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I'm just gonna say it: Motorhead does not get the appreciation it deserves on xo

I understand because I was once like this myself. I knew jus...
Contagious Space
  04/23/21
Their song about the Ramones is what turned me onto them. Re...
Ungodly racy giraffe
  04/23/21
1916 is a tremendous album. Sort of just came out of nowhere...
Contagious Space
  04/23/21
what is the connection between motorhead and the band 'the p...
Floppy meetinghouse
  04/23/21
Larry Wallis was the first guitarist for the band. Fast Eddi...
Contagious Space
  04/23/21
incredible. tyft.
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  04/23/21
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haunting dog poop rehab
  04/23/21
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  04/23/21
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Honey-headed hall national security agency
  04/23/21
well, i did make a few threads i remember. probably within l...
mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha
  04/23/21
I shy away from discussions about Lemmy, because while I who...
Contagious Space
  04/24/21
I will let you be the expert on Lemmy and the history of the...
mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha
  04/24/21
Well let's start with the song poison, a real nasty dirty tr...
Contagious Space
  04/24/21
i have no opinion on this to reply to you with, because trut...
mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha
  04/24/21
Random thought I will share about Lemmy is that he's a tone ...
Contagious Space
  04/26/21
Now that I am giving it another spin, I am more sure now tha...
mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha
  04/24/21
I hate to talk about "favorite" albums with Motorh...
Contagious Space
  04/25/21
with a bit more contemplation and listening of motorhead, i ...
mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha
  04/27/21
I would bump Overkill and Bomber to a 4.5, Motörhead an...
Contagious Space
  04/27/21
have to strongly disagree on that. im still spinning ACE OF ...
mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha
  04/27/21
That's a fucking awesome song. Definitely my favorite on tha...
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  04/29/21
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Irradiated Queen Of The Night
  04/25/21
because of this thread I listened to 3 entire motorhead albu...
clear titillating public bath pocket flask
  04/25/21
180! I'm so glad another poaster has been introduced to this...
Contagious Space
  04/26/21
I thought it was overall great. THe drumming on Overkill and...
clear titillating public bath pocket flask
  04/26/21
Yeah you were listening to the Fast One there. Here's my rev...
Contagious Space
  04/26/21
This is the kind of stuff that makes XO great. Cr.
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  04/25/21
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Domesticated Fighting Cruise Ship
  05/01/21
I like this rock critic's album review for Motorhead: The c...
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  04/25/21
This review is clearly of the No Remorse "album," ...
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  04/26/21
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Floppy meetinghouse
  04/25/21
I start every morning with a Motorhead song followed up with...
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  04/27/21
My Motörhead playlist on Tidal is already at 41 and the...
Contagious Space
  05/01/21
Ok I had to add Killed by Death and Stone Dead Forever to my...
Contagious Space
  05/01/21
Ok Love for Sale makes the top 10. It really illustrates a l...
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  05/01/21
Tentatively placing One to Sing the Blues on my top 10 list ...
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Date: April 23rd, 2021 2:36 AM
Author: Contagious Space

I understand because I was once like this myself. I knew just enough Motörhead songs to know I couldn't stand Lemmy's voice. I considered myself a metalhead in my youth, but if you had asked me to describe Motorhead when I was 19 all I would have said is that they were really fast and kind of primitive sounding.

It turns out I was gay. Motorhead is not only perhaps the greatest metal band of all time, it is a top 20, if not a top 10 rock act. Throughout all of the lineup changes it has never not been staffed by top tier musicians. Yes, I'm putting Lemmy in that category, though for reasons that may be unique to Lemmy himself.

1. Let's start with what "Motorhead" is. It's tempting to think it's a band, but consider that Motorhead can simultaneously be used to refer to:

a. the name of the last song Lemmy wrote/recorded for Hawkwind before they kicked him out

b. the name of Motorhead's first album

c. the nameof the first song on the Album "Motorhead," itself a cover of the same "Motorhead" song previously written for Hawkwind

d. slang for a speed freak

Speed was the drug that brough the original Motorhead lineup together. A trio of literal motorheads, singing a song called motorhead on an album called motorhead. So of course they called the band Motorhead.

This digression is meant to illustrate that Motorhead was not just "a band." It began an expression of love for amphetamines that took the form of music called "Motorhead." If you asked these people who they were, or what they were, or what kind of music they played, or why it sounded that way, the answer would have been the same every time: Motorhead. Very fast and loud music performed by men on speed who, when they weren't performing music, talked fast and chewed gum and fucked 15 year old girls and physically fought and recording engineers, studio executives, anyone who messed with their fans, and each other.

2. Motorhead has never not had an incredible lineup. Every musician that has come and gone left an indelible mark on the band's sound when he was there. Phil Campbell may be my favorite working guitarist. But Motorhead needs to be listened to chronologically to be properly understood, and the focus of any introduction needs to be on the original lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor and "Fast" Eddie Clarke.

3. Taylor is the unsung hero of Motorhead, and perhaps the most influential drummer in all of heavy metal. Hands and feet don't seem connected to the same nervous system. Don't tell me about Bonzo on Good Times Bad Times until you've listened to Overkill. Sure those are two bass drums not one, but they don't stop, don't lose temp, snare never stops sounding like constant semi automatic rifle fire. A million bands have covered Motorhead songs but no drummer has ever pulled of Phil Taylor's swing.

1hile you're at it see if you can find any interview footage where he isn't out of his mind on speed.

4. "Fast" Eddie Clark wasn't actually that fast, he was mostly just white british Chuck Berry knockoff who couldn't really solo a la Keith Richards, but he had incredible feel and enough to technical ability to get the job done. Fast Eddie also brought to Motorhead an ethos. He insisted that all band members be given equal songrwriting credit for example, so that they would all share equally in the royalties, a tradition the band carried on after his departure. It was Fast Eddie who insisted on cutting their first record just as the others were about to give up because he throught the music was good and should be recorded. Fast Eddie left the band after Lemmy did a song with Wendy O Williams because he thought Lemmy was being a sellout pussy.

6. Getting back to the main point: I think what "Motorhead" is an ethos. However it's an ethos founded first and foremost not on speed but on intelligence and camraderie One thing you will notice if you pay attention to Motorhead is that none of its members have ever been visibly dumb. We have extensive interview footage of the band, as they were quite gregarious and perhaps even attention whores, and at all times every member of the band appears thoughtful, warm, intelligent and friedly. And perhaps most importantly they are all obviously good friends with each other. Motorhead is not a band with an ever-rotating lineup. Motorhead is a bunch of friends who got to know each other over a period of decades, all of whom are deeply passionate about music, and all of whom love making music with each other. These men loved Elvis, the Beatles, Motown, Chuck Berry and of course The Ramones. They made music they thought sounded good. They never got tired of playing their old classics. In fact they loved playing their old classics. They were music lovers who made music they loved and were never not humbled by the fact that anyone else might love their music too. They didn't so much "quit" the band as they took turns filling in for each other when one of them didn't have the stamina to keep up and needed to take a break. This was a physically demanding band and most of its members are already dead.

7. This is where I'll leave off my introduction to motorhead. Apologies for any typos. I'll have more to say in future installments, and I certainly don't expect to turn anyone onto the group based solely on what I say here. However, eventually I hope to convince you that these intellgent, thoughtful music lovers produced some deeply intelligent, thougtful music, all of which has been carefully remastered, and almost all of which sounds fantastic when played and the highest volumes your speakers can manage. I will end with the opening lyrics to the aforementioned song, "Motorhead."

Sunrise, wrong side of another day

Sky high and six thousand miles away

Don't know how long I've been awake

Wound up in an amazing state

Can't get enough

And you know it's the righteous stuff

Goes up like prices at Christmas

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42334586)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 2:52 AM
Author: Ungodly racy giraffe

Their song about the Ramones is what turned me onto them. Really cool song if you're a Ramones fan. Their cover of Whiplash makes Metallica sound like Mumford and Sons. Can't say I'm familiar with their discography but I'm listening to the first album now and it sounds very punk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42334619)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 3:08 AM
Author: Contagious Space

1916 is a tremendous album. Sort of just came out of nowhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42334633)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 2:55 AM
Author: Floppy meetinghouse

what is the connection between motorhead and the band 'the pink fairies'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42334624)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 2:58 AM
Author: Contagious Space

Larry Wallis was the first guitarist for the band. Fast Eddie got the job after Wallis failed to show up for practice. Legend has it he thought he was too good for them. You can hear him on this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k4wG4mTTQk

Philthy is going nuts on that track but without Fast Eddie it's just not "Motorhead." That's Fast Eddie in the pic btw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42334626)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 3:05 AM
Author: Floppy meetinghouse

incredible. tyft.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42334629)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 9:18 AM
Author: haunting dog poop rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42335052)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 12:50 PM
Author: Contagious Space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42336319)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 2:22 PM
Author: Honey-headed hall national security agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42337154)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 10:38 PM
Author: mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha

well, i did make a few threads i remember. probably within last year, for sure. i love motorhead.

im on a bowie kick now. (as an an unrelated aside, i now know for certain that i only truly love ziggy stardust, station to station, low, heroes, and scary monsters)

motorhead's very first album is awesome, not sure why music critics dont give it as much praise. overkill is also absolutely killer. definitely better album. bomber i think i like less than motorhead, but its still great. and ace of spades is great too. shit, i think i like motorhead, overkill and ace of spades equally.

and then there is hawkwind! hall of the mountain grill and warrior on the edge of time are phenomenal. definitely a different pace than motorhead's music, but you can sense a shared dna there. its on par for me. just as good, but different. maybe i like motorhead more. in search of space i dont really dig much. pink fairies also had good tunes. i still need to listen to sf sorrow by the pretty things, i heard it was related somehow.

basically, lemmy is one of the grandfathers of british rock, up there with jimmy page and robert plant and david bowie and john lennon and mick jagger and the like.

not to mention metallica's original lineup listed motorhead as one of their biggest influences, probably up there with ozzy and his black sabbath.

as it goes for british rock, im pretty sure my british favorites rock bands ratio to american is like 10 to 1. american R&B and soul is a big chunk of 70s music that tips the scale away from UK back to US, and of course also jamaican roots reggae takes away from UK's share of favorite music, but reggae got big in UK first and it was all those island releases that got it all going internationally, and UK was huge on american R&B ever since the the beginning, and not to mention that jimmy hendrix first made it big in the UK, while totally ignored in america. UK is the shit when it comes to popular music. and while we are on that subject, i think the Cure also made some of the best music ever. PiL... the prodigy with their big beat electronic super intense and polyrhythmically aggressive music that never could have been achieved without synthesizers and programmable drum machines... Joy Division. Echo and the Bunnymen. Radiohead. in fact, i think if i had to choose, with all due respect to America and blacks, i would take the UK.

As great as america is, the old monarchy and its kingdom from which america decoupled and created itself was still a source of much forward impulse in the world, if only until recently, when it opened up like a maggot-ridden corpse to abide the entry of the ghosts of its past conquests to invade and feed on the withering carcass. america is no better with its brown mexico invasion from the south, which, lest we forget, is what put trump in office in the first place, and only reason he became president.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42339713)



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Date: April 24th, 2021 3:18 AM
Author: Contagious Space

I shy away from discussions about Lemmy, because while I wholeheartedly agree with your characterization of him, he was such an attention whore, almost like a guy who spent his entire adult life method acting until the moment he drew his last breath. I don't believe we ever saw the "real Lemmy," just post-1977 Lemmy who had already adopted a persona and certain lifestyle habits. I also think all of the attention whoring and the actual whoring makes it hard to take him seriously as a musician. Then there's the fact that his technical skills were not terribly impressive and his singing was not particularly "musical."

So why do I put him up there with Page, and significantly higher than Plant or even Mick Jagger? Because like Page he had an ear for music. He has high quality standards and good taste. He knew what sounded good. He knew when the music he was making was good and when it sounded like shit. But unlike Page he knew his limitations. He was a bit like Johnny Ramone (who I also think is highly underrated as a musician) in that he had figured out how to make certain sounds that were really unique, and he could make them well enough to make music he himself could listen to and say "this is good shit."

HOW he did this is another story. I think it's interesting that, like Led Zeppelin, The core members of Motörhead have always been intimately close friends. None of them left on bad terms. There were never any bad blood. There was friendship even among band members who replaced each other. No one ever really "quit" motörhead, they just had a deep bbench. But it's why they're friends that's interesting to me. For one, they are all genuinely high functioning high iq doods. The average IQ in Motorhead exceeds Steely Dan and Weezer levels. But more importantly, they all have that same ear for music. They KNOW when it's good. This is why Motörhead never had a "weak" album, just a few weird ones that are still really fucking good1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42341035)



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Date: April 24th, 2021 3:31 AM
Author: mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha

I will let you be the expert on Lemmy and the history of the band, and the circumstances within which some of the best music ever got made.

Godspeed!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42341043)



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Date: April 24th, 2021 3:39 AM
Author: Contagious Space

Well let's start with the song poison, a real nasty dirty track with some nasty lyrics about Lemmy's dad. Funny how Lemmy the camera whore never had much to say about him because he seems to have had some strong feelings about him.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42341055)



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Date: April 24th, 2021 3:45 AM
Author: mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha

i have no opinion on this to reply to you with, because truth be told my knowledge of lemmy and motorhead and the rest of his music is from listening to the music itself, seeing him on tv in a couple of vh1 best of heavy rock countdowns back when i was in high school, and a few wikipedia articles that i read about him.

needless to say what i most remember is his picture -- his face is iconic in 20th century rock history, i should surmise, as is his posture and body language; and second of all and probably eclipsing that high bar for my recollection is his illustrious record of speed and alcohol abuse which to call it legendary would be the understatement of the year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42341068)



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Date: April 26th, 2021 2:24 PM
Author: Contagious Space

Random thought I will share about Lemmy is that he's a tone and rhythm guy. That's what he can do as a musician and that's about all he ever did (vocals aside). There's a behind the scenes interview with his roadie where he says he tunes his bass to sound like japanese fighter planes from old WWII footage. He found something he was able to do as a musician and used as a foundation to create the most beautiful music he was capable of making.

And this was fundamentally music he was making for himself. When you are listening to a Motörhead you aren't listening an album so much as you are listening to Lemmy's personal mix tape.

That's what I admire about Lemmy as a musician. I think Johnny Ramone had some similar qualities as a musician. He secretly liked the music he was making on their first four albums, and he did great things with his instrument and sounded amazing in spite of his apparent lack of technical ability, but he didn't have Lemmy's ear and couldn't do shit without Dee Dee writing the songs. He unable to bond with other musicians as far as anyone can tell. I don't think he ever could have ever carried a band of legit musicians, but he fumbled the ball even with the musicians he never tried to make music for himself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42352904)



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Date: April 24th, 2021 4:03 AM
Author: mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha

Now that I am giving it another spin, I am more sure now that "Ace of Spades" is the much better album between it and Overkill. It just has better rhythm and the songs are sonically way more fun and entertaining. I appreciate the heavier dynamics on Overkill and the more dramatic tone of sound and the heavier style, but Ace of Spades kicks in quicker and into way higher stratosphere of musical joy and just stays there.

It deserves its status as the proverbial calling card of the band (pun intended, of course).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42341087)



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Date: April 25th, 2021 12:37 AM
Author: Contagious Space

I hate to talk about "favorite" albums with Motorhead because I don't think they actually have any shitty albums, but also because I think each lineup had its charms. I've been listening to Orgasmatron lately and it's got some truly 180 tracks. I think it's easier to appreciate an album like that in hindsight though. If you were a Motorhead picking up that album for the first time when it came out you probably think it was a lackluster effort. I think it's only after you listen to the band's later albums that you can appreciate what's happening on Orgasmatron.

All of Motorhead is like that to me really. That's why I recommend listening in chronological order, even if you feel like you don't particularly enjoy one or two of their albums (the number will never be >2). To give an illustration: once you know what Motorhead sounded like pre-Wurzel and post-Wurzel, only then I think can you offer an opinion on Wurzel as a musician and as a member of the band. I myself have no entirely made up my mind on this, and I'm sympathetic to those who feel Wurzel was the least talented member of the band (though no one thinks he was untalented at all).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42345908)



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Date: April 27th, 2021 1:22 AM
Author: mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha

with a bit more contemplation and listening of motorhead, i have decided on the following:

overkill is a 3.5/5

ace of spades is a 4.5/5... possibly a 5/5.

motorhead is a 3/5



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42356843)



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Date: April 27th, 2021 11:50 AM
Author: Contagious Space

I would bump Overkill and Bomber to a 4.5, Motörhead and Ace of Spades I would rate a 4. I love the punk sound on Motörhead. And I love the fact that the whole thing was recorded in 8 hours and the tracks were selected and mixed by engineers who were gakked out on tutu. You know how meth heads will get fixated on a project and take it to extremes? That's how that album got made.

However there are several other Motörhead albums I would rate similarly. The overall quality of the music they put out was consistently high quality. Their very last album, recorded when Lemmy was on the brink of death, is a smasher.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42358157)



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Date: April 27th, 2021 6:36 PM
Author: mentally impaired razzle-dazzle wrinkle alpha

have to strongly disagree on that. im still spinning ACE OF SPADES ever since. over and over and over.

i cant get enough of this shit. in fact, ive only been listening to "The Chase Is Better Than The Catch" third day now. im not literally listening to it over and over, i will listen to it for two, three, of max four times, maybe five, then i will do something else, and until i feel the itch to listen to some music, ill be just doing my thing. then i will crave some music, and remember that i still havent gotten bored or got my fill yet with this song, and i will put it on again, and it will hit me like a bag of soap in the face, and then it will keep on rocking all the way through till the end, leaving me wanting more, and more, and cocksucking ever more. there will come a point where i have had enough, it always comes. then i will probably won't listen to any motorhead for a couple of months, cause thats how it goes when you get drunk like that on a single band, let alone spinning one song for days. now i havent answered what interval of time i will take between listening to the music. i dont remember honestly, but its probably anywhere from 20 minutes, sometimes an hour, or heck, sometimes i will go five or more hours doing something, and then i will fortuitously remember that im in the middle of a The Chase Is Better Than the Catch marathon, within a Ace of Spades Marathon, within a Motorhead marathon, like the movie Inception, except this is real life and it's fucked up, but i do it anyways, because i am fucking high and my life is weird and lame and i aint got much going for me, so i do what i want within the parameters i can do it in. At some point im going to start reading that History of Philosophy 10 volume set i was meaning to (im on page 20 or something in volume 1, if you are wondering...love where it gives a quote from Thucydides about what the Athenians said to some weak faggots , so hardcore: "For of the Gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a law of their nature wherever they can rule they will. This law was not made by us, and we are not the first who have acted upon it; we did but inherit it, and shall bequeath it to all time, and we know that you and all mankind, if you were as strong as we are, would do as we do." i got chills re-reading that. i need to start reading more history, wtf.)

anyways, i forgot what point i was making here, but i need to listen to "The Chase Is Better Than The Catch" one more time, and i sure as fuck hope to god me talking it up so much in this post has not made it somehow less enjoyable for me as i hit play.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42360246)



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Date: April 29th, 2021 11:17 PM
Author: Contagious Space

That's a fucking awesome song. Definitely my favorite on that album though live to win win and the title track are amazing as well. I have to keep my playlist circulating on random or else I will get hung up on a song like that too. I got a little hung up on Doctor Rock not long ago. I think Overkill is my #1 Motörhead song. TCIBTTC is a T10 song for sure, but Bomber has so many seep cuts. Stone Dead Forever, Poison, Dead Men Tell No Tales, and of course Bomber.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42374590)



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Date: April 25th, 2021 12:39 AM
Author: Irradiated Queen Of The Night



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Date: April 25th, 2021 9:08 PM
Author: clear titillating public bath pocket flask

because of this thread I listened to 3 entire motorhead albums on a road trip I had today - Motorhead and Overkill (in their entireties, no fast forwarding or skipping songs), and most of Ace of Spades.

Honestly the latter two are more sophisticated that the Motorhead album, but they all sort of sound the same. I think its all great shit, don't get me wrong. If I had to choose one I would say Overkill album. Great music for driving around town with the windows down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42349199)



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Date: April 26th, 2021 2:11 PM
Author: Contagious Space

180! I'm so glad another poaster has been introduced to this overlooked gem of a band.

What did your think of the musicianship overall? I'm particularly interested in what people think of Fast Eddie. On the one hand he definitely isn't a technical player but to me he sounds as clean as any I imagine any technical player would sound trying to play those same licks, and just find his paying to be tasteful. A lot of times he's paying quite slowly. On Overkill for example he is playing at about 1/8 the speed of Lemmy. You don't always notice because Lemmy is essentially playing rhythm guitar and sometimes you think you're hearing guitar when you're actually hearing Lemmy's bass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42352834)



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Date: April 26th, 2021 2:22 PM
Author: clear titillating public bath pocket flask

I thought it was overall great. THe drumming on Overkill and after was pretty incredible, as described ITT by you guys. The guitar playing didn't stick out to me, but it got the job done for sure. Were all of the albums I heard Fast Eddie?

And yeah, you can make a bass do a lot in terms of sounding like a rhythm guitar

I listened to it while doing a workout this morning. Great great music for grimy fun rock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42352890)



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Date: April 26th, 2021 2:27 PM
Author: Contagious Space

Yeah you were listening to the Fast One there. Here's my review of the first album without him:

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4816922&mc=2&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42352917)



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Date: April 25th, 2021 9:52 PM
Author: rusted abode

This is the kind of stuff that makes XO great. Cr.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42349417)



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Date: April 25th, 2021 9:56 PM
Author: clear titillating public bath pocket flask

cr

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Date: May 1st, 2021 12:56 AM
Author: Domesticated Fighting Cruise Ship



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Date: April 25th, 2021 10:02 PM
Author: Overrated old irish cottage

I like this rock critic's album review for Motorhead:

The critics who used to call Motorhead the worst band in the world had a point, which may be why Lemmy's high-speed metal has now turned into the thinking person's headbang. The stuff is so pure it's almost rarefied: no operatic declamations, no schlocky guitaristics, no satanism or medievalism or sci-fi or sexist s&m. Just aggression, violence, noise. Lemmy doesn't even bellow--his voice is more a hoarse, loud, one-note roar. This tasteful two-disc best-of-plus-four (new and definitive: "Killed By Death") is the first Motorhead product praised by Headheads since No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, eight of whose eleven songs it includes (the eight best, too). Unless you've got an extra Y chromosone or beat your meat till it bleeds, you likely don't need it on a regular basis. But it'll sure come in handy at those precious moments when you want nothing so much as to smash somebody's face.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42349458)



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Date: April 26th, 2021 2:43 PM
Author: Contagious Space

This review is clearly of the No Remorse "album," which was a bizarre entry in the band's catalog. After Fast Eddie and Phithy Taylor left the band, the band's record label thought "it's just Lemmy now, 'Motorhead' is finished," and they decided to capitalize on "Motorhead's" remaining popularity and milk the cow one last time by throwing together a hastily assembled greatest hits album. This album also contains the gay as fuck tracks they recorded with female vocalists that caused Fast Eddie quit the band. I've always admired Fast Eddie for standing up for the principle that bitches can't rock and that recording even one song with a bitch is an unforgivable sin.

To the extent anyone consulted Lemmy about this, his response was "Fuck you, Motorhead is alive and well, we're not finished. Also fuck you." Lemmy hired TWO guitarists to replace Fast Eddie (he was only looking for one) and hired the loudest drummer on earth to replace Philty. This reconstituted Motorhead recorded four new tracks and forced the record company to slap them onto the new "greatest hits" album just before it went to press.

All four of those songs by the new brand new Motorhead quartet are good and two went on to become classics (Killed by Death being one mentioned here). The whole band was new except for Lemmy but it was still an amazing lineup. Even when I turn the volume down low on my speakers, Snaggletooth sounds loud. It's those fucking drums. Locomotive is not on anyone's top 10 lists, but I think you can hear how much fun these doods were having together on that song. Reminds me of how Zeppelin talks about those very first sessions with Plant and Bonham.

As far as I know Motorhead is the only band to have done anything like this. They literally saved themselves from record label death with those four tracks. This interviewer didn't know that though. He thought he was still listening to the band that played Ace of Spades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42352978)



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Date: April 25th, 2021 10:08 PM
Author: Floppy meetinghouse



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Date: April 27th, 2021 1:25 AM
Author: dun cheese-eating prole community account

I start every morning with a Motorhead song followed up with "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones and then the Sopranos theme once I'm in the car.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42356849)



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Date: May 1st, 2021 12:36 AM
Author: Contagious Space

My Motörhead playlist on Tidal is already at 41 and there at least that many tracks I haven't added yet. I'm going to use this thread to start sorting out my top 10 before it's too late.

#1 is Overkill

Others that fall somewhere in the T10 include Motörhead, Bomber and Ace of Spades, t which it's kind of fucked to think about that the fact that those are all title tracks. Chase is in there two.

That's 5 slots used up and we're still in the fast eddie era. Fuck.

Edit: Ok Dancing on Your Grave makes the cut. If that was the only Motörhead song you ever heard you would think Lemmy was a legit singer and bass player.

I'm carefully reserving the other four slots for now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42380872)



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Date: May 1st, 2021 2:32 AM
Author: Contagious Space

Ok I had to add Killed by Death and Stone Dead Forever to my top ten list. That's only two slots left, and a 6th slot taken up by a fast eddie track. I know R.A.M.O.N.E.S is one of my top 10, probably top 5 but I can't bring myself to add it to the list because it sounds like a Ramones song, not a Motörhead song, but that's also why I love it. If I'm being honest with myself that's #9. But I'm still leaving it off the list for now.

These are not in rank order btw except that Overkill is #1.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42381079)



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Date: May 1st, 2021 2:42 AM
Author: Contagious Space

Ok Love for Sale makes the top 10. It really illustrates a lot of fantastic things about Motörhead. It shows they weren't always a heavy metal band. They could play proper rock and roll and they could legit jam. They could still swing without Philthy and they could be noisy without Pete Gill. They didn't need two guitarists to replace Eddie after all, Whizzo could do it all by himself. If you were wondering whether Motörhead ever lost its talent or its edge for one minute listen to the Snake Bite Love on repeat for a few days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42381093)



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Date: May 1st, 2021 12:20 PM
Author: Contagious Space

Tentatively placing One to Sing the Blues on my top 10 list but I have to give Bastards another listen. Also why aren't any tracks from Orgasmatron on my list? Feeling increasingly confident I made the right choice by including Love for Sale last night. I am leaving R.A.M O.N.E.S off the list for the above stated reasons.

I think that's ten. Gonna let this list stew for a while before I begin my analysis/ranking of each song.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4817878&forum_id=2#42382224)