Motorhead’s 1981 live album
\nNo Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith<\/i> has been called one of the best
\nlive albums ever released. If it’s not the best, it’s got to be up
\nthere somewhere – and the re-release combining it with the live EP
\nThe Golden Years<\/i> from 1979 makes it all the better.<\/p>\n
Recorded mostly on the
\nAce Of Spades<\/i> tour, bassist\/vocalist Lemmy Kilmister,
\nguitarist Fast Eddie Clarke and drummer Phil “Philthy Animal”
\nTaylor grind through a good number of their classics to that point.
\nAnd while you’re bound to think of one or two songs you think
\nshould have been included, there’s no doubt you’re going to walk
\naway from this disc a happy camper. (Since I wrote this review, yet
\nanother re-release – a newly-remastered version, with additional
\ntracks – has come out.)<\/p>\n
From the opening thunder that is “Ace Of Spades,” Kilmister and
\ncrew pour everything they have into their instruments, pulling no
\npunches along the way. With tracks like “Stay Clean,” “Metropolis”
\nand “No Class” getting their just due on the concert stage,
\nMotorhead solidify their reputation as a killer metal band. (And if
\ntheir music isn’t loud enough for you, the bellow from one of the
\nroad crew members at the start of “(We Are) The Road Crew” should
\nblow out what’s left of your eardrums.)<\/p>\n
Disappointments? I can count only one: “Capricorn,” a track that
\njust doesn’t seem to translate well to the live arena. Admitedly,
\nthis one is very much a mood piece (or a, aah, “mood alteration”
\nsoundtrack, if some of you catch my drift), so personal preference
\nis going to vary on this one. I just don’t happen to like it.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, on my re-release CD from a few years back, this
\nminor disappointment is tempered with the inclusion of five more
\ntracks, including the rarer track “Over The Top”, which was never
\nincluded on any first release of an album to the best of my
\nknowledge. The killer cover of “Leaving Here” kicks it into levels
\npreviously unheard by mankind, as does the original “Too Late, Too
\nLate”. Rounding things out are an okay “Stone Dead Forever” and an
\nabsolutely amazing “Dead Men Tell No Tales”.<\/p>\n
Now, I can easily count Motorhead’s later live release
\nThe Birthday Party<\/i> as one of my all-time favorite live
\nalbums (and, now that I found the video of the show, it only
\nsolidifies that opinion with me), but I still love
\nNo Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith<\/i>, and it rightfully belongs on your
\nshelf if you like Motorhead in any capacity. Chances are, once you
\nwrap your ears around this one, you’re going to come out of the
\nexperience loving the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5666],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-36454","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-motorhead","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36454"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36454"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}