Motörhead (album)

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Motorhead
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

September 24, 1977

Label (s) Chiswick Records

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

8th

running time

32:52

occupation

production

John Keen

Studio (s)

Escape Studio

chronology
- Motorhead Overkill
(1979)

Motörhead is the official debut album of the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was released by Chiswick Records in September 1977 and peaked at number 43 on the UK album charts. It received silver status in the UK in 1986 for 60,000 units sold.

Emergence

After the recordings for On Parole and the problems with United Artists Records , guitarist Larry Wallis left the band and was replaced by Eddie Clarke . In the summer of 1976, band manager Tony Secunda Motörhead got a single deal with Stiff Records and the band recorded White Line Fever and Leaving Here . However, United Artists prevented the publication because Motörhead was still under contract with them. At the end of 1976 United Artists released Motorhead from this contract. The band played a few shows from late 1976 to early 1977 and decided to split up in April 1977. Ted Carroll from Chiswick Records was present at the farewell concert at the Marquee Club in London and offered Motörhead a record deal after the performance. Carroll booked the Escape Studio in Kent for two days so the band could record a single, produced by John "Speedy" Keen (ex- Thunderclap Newman ). Instead of the single, Motörhead recorded the basic tracks for a total of eleven songs, but without vocals. Ted Carroll was enthusiastic about the recordings and gave the band a few more days to record the vocals and other pieces for a full studio album.

At the end of the recording session, Motörhead had recorded a total of 13 tracks, the majority of which were new recordings of On Parole tracks (tracks 1 to 4 and 7). There was also the White Line Fever , which had already been recorded for Stiff Records , and another new track, Keep Us On the Road . The final track on The Train Kept a Rollin ' album is a cover version of a piece written by Tiny Bradshaw in the 1940s. The remaining five tracks were City Kids , On Parole and the instrumental instro as well as a cover version of ZZ Top ( Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers from the 1973 album Tres Hombres ) and I'm Your Witchdoctor by John Mayall . Except for City Kids in 1980, these were released as an EP entitled Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers .

Track list

  1. Motörhead (Kilmister) - 3:10
  2. Vibrator (Wallis) - 3:36
  3. Lost Johnny (Farren, Kilmister) - 4:13
  4. Iron Horse / Born to Lose (Brown, Lawrence, Taylor) - 5:20
  5. White Line Fever (Clarke, Kilmister, Taylor) - 2:36
  6. Keep Us on the Road (Clarke, Farren, Kilmister, Taylor) - 5:55
  7. The Watcher (Kilmister) - 4:26
  8. The Train Kept a Rollin ' (Bradshaw, Kay, Man) - 3:15

Reviews

Alex Ogg from Allmusic describes the music on the album as " Rock 'n' Roll like you had never heard it before" and says that Motörhead laid the foundation for the band's sound with the album: Lemmy's rough vocals and one furious fast wall of guitar, drums and bass. The Rock Hard thinks that Motörhead is a "completely independent bastard of rock 'n' roll and punk " that shows "what masterpieces the band ... will be capable of".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neil Warwick, Jon Kutner, Tony Brown: The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles & Albums . Omnibus Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84449-058-5 , pp. 759 .
  2. The Train Kept a Rollin ' on Allmusic (English)
  3. Holger Stratmann (Ed.): RockHard Encyclopedia . RockHard-Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 978-3-9805171-0-2 , pp. 264 .

literature

  • Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 100-103 .

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