Ace of Spades

Bad. Bad. Awful.

Too heavy and fast for me

Not a metalhead

Not a fan…songs sound alike and Lemmie’s voice is just not for me.

Title track is fun, of course, but I lost the will to live through the rest of the album.

Low marks for the grossly inappropriate song

Not my cup of tea

1/5 Jailbait is fucking disgusting and I'm giving this a 1/5 even though it's probably closer to a 2.5. Best track: The Ace of Spades

Formulaic hard rock songs. Grew bored after 'Live To Win'. Overall: 2/10

Wow it's like the same song over and over again. I hate it. Was gonna say it doesn't deserve a 1 because it doesn't sound that bad then I saw Jailbait... yikes

Ace of Spades - i know this song (3/5 goes hard for earlier metal) Love Me Like a Reptile - this song is serving. it's so gender (4/5) Shoot You In the Back - it sounds kinda like "Barracuda" to me. (3/5) Live to Win - these so far are just Harley riding songs. (3/5 it's kinda starting to lose me) Fast and Loose - this is what Vargkelethor does when he does metal music jokes. (4/5 this is a longer song so there's more to it) (We Are) The Roadcrew - fun metal guitar solo. (3/5) Fire Fire - okay there's something different. the group chant is a fun flair. (4/5) Jailbait - hm. well it was just dad classic metal. very samey. i dunno.

This is just like exactly what comes to mind when I think about classic 80s hard rock. Long guitar solos, a gruff singer, mostly ridiculous hardcore lyrics. Like Ace of Spades is their most famous song, is probably the best one on the album, and the lyrics are pretty hilarious. I guess I can see what people could like about it, but this isn't for me. Favorite song: Ace of Spades 11/5/23

What even are these lyrics? Lemmy cannot sing at all. Just random thoughts being spewed out every song. Very questionable lyrics, just ridiculous. "Ace of Spades" is the only song worthwhile, the rest are just garbage. I wish I could go lower than 1 star.

not mine

;-; . . . I mean yeah, music is good but the lyrics didn't age well

Scary, not my type of music. Too loud.

Listening to any song on this album is like ordering a Big Mac. I know what to expect, I kind of like it, and I don't need to consume 20 of them in one sitting.

Better than Metallica. Still bad.

Not great, stopped less than half way through, lyrics were elementary and uninspiring. Each song sounded extremely similar and the vocals were horrible.

disgusting start to a morning

Eh, not my style

Ace of Spades is good, but then you have to listen to a very similar version of it 11 more times

This one wasn't for me.

Liked the softer songs

I didn’t know I hated this album until I was forced to listen to it here. Every song sounds the same and the mumbling and 2 riffs per song are so grating.

I don’t recommend this at all. Please take it off your list. There’s some very inappropriate stuff there.

No thank you!

Yeah...no.

I can see the appeal if I had just taken a bunch of speed, but I hadn't, so I just wanted to turn it off and go back to enjoying my day. Knocked a star for Jailbait 🤮

Dreadfully stupid, but it's metal, right, so that's probably seen as a selling point by people who rate this any higher than the bare minimum.

Really

Can’t.

D Ace of Spades - 2. Love Me Like a Reptile - 2. Shoot You in the Back - 2. Live to Win - 2. Fast and Loose - 2. (We Are) The Road Crew - 2. Fire Fire - 1. Jailbait - 1. Dance - 1. Bite the Bullet - 1. The Chase is Better Than The Catch - 1. The Hammer - 1. This was one amorphous blob of screaming and mediocre guitar riffs. There wasn't anything interesting or creative going on.

I never have enjoyed heavy metal

mcm setan

Hate this with a passion. How many variations of the basic ace of spades track can you create into make a crap album.

Got tired of it pretty fast.

Vocals are not good! Music is ok.

I find other metal bands much better like AC/DC.

Jailbait. Ummm no. Gross even in 1980.

Just not a fan of the genre

There’s 37 minutes of my life I won’t get back. I get that they can play instruments but Lemmy’s voice just makes me want to reach for the paracetamol.

First thought....ugh. I simply HATE that umlaut usage. Then the Spotify canvas video was completely distracting on the first song with so much flickering and blinking I had to switch to the desktop app for fear of migraine trigger. While this speed metal flavor of the heavy metal genre is something I absolutely hate, I will say I can appreciate the tightness of the drums with the guitars. But that's all I can say about this. A friend reminded me that this project is called 1001 Albums to Listen to Before you DIE. I'd have been OK not experiencing this....thus 1

not even gorod krovi could save it

Rubbish

Lemmy's voice is rough as smashed concrete. The band are awesome. The lyrics were typical rock fayre until "Jailbait", and now I feel ill. How the fuck did they get away with it? Why hasn't it been deleted? Lemmy would have been 35 when this album came out. Grim.

the cover alone is enough for me to not give this album a chance

I'd rather watch static tv

Gross

Yuck heavy metal

awful

The only sure defense against the members of Motorhead is to push ‘em into a lake. All that leather and chains and boots, they’d sink like a stone. And why the need for defense, you ask? Well, because Motorhead’s after you… and your wife… and your daughter… and pretty much everything that you and I hold near and dear. I think Motorhead’s general philosophy spelled out on the 'Ace of Spades' album may be summed up in this one lyric from ‘Live to Win’: ‘Live it up, it’s their time to fall. Anarchy is coming in if you know we live to win.’ The ‘their’ is us, friends, insofar as we’ve someone to love, or an occupation that produces something beneficial to others, or life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s what Motorhead wants to take from us, and not because they want it for themselves. They’re not motivated by covetousness, necessarily, nearly so much as they are by sadism. So when Lemmy sings about the devil, it’s not meant to be symbolic. He’s truly in sync with evil. The final song, ‘The Hammer,’ really fleshes this out: ‘I’m in your life, just might be in your wife. Could be behind your back, I might be on your track. And it might be true, I might be onto you. I’ll scare you half to death, I’ll take away your breath… There ain’t no way, you’ll see another day. I’m shooting out your lights, bring you eternal night. And your eternal tricks begin to make me sick. The only thing I know, is that you’ve gotta go… Believe me, the hammer’s gonna bring you down.’ Oh, I believe you, Lemmy, I really do. And I want no part of it. Thankfully, the music assists in my decision to let Motorhead perform their gig and then move on to another town, far, far away from my wife, and daughter, and home, and job, and the beautiful mountain trails I enjoy hiking in the summer. 1) The production stinks- way too much treble, and no consistent sound from one recording to the next. It’s a bloody mess. 2) Philthy Animal Taylor’s drumming stinks- he’s overly flashy and unable to sustain the beat. 3) Lemmy’s vocals stink- just too painful to listen to for very long. I really can’t put my finger on it either, because I love Tom Wait’s likeable gravelly voice, the soulful roughness of Joe Cocker, folks like that. Part of the issue, I think, is that Lemmy’s singing from his throat, primarily, rather than from his diaphragm. Whatever it is, it’s simply not an enjoyable listening experience. And, Motorhead, FYI, the Vibraslap is best used sparingly. Effective on one song, redundant on two or more. We get it, the whole western theme. You even told us as much on the opening lyric of ‘Shoot You in the Back,’ proclaiming, ‘Western movie,’ before then spelling out the whole gunfighter motif in the rest of the song. I’m pretty sure we would have been able to figure that out ourselves before the end of the first verse. It’s been long debated as to whether Motorhead should be properly labeled metal or punk; or, maybe neither. I prefer the latter, because I’m a fan of both punk and metal. It helps me to know that Motorhead is in its own class, or lack of.

Uninspiring noise, all the songs sound the same, pathetic lyrics. A conclusive fail

Noise. Plain and simple. F

I found this tedious!

Wow. I listened to a few songs and am not surprised that they inspired a bunch of bands that I do not like. It's called thrasher metal for a reason, I guess.

Whatever, Motorhead. I never got the draw to you. I feel dirty listening to you.

Dreadful

bruh

blaah

literality you could play any of these songs and I'd say yeah thats motorhead but I could not tell you it was a different song. Might sound better if you're on speed?

dont like metal too much, not any exceptions to that here

Als würdest du im 3. Gang ne Stunde lang 120 fahren! (Frage: wie weit bist du nach einer halben Stunde?) 0.6

Не мой жанр. Не дослушал. 1/5

Just not a motorhead fan!

Not for me

would've been a 3 if not for the pedophilia

Not a fan

MN

Never heard this before but really enjoyed it.