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

[Jonathan Smith]

Another Perfect Day was good but not what people expected of them. Robbo
was a problem and seemed to rub Lemmy up the wrong way.

Motorhead's later albums are not too bad really.

Hawkwind are very different. Their output has always been uneven or perhaps
varied.

I liked the last album. I enjoy the filler too, the ambient tracks.
Sometimes it is my favourite part. As for re-doing old songs it is OK but
not the best. They should be at the end perhaps.

It is not Calvert era Hawkwind but they keep going!

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:14 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> No, _Iron Fist_ was not the best. I think Lemmy might agree. I didn’t hear
> _Another Perfect Day_ until long after its release, obviously — though I
> thought it was pretty good. Maybe not one of the topmost, maybe a bit
> different, but pretty good! I think the rest of the world has slowly been
> coming ‘round to that opinion, as well. :) But, yeah, Robbo didn’t really
> work out; frankly, I think that’s been a bit of a problem for him
> everywhere. Oh well.
>
> I think things did pick up post-_We Are Motorhead_, but perhaps not a
> _lot_. I think most of the records from the last 10 years are not bad,
> pretty consistent, a few better songs … but not _amazing_. Still, when
> you’ve already got a pretty strong back-catalog, that’s a lot to live up
> to. I should have such troubles! :D
>
> As with Hawkwind: I listen to the last few albums, from 2010, and they’re
> all right. A few good songs (though a certain amount of meandering “filler”
> and a _lot_ of self-covers which, at best, do not necessarily add much
> against the originals.)
>
> Mind you, I’m not picking out MH and HW to harsh on! :) It’s relatively
> rare that people come along with records I think are really, consistently
> good. And I tend to hold my favourite bands to relatively high standards. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
>
> > On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:38 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
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