OFF: recent Motorhead albums (was: Music as a drug)

[mike coleman]

On 2/2/11, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
(actually it's me starting)
Thanks for fixing the thread title, I was a tad embarrassed about it,
even if it's over now. If only I could get the spins from music, the
spins were always the crowning achievement of drinking (alcohol)
ecstasy for me, unlike so may others......

(now Jon)
>  	I waver about _1916_, there's a bit too much dead water towards
> the end and the production feels scritchy to me. _Bastards_ and
> _Sacrifice_ however, yes, for sure!

PERFECT gripe on 1916, yep that's pretty much my exact gripe .....


>  	As to the more recent stuff, I'd hold a small torch for both
> _Hammered_ and _We Are Motörhead_ as being a cut above the rest in terms
> of killer-to-filler ratio, _Hammered_ having some surprisingly complex
> stuff hidden in its snarl. I'm open to the argument that everyone
> likes different ones from this era, though.

I thought it was very odd that Hammered was in my hand the very day I
went to see them, and they played NOTHING from it......still, another
perfect show though....

Seeing as I am not only legally "mental", but senile as well, it seems
I will define MH periods as "with Burston", and "without".....
"We Are Motorhead" is the OTHER stolen CD, and so if my friend who was
not a Motorhead collector himself took that, then it must mean
something....I am sure he took that for himself, etc. To me, I got my
$$$  worth with the tile track, everything else need not matter...the
song is the sum total of "it all"........On to "Snake Bite" is it???
same thing with "Assassin".....worth full price if only for
that........(these are just my personal opinions of course)......next
up "Overnight Sensation".....this was pretty much a masterpiece to me,
I went on to get a Japanese copy so I found no major faults....

>  	And, as to the question Mike originally asked, I haven't heard
> _Motörizer_ but I do own _Kiss of Death_ and would also put it `up there',
> and not just because of the song about the importance of history. I did
> notice that _Motörizer_ for some reason made press in a way that most
> other recent releases didn't, but I think I mainly take that to mean that
> Lemmy's moaning about SPV's lack of promotion got through to them and they
> sent it to more journalists than usual, most of whom hadn't heard any of
> the other recent stuff and were surprised to find Motörhead albums didn't
> suck by now. Yours,

INTERESTING Jon, thanks for the archaeological history lesson...now
for my hopefully redeeming main reason for this posting....ever since
you guys mentioned the "Rock Out With Your Rooster Out" track, I've
been struggling to see how that would not be stupid.....but was flung
back to me and Trev and joking about if anybody had DONE that
professionally yet, if that could be my gimmik "in" to the business >
-- I was trying to think of HOW I could play the guitar with mine, and
coming up blank, BUT......I got one for Lem....inspired by the fake
one me and some fellow wanderers found along the highway in 2002....it
had veins and everything......
A RUBBER PENIS ATTACHED TO LEMMYS BASS GUITAR....RIGHT where "it counts".
I saw Phil playing a pink "dick guitar", Lemmy,,,,,,,YOUR TURN!!!!!


>        Jonathan Jarrett, Oxford       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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