Overnight sensation

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Overnight sensation
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

October 15, 1996

Label (s) CMC

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

11

running time

41:19

occupation

production

Howard Benson, Duane Baron

Studio (s)

Ocean Studio, Burbank
Trackhouse Recording Studio

chronology
Sacrifice
(1995) 		Overnight sensation Snake Bite Love
(1998)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Overnight sensation
  DE 71 10/28/1996 (4 weeks)

Overnight Sensation is the 13th studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was the first album without the second guitarist Würzel and the first for CMC Records.

Emergence

After guitarist Würzel left , the band decided to continue as a trio . In Lemmy Kilmister's opinion , a single guitarist has more freedom, but some of the new pieces cannot be played live with just one guitarist. Work on the new album should begin during the ongoing tour at the end of 1995, but Motörhead had not yet written a single song. The pieces were then created within four weeks. All tracks are joint compositions by the band, the only exception being Listen to Your Heart , which Kilmister wrote on an acoustic guitar . The subsequent recordings of the base tracks took another four weeks. After a break during which the band performed at various festivals , the recordings were completed. The album was released on October 15, 1996, distribution was taken over by BMG . The first single was I Don't Believe a Word .

Track list

  1. Civil War - 3:01
  2. Crazy Like a Fox - 4:32
  3. I Don't Believe a Word - 6:31
  4. Eat the Gun - 2:13
  5. Overnight sensation - 4:10
  6. Love Can't Buy You Money - 3:06
  7. Broken - 4:34
  8. Them Not Me - 2:47
  9. Murder Show - 3:03
  10. Shake the World - 3:29
  11. Listen to Your Heart - 3:45

Reviews

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic notes that Motörhead is returning to their “typical three-chord rock'n'roll” with the album. He sums up that Overnight Sensation is refreshingly rough and honest and should especially please the old fans. Jan Jaedike from the music magazine Rock Hard says that the album is musically coherent and that the new ideas such as the use of an acoustic guitar for Listen to Your Heart or the increased use of breaks show a growth process that the band is hardly expected to have after 21 years of existence would have.

literature

  • Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 249-251 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ^ A b Jan Jaedike: Motörhead: From the slaughter to Silicon Valley . In: Rock Hard . No. 115 , December 1996.
  3. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Motörhead - Overnight Sensation . In: Rock Hard . No. 114 , November 1996.

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