I discovered hard rock when I was 14 years old… but I never
\ntruly tasted hard rock until I was about 15 or 16, when I was
\nlistening to Z-Rock in Chicago. I was happily sitting in my
\nbedroom, probably poring over the
\nSports Illustrated<\/i> swimsuit issue for the 500th time, when
\nthis wonderful noise came blaring from my radio. “What the hell was<\/p>\n
that<\/i>?!?” I asked out loud to no one in particular, “and
\nwhere can I hear more?”<\/p>\n
In the span of three minutes, Lemmy Kilmister and Motorhead
\nchanged my life, thanks to their 1986 album
\nOrgasmatron<\/i>. When I got the chance to meet Kilmister a few
\nyears ago, the CD booklet to
\nOrgasmatron<\/i> was one of the few things I begged him to
\nautograph (and which I promptly lost during the after-show… I’m
\nstill<\/i> pissed at myself for that). This CD might be 15 years
\nor so old now, but I still get a kick out of it, even if I do know
\nall the chord changes by heart. (I’m reviewing a 1986 version of
\nthis album; Motorhead’s latest label, Sanctuary, brought out a
\nremastered version with three unreleased tracks recently. The CDNOW
\nlink will take you to that album.)<\/p>\n
This was the album that Motorhead fans had been praying for
\nafter the band’s split with Bronze Records. The only full-length
\nalbum to feature Pete Gill on the drums, along with the debut of
\ntwin-axemeisters Phil Campbell and Wurzel, it was a return to form
\nthat had been merely hinted at on
\nNo Remorse<\/i>, Motorhead’s 1984 best-of. It had been four years
\nsince
\nIron Fist<\/i>, Motorhead’s last studio album (and their last
\nwith guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke). Would they still have the
\nmagic? Could they still kick ass by just strumming their
\nguitars?<\/p>\n
Two words: hell, yeah.
\nOrgasmatron<\/i>, while a short Motorhead album, provides a
\nconstant pummelling of the listener which they won’t want to have
\nstop.<\/p>\n
Oh, sure, you could probably point out one or two weak spots –
\nthe rushing of the bridge on “Doctor Rock,” “Running With The
\nDriver” and “Nothing Up My Sleeve” not quite being up to the same
\nlevel as the other tracks – but, in retrospect, that’s mere
\nnitpicking on a classic. Even in the one or two “lesser” songs is a
\nlot to celebrate.<\/p>\n
There’s the one-two Bataan Death March stomp on your spinal
\nchord with “Deaf Forever,” the neck-snapping rhythms of “Mean
\nMachine” shake you like a leaf in a typhoon (though the live
\nversion captured on
\nThe Birthday Party<\/i> still is superior in my mind), and the
\neerie title track can still send shivers up my spine.<\/p>\n
I could have written this review solely on the hundreds of times
\nI’ve listened to
\nOrgasmatron<\/i>, but I pulled it out again and blared it just to
\nmake sure I hadn’t missed a thing. Indeed, this disc sounds as good
\ntoday as it did in 1986, and should be one of the first CDs one
\npicks up when discovering all things Motorhead.
\nOrgasmatron<\/i> was the first Motorhead album I ever bought…
\nand as long as Lemmy and crew keep things going, it sure as hell
\nwon’t be the last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5666],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-37281","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\/37281","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=37281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37281"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37281"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}