Bastards

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Bastards
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

November 29, 1993

Label (s) ZYX Music

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

12

running time

47:50

occupation

production

Howard Benson

Studio (s)

A&M Studios ( Hollywood , California )

chronology
March ör Die
(1992) 		Bastards Sacrifice
(1995)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Bastards
  DE 29 10/25/1993 (9 weeks)

Bastards is the eleventh studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was the only album for the German label ZYX Music .

Emergence

In early 1993, the band decided to sign a record deal with the German label ZYX Music . Lemmy Kilmister cites the reasons for this that Germany was one of the best markets for Motörhead and that ZYX had offered the highest advance with 500,000 US dollars. For the first time, the new drummer Mikkey Dee took part in the songwriting . The recordings were made with producer Howard Benson at A&M Studios in Hollywood , California . With Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me , a title is represented whose text is directed against child abuse . Kilmister had written it a few years before Bastards and had unsuccessfully offered it to artists like Lita Ford and Joan Jett because he thought a woman should sing it.

When promoting the album, the first problems with ZYX became apparent, because Bastards was only available nationwide in Germany. A little later a distribution for Japan could be found, in the USA the album had not yet been officially released at the time. The label also refused to cover the cost of 200 promo CDs to be sent to the press for promotional purposes . In June 2013 the album was released as a record under the name Death Or Glory with a different artwork.

Track list

  1. On Your Feet or on Your Knees - 2:34
  2. Burner - 2:52
  3. Death or Glory - 4:50
  4. I Am the Sword - 4:28
  5. Born to Raise Hell - 4:58
  6. Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me - 4:05
  7. Bad Woman - 3:16
  8. Liar - 4:12
  9. Lost in the Ozone - 3:27
  10. I'm Your Man - 3:28
  11. We Bring the Shake - 3:48
  12. Devils - 5:59

Reviews

Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia praises the album as the band's return to a more familiar sound: "extremely loud and fast". Songs like On Your Feet or on Your Knees and Death or Glory set the pace and Born to Raise Hell is undoubtedly the greatest classic of the band's late phase. He sums up that this often overlooked album was one of the band's strongest releases in the 1990s. Götz Kühnemund from the music magazine Rock Hard sees it similarly and classifies Bastards as “brutal up-tempo Rock'n'Roll”, it is a “round, convincing MOTÖRHEAD album”.

literature

  • Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 236-240 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Motörhead - Bastards. Rock Hard online, accessed July 17, 2010 .

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