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

[Jonathan Smith]

It was fast Eddie's guitar which defined the sound as much as Lemmy's bass
and growling. It was energetic, amphetamine fueled and original. *Overkill,
Ace of Spades *and* Bomber* were classics. But *Iron Fist* was not really,
despite some good songs.

They were referred to as the 'worst band in the world' sometimes in their
early days!

After Fast Eddie left, there was *Another Perfect Day,* which was different
and pretty good, but Brian  Robertson did not fit.

After that Motorhead settled back into that heavy rock and roll formula and
the sound has stayed more or less the same.

Some albums were good. *Bastards* was one of the best.

It was with *We Are Motorhead* that I lost interest and have not got it
back again. There is nothing new.

On 4 September 2015 at 09:43, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> Well, the Fast Eddie era was long gone by the time I first heard
> Motörhead! I jumped in around the time of _Bastards_, so it was all new.
> :)  Obviously, I liked stuff like _Overkill_ and _Bomber_, since those were
> just good albums, though I thought _1916_, _Bastards_, and _Sacrifice_ were
> all basically in that league (just not so “new” to anyone but me!), and
> I’ll stand by that. _March or Die_ … eh, never got along with that one so
> well. There’s a fair bit of stuff on _Overnight Sensation_ I rate, though
> only a few songs on _Snake Bite Love_ and most albums since then. I wasn’t
> terribly into _We Are Motorhead_, though most of the stuff from Inferno on
> has been pretty solid, though it hasn’t knocked me out.
>
> So maybe it is only possible for people to get knocked out by the first 6
> years or so of MH albums that they hear!?
>
> :D
>
> That would explain why everyone who got into them with _Overkill_ were
> losing interest by the time of _Orgasmatron_ (which I likewise think has
> about 3 pretty great songs, though I kind of blur on the rest of them).
>
> Admittedly, when I listen to _Bad Magic_, I *do* think “Yeah, this {very
> bad word} rocks!” And it does. I don’t know that it will stick with me, but
> for a 69-year-old escapee from the speed ward and his (quite small) band of
> Merry Men, that’s pretty good going, I reckon.
>
> With Hawkwind … sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn’t so much;
> it’s more stylistic. I’ll confess that I haven’t been too thrilled since
> Alan Davey last peeled off. I mean, all the guys are great guys; I dig that
> Tim Blake is back in there, and I dig his solo stuff … I’m just not feeling
> the blanga vibe in current HW, which I freely confess is what I like best
> in the band’s history.
>
> But that’s OK. I’m sure other people really dig it. Maybe the gigs are
> great; I’m too far away for that anyway. And there’s plenty of great stuff
> going on.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> > On 03 Sep 2015, at 20:02 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>