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

[Abra Cadabra]

"Dancing On Your Grave" and "I Got Mine" are my Robbo MH anthems from
way back... i played them constantly after my first break up silly old
romantic me...

2015-09-04 16:43 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com>:
> 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
>> https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/
>> https://soundcloud.com/espada-negra/
>> http://www.carlaz.com/music.html
>>