The ‘No Sleep Til “No Sleep Til Hammersmith” Project’ Album 9 – 1916 (1991)

1. The One To Sing The Blues
2. I’m So Bad (Baby I Don’t Care)
3. No Voices In The Sky
4. Going to Brazil
5. Nightmare/The Dreamtime
6. Love Me Forever
7. Angel City
8. Make My Day
9. R.A.M.O.N.E.S.
10. Shut You Down
11. 1916

A stronger album than Rock’N’Roll this is still a bit of a strange mix. We have a great opening song, followed up with the terrific ‘f*ck you’ number ‘I’m So Bad (Baby I Don’t Care)’, then we have the fun ‘Going To Brazil’ which then goes into a very odd, almost psychedelic tune ‘Nightmare/The Dreamtime’ which is a pretty big departure for Motörhead. What follows next is a ballad which is even more different, but in a good way. There are a couple of good but forgettable tracks and then we finish with the triumvirate of ‘R.A.M.O.N.E.S.’ which is a minute and a half of tribute to the punk band The Ramones and is great (it’s even better live), the terrific ‘Shut You Down’ and then the quite gobsmacking ‘1916’ which is probably the slowest most un-Motörhead song they have ever recorded. There’s very basic light musical accompaniment and Lemmy’s lyrics about soldiers fighting and dying in The Battle of The Some in the First World War are very moving. A very strange mix but it seems to work and this is definitely one of the better Motörhead albums.

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