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

[Jonathan Smith]

For me, it was really the Fast Eddie era which is the most interesting.
Since then, only some really does very much for me.

Motorhead play the basically the same stuff over and over, but it was a new
sound originally.

Hawkwind vary a lot. They try to evolve, which sustains my interest.

On 3 September 2015 at 11:38, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> Perhaps heretically, I will admit that relatively few Motörhead _albums_
> do it for me. It’s more the cumulative effect. :)
>
> Hawkwind … they are also sort of cumulative effect for me, though
> definitely some great albums … But they are much more all over the map.
> Sometimes they completely knock me over, sometimes I’m thinking “WTF …?”.
> :D So it goes!
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> > On 02 Sep 2015, at 22:20 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > 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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