1. Motorhead
2. Vibrator
3. Lost Johnny
4. Iron Horse/Born to Lose
5. White Line Fever
6. Keep us on the Road
7. The Watcher
8. The Train kept A-Rollin’
Motörhead’s eponymous first album is a real Blues/Rock’n’Roll hybrid. There are plenty of guitar solos but despite this overpowering the drums on a couple of tunes the three piece of Lemmy (Bass), ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke (Guitar) and Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor complement one anothers playing. The opening riff to ‘The Watcher’ sounds very similar to ‘Motorhead’ but is a very different song once the lyrics get under way. A very rough and ready album that sounds very unpolished compared with todays recordings but there is something nice about this. Something a bit more ‘real’, maybe less contrived. A lot of the songs are quite long but they all have very good rhythms and are great ‘foot tappers’. My favourite songs on this album are ‘Motorhead’, ‘Lost Johnny’ and ‘Keep us on the Road’.
Next album: OVERKILL
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Monday, 17 January 2011
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The "No Sleep Til 'No Sleep Til Hammersmith' Project"
The plan for this little project is to listen to all 20 studio albums by Motorhead (the greatest rock'n'roll band on earth) in order, starting with the selftitled first one (Motorhead in case you're not paying attention) and moving on to the most recent one, The World is Yours which is due out in the shops on Monday 17th January.
I'm aiming to listen to one album per night for consecutive nights and once I've had a listen I'll jot what will amount to a mini review about the album. I'll mention my favourite songs, things I don't like it and any other thoughts that spring into my head (change in the line up of the band, that sort of thing).
Some of the early albums have been re-released over the years with extra or 'bonus' tracks on them. I won't be listening to these, just the songs that were on the albums on first release.
Once I've done all 20 albums I will be concluding the project with the number one live album 'No Sleep Til Hammersmith'.
The idea for this came about when I bought and then listened to The World is Yours before Christmas. Classic Rock magazine were doing a special CD and magazine release early of the album in case you were wondering how I got my hands on it before it's in the shops.
Other than that I just thought "why the fuck not?"
I'm aiming to listen to one album per night for consecutive nights and once I've had a listen I'll jot what will amount to a mini review about the album. I'll mention my favourite songs, things I don't like it and any other thoughts that spring into my head (change in the line up of the band, that sort of thing).
Some of the early albums have been re-released over the years with extra or 'bonus' tracks on them. I won't be listening to these, just the songs that were on the albums on first release.
Once I've done all 20 albums I will be concluding the project with the number one live album 'No Sleep Til Hammersmith'.
The idea for this came about when I bought and then listened to The World is Yours before Christmas. Classic Rock magazine were doing a special CD and magazine release early of the album in case you were wondering how I got my hands on it before it's in the shops.
Other than that I just thought "why the fuck not?"
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