hendrix jam, they must have taped something sometime.

if not then they are now. RIP

if not then they are now. RIP

the motorhendrix experience!

i prefer the On Parole versions of these songs

They're really, really good - as a fan of the Pink Fairies w/Larry Wallis, hearing him play with Lemmy is awesome and I kind of wonder how it would've gone if he'd stayed with the band. I mean, just in an alternate universe sci-fi scenario, you know, because I wouldn't want to lose Overkill, Bomber or Ace of Spades.

This from last year is very Lemmy:

There ain't no rules to follow, you can't predict tomorrow
I know just who my friends are, the rest can turn to stone
Your memories are yours alone;
They're yours until your dust and bones
I know the things I'm looking for, I know just what I want

In my life the times has changed, I'm still the man I was
I don't want to hear your fairy tales
All I know is who I am; I'll never let you down
The last one you can trust until the end, until the end

In your life, you'll be amazed at all the love you lose
You can never live that life again
The one thing you will never lose is the singing in your head
That will still be with you until the end

http://www.achewood.com/comic.php%3Fdate%3D01292016

http://www.achewood.com/comic.php?date=01292016

Listening to bunches of Motorhead over the past few years, I got to say their discography is very consistent. There are good tunes on all of the later records with Phil and Mikkey Dee. I'd think as time goes on, you will see quite a few covers come out from other bands on their list of songs. You could make a damn good rockabilly record of all Motorhead covers.

People say it about many (underserving) bands, but Motorhead really never fell off.

RIP http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/fast-eddie-clarke-dead-motorhead-aged-67-dies-died-cause-best-songs-albums-a8153266.html

Oh no! They're all dead now! RIP Eddie.

yeah the last of the original line-up :-(

awwww man

rip Fast Eddie

RIP :(

no!! the 2nd gig i ever went to was motorhead on the 'ace up your sleeve tour'. a forever cherished memory seeing those three play together and hard to believe they are all gone now. so long, eddie.

let er rip
https://youtu.be/D5_oPyavUaw

i know it’s the motorhead thread, hopefully allowance made for a fastway classik given the circumstances? :D

sadly I only have one motorhead record at home at present: killed by death

rip mr eddie

Fast Eddie's lead vocal turn with Motorhead on "Step Down" from Bomber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwQ7VMg2Sg

aw man, RIP. I can always appreciate any Motorhead, but the Fast Eddie-era was always my favourite, particularly for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUEKIWfEg8

RIP Eddie. Step Down is a jam btw, but then so was pretty much everything he did with Motorhead.

BTW I only recently discovered Eddie played lead on the two Curtis Knight (&) Zeus albums! Tasty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW3xZAGWUDM

Step Down is cool, it's one tune where you can really hear the Hendrix in his playing.

Yeah that Curtis Knight connection in a good rock and roll happenstance, considering Hendrix was a side man with that guy too and Lemmy roadied for Jimi.

So for various reasons over the years I had never really listened to Motorhead. Obviously I've heard them, I mean I've read Lemmy's book & watched the doc, but I never owned a record or sat and really listened. Even though I am pretty good friends with a Motorhead fanatic (actually that might explain some of it) and I generally love greasy, English 70s freak rock (Pink Fairies, Stack Waddy, Deviants, I love Mick Farren, etc).

Anyway, a gap in my knowledge.

So I sort of randomly decided on the 28th, since I was on vacation I would listen to Motorhead and I listened to a lot! They were pretty good! They have way better songs then anyone gives them credit for and more, I don't want to say "groove" exactly but there is something going on in the rhythm section. "On Parole" and "Overkill" are my faves.

Motorhead, check them out!

My wife coming home from work last Saturday night: "Have you just been listening to Motorhead all day?"
Me: "Yes"

They have way better songs then anyone gives them credit for

Well... in actuality, lots of people give Motorhead immense credit for having written many, many great songs.
And Lemmy is regarded by the cognoscenti as having been one of the all-time great rock bassists.

I've been contemplating that the 1981 Who track "The Quiet One" was Entwistle taking on Motorhead, the way "Rough Boys" and other Townshend tracks of the era are directed to the punks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E8as7xpR34

If I was a big music manager mogul working for Ozzy Osbourne, I would tell him to make a cover of "Till the End" off the last Motorhead record.

"The Quiet One" would have been an excellent song for Motorhead to cover.

Lots of excellent tracks on the last few albums, always underrated as a songwriter.

That fairly recent covers collection was good too: Lemmy was a fair judge of other people's songs as well.

Lemmy would have been 74 today. I'm listening to a live concert from 1983, included as a bonus disc with the deluxe edition of the very underrated Another Perfect Day. Brian Robertson was a great choice to be their guitarist; it's a shame he didn't want to fully commit to the Motörhead weltanschauung.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ju9QRonoY0

yeah was listening to Another Perfect Day for the first time a couple weeks ago

really a great album, he added a lot on guitar

Lemmy died 5 years ago today

:(

Considering the number of musicians who dies in 2016, I'm reminded of his comment on the line "I don't wanna live forever" from 'Ace Of Spades': "I'd like to die the year before forever, to avoid the rush."

Yes was just thinking of the count in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWJYYBkl8A ass for spayeds was cool!

WIll depend on Rollins tolerance but this long tribute podcast is really good: https://www.henryrollins.com/podcasts/2018/8/29/henry-heidi-podcast-lemmy

I still have the flyer for their scheduled Feb 2016 show (with Saxon & Girlschool!) on my refrigerator door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy6NcxDdDWo

On Leno in 1992. I love Lemmy goes over to the house band and gives Branford something before his short interview with Jay.

I forgot that the quartet lineup lasted almost a decade.