Bomber (album)

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bomber
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

October 27, 1979

Label (s) Bronze Records

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

10

running time

39:58

occupation

production

Jimmy Miller

Studio (s)

Roundhouse Studio, London

chronology
Overkill
(1979) 		bomber Ace of Spades
(1980)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
bomber
  UK 12 October 27, 1979 (13 weeks)
Singles
bomber
  UK 34 December 01, 1979 (7 weeks)

Bomber is the third studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was released on October 27, 1979 and was awarded Silver status in Great Britain in July 1980 for 60,000 units sold.

backgrounds

A few weeks after the end of the tour of the previous album Overkill , the band went to the Roundhouse Studio in London to record a second album for Bronze Records . As with Overkill, the producer was Jimmy Miller . The recordings were overshadowed by Miller's progressive heroin addiction , who temporarily neglected his job as a producer and left it to the sound engineers and the band. After recording the basic tracks, Motörhead interrupted the recording for a performance at the Reading and Leeds Festivals , in order to finish mixing the album afterwards . Bomber was released in October 1979 and sold around 250,000 times worldwide by mid-1980. On the plate cover which is located comic-like drawing of a German bomber ( He 111 ), drawn by the Fantasy Artists Adrian Chesterman.

With Dead Men Tell No Tales , Lemmy Kilmister had written his first song against the abuse of heroin, but it is not about the heroin addiction of producer Jimmy Miller. The piece step down was by guitarist Eddie Clarke sung. In retrospect, Kilmister described Bomber as a "transitional album between Overkill and Ace of Spades ", it contained "some really bad pieces ... like Talking Head ".

tour

Shortly after the album was released, the accompanying tour began with Saxon in the opening act for the performances in England. The bomber lighting system was used for the first time , a replica of a German bomber from the Second World War . It had a side length of twelve meters and could be pivoted in all four directions. The band had financed the construction of this system with their own funds from the sales of the previous albums. During the tour, live recordings of Leaving Here , Stone Dead Forever , Dead Men Tell No Tales and Too Late Too Late were recorded and released as an EP in 1980 under the title The Golden Years . During a concert at Stafford Bingley Hall in July 1980, the band was presented with a Silver Record for Bomber .

Track list

  1. Dead Men Tell No Tales - 3:07
  2. Lawman - 4:03
  3. Sweet Revenge - 4:10
  4. Sharpshooter - 3:19
  5. Poison - 2:54
  6. Stone Dead Forever - 4:54
  7. All the Aces - 3:24
  8. Step Down - 3:41
  9. Talking Head - 3:40
  10. Bomber - 3:43

Reviews

Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic sees a lot in common with Overkill, which was released at the beginning of the same year . He sees the biggest difference in the songs on the album, which are not as good as the ones on the previous album. Nevertheless, the album is one of the best in the band. Götz Kühnemund from Rock Hard notes that the album was released just half a year after Overkill , which fans and critics felt was too early. However, in retrospect, Motörhead succeeded in "writing an (almost) equivalent successor within a very short time".

literature

  • Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 118-122 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts UK
  2. ↑ Kilmister / Garza: White Line Fever , p. 120.
  3. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Motörhead - Overkill . In: Rock Hrad (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal . Heel Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-517-9 , pp. 51 .

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