On parole

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On parole
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

1979

admission

1975

Label (s) United Artists Records

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

9

running time

36:59

occupation

production

Fritz Fryer

Studio (s)

Rockfield Studios, Monmouth , Wales

On Parole is the first album recorded by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . The recordings were completed at the end of 1975, but the label United Artists released Records On Parole in 1979.

Recordings

The band was signed to United Artists in late 1975 . After being voted the “best bad band in the world” by the music magazine Sounds , the musicians Lemmy Kilmister (vocals, bass), Larry Wallis (guitar) and Lucas Fox (drums) decided to make their debut album at Rockfield Studios in Wales recorded, produced by Dave Edmunds . After the tracks Lost Johnny , Motörhead , Leaving Here and City Kids were recorded in this constellation , Edmunds was lured away from Swan Song Records . Furthermore, drummer Lucas Fox left the band, Phil Taylor came for him . The drum tracks recorded by Fox were overdubbed by Taylor , except for Lost Johnny . Furthermore he participated in the songwriting of the missing pieces. The remaining recordings were produced by Fritz Fryer, a former member of The Four Pennies .

Kilmister wrote the titles Motörhead , The Watcher and Lost Johnny while he was still at Hawkwind . Leaving Here comes from the songwriter trio Holland – Dozier – Holland , City Kids Wallis composed during his time with the Pink Fairies . During the studio recording, Wallis also wrote the tracks On Parole , Fools and Vibrator (together with his roadie Dez Brown), Taylor contributed the piece Iron Horse / Born to Lose , the text for this was also by Brown.

Publication and Success

The label was dissatisfied with the result and at the same time unsure of its commercial potential. After months of delay, United Artists decided in late 1976 not to release the album and to release the band from the existing record deal. It wasn't until 1979, when Motörhead had become one of the best-selling metal bands, that On Parole appeared on the label and in December 1979 reached number 65 on the British album charts .

Track list

  1. Motörhead (Kilmister) - 2:57
  2. On Parole (Wallis) - 5:38
  3. Vibrator (Wallis, Brown) - 2:53
  4. Iron Horse / Born To Lose (Brown, Lawrence, Taylor) - 5:17
  5. City Kids (Sanderson, Wallis) - 3:43
  6. Fools (Brown, Wallis) - 2:32
  7. The Watcher (Kilmister) - 4:50
  8. Leaving Here ( Holland – Dozier – Holland ) - 2:56
  9. Lost Johnny (Farren, Kilmister) - 3:31

reception

In retrospect, the album received mostly poor reviews. The Rock Hard called On Parole that "to this day druckloseste and untypical Motorhead work". Allmusic's Dave Thompson describes the decision not to release the album as a logical step. The album is a pulp of riffs and noise, the arrangements are terrible and steeped in blues and schnapps and the most high-proof pub rock of all time. Despite the negative reviews and the bad sound, the album with Motörhead contains one of the standards of the band.

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. ↑ 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. 93-97 .

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