Snake Bite Love
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March 10, 1998 |
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11 |
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44:53 |
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Howard Benson, Motorhead |
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Snake Bite Love is the 14th studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead .
backgrounds
Lemmy Kilmister described the creation of the album as typical for Motörhead. The band wrote all the pieces within six weeks of the start of recording. While all the lyrics are written by Kilmister, the music was written by all band members together. Kilmister composed and wrote the lyrics for the title Don't Lie To Me alone. The piece Take the Blame features an organ passage recorded by producer Howard Benson. Phil Campbell and Lemmy Kilmister came up with the idea and wanted to pay tribute to Deep Purple keyboarder Jon Lord . The drum work in Assassin is influenced by Arabic folklore . Kilmister described the arrangements of Desperate for You and Night Side as unusual because they were created without his participation and for this reason music and vocals do not go together as he had imagined. The title song Snake Bite Love was completely rewritten by Kilmister and Campbell after the drum tracks and basic chords were recorded by Mikkey Dee. Mikkey Dee also had (problems with the word "Love" English. For Love) in the title of the album, according to his idea, it would Bite the Snake told.
During the tour following the release of the album in March 1998 , a complete performance was recorded in the Docks in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli in May 1998 , which was published in spring 1999 as the live album Everything Louder than Everyone Else .
Track list
- Love for Sale - 4:52
- Dogs of War - 3:38
- Snake Bite Love - 3:30
- Assassin - 4:48
- Take the Blame - 4:03
- Dead and Gone - 4:18
- Night Side - 3:37
- Don't Lie to Me - 3:59
- Joy of Labor - 4:52
- Desperate for You - 3:27
- Better Off Dead - 3:42
Reviews
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic calls Snake Bite Love a characterless album. It is not bad, but it offers nothing new, does not contain a remarkable title and does not leave a lasting impression. Götz Kühnemund notes that Motörhead is venturing into new (or at least unfamiliar) terrain with the album and mentions Take the Blame and the ballad-like Dead and Gone as examples . However, he also states that Snake Bite Love is not a “high-flyer”, some average titles are pulling the level down and Lemmy Kilmister is “audibly running out of breath” in places.
literature
- Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 255 .
- Jan Jaedike: Motörhead: vegetarian techno & porn in the dark . In: Rock Hard . No. 131 , April 1998.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Snake Bite Love at Allmusic (English)
- Snake Bite Love ( Memento from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on imotorhead.com (Official Website, English)
- Snake Bite Love 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)