It’s not often that Lemmy Kilmister declared a Mot\u00f6rhead release to be a mistake, but in his autobiography White Line Fever<\/i>, he declares their 1988 live album No Sleep At All<\/i> to be one, the fault being more in the mix than necessarily the release itself.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, this has never been one of my favorite albums from Lemmy and crew. And while my position regarding this disc has softened over the years, there is still something about it which makes it just feel like Lemmy was correct \u2013 but more along the lines that it was just the wrong release at the wrong time.<\/p>\n
Recorded in Finland during the tour supporting Rock ‘n’ Roll<\/i>, the band \u2013 Kilmister, guitarists Wurzel and Phil Campbell and drummer \u201cPhilthy Animal\u201d Taylor \u2013 blast through 12 songs at an almost breakneck pace. There’s no doubt that the performances are solid, but at times, it just doesn’t feel like they’re totally into the moment \u2013 in short, it has the feel of being phoned in.<\/p>\n
Their more recent work is well represented, with seven songs coming from No Remorse<\/i>, Orgasmatron<\/i> or Rock ‘n’ Roll<\/i> \u2013 but the three songs from the most recent album are the ones which seem to be performed by rote, almost as if they had to. Even \u201cEat The Rich,\u201d one of my all-time favorite Mot\u00f6rhead songs, just doesn’t seem to have the humorous punch that the original studio version does \u2013 and, honestly, that’s a bit disappointing.<\/p>\n
I also have to admit that I’ve never been a fan of the song \u201cJust ‘Cos You Got The Power.\u201d No Sleep At All <\/i>was the debut for this one, and even though it’s been included in many other shows, I’ve just never warmed up to it. Why? I don’t know.<\/p>\n
This isn’t to say that every song in this show suffers the same fate. \u201cKilled By Death\u201d remains a fun one to listen to, and the lyrical ad-libs that Kilmister throws into the end of \u201cBuilt For Speed\u201d keep the listener on their toes.<\/p>\n
Was Kilmister correct, and is the mix the problem with No Sleep At All<\/i>? Not to my ears, at least. If anything, one just wonders why it was thought that it was a good idea to release a live album two discs into Mot\u00f6rhead’s \u201ccomeback.\u201d (I’m not including No Remorse<\/i> in that sum, as it was essentially a compilation album, the four new tracks notwithstanding.) I’d have preferred hearing Lemmy and the boys cranking out new music in the studio, building up their already impressive arsenal of songs to choose from in concert before committing another live show to vinyl. (In all fairness to the lads, The Birthday Party<\/i> \u2013 the album capturing their 10th anniversary show, and yet another one Lemmy and crew fought against release \u2013 hadn’t come out yet, and that one featured drummer Pete Gill instead of Taylor.)<\/p>\n
I understand that any document capturing Mot\u00f6rhead in concert is momentous, though I’ve heard enough bootlegs to know that even Lemmy had an off night now and again. While there are no musical mistakes in No Sleep At All<\/i> to qualify as a bad performance, it just has the feeling that their hearts aren’t 100 percent into this particular performance. That feeling comes forth on the recording, leaving this as a disc that only Mot\u00f6rhead completists need add to their collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5666],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-44868","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-motorhead","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44868","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=44868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44868"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}