Motorhead: Legends never die

[Sabbathman]

Hi Sabbathman - from the ones in your list I would recommend 1916 as well - I actually like this better than March or Die - Also the Rock N Roll CD & Another Perfect day are pretty good - I actually like the Rocjk N Roll CD a lot. I also like the Hammered CD better than Overnight Sensation

Thanks, duly noted. Rock 'n' Roll and Another Perfect Day have been praised a lot.

Of the later live Cd's I think Everything Louder than evryone else & Better Motorhead than dead are musts - great live Cd's with Everything louder being my favorite of the 2.

If you're looking for a DVD - the 25 anniversary boneshaker DVD is very good. So is Stage Fright . Unfortunately there isn't much of the original Fast Eddie lineup on DVD just the DVD Best of Motorhead which has several clips of the band - I have a live from Toronto laser disc that is of ther original band but not sure if you can find that anymore

I hope this helps a bit - if you like PM me & I can give you detailed more info on some of the CD's I listed

I already have Everything Louder Than Everyone Else, what a fierce live album! It's also the very best of Motorhead for me, an astounding set with a great sound! Though released in 1998, that's basically a fitting piece of remembrance from the entire era for me (I got my first Motorhead show in 1999 so I'm re-living that show through this album).

Better Motorhead Than Dead...I'm guessing that album rocks as well, I got my second Motorhead show back in 2005 when they kicked our faces in with their XXX celebrations...

The 25th Anniversary Boneshaker DVD is indeed a great live show, I hunted it for a while but finally I got it in 2008...Huge setlist full of everything essential, 25 years of rock 'n' roll!!! A good picture & sound quality, some of the finest live releases...and only one year after my first Motorhead show...

I'm trying to find Stage Fright for a decent price as I write this, it's definitely on my list already, it's from the fantastic Inferno tour...all the while being a great token of memory from the next year's XXX parties...

I also have the (quintessentially great) DVD Best of Motorhead, I love it.

Please PM me for further recommendations, thanks a bunch so far!

[RLP4ever]

Hey Sabbathman, you had earlier talked of how Motorhead has always been primarily and purely a 'live band' for you. You've seen them slay onstage a few times, and absolutely love their 'live' incarnation. Plenty of Motorhead fans around the world feel just the same---attesting to the band's live awesomeness holding the greatest appeal to them. I'd have loved to watch them on more occasions that I actually have, so far. All the more reason why I've bought all of Motorhead's live releases, and been lucky to have also loved them all, to different extents.

kamikazetom has already responded to your request by explaining some of his own recommendations to you. And his choices seem to largely mirror mine, excepting Rock n' Roll which I didn't like the first time I heard it, and tried it again after writing this thread, and I still find it quite sucky. Anyway, I've already mentioned my strongest favourites of the Motorhead studio albums. I'd easily encourage you to get Bomber (a very special one of the early era releases). And you can't go without both Overkill and Ace of Spades; those are 'essentials'. Of the latter records, left to me, I'd make you buy Another Perfect Day, 1916, Hammered, Iron Fist, Orgasmatron, Sacrifice, Inferno, Motorizer, and as everybody else has urged me likewise, Kiss of Death, too. You're right about the No Remorse 'best of' compilation; that's a cool buy for most fans, even for the near-completists, committed fans like myself.

Of their good-to-outstanding live albums-- you already own Everything Louder Than Everyone Else. I'd say that the other unmissable ones to have are: No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Live at Brixton '87, Better Motorhead Than Dead: Live at Hammersmith and of course, the superb Stage Fright release. I've got all the other live albums as well (Blitzkreig on Birmingham '77, Birthday Party, Lock Up Your Daughters, Live '06, and a few more), and frankly, I'd recommend you even those, but I guess the ones above are the most urgent, must-haves. The Bone Shaker DVD is mandatory, man...so I'm glad that you finally got it and loved it. The Birthday Party dvd is another pretty enjoyable one, as well.

Haha, are we touting Motorhead goodies to each other, now?. I already have them, so mate, it's your turn to find and get some you want.

[Sabbathman]

Hey Sabbathman, you had earlier talked of how Motorhead has always been primarily and purely a 'live band' for you. You've seen them slay onstage a few times, and absolutely love their 'live' incarnation. Plenty of Motorhead fans around the world feel just the same---attesting to the band's live awesomeness holding the greatest appeal to them. I'd have loved to watch them on more occasions that I actually have, so far. All the more reason why I've bought all of Motorhead's live releases, and been lucky to have also loved them all, to different extents.

kamikazetom has already responded to your request by explaining some of his own recommendations to you. And his choices seem to largely mirror mine, excepting Rock n' Roll which I didn't like the first time I heard it, and tried it again after writing this thread, and I still find it quite sucky. Anyway, I've already mentioned my strongest favourites of the Motorhead studio albums. I'd easily encourage you to get Bomber (a very special one of the early era releases). And you can't go without both Overkill and Ace of Spades; those are 'essentials'. Of the latter records, left to me, I'd make you buy Another Perfect Day, 1916, Hammered, Iron Fist, Orgasmatron, Sacrifice, Inferno, Motorizer, and as everybody else has urged me likewise, Kiss of Death, too. You're right about the No Remorse 'best of' compilation; that's a cool buy for most fans, even for the near-completists, committed fans like myself.

Of their good-to-outstanding live albums-- you already own Everything Louder Than Everyone Else. I'd say that the other unmissable ones to have are: No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Live at Brixton '87, Better Motorhead Than Dead: Live at Hammersmith and of course, the superb Stage Fright release. I've got all the other live albums as well (Blitzkreig on Birmingham '77, Birthday Party, Lock Up Your Daughters, Live '06, and a few more), and frankly, I'd recommend you even those, but I guess the ones above are the most urgent, must-haves. The Bone Shaker DVD is mandatory, man...so I'm glad that you finally got it and loved it. The Birthday Party dvd is another pretty enjoyable one, as well.

Haha, are we touting Motorhead goodies to each other, now?. I already have them, so mate, it's your turn to find and get some you want.

Until now - and onwards as well - I've felt that the more live releases I get from Motörhead the more I get deep into their very essence: the live show of selected jewels, blown & beaten hard against my eardrums. The songs just absolutely rule on stages worldwide, they're full of grimy, smoky, bad-ass, up-yours-this-is-our-life attitude. But the more I take on these live releases, the more I'm inspired to have studio albums as well. Usually it's vice versa: first I get studio albums and then soon I'm dying to see & hear a live release or a show. I'm making this my quest to gather even more of these said above live releases and also at least few more studio albums, not only the ones I mentioned myself, but also the albums that I'm taking your word for...

Thank you one and all thus far.

[kamikazetom]

One thing I would recommend is if you can find the 2 disc rereleases on Santuary I would get them - They all have some cool bonus tracks on the second disc & it's mostly live stuff. Another Perfect Day has a live show from 1983 Manchester Apollo & this is a very good live recording of the Robbo era band. Iron Fist has a CD of the laser disc live in Toronto from 1982. No Sleep has an entire disc of alternate versions - all of the 2 disc versions are done very well & worth the extra $$ (to me anyways)

[Sabbathman]

One thing I would recommend is if you can find the 2 disc rereleases on Santuary I would get them - They all have some cool bonus tracks on the second disc & it's mostly live stuff. Another Perfect Day has a live show from 1983 Manchester Apollo & this is a very good live recording of the Robbo era band. Iron Fist has a CD of the laser disc live in Toronto from 1982. No Sleep has an entire disc of alternate versions - all of the 2 disc versions are done very well & worth the extra $$ (to me anyways)

OK, cool. Recently I browsed through the disc contents, it seems that from Iron Fist to Rock 'n' Roll the 2CD versions have a complete live show on the second disc as a bonus. 4 live shows! Toronto, Manchester, BBC and Monsters Of Rock...wow.

[VikingChrist]

I've been meaning to chime in on this thread forever. I'm a huge Motorhead fan. I have all their studio albums and all of the band-sanctioned live releases. Like RLP, I agree that there are a few albums that might kindly be described as "less than fully inspired". To me, that's mostly the era when Philthy rejoined (although I very much like "1916") until Wurzel left (I think that "March or Die" is their worst, but I love "Bastards"). They were a little wobbly throughout much of the '90s, although I think each of the albums has their good points, but since "Inferno" I feel like they've been on a tear! Personally, I think that the current line-up rivals the classic Lemmy/Fast Eddie/Philthy line-up.

In regards to the many, many greatest hits releases, those are out of the band's hands. They signed some bad contracts with Bronze Records (notice that virtually all of the greatest hits are exclusive to that era) and Bronze or whoever controls the rights to those recordings just continually license out the tracks for compilations.

[RLP4ever]

Great to see you finally pitch your take here as a huge Motorhead fan, Viking. So cool to hear. And for a band with such sheer longevity, and such prolific career output, I reckon it was inevitable that us fans would have varied levels of enthusiasm for their tons of records. The 'best' Motorhead records, though, constitute a veritable canon of rock-metal classics that not too many of their peers in the genre have managed to deliver. Great band, great legacy. And we fans helped it happen, too.

[Sabbathman]

Already reserving my money for a DVD release...

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=134941

Hailed as a godfather of heavy metal, 64-year-old Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister has established himself as the living embodiment of rock and roll over the past four decades.

Lemmy is definitely one of the godfathers of heavy metal, even though the absolute definition of Motörhead itself is a 3-piece combo of rock, punk & metal...Definitely Motörhead has influenced tons of metal bands, that's damn sure!

After stints with popular Mersey beat band THE ROCKIN' VICKERS and influential psychedelic rockers HAWKWIND, and even a brief time spent as a member of Jimi Hendrix's road crew, Lemmy formed MOTÖRHEAD in 1975.

A long road indeed, a road that only a juggernaut like Lemmy can travel for so long with such relentless musical power, instantly recognizable style & cutting sense of honesty & humour. Lemmy is one of the masters of rock & metal, one of the members in the board of directors.

Fuck, Motörhead begun to roar in 1975...it's the XXXV anniversary of Motörhead!!!

[Ady]

After stints with popular Mersey beat band THE ROCKIN' VICKERS and influential psychedelic rockers HAWKWIND, and even a brief time spent as a member of Jimi Hendrix's road crew, Lemmy formed MOTÖRHEAD in 1975.

They didn't mention SAM GOPAL, a band he joined and recorded an album with in 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBfjhsCEMg

After that he was also briefly in a band called Opal Butterfly with future Hawkwind drummer Simon King.

[Sabbathman]

So now my collection of Motorhead stands as such:

On Parole *
Motorhead *
Overkill *
Bomber *
Ace Of Spades *
No Sleep 'til Hammersmith *
Iron Fist *
No Remorse 2CD *
Orgasmatron
March Or Die
Bastards
Sacrifice
Overnight Sensation
Snake Bite Love
Everything Louder Than Everyone Else 2CD
Inferno CD & DVD

25 & Alive "Boneshaker" DVD & CD
Ace Of Spades Classic Albums DVD
The Best Of Motorhead DVD

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Further plans include:

- the live DVD "Stage Fright" which I reserved from the local store with a 1-3 week delivery time
- the live album "Better Motorhead Than Dead"
- the live DVD "1916 Live...Everything Louder than Everything Else"
- the album "1916" which I already reserved from my regular Tampere store for this week's delivery...

* On March 15th I launched a combined Motorhead & Saxon NWOBHM theme, classic albums of both bands, side by side...seems to be a massive theme, the first phase lasted until March 22nd when I switched to Tarot because of 2 live shows they had recently...Now from April 1st onwards, I've continued the theme by pounding away the great collection "No Remorse"...seems to be stuck with it as well! The songs "Shine" and especially "Dancing On Your Grave" on this collection beckon me to buy the whole album "Another Perfect Day", as recommended to me earlier here...

[The Trooper67]

See Motorhead 4 times,just wish they would change the set list a bit more and drop Whorehouse Blues.

[Sabbathman]

Since it's the 35th anniversary of Motörhead and the upcoming studio album this year will be their 20th official studio album, I think Motörhead (namely their management) and Joe Petagno should overcome any misunderstandings/differences and come up with a decent deal for the next album art...

...I mean look at these latest masterpieces by Joe Petagno, each of them would fit perfectly as the cover art of the next Motörhead album!!! Maybe even all of them together!!!

http://www.petagno.dk/_merch/tipspear_full-alt.jpg

http://www.petagno.dk/_merch/snagtee2_full.jpg

http://www.petagno.dk/_merch/snagtee_full.jpg

[Sabbathman]

It's definitely been a fantastic ride so far with this current Motörhead & Saxon NWOBHM theme! I chose these bands as a pair since they both represent NWOBHM in the truest sense of the word and because I undertook a mission to really delve deep & wide into the world of Motörhead's studio albums...I also had the newly remastered Saxon classics waiting in line...

You know, as I said earlier, Motörhead has mostly been a pure live band for me - live shows and recordings - also many of their best songs from here and there have been old acquaintances for me. Now, the more I've listened to Motörhead's full studio albums, the more I've come to appreciate the band as a whole, a lot more than before - and now my appetite for their live performances has become bigger as well! Now I can't wait to see them again!!!

2 discs side by side, turn by turn...

15.-22.3. & 1.-11.4.

On Parole & Saxon
Motörhead & Wheels Of Steel
Overkill & Strong Arm Of The Law
Bomber & Denim And Leather
Ace Of Spades & Power And The Glory
No Sleep 'til Hammersmith & Iron Fist
No Remorse 2CD
Crusader & Orgasmatron
Innocence Is No Excuse & March Ör Die

Still to continue with Motörhead...

Another Perfect Day
Rock 'n' Roll
1916
Bastards
Sacrifice
Overnight Sensation
Snake Bite Love
Hammered
Inferno
Motörizer

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METALLIZED HEAVY ROCKING EXCELLENCE

[devilmaycare]

Motorhead NWOBHM??? Really. I never even considered that. I think they just rode in on the wave but certainly back then, they were never considered part of the movement.

Another Perfect Day? PURE CLASS. I love Robbo in any band but he really kicked Motorhead in the ass on that record... It's just a shame he was so embarrassing live...

[Sabbathman]

Had to steer my session into a slight re-visit since I've become to love these albums a lot...

On Parole
Overkill
Bomber
Ace Of Spades
Iron Fist
Orgasmatron

One more time before I move on to newer Motorhead albums...

[Sabbathman]

Aah, Lemmy hits again with his bittersweet & cutting honesty...

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=138319

[Sabbathman]

What comes to the "genre" of Motörhead...

Well, while I listen e.g. to the songs "Deaf Forever", "Built For Speed" and the title track from the album "Orgasmatron", I can't but awe the heavy metallic power of these songs. Yes, they're rocking and rolling that's for sure (especially the guitar solos) but while all rock & metal can be and should always be placed beneath the general umbrella of "rock 'n' roll" or just simply "rock" music, I can't describe these songs (and many, many other songs by Motörhead) as just "rock 'n' roll" or just "rock", somehow that classification is "not enough" for me in these and in many other cases with Motörhead. To say some brutally powerful Motörhead song is "rock 'n' roll" or "rock" is always right of course, but somehow, depending on the song, could be more or less wrong for me as well - many times with Motörhead I just have to call it "heavy metal" to really describe the song for myself and to whomever. It's a matter of opinion and taste, that's all.

NWOBHM...well, I wasn't there, but even as I know the genre was best represented by Judas Priest, Saxon, Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, Angel Witch, Raven and such bands, surely Motörhead was, if not a direct part of the movement, at least heavily among the same scene with these bands, toured in the same areas of England and other countries, played the same rock venues, had the same fans coming to see their shows and buy their albums. Just like Judas Priest, Motörhead started many years before the NWOBHM movement, but similarly they were still heavily involved among the movement and acted as a headliner on many occasions with these younger NWOBHM bands. I know I would have been the hungry fan of Judas Priest, Saxon, Iron Maiden and Motörhead at the same time back then, snatching their albums as soon as possible, going to see their shows as many times as possible - just like I've done for many years these days. The same power & energy is there with all these bands, that's undeniable.

The main thing is that Motörhead always rocks big time and delivers their highly recognizable style of rocking & rolling with a seriously weighty & weaponized heavy metal.

Now playing "On The Road", the live version of the song "Built For Speed"...fuck, this is rock 'n' roll in the truest sense of the word but this is also a huge payload of heavy metal bombardment!!!

[Ady]

Lemmy Blasts The Boss
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/35/20100413...s-716af92.html

Motorhead frontman Lemmy reckons Bruce Springsteen is a "poncer".

The outspoken bass player and singer doesn't consider Bruce - known as The Boss - to be a true rock 'n' roll frontman and thinks he doesn't deserve all the accolades - which include 20 Grammy awards - he has received.

Lemmy told website Staythirstymedia.com: "We're the real rock 'n' roll. Then you get poncers like Bruce Springsteen, you know, gets all the awards.

"I don't hear him as rock 'n' roll. He's been lucky he's had a couple of good songs, that's all.

"You know, I don't think he's good at all. But that's the sort of person that they launch on to. 'Let's give all nine awards to this guy!' That's just f***ing stupid, that's just obvious nepotism."

The 'Stone Dead Forever' rocker said he's not even that interested in awards, in particular the Best Metal Performance Grammy his band received in 2005 for their cover of Metallica's 'Whiplash'.

He added: "They'd never heard a Motorhead song obviously, you know. We've done three consistently really good albums, the last three.

"So that really p***ed me off, you know. I'm standing there with a Grammy, what did I get this for? For a bad cover of 'Whiplash'? And all the s**t we've done over the years, you know, and not a single thing for that. So f**k them."

[devilmaycare]

Lemmy Blasts The Boss
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/35/20100413...s-716af92.html

What a twat. I lose all respect for musicians who criticize others for no reason. It sounds like jealousy to me, which is a shame because I though Lemmy was above that. Of course Springsteen is Rock'n'Roll... Crap like that just causes more people to have a blinkered view of music & what Rock'n'Roll should be... Some little moron will read that & go "Yeah man, Bruce doesn't doesn't always play fast & on ten" and be supposedly "informed" by this crap.

Rock'n'Roll doesn't have to be fast all the time OR cause deafness. I've seen Bruce a lot, he's plenty loud enough & he's every bit as Rock'n'Roll as Lemmy. They were up listening to the same bands, they just took their bands in different paths.

[celt]

Lemmy's just jealous because Bruce gets more pussy.

[kamikazetom]

Lemmy Blasts The Boss
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/35/20100413...s-716af92.html

Very disappointed to read about Lemmy going off on the Boss for no reason really other than to get a headline. Springteen plays rock N roll music just not heavy metal (or whatever the hell you want to call it) if you don't like Springsteen's music I can understand it but there is no reason to blast him in the press - be a man & say it to his face. I can understand being mad about getting a grammy for a cover song instead of one of their originals but I wouldn't have thought the grammys would have meant that much to Lemmy anyways.

[Sabbathman]

I was surprised to see Lemmy slam Bruce Springsteen as harshly as he did, naming him a "poncer" and shouting a vicious protest against the multiple awards that The Boss got. While I don't really appreciate any Grammys, I think they should at least be awarded for the performance of one's own material, not some cover songs. And while I appreciate and recognize Bruce Springsteen's high status in music, I don't get excited about his music. So ultimately, I don't actually give a fuck about this whole thing. I like Motörhead and Lemmy and write about it here, so that's that. At least Lemmy displays, as always, his cutting honesty and nothing else. But nevertheless, be it Lemmy or anyone, publicly slamming someone and someone's works based on personal opinions is always a waste of time and breath. Opinion is one thing, a slamming rant is another. But then again, Lemmy is a classic "old dog" that has his own ways of saying things. Lemmy is just like my old (born in mid-to-late 40's) friend who fixes cars: a career of 45+ years in the same line of profession, strong & uncompromising opinions, brutally(!) honest & easily vicious attitude. I know the type very well...

[Sabbathman]

Had to revisit the albums Orgasmatron and March Or Die once more, they both are DAMNED great albums, many great hard-hitting jewels...

You know, even though Motorhead has mostly been a pure live band for me thus far - the best known classics & some other studio songs included in the experience along the years - and even though I've just lately been making myself thoroughly acquainted with the studio albums of Motorhead and still consider myself a some sort of newbie when it comes to the complete knowledge and understanding of this great band...I'm nevertheless a long-time fan of this band and I'm definitely making a good progress with this theme, steadily becoming an even more fierce Motorheadbanger than ever before! God I love this band and their music! Motorhead is like a custom-made heavy rocking killing machine, designed and unleashed to propel a metalhead like me into yet new dimensions of this greatest form of music. This theme will see me become a true Motorheadbanger, for life.

So, today starts the 3rd phase of this great theme...2 players, 2 discs, side by side, turn by turn...until my Motorhead is hissing and crackling!!!

Another Perfect Day
Rock 'n' Roll
1916
Bastards
Sacrifice
Overnight Sensation
Snake Bite Love
We Are Motörhead
Hammered
Inferno
Kiss Of Death
Motörizer

[Sabbathman]

While I listen to an album like Bastards and songs like Burner, Death Or Glory, I Am The Sword, Born To Raise Hell or Lost In The Ozone, it's just simply impossible for me to name them as just "rock 'n' roll". I know and say they are rock 'n' roll in general terms, but for me they are so much more than that: HEAVY ROCKING METAL!!!

[Sabbathman]

I'm laughing my ass off while I read about the origins of the name Kilmister...it's a huge blast of irony that Lemmy the Womanizer & Mr. Anti-Religion has a surname which has origins in the words monastery & church!!!

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Kilmister

[devilmaycare]

You do know his father was a Chaplain right?

[Sabbathman]

You do know his father was a Chaplain right?

Yeah, and his chaplain father left him and his mother when Lemmy was very young. No wonder religion and marriage became abominations for Lemmy.

[Sabbathman]

MOTORHEADbanger for life...

http://www.black-sabbath.com/vb/albu...&pictureid=232

[Sabbathman]

Lemmy has a certain affinity to songs about a doctor...

"I'm Your Witch Doctor" - Motörhead 1977
"I'm The Doctor" - Iron Fist 1982
"Doctor Rock" - Orgasmatron 1986
"Dr. Love" - Hammered 2002
"Doctor Alibi" - Slash 2010

[Sabbathman]

I've been enjoying myself with Motorhead for almost 2 months now, this fantastic roller coaster of new discoveries & forever Motorizing experiences is coming to its end, what a fierce ride it has been! The journey has been intense to say the least - each of the albums has been run through at least, what, 6 times! Some of the albums even more. Today I decided to make just a few re-runs with some of my favourite albums, I simply can't let go of this band just yet:

On Parole
Overkill
Ace Of Spades
Iron Fist
Orgasmatron
March Or Die
Bastards
Sacrifice
Inferno

I've come to love & respect Motorhead very much, it's become a solid favourite and something I'm pleased to have made myself acquainted with. For years, Motorhead was purely a live band for me, with live shows on stage & recordings being my points of interest. Also many of the best known songs have been very dear to me for years, whenever & wherever I heard them. But somehow I knew it was not enough for me and I was right: during this journey I've made numerous discoveries of great songs, music that will have a lasting effect on me. I'm so lucky to now have all Motorhead studio albums and many live releases as well. Thank you very much to all for all the recommendations!!!

In addition to all these studio albums, I've also listened to the great No Sleep 'til Hammersmith for several times and yet I'm planning to re-visit my favourite live recordings Everything Louder Than Everyone Else and 25 & Alive "Boneshaker" DVD before this massive theme is over. I also have the unwatched 1916 Live: Everything Louder Than Everything Else DVD, I believe that show will hit me pretty hard as well - and it's in black & white, for then fashionable reasons but in my mind it also fits perfectly into the idea of the album 1916. I'm still waiting to have my long due order from the local record store, the mighty Stage Fright DVD. And hey, even if this theme does get past the finish line in the coming days, this was just another band theme among the many, I can and will return to Motorheadbanging again...and I guess that will happen soon enough, even with all the other bands in my collection taking my listening time & enjoyment!

[kamikazetom]

Sabbathman it's been really cool to read your thoughts as you have gone thru your Motorhead journey & I envied you when I realized you were hearing some of these classic LP's for the first time. I assume the everything louder DVD is the same as the old VHS so at some point I will have to track that down - that was a great video & I always loved the interviews/bits on the old VHS with Philthy & Wurzel

[Sabbathman]

Sabbathman it's been really cool to read your thoughts as you have gone thru your Motorhead journey & I envied you when I realized you were hearing some of these classic LP's for the first time. I assume the everything louder DVD is the same as the old VHS so at some point I will have to track that down - that was a great video & I always loved the interviews/bits on the old VHS with Philthy & Wurzel

Yeah, it's been a spectacular journey. Almost every album had some or at least a couple of familiar & favourite songs that I already knew and loved to begin with, but after a massive theme like this, where I've listened to full albums through and through for several times, I can't even imagine anymore how any best of collection could ever be sufficient for me with a band like Motorhead, even the mighty Stone Deaf Forever 5CD collection lacks many of my favourites nowadays. I once thought about buying that box set, but somehow I made the decision to wait for a suitable time and this year it was time for me to make the update that my collection screamed for and now it's been done - I'm very happy as it is. I did get the great 2CD release No Remorse since it not only has a powerful collection of Lemmy-chosen classics but it also has some great new songs there as well and it's something I can use to ignite a fiery 2CD session anytime.

Motorhead was mainly a powerful live attraction to me, but now it has become one of the true & favourite monsters of rock in my music world, just like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest have been for many years.

I just had to re-order the Stage Fright DVD as a 1DVD version (100% availability), the 2DVD version had been deleted from the order catalog according to my local record store. I also reserved the 10th Anniversary Birthday Party DVD, going to get it sometime tomorrow.

[Sabbathman]

Motorhead has driven me insatiable! While this album theme is drawing to its end (a few of the re-runs are still ahead), I've yet planned a proper live program for myself, some of them first experiences, some of them old acquaintances*...

The Best Of Motorhead *
Birthday Party: Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London 1985
1916 Live: Everything Louder Than Everything Else
Everything Louder Than Everyone Else: Live In Hamburg 1998 *
25 & Alive: Boneshaker 2000 *
Stage Fright 2004 (to be delivered)
Better Motorhead Than Dead: Live At Hammersmith 2005 (to be acquired)



---------- Post added at 11:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:38 PM ----------

RRROOOCK!!!

The 10th anniversary Birthday Party DVD was spectacular! The picture was not the most brilliant one could imagine, the sound was not the most poignant one could dream of, but fuck that! This was a great video from an iconic live show! All it needed was turning the lights off, few twists on my amps and then some VOLUME!!! And of course, a few beers to fuel the fire...A fantastic 59 minutes of heavy rocking entertainment, the way it's supposed to be and sound, loud & proud!!! This was a hard-hitting payload of rock 'n' roll, all bullshit annihilated to extinction! This was also the first time I've seen the mighty Bomber lighting rig in action, I always appreciate real & physical props like this way more than some 3D graphics, this is heavy fucking metal!!! Moreover, Motorhead had the audacity to bring in some new, unreleased songs as well!

Now, just after catching my breath a bit, it's time to enter 1916 and WWI-styled killing by the next live DVD...and right now, before I even watch it, I know for sure that the black & white image will fit perfectly into the idea of this show...

---------- Post added 05-09-2010 at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was 05-08-2010 at 11:15 PM ----------

RRROOOCK AGAIN!!!

1916: Live DVD was a good piece of footage, I liked the black & white image (never had any problems with black & white movies, documentaries etc.), the sound was again not the most poignant one could wish for, but there was enough power for me to enjoy this! And it was all about right settings and enough volume. And a great set filled with then contemporary songs, songs that have become true rarities these days. Nice interviews/goofyness interspersed in between the songs.

[62_SG]

Motorhead is a band I want to get into. I've heard bits and pieces of it at various get-togethers and stuff and I like what I hear. I only know three songs: "Ace of Spades", "Hellraiser" and "King of Kings". I know that I'm definitely buying a ticket next time they come to town though. They came not too long ago but I missed it. I'm a little pissed about that. Hopefuilly they come back soon. I suppose I should check out a live album or two in the meantime. I think those are good ways to get into a band's material. I'll look through this thread and pick out some of the recommendations, since theres been some good talk in here.

As for the whole Nazi memoribilia thing.... Lemmy says hes not a racist, I believe him. He's not the only one with some strange and/or revolting fascinations, and I don't think he's full of shit when he says its for the history or aesthetic value.

Speaking of Lemmy, I've been watching and reading a lot of interviews and stuff. The man says some real shit. "If you think you've got it shove it out. Run it up a flagpole and see who salutes it."

[Prog Garage]

Motorhead is one of those bands I always thought were kind of over-rated. I look it at as a 30-year old guy(what Lemmy was at the time he started Motorhead) trying to play a style of music(punk rock) that was just coming to form at the time. In my opinion, the dirtiness of the music adds nothing that makes Lemmy look much like a trailblazer. The attitude is really the key to this music. And unfortunately, the Sex Pistols were a little more authentically punk.

I don't think it's bad music by any means. I had this one Motorhead song called "Fog of War" or something similar that came up under my Pentagram Pandora radio station I had at one time, and it was different and really good. Unfortunately, the songs I've heard don't make me want to check out more of the huge discography. My favorite album(out of the 3 I've actually heard extensively) is Overnight Sensation.)

As for Lemmy, that last remark is why I can't stand the man. Bluntness is fine, but derisiveness and his general manner just turns me off.

[devilmaycare]

Wow. A prog rock fan who doesn't like Motorhead... Call the newspapers...


There was very little about the Sex Pistols that was authentically punk... but they played their given roles well. Lemmy on the other hand (although I wouldn't call Motorhead or the man himself anything remotely resembling punk) is the genuine article.

[62_SG]

I think that if Lemmy weren't the genuine article he wouldn't still be doing for he's been doing for 35 years with Motorhead. I think if he was in it to cash in on a fad he would have changed his sound to suit because Motorhead's sound hasn't been considered "in" with the mainstream for decades. I think its just a case of the man living a life and having that represented in his music (remember that he was kicked out of Hawkwind for his roudiness). I think its a man that finally got the chance to lead his own band and make it the way he wanted.

It wasn't like he just one day at the age of 30 decided to grow muttonchops, start taking speed and make Motorhead because that was in thing. Thats for sure.

[Prog Garage]

Don't argue that the music embodied some spirit or another even if lemmy came on it late, but it's always lacked this certain "ooomph" factor for me. AC/DC I always considered better for straight, rough and ready rock and roll. I guess it must be because o lack of catchy choruses that i don;t like it.

[kamikazetom]

If you listen to the songs that Lemmy wrote/sang for Hawkwind (Silver Machine, the original version of the song Motorhead for example) you would see the beginings of the band Motorhead - To me Motorhead never copied the punks but rather added speed to the hard rock style that came before them & laid the ground work for all the speed metal/thrash metal that came afterwards with songs like Overkill, Bomber, The Hammer & of course Ace of Spades

I guess I don't understand the comment about Lemmy coming on the scene late when Motorhead & the Punks started at the same time & to me they are very different sounding. When I listen to the Sex Pistols Bullocks LP, The Clash 1st 2 lp's or the Ramones 1st 3 lps & compare them to the first 3 Motorhead LPs - there is a lot of difference between the 'Punk' music & what Motorhead were doing - personally I like them all

[Ady]

If you listen to the songs that Lemmy wrote/sang for Hawkwind (Silver Machine, the original version of the song Motorhead for example) you would see the beginings of the band Motorhead - To me Motorhead never copied the punks but rather added speed to the hard rock style that came before them & laid the ground work for all the speed metal/thrash metal that came afterwards with songs like Overkill, Bomber, The Hammer & of course Ace of Spades

I guess I don't understand the comment about Lemmy coming on the scene late when Motorhead & the Punks started at the same time & to me they are very different sounding. When I listen to the Sex Pistols Bullocks LP, The Clash 1st 2 lp's or the Ramones 1st 3 lps & compare them to the first 3 Motorhead LPs - there is a lot of difference between the 'Punk' music & what Motorhead were doing - personally I like them all

Yep, Lemmy was already doing it in Hawkwind and the original Motorhead guitarist Larry Wallis was already doing it in the Pink Fairies a few years before punk became big.

Pink Fairies ~ Raceway (1973): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP7vEYXxnto