OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

[Jonathan Smith]

I agree with what you both are saying. It is the last few albums which have
not really done much for me.

Most arists settle into a few good tracks an album after a while.

Hawkwind do things differently to Motorhead, bringing in new people, making
it easier for Dave.

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:55 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> I’d more or less concur with that — up to and including the observation
> that _Sacrifice_ is pretty solid straight through. One could easily gripe
> at the new one and say he doesn’t sound at his best — though that’s ‘cause
> he isn’t! He’s 69 and, after the life he’s had, it’s amazing he’s still
> (pretty much) alive, let alone putting out a record that (at least
> statistically speaking) few rockers of any stripe would need to be ashamed
> of.
>
> The ol’ bastard is clearly still pushing too hard. Having to stop shows
> after a few songs and cancel gigs is a sign you’re overdoing it. I know
> Lemmy loves to gig, but he needs to take it a bit easier or he’ll run the
> number of remaining gigs in him down to zero real fast … if he hasn’t
> already … :/
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> On 02 Sep 2015, at 11:07 , Jonathan Jarrett <
> jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> > I'd say that there's two or three really good tracks on most to all of
> the Motorhead albums post-, well, _Orgasmatron_? There are one or two
> stand-outs with more--for me _Sacrifice_ is almost all excellent--but
> there's something worth hearing on all of them and usually two or three
> somethings. (Except maybe on _Inferno_ and _Snake Bite Love_, but I guess
> everyone has their favourites and not-so-favourites.) By some reckonings,
> that's not much of a hit rate, but it beats many another artist's
> especially after so long...
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
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