Overkill (album)

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Overkill
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

March 24, 1979

Label (s) Bronze Records

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

10

running time

35:15

occupation

production

Jimmy Miller

Studio (s)

Roundhouse Studio, London

chronology
Motorhead
(1977) 		Overkill Bomber
(1979)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Overkill
  UK 24 March 24, 1979 (11 weeks)
Singles
Overkill
  UK 39 03/10/1979 (7 weeks)
No class
  UK 61 06/30/1979 (4 weeks)

Overkill is the second studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was released on March 24, 1979 and received silver status in the UK in 1981 for 60,000 units sold. It represented the band's commercial breakthrough.

Recordings, tour

After the band left Chiswick Records , band manager Doug Smith helped them to a record deal with Bronze Records for a single . In the summer of 1978 Motörhead recorded a cover version of Louie Louie and his own piece Tear Ya Down in the Wessex Studios in London . The single, released on August 25, 1978, reached number 68 in the charts, so that Bronze expanded the contract to include a studio album. At the end of 1978 the band went to the Roundhouse Studio in London for a fortnight to record the album. It was produced by Jimmy Miller , who had previously produced Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup for The Rolling Stones . The band had already played the tracks Damage Case , No Class , I Won't Pay Your Price and Tear Ya Down live, the rest of the tracks were recorded during studio recording. The guitar solo for Capricorn came about by chance when Jimmy Miller was playing the tape while Eddie Clarke was tuning his guitar. Metropolis wrote to Kilmister within five minutes of watching the movie of the same name , the lines don't make sense. The Tear Ya Down , recorded in 1978 for the B-side of the single Louie Louie , was not re-recorded, but made it onto the album in the single version.

In March 1979, the tour for the album began in Edinburgh with Girlschool as the opening act. After an appearance at Punkaharju - Festival in June 1979 in Finland the band in anger destroyed over the failed concert stage technology, lit a caravan and volleyed it in a lake. As a result, the musicians and their tour crew were arrested and expelled from the country after a four-day prison term.

Track list

  1. Overkill (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 5:12
  2. Stay Clean (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:42
  3. (I Won't) Pay Your Price (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:57
  4. I'll Be Your Sister (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:55
  5. Capricorn (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 4:11
  6. No Class (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:41
  7. Damage Case (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor, Farren) - 3:02
  8. Tear Ya Down (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:42
  9. Metropolis (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 3:37
  10. Limb from Limb (Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor) - 4:57

Reviews

Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic thinks the album is the first in a series of great Motörhead albums, possibly the best. The band's typical sound was fully developed with the album, with the title track, Stay Clean and No Class, some of the classics from Motörhead. The magazine Rock Hard chose it as 340 of the 500 strongest records of all time , Götz Kühnemund writes that the band had their breakthrough in Great Britain as the “toughest, dirtiest and ugliest band” with Overkill . He points out that the title track of the album was called "Speed ​​Metal" because of the double bass drums. Falk Kollmannsperger from the online magazine The Metal Observer declares the album to be the "ultimate classic ... 10 songs, each one a hit", the guitar riffs, the drums and each bass line hit "full pipe on the twelve".

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts UK
  2. ↑ Kilmister / Garza: White Line Fever , p. 106
  3. ↑ Kilmister / Garza: White Line Fever , p. 111
  4. ↑ Kilmister / Garza: White Line Fever , p. 113
  5. ↑ Kilmister / Garza: White Line Fever , pp. 117, 118
  6. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Motörhead - Overkill . In: Rock Hrad (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal . Heel Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-517-9 , pp. 73 .
  7. ^ Falk Kollmannsperger: Motörhead - Overkill. The Metal Observer, July 17, 2003, accessed June 19, 2010 .