March ör Die
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August 14, 1992 |
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| Label (s) | WTG / Epic Records | |||
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11 |
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46:46 |
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Peter Solley |
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Studio (s) |
Music Grinder Studios, Hollywood |
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March ör Die is the tenth studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was the last album for WTG / Epic Records and the last one to feature drummer Phil Taylor .
Emergence
In early 1992, Motörhead began working on the pieces for the 1916 successor . The collaboration with drummer Phil Taylor turned out to be problematic because, in the opinion of Lemmy Kilmister, he no longer played well enough and could sometimes only keep the beat with the help of a metronome . Therefore he was fired during the recording and can only be heard on one track with Ain't No Nice Guy . Tommy Aldridge (ex- Whitesnake ) recorded the remaining tracks except for Hellraiser , and it was clear from the start that he would not become a member of the band as a studio musician . Shortly before the end of the studio recordings, the band hired a new permanent drummer, Mikkey Dee . Motörhead recorded Hellraiser and Hell on Earth with him. The latter song was not released on a Motörhead album, but together with Hellraiser on the 1992 soundtrack to the horror film Hellraiser III .
The album was produced by Pete Solley. The recordings took place in the Music Grinder Studios in Hollywood during the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 , and it was mixed in the SoundCastle in Hollywood. At the insistence of the record company coverte Motörhead the piece Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent . The piece Hellraiser was of Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde together with Lemmy 1991's for Osbournes album No More Tears written. The ballad Is not No Nice Guy sang Kilmister and Ozzy Osbourne common one, Slash from Guns N 'Roses played the guitar solos.
During the recordings, the bankruptcy of the WTG label became apparent. Although WTG released both the album and the single Ain't No Nice Guy , neither the album nor the single were advertised across the board. The new band manager Todd Singerman made sure that Ain't No Nice Guy was played by the US-American AOR broadcasters and gave the band an appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show . Furthermore, the parent company of the label WTG refused to pay the cost of the music video for Ain't No Nice Guy , which is why the band paid the around 8,000 USD themselves. The video, in which both Ozzy Osbourne and Slash had guest appearances, was airplayed on MTV after approval by Sony . After the closure of WTG at the end of 1992, the takeover of the record contract by the parent company Sony, which no longer showed any interest in the band, failed.
Track list
- Stand - 3:31
- Cat Scratch Fever - 3:52
- Bad Religion - 5:01
- Jack the Ripper - 4:39
- I Ain't No Nice Guy - 4:16
- Hellraiser - 4:37
- Asylum Choir - 3:40
- Too Good to Be True - 3:36
- You Better Run - 4:51
- Name in Vain - 3:06
- March Ör Tue - 5:41
Reviews
Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia describes the album as the one where everything went wrong. Although the band had already flirted with more catchy music earlier, with March ör Die the band wanted to try by force to release music suitable for radio. However, this did not work despite the participation of Ozzy Osbourne and Slash. Rivadavia considers March ör Die to be one of the band's weakest albums. Götz Kühnemund from Rock Hard magazine, on the other hand, is enthusiastic and says that the album is "the most varied MOTÖRHEAD album ever" and describes it as the "definitive successor to '1916'".
literature
- Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 220-232 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Motörhead - March ör Die. Rock Hard, accessed July 4, 2010 .
Web links
- March ör Die at Allmusic (English)
- March ör Die ( Memento of October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on imotorhead.com (Official website, English)
- March ör Die on MusicBrainz
Latest Members: Lemmy Kilmister | Phil Campbell | Mikkey Dee
Former members: Michael Burston | Eddie Clarke | Pete Gill | Brian Robertson | Phil Taylor | Larry Wallis
Studio albums: Motörhead (1977) | Overkill (1979) | Bomber (1979) | Ace of Spades (1980) | Iron Fist (1982) | Another Perfect Day (1983) | Orgasmatron (1986) | Rock 'n' Roll (1987) | 1916 (1991) | March ör Die (1992) | Bastards (1993) | Sacrifice (1995) | Overnight Sensation (1996) | Snake Bite Love (1998) | We Are Motörhead (2000) | Hammered (2002) | Inferno (2004) | Kiss of Death (2006) | Motörizer (2008) | The Wörld Is Yours (2010) | Aftershock (2013) | Bad Magic (2015)
Live albums, EPs and compilations: On Parole (1975/1979) | What's Words Worth (1978) | The Golden Years (1980) | St. Valentines Massacre (with Girlschool) (1981) | No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (1981) | Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (1982) | Live (1983) | No Remorse (1984) | The Birthday Party - Tenth Anniversary (1985) | Nope Sleep at All (1988) | The Best of Motörhead: All the Aces (1993) | Everything Louder than Everyone Else (1999) | Best of Motörhead (25 Years) (2000) | Motörhead Going to Lulea (2000) | Blitzkrieg on Birmingham 77 (2001) | “25 & Alive” Böneshaker (2001) | Live at Brixton Academy (2003) | Stone Deaf Forever (2004) | Stage Fright (2005) | Inferno 30th Anniversary Special Edition (2005) | Better Motörhead than Dead / Live at Hammersmith (2007) | The Essential (2007) | The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 1 (2011) | The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 2 (2012) | Clean Your Clock (2016) | Under Cöver (2017)