No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Ace of Spades is solid, the crowd noise makes for a good atmosphere, but between a lot of this blending together and sounding the same and the fact that live albums just don't seem like a great introduction to most bands, this one just wasn't really hitting.

I really like Motorhead, but the live versions of their songs are lacking. The album that should be on this list is one of their studio albums, not this.

I'd rate this higher if they didn't play the same song 18 times.

Ace of Spades 👍 (only song I knew). This got tedious after. Didn't bother listening to the 2nd disc in the Expanded Edition.

I love Lemmy’s voice. The snarling growl is perfect for a rock/metal band. I wish I actually liked the music. It just does nothing for me. I have a bias against angry music mostly because I end up feeling agitated for the entire day after listening to it. I know that’s a me problem but it is my reality. 2/5

I like motorhead but this album isn't great. Its a live album and it never really gets there, you know? Its not bad, but I don't think its a "must-hear" album under any evaluation. 2/5

Ace of Spades was ace, but it was a bit similar after that. Also they didn't go to the Apollo!

Probably an unpopular opinion but I don't really like Motorhead :/

I don't think I'll ever like Lemmy as a vocalist and Motorhead will always be overrated in my opinion, but this was a better offering that the stuff I've listened to previously. Top tracks: Metropolis, Iron Horse

I love the fact that there is a whole band built around one song so hard that they make an entire record of that one song over and over and it makes the 1001 best list. Dont get me wrong i love that song

On this journey of 1001 there have certainly been ups and downs and right angle turns. There is no question there is a lot of energy poured into this live album but the best ever? To me, there was not a lot of variety from one song to the next. Loud intro, screaming chords and vocals, guitar solo and a big flourish to wrap up the song.

Never really got into Motorhead, everyone knows that one song "Ace of Spades" (I knew it from an episode of The Young Ones, dating myself a bit) but I couldn't name another by them, so a long ass live album probably isn't the best way to ease yourself in... Hard rock but hard listening too.

sucked and managed to keep getting worse.

Ace of Spades is a 5-star album that rips from start to finish and I'm sure it was a hell of thing to see Motorhead live, but I don't really see what's added by listening to a live recording of these songs - a bit faster and messier, even more energy, but a muddy sound that turns it all to mush.

It's been said that "Lemmy is god". If that's true then consider me an atheist. It's all he same song

You'd have to be an avid fan to want to listen to the live version.

It was fine. I generally don't like heavy metal, but I didn't mind this. I don't think I'll listen to it again though

It was loud and I really didn't care for the main singer's (yeller's?) vocals. Instrumentals could have been interesting at times, but they got lost in the cacophony of the rest of the noise.

They have some fun, quick songs - but after hearing 18 different Motorhead songs I felt like I heard 3? They all kinda sound the same - but it could also be the live environment? Pretty meh.

Just ok

Aceof Spades and Overkill are great songs, but the rest just blurs into hyperkinetic noise with Lemmy desperately shouting. Sorry.

Another overwhelmingly noisy album that doesn't keep my interest

Listening to this, I guess I'm not a Motörheadhead. Surprisingly, I liked this live album more than the Ace of Spades studio album that we listened to not that long ago. It's a 2.5, but I'm going to round down.

I will say that after listening to the studio album Ace of Spades I was not looking forward to a live album. At least the original release of this did not include “Jailbait”. So that’s something… This was also not a day that I needed this music in my life. I listened to it and am happy to move on from the 44 minutes of muddled guitars and growling.

Ehhh I mean I already had their studio album, which was better than this. Songs all sound the same, and the layout was off, songs were choppy as there went from one to another

1. ace of zpadez - 1.5 2. ztay clean - 1 3. metropoliz - 1 4. the hammer - 1 5. iron horze - 0 6. no clazz - 1 7. overkill - 1.5 8. roadcreuu - 1 9. capricorn - 1 10. bomber - 1 11. motorhead - 1 12. over the top - 1.5 13. in the back - 1 14. jail bait - 1 15. living here - 1.5 16. fire fire - 1.5 17. too late - 1 18. bite the bullet - 1

Only cause this is ANOTHER live album...

This is music for people who wear wrap around sunglasses and leather jackets unironically, and it's 2 hours long.

Almost quit it a few times. Like a drill to the brain of music.

Nothing I would ever choose to listen to. For once, however, I didn’t hate those fast, driving guitars. But how I did not like his voice. Lemmy count the ways.

Motorhead being on this list once is generous. Being featured twice? Especially for a lackluster live album that features some of the same songs we've already heard? All of their songs sound exactly like worse version of Ace of Spades. I don't get it. Clearly the author of the 1001 Albums book grew up in the 70s and early 80s and is blinded by nostalgia.

I’m not sure what it would take got me to give an album one star. This one was definitely not my taste, but I can acknowledge some crazy guitar licks. That takes talent: dedication so two stars for that. It didn’t hurt my ears, but it felt repetitive, so I was more than ready for it to end before it did. So it can’t get three stars, which is what I give background music that I dan take or leave. This one I wanted to leave so two stars it is.

Why would I listen to a fuzzy, muddy recording of a band with muddy ass fuzzy music anyways. All the depth and fidelity is gone

Yesterday, I was bemoaning the fact that I hadn't gotten any eighties albums in a while, and today, I was rewarded with this. Caveat emptor I guess. The only Motörhead song I know is "Ace of Spades," and it was a bit of a bummer that it was the only song on this live album that I was familiar with. It was even more of a bummer that it was the first song, and that after it ended, I was left with over 35 minutes of unfamiliar, live heavy-metal that basically all sounded the same to me. I'm not a huge fan of live albums, and this experience only solidified that feeling for me. I don't understand how an album that's so high energy and full of blasting guitars and pounding drums can still find a way to be so boring. Outside of "Ace of Spades," this album didn't really have a lot going on. I liked that the songs were short, but I hated that these songs weren't all from the same performance, because it stripped away the context of these songs being live in a sense. I really thought I would have enjoyed this more, but this album was a bit of a snooze, and I don't understand why it made this list.

Not my cuppa of tea but they're obviously good at what they do.

Never been huge on Motörhead, and it being live has reaffirmed by belief that they just replay one long song with the same sound. DNF.

A lot of people are reviewing anniversary/expanded/deluxe versions of albums and then complaining about the length or some crappy bonus track. Just listen to only the original album release after looking it up at musicbrainz.org or http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/index. For this one that saves you from having to listen to Jailbait again.

I do enjoy the occasional Ace Of Spades and love the history and tales of Lemmy and company but beyond a handful of tracks at a time it's a lot to take.... definitely a direct line from here to the imminent thrash genre, although this has more a nod to hardcore and punk than anything else. Those genres aren't faves - although I do appreciate how tight this 3 piece was in a live setting and oddly despite its aural assault it's not that hard on the ears (although the album has a bootleg feel to it and is a little off-putting at times in headphones - almost sounds like it's in mono outside of drum fills and the crowd noise...?). Lemmy's Rickenbacker bass sound is dirty-great. Just don't love the tunes in aggregate so I'll enjoy a few cuts here and there but overall put it on the shelf only to be brought out for special occasions, dinner parties, etc. 5/10 2 stars

If you don't like Motorhead, you won't like this. I don't and I didn't. WHy this would be on here along with their other album with some of the same songs is a mystery. There's nothing groundbreaking or even different about them playing live.

feel like i was in a mosh pit getting my ass kicked just from listening

Quality of the recording is quite poor, bootleg quality. The variety is quite limited and all have similar style. I suspect seeing them live would be good judging from the energy levels and speed of songs, but it doesn't translate well where I am, looking out on a cold morning with the trees swaying gently in the breeze.

Het is vette muziek, maar ik ben echt niet kapot van deze live versie waarbij de geluidskwaliteit relatief kut is en de livesfeer voor mij niet zorgt voor een leukere luisterervaring. Dat deden ze bij Thin Lizzy dan toch slimmer. Dit is een livealbum waarbij de live zorgt voor -2, misschien wel -3. Het lijkt een verkapte manier om een compilatiealbum in deze lijst te krijgen. Leuke muziek, maar in deze vorm luister ik er niet graag naar. Ik zie ook aardig wat mensen 5 sterren geven 'want Motörhead' maar daar ga ik niet in mee. Ik geef 2 sterren omdat ik merkte dat ik heel erg uitkeek naar het moment dat m'n huiswerk af was. Dat komt ook omdat ze met het hoogtepunt beginnen en daarna lijkt het grotendeels een herhalingsoefening met wat minder impact.

Rollo. Me parecen todas iguales.

One overplayed but decent rock song followed by 17 more attempts at the same. And while I realize it was a different era, jail bait is gross. Also, love albums are only good for fans 90% of the time. This is one of those times.

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Just not really my vibe. Could imagine bopping around to it live though I suppose. Simpson reference: No (only in the non-cannon comic books)

Not my kind of music

Just not for me.

I just cannot get into Motörhead. I appreciate that they were very influential for heavier genres of music like thrash. I just cannot get into the lead singer’s voice. This live album wasn’t the best. The sound quality is pretty muddy and I didn’t think the performances were too outstanding.

I’ve never been a big fan of live albums, and this one unfortunately did not change my mind. I’m sure the energy would have been fantastic live in person, but it did not translate on recording for me. I also found most songs to sound very similar, which I think is probably just Motörhead’s sound and not specific to this album. Highlights: Ace of Spades, Iron Horse.

as a teenager I had a Lemmy poster without ever having listened to Motörhead that I loved to take edgy pictures with. seems like now I'm paying my dues.

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Highlights: Ace of Spades, Stay Clean. In a nutshell: dad rock/hard rock, but live. If given the choice between this and Motörhead’s fourth album The Ace of Spades, I’d pick No Sleep til Hammersmith. Motörhead sound like a band better heard live and in their prime. Overall: 5/10

Echoing many of the other reviews, this sounded like one song with different lyrics. It was fun the first few times, but then it became a background beat as I exercised and didn't draw my attention. It was a good exercise beat, but I couldn't tell what they were shouting most of the time.

NO MORE LIVE ALBUMS PLEASE

The whole album was very samey. Maybe I would've liked the songs a bit better if I had listened to the studio versions before but on this live albums all songs sounded the same. This kind if hard rock/heavy metal gets tiring after around 10 minutes...so it's not my jam.

It's the same picture!

Love me some Tony hawk pro skater but can’t save my love of mororhead goes much beyond that

One trick pony 🐎 but sure it can rock

i don't understand how it's possible to have such poor quality with live albums, time after time! talk about unfortunate. but i suppose since plenty of other live albums have poor quality, i won't stress too much about it. regardless, i felt no sleep 'til hammersmith was lackluster. beginning with what's still their best performing song, the album was on the right track, but the rest of the songs offered nothing unusual or different. motörhead's energy is high, at least.

What needs to be said about this album has already been said, so I'm going to keep it brief. This is a low quality live album. There is nothing special about the production. You can't even really make out any audience engagement (and again, what is there is low quality). As far as the way I feel about live albums on this project goes, that's already three strikes. Now, about Motorhead's actual music. The songs all sound the same. "Ace of Spades" is their ace song -- pun intended. Everything else just sounds like a rehashing of that song. This album is definitely not a necessary inclusion. If anything, it's a tiresome inclusion.

Note: the original LP is 45 minutes. The links here seem to give you the extended versions which are really for the diehards. It’s quite a good record of the speed and noise of Motörhead at their peak. I prefer it to other metallers as it’s slightly more rock’n’roll, but it’s still pretty noisy! My taste is more AC/DC towards Iron Maiden in this area of hard rock.

Live albums don't do it for me. Think they have rightfully died off.

I don't know? Some of these songs kind of slap, I guess, but the sound is so muddy that I can't really grab hold of any particular melody, lyric, or instrumentation. This is a perfectly acceptable live record that I'm sure classic metal fans would enjoy. I can't say that I'd revisit it. But I'm glad I've heard it and have now heard more than one Motorhead song, which I guess is part of the point of this list.

a solid live performance of songs that are too noisy for me lol

Pretty fun, fast paced. A couple songs just sounded like Ace of Spades but I didn't hate it. Probably wouldn't go back and listen tho

Vor allem lauter heavy Metal. Wenig Genuss möglich.

The recording of this album is really hindering it, sounds like it was taken using a 10 dollar children’s microphone. Anyways just another grunge Brit band nothing crazy here. 1.8

Don't like live albums much. Jailbait problematic.

that sure is some hard rock

Live metal isn't my favorite :/

I anticipate some poorly-recorded high energy nonsense! And I mostly right! All these songs sound the same!

You win some, lose some It's all the same to me

Niet mijn ding

I struggle to believe there are many live albums that are better than their studio counterparts, and this is definitely not one of them. All their songs sound like various iterations of the Ace of Spades, which is a great song.

Didn't love this outside of Ace of Spades

No thank you.

I get it. Just don't like it much.

Meh, live äänitalllenne ei tuo mitään lisäarvoa tämän bändin osalta.

En ymmärrä vieläkään hypeä

I don't have much more to say about Motorhead, other than repeating my rather unfavourable opinion of their other record on this list. I'm not a fan of this band, and it feels like all the songs sound the same to me - one big variation of Ace of Spades. Not the worst ever, but I just cannot stand it.

Good music for going to a concert but nothing I would ever listen to in any other situation.

This is the second Motorhead album I've gotten in like two weeks. Really makes you wonder about lists like this. So you're telling me that of all the recorded music in history, if you were going to pick 1001 albums that everyone should hear... TWO of them would be from Motorhead? Come on. Granted, the song "Ace of Spades," is in the classic rock canon. But does a person b really need that deep a dive into Motorhead's discography? That said... This album. It's fine, good high energy rock. Lemmy isn't a great singer but his voice fits the songs. The musicians are tight, obviously super well rehearsed. The songs are good, though they start to sound a bit samey after a while. At one point, Lemmy introduces a song by saying, "This is a slow one, so you can all get mellowed out." Then the band starts into a song which is almost the same tempo, and basically sounds almost the same, as everything else. I guess the guitar riffs are less busy than usual, so that counts as a "slow one." The recording quality is kind of mediocre and muddy, which probably doesn't help. Overall I liked this better than the studio album Ace of Spades. I don't care about all the hours of content from the various expanded editions, I just listened to the track list from the original vinyl release. I think a person could just listen to that and learn everything they need to know about Motorhead. But I bet it was cool to be at these shows.

The biggest problem I have with the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list is that it has too many albums from the same artists. I have a bigger problem when live albums of the same artists are also included. I think this album is redundant, because it does not add anything new to the band’s discography. The songs are basically the same as the studio versions, except for some minor variations in tempo and vocals. The sound quality is also not very good, and the crowd noise is sometimes annoying. I have already rated Ace of Spades 4 stars out of 5, because it is a classic heavy metal album with catchy riffs and lyrics. But this album does not deserve more than 2 stars out of 5, because it is just a repetition of what they have already done before.

Always start your 2 hours set with your only good song. Always.

I find myself agreeing with some of the more negative reviews. I'm struggling to see why this is the best live album ever made when the sound is rough, the lyrics almost unintelligible at times (though that's largely due to Lemmy's gruffness), and most of the songs sound like early riffs on the Ace of Spades. I 1000% see the origins of grunge and pink in Motorheads sound in many of these songs, but the sound quality feels fairly bad here compared to things a decade or two later. Muddy Banks of the Wishka, How the West Was Won, and S&M all strike me as better live albums than this.

Is this 1 song? Live albums are cheating

The opening song for the live concert was Ace Of Spades, which is great, but do we really need to hear the rest of the show?...no.

Exactly what you’d expect from a live Motörhead album - energetic, fast and loose, and incredibly repetitive

I like something quiet and melodic. 5 stars compared to the average rap album but overall best left to the perpetual teenagers.

YouTube stats for the original version of this album: Ace of spades: 13M plays. The rest: 3.5M between them. That sums up this album. Also, haha to the person who listened to the 2+ hour expanded version!

It's a very good live performance of the same song over and over and over and over and over again

tosiaan äänitys on niin KAUKANA!!! pitää korvaa höröttää, pöröttää eteenpäin että kuulee kunnolla... joku kaveri kulissien takana nauhurilla... rohkeasti vaan lavalle... noh ei se paska laatu meikää, meikä ei semmonen audiofiili audiophile seksuaalisesti viehättänyt audi mies ole... taitaa olla että musiikki itse vähän monotonista... bändi toimii studioversioissa paremmin.... ace of spades........... joo.....

Bold to open with their biggest song, and it’s a cracking rendition. The drumming throughout is amazing, real powerhouse stuff, but it all blended together a little after a while. I think I’d need a few more listens to get the hang of the songs and differentiate them.

Motörhead isn't terrible, but this live set seems like it's just a greatest hits hodgepodge with no coherence as an album itself. Still some good songs on it though

Too long

Probably a fun concert but with no visual its pretty dull

Better than I expected but really don't care about live albums?

Not really for me

I feel like the internet age has made live albums irrelevant. I hope they have at least. These guys shred but I don't need 2 hours of it. Thank god its over. Not listening to the outtakes #sorrynotsorry. Wasn't bad, just repetitive and I don't see how it fits into this list

I can't say that I like this but I think I would enjoy being in the band and playing it live. I would not enjoy being in the audience but it would be fun to play. I doubt this makes any sense.

I guess one of the joys of seeing Motorhead live is that they're going to sound pretty much the same they do in the studio. No overdubs or Autotune for Lemmy. This collection highlights the sameness of the songs "Overkill" is reminiscent of "Ace of Spades" and "No Class" borrows the riff from ZZ Top's "Tush". Anyway, I'll deduct a point because I don't think I've gained anything from listening to this album that I didn't already know from the first LP we received.

This is good, nothing against Motorhead, I'm just voting low as I think Live albums are a lazy way to squeeze a "best of" into an album list.

I am aware of Motörhead and I've heard the track "Ace of Spades" before but probably not even the full track. Nothing else was familiar from No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith. For a live album, it is a good recording. By the fourth track, the album was already getting long. It was a push to get all the way through. Half-way through the album, I was having a hard time distinguishing between the tracks. Almost at the end "Capricorn" and "Bomber" finally provided something a *little* different to listen to, but not enough to save the album. I did not enjoy this listening experience.

Ok for what it is. Not my cup of tea. 2/5

Meh. Live albums suck

18th April 2023 Listened in the morning working from Cox and Dan’s. Stayed at theirs last night with Thai and Chelsea Real. Whirling dervish of pounding drums, thrashing guitar and screaming vocals. I can feel the sweat and the squeeze of the crowd. 2.5 if I could.

The live album captures Motorheads energy a lot better than the studio albums. But it gets repetitive after a while.

Pretty fun, energetic.

Not a huge Motörhead fan, and this live album didn’t do much to move the needle. Still sounds like Motörhead. 2/5.

They have like one good song. Why do we need THIS live album on the list and Many other good live albums are not. 2.5/5

Today is my 200th consecutive day of reviewing albums. I was hoping for a great album to mark the occasion, but based on my previous Motörhead review my hopes aren’t too high here… But still, fingers crossed! Let’s be optimistic! Songs I already knew: Ace Of Spades, (We Are) The Roadcrew, Jailbait Favourites: Ace Of Spades, Motorhead To be clear, the songs I already knew were from the previous album I heard. It’s possible that there was more crossover than I’ve written above, but Motörhead fall pretty heavily into the all-songs-sound-the-same area of music. To give credit where it is due, they do sound very right on this live album, and Lemmy sound just like on the studio recordings. However, this music just isn’t for me. I don’t think I’m really the target market and that’s perfectly ok. I was bored after around 6 songs, and there were will 12 more to go (I didn’t listen to the bonus tracks that make this album “deluxe”). I still cringe at the song Jailbait though. The lyrics are genuinely awful.

It is a live album. Ace of Spades is still the best song. Then several songs that sound similar but are not as good. I didn't need to hear it. I tolerated it.

Too rowdy for me

They do rock hard, and I can see that this would be a great capturing of their live show for fans, but for some reason their style has never appealed to me. 2.5 stars

Impressivley loud and powerful, but mostly just loud. And Lemmy is a epically bad singer, er shouter. The callout the road crew is quaint and clearly the vocal highlights. There's no real reason to include this. Sure, it's loud and the audience noise softens the edges a bit, but it's mainly noise. And we're okay celebrating Nazi insignias? Shouldn't we know better by now?

Unfortunately this one just didn’t do it for me gang…I didn’t dislike it but I felt like it was just alright. I was disappointed that it felt pretty textureless despite it being a live album. I’ll revisit it but it was a pretty bland experience for me 5/10

Tää on varmaan toiminut enemmän oikeaan aikaan julkaistuna kokoelmana kun oikeestaan mitenkään livelevynä. Hyvä kokkari Motörheadin parhaita biisejä mutta eipä tää nyt levynä erityisen säväyttävä oo. 2/5

Varsin kyseenalainen valinta listalle, vaikka ihan tiukkaa menoa onkin.

Huoh miks näitä livelevyjä pitää olla. Studiolevy Motörheadilta oli ihan hauska mut en ymmärrä miks tää nyt oli niin hieno keikka.

Great first tune, rest is a bit samey and it's not the best quality for a live album. 2

'Vet, Motorhead!' dacht ik nog even, maar dit is een typisch geval van: Je zal er wel bij moeten zijn geweest!

Not a huge fan. Noisy but I didn't get excited by it.

Too heavy for me

Eh, Motorhead is fine. Motorhead live is also fine.

bro i'm sorry but live albums are just not my thing. this one sounds very good in comparison to their album sound, but why would I want to listen to a live album vs the actual album recording.

I can smell the BO of the crowd through my headphones. If you are into a lead singer that sounds like they smoke 3 packs a day and multiple guitars that go full speed non-stop, then this is for you

I tried, I couldn't get into it.

Never been a fan of live albums

Well at least this one doesn't have the pedophile song? Musically it's decent, albeit not my thing. I just dislike them as people too much and don't have the attachment to it musically to get over that. The lyrics are also really uninteresting to me.

Not the best sounding live album I’ve ever heard

I guess as live albums go this is a good one. But fuck live albums.

I like the song everyone else likes.

Sound quality was poor. Motörhead has better studio albums.

Good sound ...one sound. It's the same song, repeated. And why the live album, and with such poor sound quality?

ok metal but repetitive

Meh

Ehhh, I have issues with this album, blew it's load to quickly, cherry picked songs from multiple live events, goes on too long... its fine but I will never listen to again

Motorhead were always best in three-minute bursts. This is a LOT more than that.

Ace of Spadesillä sisään niin kuin kuuluukin. yllätyin, kuinka periaatteessa monipuolinen setti olikin, vaikka rekalla eteenpäin jyrättiinkin tasaisesti koko ajan. ei ihan sama biisi koko ajan, mut melkein

Motörheadin ongelma on sama kuin kaikkien niiden bändien, jotka pyrkivät pitämään kappaleensa ja erityisesti koukkunsa mahdollisimman yksinkertaisina, mutta jotka eivät lukeudu pop-musiikin suurimpien nerojen joukkoon: suurin osa materiaalista on tasapaksua. Rockin ensimmäinen periaate on, että "hyvä meininki" ei korvaa hyviä kappaleita. Ja kyllä, jos kaikki tämän levyn biisit olisivat Ace of Spadesin tasoa, saattaisi kysymyksessä olla viiden tähden levy.

The recording sucks, the live experience doesn't add anything to their music, and in any case, Motörhead has one song that they play over and over and they already have a studio album on the list. If somebody asks you to make them a list of albums they should listen to before they die, you list ten thousand albums and get a hand cramp from writing before you ever even think about this one. Best track: Ace of Spades, I guess

I’ve always heard good things about Motörhead but I was sad to find that most of their songs on the album sounded the same with a few changes to the lyrics.

This was very boring.

Nothing to say its motorhead. Mid metal band

I can only begin to imagine that this live album is in the list because Motörhead - as a band - are tighter than a fat gimp's leather knickers. Lemmy has a dreadful voice - it's gritty, hoarse and barely in tune. The crowd noises are distracting and irritating. Everything wrong with a live album is right there. But it's tight AF. As a live album, it does not encourage me to listen to Motörhead. An extra star simply for the talent of the band.

Repetetivt och ointressant

This is English rock band Motörhead's first live album, containing songs taken from their earlier LP's and recorded live on their 1981 British tour. The album was released at the peak of the band's popularity and many fans had been anticipating a live album. It's been rated as one of the best live albums of all time, and the album even made it to number 1 on the UK albums chart. The music is a mix of hard rock and heavy metal, laying the foundation for the band's thrash period. Normally I am not a big fan of metal, but the songs on this album were a fun listen and it being a live album may have helped with that. All rock/metal fans should lend an ear to this album if they haven't already.

their hits live 2.5

As live albums go its fine. Id just rather hear a studio album

For me it's just noise

- never got into Motörhead - not a fan of live albums - it sounds pretty good, just not for me - classic Motörhead vocal style - Fast and Loud - notable: Ace of Spades, No Class and Overkill

Some enjoyable moments but not enough.

Christ they just keep going. How many times can you play the same song?

Live gibt hier überhaupt nichts.

Was alright

Agh fuck off Motorhead and other similar bands. This to overly represented. I like Ace of Spades, cos it reminds me of being a teen but the rest of it just sounds the same

Just like their song, this is overkill. If you're a fan of metal you'll probably enjoy this album. It's dynamic, noisy, and repetitive. However, to me, it was just a 2-hour long headache.

Rollo. Me parecen todas iguales.

Instrumentals are what I would expect, but prefer singers who have some semblance of singing ability, even if it's metal.

Every song would be improved by someone shouting, "THE ACE OF SPACES, THE ACE OF SPADES" at the end of each verse.

As much as I love Ace of Spades, the rest of the album felt like hard work to get through.

Not another live album. I'm not very familiar with Motorhead so it's a crying shame to start here. I like and recognized "Ace of Spades," but apparently the album with that same title is on this list, so why do we need this? I'm certain I'll enjoy the studio version more, not just of that song but any that also appear on both projects. This and most any live album on the list is a waste of a pick, especially when the same artist is included for a studio album. Favorite tracks: Ace of Spades. Album art: A shot of a concert, wow, so groundbreaking for an album recorded at a concert. 2/5

Nothing really grabbed me. Ace of Spades is always good but didnt come away with any other hits.

Enjoying a few of the tracks but it's a bit samey!

Classic Motorhead tracks but it's not a classic album by any stretch

If you’re seeking a live Motörhead album - this is one. Would be three stars but two hours long is too long

Meh. If your music has only one intensity setting, it may as well be Muzak.

Ik houdt niet zo van de zang, en live albums kunnen me meestal ook niet bekoren. Aan de andere kant geeft dit album ook niet heel veel irritatie. **

I can see the appeal of their music if I'm in the right mood, but overall not a fan. 2 stars.

Basically the same song played over. Decent song tho

Not the best live album. Great drumming. But low quality and repetitive.

It is as if the whole album were a single song, all the same, without moments, it doesn't transmit anything...

This was another complicated listen. It rated a 2 to me because it was so long and very samey.

I must be getting a little soft with all of this album listening, because I didn't dislike this as much as I feared I would. The band really does rock and the guitar work is quite sharp. The vocals are a bit "scream-y" for me, but seems to work well with the style. I wouldn't really go for it again, but better than some we've heard here.

Guitar is great, recording quality not so much. Don't put a live album on the list unless the quality is better than this.

I don’t like the guy’s voice, and the recording sounds very amateur. There is some enjoyable guitar work here, quite a bit more than I expected. But still, I never need to hear this again.

Too much metal

4/10. I feel like they're just making noise for the sake of it being loud. I couldn't distinguish much between the songs, or even pick out many of the words the singer shouted at me. That said, they do a fairly good job of making noise.

A live album is a really strange choice, and especially for Motorhead. I love the music usually, but the recording quality is so bad that I just can't really listen to this album. I'm not sure heavy rock/metal really translates well in live albums at all.

Exhausting. Most songs sound like Ace of Spades.

Speed metal... I knew this album would be a miss for me without even listening to it, but of course I took on the challenge and did it anyway. I was right. I have nothing against this band, in fact I am in awe of them because it is clear to me that they were all really talented people. Apart from the song Ace Of Spades really, the rest of the live album wasn't that enjoyable. 2/5 stars for this one.

Boring

Every Motorhead song sounds like every other Motorhead song but it was an enjoyable, thrashing listen

Seems to capture the energy of a live Motorhead gig well, although a live Motorhead gig sounds like two hours of the same song.

Most of the songs sound the same

Didn't mind it but never been a fan of motor head and this hasn't encouraged me to change that position.

Not deserving of a one but this was hard work - repetitive and dull - never got the fuss and a live album won’t change my mind

Lemmy be honest with you. This isn’t great.

Adrenalínico, trashmetal. Se me hace largo y no me llena ya está música pero no deja de ser bueno.

Tried twice but really wasn’t for me, just seemed a bit samey.

Bicho vocês são chato hein?? Merecia 1 estrela, dando 2 só pelo Ace of Spades.

Not my favorite but I can see it’s quality

Live Motörhead is still Motörhead. Autocorrect knows that name. Cool. A little of this went a long way for me and by about the third song I was kinda done. Ace of Spaces and Iron Horse I like best.

Motorhead is good. Live albums are not.

About the same as last time, although maybe slightly better since there is some banter. I wonder if some of this is overdubbed? Pretty consistent with their album, so if no overdubs then they did a good job.

Fast! Hard!

Ace of Spades is good however the album never reaches that height again

It had Ace of Spades on in. Who doesn't love Tony Hawk Pro Skater?

first song is too loud, ace of spades lang naintindihan ko sa lyrics. the next ones, not too much, some has cool riffs too. i also kinda like that it's the live version. overall, this is a good rock album but this isn't really my genre.

you have to be joking

Did not listen at all has 53 songs in the album... Hell no!!!!!!!

Sorry, can't stand the genre, even if I try.

No, not my cup of tea. One star...

These guys suck

I did not enjoy this music at all. Couldn’t even get through the double album. It all sounded the same, and not that interesting, just loud

I don't really like hard rock, especially when the lead singer is growing or adding distortion to his voice.

I have tried and I just can't hear any difference between the songs.

If someone typed a prompt into AI and said I want you to make the worst garbage UK rock band, Skynet would spit out Motörhead.

mmm muy metal je

This was a drag. I’m just not a fan of heavy metal or hard rock.

love lemmy, can't stand live albums

idk.. not for me

*no music, only banging instruments and screaming vocals

Was hard to listen to while thing!

The magic of live music is virtually impossible to capture on recording. I have to say this album was no exception to this. The fact it was a double album and I had to listen to it twice really made this one a bit of a slog…I’m sure the songs are great and people had a nice time at the concert; I, however, did not have a nice time listening to it after the fact.

A menos de que esté empastillado hasta la médula y amenazado por un gordo metal no escucho ni 30 segundos

Opening with the undoubtable classic that is Ace of Spades, seems a brave choice. This is quickly confirmed by the next few tracks that are just plodding filler for non-Motorhead fans. Bomber and Motorhead is already knew and whilst above the rest of the post Ace of Spades tracks are hardly exciting

Why. Overkill just sounds like Ace of Spades. 1.3/5

Ugh. I can’t. The lead’s voice is so shredded and ugly, the music assaultive and not good. I turned it off during track 3. Automatic 1

Very annoying - I just had to gradually keep turning down my speaker to avoid a headache.

What a terrible day to have ears.

No thank you, don't enjoy live albums

Not my thing

Not a fan

Can’t. Just can’t.

I don't like live versions of my favorite songs let alone an almost 2 hour version of songs I've never heard before. Every song sounds the same and while I'm sure if you like this band, this was a bangin concert, it just was not for me. Was this really the best version of Motorhead they had to offer this list?

This is getting a 1. Live albums should not be on this list

no sleep till this list stops giving me stupid live albums Would I listen again: No Deserves to be on this list: It's a live album 0.5 (from just the first damn song)

Wow after already having to hear the studio version of “Jailbait”, the list includes it AGAIN on a live album, this time accompanied by a creepy shout-out to all the “15 year old apprentice [something I can’t make out]”. YIKES. WHY DOES THIS LIST HAVE TO PUT LIVE VERSIONS OF MEDIOCRE DAD ROCK ALBUMS ALREADY INCLUDED ON THE LIST. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ALBUMS TO CHOOSE FROM AND YOU DOUBLE DIPPED. WHY WHY WHY

I cannot listen to this singing

What am I doing here? This is the 39th album I've listened to. How could I possibly tolerate over 900 more albums selected by the most pathetic group of alcoholic dads ever assembled?

Pain. Worst possible album for a stressful day. Felt like I was being assaulted and more than once had to check I didn't have Spotify set to repeat song because every single one sounded the same.

Some rock n roll is noise pollution

1) Not even remotely an important album from the 1980s. 2) Not one of the better live albums I have heard (pretty horrible actually). 3) No one who is not English or a hardcore Motorhead fan needs to ever hear this.

Why, of all the albums on God's green earth, did we pick a live, 1 and a half hour long Motorhead album?

Heavy metal - don’t love this genre and was a hard listen but they are a good band despite the genre. All the songs kinda sound the same

Have no idea why this was selected.

I will never understand the mass appeal of Motorhead. As a fan of the NWBHM I still think Motorhead is ass.

There is still not a single live album that I've heard on here that deserved to be on the list. As for this one... there's no fucking way I'm listening to the whole thing. After a selective dip.... it's all the same already after 4 tracks.

Motorhead fucking sucks and they suck harder live. Ace of Spades is by far one of the shittiest hard rock songs that gets heaps of praise for some reason. Lemmy is trash and probably buried with all his favorite nazi paraphrenalia. What a terrible time this was.

uhhhh not my vibe

So I can't get behind this. I was happy when my headphones ran out of battery. It's just noise that runs into another noise....why why why is it one of the best live albums of all time? The dude can't belt out anything above a normal talking voice range.

Not found on apple music. Just as well, I wouldn't like it.

Not my jam.

The algorithm is trying to hand me a panic attack with this album.

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Those sure were some sounds. I'd like to be able to tell them apart. I'm not a Motorhead fan, so I can't say how much of that is just their sound or or the fact it's a live album.

Hard pass

Nope. I hate live albums.

Rodzaj metalu którego nie lubię. Każda piosenka brzmi tak samo. Może to dlatego że to nagranie koncertu idk

My dad was a diesel mechanic growing up. He used to use this orange pumice hand cleaner to get oil and hydraulic fluid off of his hands. This album sounds like that.

I don’t know, I think this might be the first album on this list that I don’t care to finish. I made it almost all the way through and I guarantee there’s nothing in the last 5 songs that’s going to change how I feel about this. I can’t understand a word this man is saying. It’s all noise. It’s too fast. And frankly, it’s not even a great sounding live recording.

Didn’t finish listening but just not my preferred style of music

Pretty much just a wall of noise spiced with croaking off-tune vocals. Ugh - two hours of my life I won't get back...

Personally I‘m not a fan of live Albums at all and this was not able to change my opinion. Motörhead is good but recording studios exist for a reason.

yeah, i'm too anxious for this

Not my vibe but I’m sure it would be a concert. And too long

The guy screamed himself hoarse. Sounds like you are in a train that is crashing.

Surely everyone likes The Ace Of Spades? Well, No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith sees Motörhead churn out a faithful live rendition of said track along with a selection of other songs which, for the most part, follow an almost identical template less effectively, while Lemmy barks vocals which swoop between the exact same couple of melodic intervals, relative to whichever key the given song happens to be in, also less effectively. Thankfully, unlike most metal acts of the era, Motörhead don't do pretentious 10-minute epics - the bulk of the tracks here are around the three-minute mark. That still doesn't prevent listening fatigue setting in after a just a handful of similar-sounding tracks, especially when they shot their load by opening with their most well-known (and best, by a country mile) song. I mean, as live albums go, this is loud and raucous and solid, and I'm sure this was/is a big hit among fans, but I'm not sure why it is on this list - it's not like the atmosphere is enhanced by the Lemmy's extensive repertoire of stage banter: "This next song is dedicated to ____________, it's called _________" bang! Evey single time. And it's not as if you get to see the famous lighting rig while listening to the album. I made the mistake of listening to the expanded version on Spotify, which reminded me the song Jailbait exists. Good lord. Enough. (As an interesting side note, the lettering on the album cover "No sleep'til Hammersmith" was actually created in 2018 by a Mrs Muriel Benson, aged 63, from Cleethorpes, using her evaluation copy of Microsoft Word, which she had used just once before to create a poster for a coffee morning taking place at her local parish church. In an utterly revolutionary technique, her design was then sent back in time through a wormhole to 1981 for Motörhead to use on their sleeve. It was not until the artwork was actually at the printers that someone noticed Muriel DIDN'T HAVE A SINGLE FUCKING CLUE about formatting text and possessed only the most rudimentary design skills and computer literacy. And by then it was too late to change...)

Ugh enough with the live albums

This does not need to be on the list.

Spotify’s description of Motorhead as “Overwhelmingly loud and fast” is dead on and exactly why I can’t stand this.

Bad live album and i didnt like them much anyway

Unrelentingly loud and boring. Like the background music for the TV show "How It's Made," with lyrics.

Nope. Too hard for me.

With the best live albums, the sound of the crowd really adds to the atmosphere of the recording, and you can hear that the band are all having a great time on stage. Sometimes you also get some cool extended soloing or jamming which can be quite fun to listen to This album had none of those features. I don't know what Motorhead's studio recordings sound like, but on this album it was hard to distinguish the instruments from each other, resulting in something better described as noise rather than music. The lead singer's voice is also horrid, and most of the songs sound the same as each other, with unintelligible screamed lyrics. I'd rather sit in silence than listen to this again

My head hurts. I’m sure this is fabulous head-banging material, but I just find it annoying. If the lyrics happen to be compelling, I couldn’t enjoy them because of the tone. Couldn’t wait for this to end. I don’t know a thing about Hammersmith, but if you can sleep there it means Motörhead has stopped playing. It must be a lovely place.

This is currently 5 hours worth of live music on album and one of 22 live albums these dudes have released. Nahhhhh mate, I am not biting on this.

We hebben het al zo vaak benoemd. Een live-album is valsspelen. Dit is het ultieme bewijs. Er staan 23 Motörhead-albums in de wiki-lijst, waarvan 5 tussen 1977 en dit live-album uit 1981. Niemand zal het verschil horen tussen het ene album dat in 1979 is uitgebracht en het andere. Ze hebben dan ook alleen Ace of Space als studio-album in het boek kunnen proppen. De rest was het waarschijnlijk echt niet waard of meer van hetzelfde. Maar iemand wilde blijkbaar heel graag meer Motörhead. Om dat dan op te lossen met een live-album... Strafpunt voor het album en de selectiecommissie. En de teller stond al niet heel hoog. Als je het nummer Ace of Space hebt gehoord, heb je eigenlijk alles al wel gehad.

Every single song sounds the same...

Nope, I don't need a nearly 2 hour live album of heavy metal in my life today.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) – Motörhead – 1/5 Not really my type of music—raw, loud, and aggressive, but it doesn’t click with me. The only highlight was Ace of Spades, the one song I knew, but beyond that, it wasn’t an enjoyable listen.

annoying

Not for me

Live album. Didn't finish it.

Sounds like a bootleg recording. I had a laugh skipping through tracks, hearing him anounce different titles to identical songs.

Nope. This did nothing for me. Not at all.

Well, they know how to be loud.

Didn't like it

Terrible. First time I haven't been able to make it through the whole album. How can I give 0 stars?

They started out with their strongest song and then it went downhill from there. This whole album sounded like 1-2 songs performed slightly differently. Not my thing.

No, just no. As others commented: 1 good song. The first one. Then it's repetitive and boring. Couldn't listen to the end.

Love Ace of Spades, but I can’t 🫠

I hope I never hear another note from Motörhead.

Live albums maybe just are not my thing. Good band and obviously great to see live but this record just makes me wish I saw them.

Motorhead lyder som hvordan min mor regner med at metal lyder, og jeg har det som mor.

I’ve had some of these songs on a previous Motörhead album that came up. Then I thought only Ace of Soades was decent. Mail Bait remains gross and no one needs an almost two hour live Motörhead album. 1

Not Motorhead!

Couldnt get through all of this, but then again you didn’t really need to. Saw Motorhead live when I was about 18, everyone got excited at the start of every song thinking it was Ace of Spades, before the excitement slowly fizzled out as it was just yet another imitation. Not for me this

All the songs sound the same. I also am not a fan of live albums.

Horrendous

Absolute drivel. Who would want an expanded version of this

sure dude, whatever, all blended together

Unnecessarily loud screaming maniacal music. Completely out of my listening range.

Seriously? Why?? I listened thru Iron Horse. Every song was the same. Again I ask: WHY? Here’s your one star. Goodbye.

omg this is not a good run for me god.......... WHO LIKES THIS? CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT IT IS THAT GETS THEM GOING??

I can't stand it.

Ugh. It was a struggle to get through this one.

Nur laut, das genügt mir nicht!