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Reminds me quite a bit of the Stooges, really scuzzy sound. Ace of Spades is a bit played out and the slower tracks don't work quite as well, but this is largely great. The hard boogie of Over the Top at the end the highlight for me
Really enjoyed. Great voice and excellent tempo and instrumentation. Sounded amazing for a live recording.
Pretty much all their main hits. A few songs show the way live albums are inferior but a well made and good length live album.
alfa strong 4. some filler.
Solid like a yuge dump
Pretty Alr. Motörhead is always a treat
comprend pas trop le pourquoi que ce live est dans les 1001. not worth it. chaque chanson se ressemble avec une légère différence. pas désagréable, mais rien d'inspirant 5.5/10
Honestly this is one the greatest heavy metal bands ever. Lemmy is a demi-god who now watches over us with beer and a fag hanging from his crooked mouth. I went to see them a year before this when the warm up band was the Plasmatics led by Wendy O Williams and it was banned can you believe because they wanted to blow up a Rolls-Royce on stage! I mean what's wrong with that?! So there we were after the gig- two 14 years olds staggering out into the night surrounded by burly bikers in leather who made sure we got on the tube ok. I was a wreck and one of my ears was bleeding at the end. I was a mess the next morning in Spanish. Never forgotten it.
Da e nåken godinga her, men livealbum
Shit, this rocks so fucking hard!!! Fav Track: Metropolis
Brilliant
Not a fan. 2.5
Always start your 2 hours set with your only good song. Always.
The music is fine but listening to a live album from over 40 years ago just doesn't have the same luster as it once did. Poor choppy quality ruins what is essentially a greatest hits rock n roll/metal album.
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.
Solid hard rock live album. What a great power trio this band was!
Is this 1 song? Live albums are cheating
Outstanding live album. A lot of Motorhead songs can sound the same but the energy and rawness of their music is incredible. Bomber :bowdown::bowdown:
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today, but I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would given the reviews above. Like I said when we had the studio Motorhead album on it, they've only got one trick. It's a good trick, and I'd challenge anyone to not get lifted by Ace of Spades, but the rest of it does get a bit formulaic and mostly one paced. Again, it's a good pace, full of energy, but it does make it all sound really similar. Glad they kept it to 40 minutes though, it is a really good cut of what presumably must've been a much longer set? And it ended pretty well - the air raid sirens and plane noises leading into the last track pumped up the ambience, pulling it up to a 4.
Vigorous metal at it's best. To say fast-paced is to regard it lightly
Every song sounded the same.
I'm not a big fan of live albums. And especially on a '1001' albums list do live albums feel like glorified 'best of's' But I'll make one exception for this loud, energetic, unrelenting beast of an album. What a power.
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.
Clowntown shit. I’m truly baffled that I can’t find a bad word about them online. Motörhead is boring as fuck. No real talent, nothing really that they’re adding.
Lemme tell ya, the first time I heard Motorhead was on The Young Ones. Didn't become a fan. This was OK.
Motorhead do one thing and seem to do it quite well. Lemmie is certainly in fine fettle.
Alright. Did get a bit noisy
Exactly what you’d expect from a live Motörhead album - energetic, fast and loose, and incredibly repetitive
This is probably the only way to listen to motorhead.
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!
Their songs might sound similar, but I like them.
It's a very good live performance of the same song over and over and over and over and over again
baita som
Decent renditions
Superrrrrr
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.....
Wish I'd seen Motorhead live.
Bit too intense for me
Rápido e certeiro, toda energia do Motörhead ao vivo.
I remember in the 80s seeing quite a few of my fellow male teenagers with Motörhead t-shirts, and I had always assumed by their name they must be a metal band, but I think that might be the extent of my previous experience with this band. I'm glad this project served up one of their albums for me to finally give their music a listen. It's definitely hard-driving super-fast-paced and tight hard rock/early metal. When I think about the timing of this (1981) when they had already been a band for a while and had released albums, it makes sense why they are considered early examples of the British metal that was so prevalent in the 80s. The band plays very well -- these are fast-moving songs -- and there's a ton of energy to it. To my ear, which admittedly doesn't hear a lot of hard metal thrash-like stuff these days, the song started to sound quite similar to each other, but my hunch is that's rooted as much in my inexperience with this band and this music as it is rooted in anything about the music itself.
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.
Favourite song: Iron Horse / Born to Lose - Live
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
ace of spades zo goed, rip lemmy maar nog steeds geen fan van live albums
Goed hé maar zit dit er in voor de hits of omdat het een iconisch live optreden is? Weet niet of het persé in deze lijst moet
Too long
Probably a fun concert but with no visual its pretty dull
Thats a whole bunch of sound going on and on. A little too much for me, but I liked it more than expected
It's ok but don't find the music particularly enticing
This was quite nice once I got into it but I can't really remember anything that stands out, a big haze of metal
Requires a certain mood, took me a while to get through
Better than I expected but really don't care about live albums?
If I were a heavy metal fan, I would say it's mighty head banging music. But alas, it's simply not my genre.
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.
Ace of Spades is a head-banging classic. The rest of the album gave me a migraine though.
A very tight live performance, recorded well.
i think the liveness of this album gives it a nice garage vibe to some already well established music, I can see some inspiration that king gizzard has taken from here for more than a couple of their songs/a;bums, thats for sure,
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.
FUCK YEAH !!!
Motörhead has its place in the olymp of straightforward rock music but it's not really for me. I feel a lot of this powerchord stressing isn't a very interesting path for rock music.
This type of metal is really not my speed. Especially live albums, since I feel like I'm skipping the step where I actually want to listen to these songs live in the first place. Out of the metal I've listened to, I much prefer the slower, more sludge-y type than this up-tempo type, which just gets too overstimulating for me to really enjoy. Did not really enjoy listening to this, and it just isn't for my tastes, despite whatever quality it might have to other people. Hope to find more metal that I enjoy elsewhere on this list.
It’s fine. Motörhead really aren’t an album band, but it’s energetic, at least, and I didn’t hate it. Really not remarkable, but alright.
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.
60 of 1001 Motorhead - No Sleep till Hammersmith Favorite Track : No Class Rating : 3 / 5 I was looking forward to getting familiar with some Motorhead, but I don't think this live album is the place to start. It isn't even one concert. Just a bunch of live songs. It was a fine listen but would still rather get into some of their studio recordings. A lot of similar sounding stuff.
Long live Lemmy!!
Hard hitting unrelenting rough edged punk metal.
My thing with Motorhead is that every song sounds like Ace of Spades... This album is filled with songs that sound like the live version of Ace of Spades...
I loved this album. 40+ minutes of hard, fast, rock. Lemmy's vocals are unique but work. Amazingly full sound produced by just three guys.
As much as I love Ace of Spades, many of Motörhead’s songs have a similar tonic and rhythmic structure. Even the “slow songs” here sounded like subdued versions of AoS. Still fist-bumping to its core, but not as many melodic hooks as I would’ve liked.
Highlights: Take your pick; it's consistent. This is probably here because Motorhead never had a standout album and because their music is known for high energy that a live show will build on. It's mostly successful, but rough mixing and wear on Lemmy's vocals bring it down. The way Motorhead sits timbrally and rhythmically between rock, punk, and metal has aged really well; it's pretty much how mainstream rock ended up sounding. If this is being used as a lifetime achievement pick from the list editors, we should give the band its due.
It's a wall of sound. Very monotonous. Production is not that great, but that's not uncommon for live albums. It's fun for as long as it is. It shouldn't have been any longer. Favorite song: the roadcrew
Ok for what it is. Not my cup of tea. 2/5
Jaksanu lyriikoota kuunnella tällä kertaa.. hyvää työnteko musiikkia...
Toffe live, maar Motörhead is zo'n band waarvan alle nummers heel hard op elkaar lijken. Ik snap hoe legendarisch ze zijn, maar daar krijgt deze toch een minpunt voor
After this week you should be handing out neck braces!
Bit hectic after a day at work.
Listened to all two hours because no other band out there went as hard as Motörhead did. Definitely gets samey without any variation in the tempo (and not much in the instrumentals if we’re being honest), but that hardly matters when you have the hardest guitar and bass tone of any rock band. An absolute treat to hear the group match and exceed their studio expectations, RIP Lemma and RIP rock n roll.
Pretty nice sounding considering how loud they were. I’m far more inclined to call them a punk band after listening all the way through.
Meh. Live albums suck
Not convinced this is a really great live album but it was somewhat enjoyable 2.5/5
Today I learned that the song No Sleep till Brooklyn is a nod to the title of this album.
This live recording is absolutely breakneck. I can't imagine them being more at the height of their abilities. Just relentlessly pounding. Laying the foundation for thrash. It's honestly an overwhelming thing to listen to and imagine seeing it live in 1980 and 1981. What a band.
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.
Live albums always seem to fall into two categories. Single listen novelties, or a way to listen to music in a raw non-overproduced form. This is the latter. Recording quality is just high enough to enjoy while you get the feel of the energy of the live performance. It still amazes me that I’d never heard much of Motörhead before my 30s, especially given they’ve influenced a lot of the music I’ve listened to all my life.
Energy. Love it.
Pretty fun, energetic.
My one regret, ok one of many, is that I never got to see Motörhead live. At least this album lets me get some idea what it was like.
trash. Sounds like shit all around. Vocals: shit, instrumentation: shit, mixing: shit.
Not a huge Motörhead fan, and this live album didn’t do much to move the needle. Still sounds like Motörhead. 2/5.
Great live album with plenty of energy and ramps up the heaviness just a little compared to the studio versions. It would be perfect if the live versions were more different but the arrangements are so similar it almost feels like just a compilation. Perfect song selection though.
The stitches are rather obvious for an 80s live album, but I'm easily swayed by the spectacle of the thing. Fairly so, with the band (mostly) maintaining a blistering pace, no studio precision, plenty of heat. The mess is coming from every direction, but it's a blanket of tunes, and whatever the stitching disrupts, it reveals the breath-long breaks providing just enough recovery time.
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
Genre: Heavy Metal Review: A small dose of Motörhead every day is the secret to a long and happy life. This live album has it all - classic hits, rocking jives and Lemmy's unparalleled metallic growl. Rating: 8/10
I can't quite remember a time I haven't enjoyed Motorhead, despite having not really explored them all that much. My brother is a massive fan of the Overkill album, while I have a soft spot for their self-titled debut. 'Iron Horse' and 'Motorhead' are great songs. Rediscovering 'Overkill' and 'No Class' was a joyful experience. The energy that comes across even in the studio recording is multiplied several times live, and all that comes out in this album. I can only imagine how it must have felt actually being there to take it all in. One of the special efforts which I'm sure I'll never tire of. 5/5.
RIP Lemmy. High energy classic.
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.
Anyone would be forgiven for thinking that they were hearing the same few songs over and over again. Motörhead songs all seem to have the same driving drums and galloping guitar. Even the vocal melodies seem to repeat and blend into each other. Furthermore, the quality of the live recording was not the best and the mix was rather muddy.
Sounds like it was tweaked and overdubbed a bit. But so what? Aren't all live albums played around with to some extent? Otherwise, they'd just be bootlegs. Bonus points for inspiring me to run hard on the treadmill one week after being in Operation Shutdown with a horrible case of COVID. I'll credit Lemmy for (hopefully) steering me away from Long COVID.
Encore une preuve de la sénilité de Robert qui nous a déjà donné la plupart des sons de cet album à bouffer.
Je n'ai pas bien saisi quelle était la valeur ajoutée de cet album par rapport à celui précemment écouté des mêmes Motörhead.
3 stars if it wasn’t a live album
As far as live albums go this is pretty good. It’s fun but Motörhead gets repetitive to me
Lemmy was awesome - I even have his autobiography. But this is about the music. Not my favorite genre, but this is a great selection for fans of Motorhead. Motorhead live was powerful, and the greatest hits set hits all of the highlights. The pacing is only topped by the Ramones. Like the best live releases, this is also a time capsule for an era. I can't believe this is 40 plus years old, but, even today, peak Motorhead is very formidable.
I found this to be a pretty unexceptional live album and see no reason why this needed to be included here. The songs I knew didn’t sound very different from that studio versions. I will say that the night before I was up working until 2 am and this was absolutely not wha to was looking to hear the day after, so I’ll give this a 3 instead if a two for that reason.
a fin de cuentas es ruido, si es cierto que el bajo está mas presente que en otras bandas y que es un disco en vivo pero sigo sin entender as bandas de heavy puro. No hay silencios, no hay respiros, no hay melodias sueltas que resalten. Es monotono. 5/10
I should’ve listened to some core Motörhead albums before listening to this.
I love Motorhead but they shouldn't have live albums in here when they also have studio albums with the same tracks. This is a great album but it's kinda wasting space here. 4/5.
A pretty good album. I like the studio versions better though
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.
A spectacular and wild performance by Motorhead during the height of their popularity, playing a mix of all their best songs. It's raw, loud, fast, and rowdy heavy metal with a rusty energetic vocal performance by Lemmy and bluesy condensed riffs that repeat themselves a good amount. It'd definitely be more entertaining to see it in person, and honestly listening to live performances this loud and raw gives me a headache, much prefering their more consistent and polished studio efforts. This is more for fans as the songs can blend together if you're not familiar with them. But this is great as a live metal record.
Too rowdy for me
never got into motorhead much but i like their live sound
amazing. Classic
Brings back the excellent documentary about Lemmy. Entertaining story and good music that was too big for me in the 80s but now I enjoy it, good fun, almost comedic music, I see it as fun not serious rock now, to listen to with a wry smile. This guy is an icon... He looks and acts like a philosophical Roady, living for the moment, and the poker machine at the end of the bar ...and sex with his groupies and bourbon slacker life on the road ... Other will describe this better and. Have more attachment to it... Not my top album but the sound is defining for the times ...
Crikey, from the drivel to the Sturm und Drang in one album.....LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I wonder if the people sitting in the Tracy Island 1001 Albums command centre are watching our reactions and playing with our minds, "Sooo Pet Shop Boys has disturbed your equilibrium...here have a cleansing dose of Motorhead.".. This is one tight well rehearsed battle tested hard touring band. Who else would write a cracking tune about their road crew? Phil and Lemmy swing, great rhythm section, it takes a damn fine bass player to make the Rickenbacker rock and he absolutely kills it. Fast Eddie is just a sonic boom, I'd have killed to see Motorhead, what an experience that must have been. As Beavis once eloquently put it "Lemmy rules". They were on the Young Ones for a reason. 10/10.
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
Lemmy died less than a fortnight before Bowie. The only reason I know that is that I was in Canberra that January & the January 20th edition of BMA Magazine, the local free music mag, had a cover with 2 words on it : BOWIE / LEMMY. Such was the fondness for Motorhead’s main man. To have been a roadie for Hendrix & an early member of Hawkwind might have been sufficient to retire on, but he went on to form Motorhead, a noisy trio if there ever was one. This is a totally noisy record, in fact, but it does tick a lot of live album boxes, mainly the fact that it’s a bit like actually being there, without actually being there. I’d never heard it before & probably won’t again, but I enjoyed it.
Just the other day my group was complaining about too many slow and boring albums recently. And now, Motorhead! Live! Motorhead were a one trick pony, really, but what a trick it is! It's loud and fast and raucous and funny and noisy, but mostly loud and fast. I love that 'Capricorn' is introduced as a slow song (by Motorhead standards). They only really play variants on two different riffs, and Fast Eddie only knows one solo, and all the lyrics are interchangeable (and certainly not Shakespeare), but I find this album fun. Unlike most of the NWOBHM, this doesn't take itself too seriously (case in point; "We are the road crew"). This is Motorhead at the height of their powers, doing their thing. It's rougher than their studio recordings, which just heightens the raw rock and roll nature of their (limited) oeuvre. Truth be told, this album really just "Ace of Spades" at the beginning and "Motorhead" at the end, and a bunch of stuff in the middle. Fun, loud, noisy and doesn't outstay it's welcome. This is the one Motorhead album that I actually play, because it is all the best things about Motorhead.
Decent. Sounds nice enough but ended up using it more as background music. Initially I was going to give it 4 stars, but the deluxe edition is too much of the same stuff.
Punk-informed Thrash Metal, including lots of energy and Motörhead's greatest hist Ace of Spades. The songs lack variation, however - they all are loud and fast, which was (mostly) what the band was all about, but there is nothing setting the tracks apart from each other. 2.5/5
Cinq étoiles, juste parce que j’ai rarement autant pris plaisir à écouter un album pour la première fois!
It’s Motörhead LIVE, what do you expect? Hard core metal, giving the fans what they want They might not be your jam, but they put it all out there..loud, fast and hard
Not sure why they put a live album on the list vs any other Motorhead album, but I'll take it!
Doesn’t let up for a moment. Usually when I find expanded and deluxe I stop at the original version of the record. This time I kept going.
This album is Ace of Spades followed by an hour and a half of might-as-well-be-Ace-of-Spades. Might listen again.
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAA ROCK THE FUCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This band has been a pleasant surprise in this list - always heard about them, never really listened. Surprised to find I like it pretty well. Just top tier authentic hard rock and roll. There's a no-nonsense sensibility to the lyrics I like: I'm self-destructive, and I know how that's going to turn out. Of course it ends up with the line-up on this live album all dead pretty early into their elder years, but there you go. Signing is the one weaker point: it's done with gusto and it fits the material, but at album length the limitations and thin range start to detract somewhat from the overall experience.
It was a live album. Not an overly memorable live album, but a nice one nonetheless.
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Plus: It's Motörhead. Minus: It's live.
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?
British KISS minus the makeup. I bet the mosh pit was a blast.
It was okay, Ace of Spades the standout
Ace.
Great players
For a live album their energy is absolutely insane. I’ve always enjoyed Motörhead and the crazy hard rock they make. Tbf a lot of their songs sound relatively similar but if you just want something to rock out to you can’t go wrong w them. Also as a bass player Lemmy is just so fuckin cool.
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
Listan laatijat ilmeisesti tuumivat, että Ace of Spades on niin hyvä biisi, että se ansaitsee olla listalla kahdesti. No, ansaitseehan se. Annan tälle yhden tähden vähemmän kuin viimeksi, koska näemmä kaksi kertaa parin viikon sisään on kuitenkin vähän liikaa.
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.
Pure metal \m/. A must have.
Superb. Favourite band and made me feel like I was seeing them live again.
Great first tune, rest is a bit samey and it's not the best quality for a live album. 2
Not my jam. Especially not the live version, it's just too gritty sounding. I like more clean recordings. Ace of spades is a banger, as always. 1.5/5.
The lead singer has a bad voice. Kind of just bland hard rock to me. This is definitely not my type of music. It is also almost two hours long. No thank you.
This bad
Potente!
Love this
Haha, zeker een classic
'Vet, Motorhead!' dacht ik nog even, maar dit is een typisch geval van: Je zal er wel bij moeten zijn geweest!
Verdraaid, nu is de recensie van deze Motorhead plaat bij Spiritualized terecht gekomen. Dat moet Lemmy geweest zijn die me gewoon zat te fucken 🤘
Oef, live vind ik dit echt moeilijk.
6/10
Not a huge fan. Noisy but I didn't get excited by it.
This is not what I call music. It's noisy and makes me feel anxieety.
Motorhead is great at what they do, but it's too 'basic rock' for me.
Too heavy for me
Metall, bisschen blues vibe, eigl. nice
I saw Motorhead on this tour and had this album too. It is a great live album and showcases Motorhead at their best, with the classic line-up of Lemmy, Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie (all RIP sadly). All the classics are here - Ace of Spades, Bomber, Overkill, Motorhead - and some good supporting numbers too - Metropolis, We are the Roadcrew, No Class, particularly.
Best live rock and roll album ever made. Made the bands reputation rock solid. ( no pun intended)
It's a hard rock cafe kind of hard rock. Has its moments but its a bit bland and repetitive
Fierce
Eh, Motorhead is fine. Motorhead live is also fine.
Blistering, intense and relentless rock'n'roll - Ace of Spades, Bomber, Iron Horse, Motörhead - all kick ass here - performed to perfection. Quite a rare thing, at least I don't think I ever came across it before, but a song dedicated to the Road Crew is awesome. It is what separates the real bands from the made up ones. A classic.
their songs kinda sound the same but we all luv u lemmy
I love Motörhead but this album didn't grab me. Touted as the ultimate live experience, it sounds muddy and flat, like it is coming out of a vocal PA at a pub not meant for live music. A couple of the songs come off OK but in this instance it has none of the bombing run on my ears I have come to expect with Motörhead
It's interesting how this album is so influential for many rock bands after Motorhead, even if it is not a great album. It's too monothematic, musically and lyrically. I enjoyed the long length of almost 2 hours with not-so-good record quality, but it's because is my preferred style of music since I was very young. However, it's not in my list of 1001 albums that people MUST listen to before they die...maybe if the list goes to 2000 albums.
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.
Some real classics here.
Great metal album
Holy crap. Is this the best live metal album of all time? Full throttle from the start. Amazing versions of "The Hammer," "Ace of Spades," "Overkill," and the finale of "Bite the Bullet / The Chase is Better Than the Catch" is incredible.
The recording quality is more than listenable for a live album from the early 80s. Solid performances and a good selection of songs.
I don't like live albums and I don't like bad albums so this album checked no boxes for me. 1/5
not really my cup of tea. but a couple good tunes.
Wish I'd seen them live, classic album!
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
Ugghhh.....noise
I tried, I couldn't get into it.
Never been a fan of live albums
Excellent live album. I like how it jumps immediately into "Ace of Spades." No time for chatter, just rock. This is peak Motörhead, all muscle, no fat, and really as good as anything they've done in the studio. Enjoyed it. Fave Songs: Ace of Spades, The Hammer, Bomber, Motörhead, (We Are) The Road Crew, Capricorn
Motorhead!!!!! Lemmy is god. I like studio albums better but still amazing
Nokkuð góð tónleikaplata. Ég er nú vanalega ekkert sérlega hrifin af þeim. En Lemmy, sko. Lemmy hafði eitthvað. Þessi útgáfa af Ace of spades er svaðaleg!
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.
Perfectly serviceable live album from a perfectly fine rock band. Very energetic and affirming but beyond that nothing especially exciting. Some classic tracks for the right kind of person - I just don't think I am that person
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.
It's good but it's live
I like the song everyone else likes.
It’s metal and it’s live
Someone asked me once why, if I liked rave music so much, I didn't do e. (Or, for that matter, go raving very much.) After a lot of thought, it occurred to me that I'm one of those lucky people who get that indescribable high from the music and from the music alone. The rest, for me, was just paraphernalia with positives and negatives. The high of a trip vs the comedown. The experience of caning it in a field at 4 in the morning vs dreaming of a warm bed and clean sheets two hours later. The community of like minded souls v people, generally. (I'm anti-social by nature.) I guess it's the same with this, in a way. I cannot for the life of me fathom the joy of a Mötorhead live concert, whether sober or under the influence of ...dunno. Speed? 12 pints of lager? Anyway. It does nothing for me but I can totally get how this, and this alone, can take someone to nirvana. (Then, and even now, albums don't get to No1 on hot air and false pretences alone.)
Sound quality was poor. Motörhead has better studio albums.
Metal classic
Found some new (for me) solid Motorhead songs. Looking forward to some 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
Live, dead, I still can’t stand the noise
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
It's odd because it's not that good a live album - the editing between songs doesn't even try to make it sound like the songs came from one show. It's no 'Live At Leeds' but it's ok. You kinda know what you're going to get.
Motorhead were always best in three-minute bursts. This is a LOT more than that.
3.75
Great
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.
very rock but not my generation
Relentless. Driving beats, gruff voice of Lemmy. From the initial chords, could be no other band. What a gret live album.
Just great
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
Started listening but haven’t finished. Pretty frickin cool so far.
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.
Rock. Finally.
för att vara livealbum så var det faktiskt inte så dumt alls, någonting speciellt med gamla GUBBS som kör järnet på en scen och skriker rösten ur sig
Bra drag, men alla låtarna är ju Ace of Spades?
This was very boring.
Nothing to say its motorhead. Mid metal band
"a road that don't have no end" - that's as apt a description as any for this album. I do really like the cover though, it's a bitchin' stage setup.
Great live albums. Lots of energy and peak Motörhead!
A lot, but enjoyable
I like motorhead, I don't like live recordings
Might like it more if it weren't live.
8/3/2022 - ALBUM #188 https://open.spotify.com/album/2uqUv4tMXOPTwP6nHzi9mA?si=086d71de466c4881 Today's Album: "No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (Live)" by Motörhead - As far as live albums go, I think it’s pretty fair to suggest that a studio album is always going to be superior in terms of subtlety of sound and distillation of artist intent. But, with a kickass heavy-metal rock band like Motörhead, those two things really don’t matter, and that is why I think this album is pretty kick-ass. It’s a pretty great recording of some classic Motörhead hits and, although somewhat fatiguing after a while, I think it faithfully recreates what it would be like to hear them live in their prime. I really like that it starts off with a super recognizable track, Ace of Spades, as gets me familiar with how the next hour will sound without being too heavy too fast. After that, though, I do think the album sits at a pretty consistent level of quality for most of the rest of the album. The highlights demonstrate when the band is able to launch above and beyond their normal sound with guitar solos so good I am shocked they can do it live, but for the rest of it, it’s pretty much at a solid above-average level of enjoyment. Overall, I think the live element of this album works immensely well in it’s favor and I think it gives a good window into who Motörhead are as a band and what it sounded like to hear them back in the day. Give this one a listen if you like heavy rock / metal. Highlights: Ace of Spades, Metropolis, Overkill Score: 6.75/10 Really solid live album from some hard-rock legends
Great live album
Nice.
Lemmy positioned his microphone in an uncommonly high position, angled so that he appeared to be looking up at the sky rather than at the audience. He said that it was for "personal comfort, that's all. It's also one way of avoiding seeing the audience. In the days when we only had ten people and a dog, it was a way of avoiding seeing that we only had ten people and a dog.”
This is a lousy recording, as if they put blankets over everything and then did it from backstage. The music sounds like it is going in the opposite direction away from the ears, a smart phone would have been a better recording device. Musically, everything is the same, Motörhead has a sound, and a familiar bluesy riff that permeates nearly every song to where once a listener has started to notice, the damage is done as boredom sets in. Small flashes of differences are sprinkled throughout that give a false sense of hope, but for what reason this album requires doom-prior listening is difficult to determine, maybe even impossible.
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
4.1 - A kick-ass live recording that makes me wish I was there. The momentum of this performance is staggering.
Average metal. Some of the riffs were enjoyable, no song stuck out much
3.75
Tremendous concert recorded. Pure energy and electricity. I am not a great lover of Motorhead music, but I appreciate this work.
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
I prefer studio albums, but a classic is a classic for a reason.
first listen some great hardcore blues
I like Moorhead but after awhile it all kinda sounds the same.
This is fine, but I don't really see the point when there's already other Motorhead albums on this list.
As live albums go its fine. Id just rather hear a studio album
For me it's just noise
I never listened a lot to Motorhead, but this album really never lets you down. It's all sort of this thundering and very tightly held together mess. If you wanted to make a song that sounded like a hungover guy who hadn't showered in a week running from the law on a Harley that was about to fall apart, this is what that would sound like.
What am I meant to say? I am a man of metal, and Motorhead (despite Lemmy's frequent protestations that they were just a good ol' rock 'n' roll band) were a lodestone for so much that fucking ruled about heavy music - a cool look, intense volume, badass logo, killer albums. This is raw, raucous and delivered at 100mph. The best Motorhead albums are Overkill, Bomber and Ace of Spades; the vast majority of choons on No Sleep... come from Overkill, Bomber and Ace of Spades. Perfect. If you don't like music that sounds like it could kick your head in, you won't like this; if you're a metal fan, surely it's an automatic five stars? I was born in Hammersmith, you know...
I found myself thinking of that live Jerry Lee Lewis album from a few weeks ago while listening to this Motörbeast. Feels like he would approve of this set list. Get in, loudly blast through the high energy shit the fans are there for in the first place, and get out. It’s a pretty simple recipe and yet so rarely delivered that it stands out when someone offers it up on a greasy platter like this. What’s interesting is that Apple Music has four different versions of this album, all of which add extra tracks and extend the runtime. There’s a deluxe remaster that’s 71 songs and damn near 5 hours long! I know fans are gonna fan, but come on. The original duration is part of what makes the thing shine, what makes it feel like you’re actually at the concert. It’s like a story that needs to be a movie vs. the same story being stretched to an eight season TV show. I loved this album; I don’t love it at 5 hours.
a good racket! 3
Se faire rouler dessus pendant 40 minutes Prefs: Ace of Spades, Stay Clean, The Hammer, No Class, Overkill, (We Are) The Road Crew, Bomber, Motörhead Moins pref: Iron Horse/Born To Lose
Exactly what you'd expect from heavy rock royalty. Grinding guitars...mental drumming...and Lemmy making your ears bleed.
El concierto debió de haber estado mamalon
This felt like a pretty unnecessary album to be in this list. I know others were not well liked but they could be justified possibly. This album was just overall useless. A love album where they play their best song first and the audio quality is poor. Pretty awful trifecta. 3.1/10
J’ai vraiment pas aimé ça. C’est plate, répétitif, pas intéressant, croche et désagréable. L’énergie est l’fun par contre.
Wow, ouvrir l'album avec le hit, c'est audacieux 🤣. Je peux comprendre l'intérêt d'écouter ce que ces 3 gars là arrivent à livrer comme mur de son, c'est assez impressionnant, mais à part ça, les albums live sont sans intérêt (surtout qu'on ne parle même pas d'un vrai live puisque chaque chanson vient d'un show différent).
Rating: 7/10
Glad I went the 40m route. Ace of Spaces (great!), followed by a bunch of lesser clones (meh). Capricorn stands out as being a little different than the rest (in a good way) Would this album been better if we had looped all of their live versions of Ace of Spades over and over? Frankly It'd probably sounds just about the same.
Killer live album. Absolute Rock n roll! Songs can be a bit repetitive but long live mötorhead!
- 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
Not too bad but 29 tracks on the first listen was a bit too much. I think I've I'd listened to the base 11 both times I could up this to a 4. And it looks like another Motörhead is coming soon so that will be interesting. Faves: The Hammer, Iron Horse, Capricorn
Great stuff.
maximalist glam metal energy drink headbanging with an extra hype crowd
This might be the weirdest album on here. I already listened to the "Ace of Spades" album and half of these songs are already on it. Anyway, I'll say the same thing here that I did there: Ace of Spades is a great song but every song sounds just like it and I'd rather just occasionally listen to it than sit through an entire album.
Some enjoyable moments but not enough.
For the love of god, dude. Give me a studio album from them. Why would he put a live Motorhead album on this list? This is not required listening. All on this day, the day of our lord and saviors return, you're going to play a live Motorhead album? He's gonna go back in that cave, and seal it off for another 1000 years of sin and debauchery! I can't deal with this! I won't allow it! Not on this day, the day of our lord and savior, Jesus' return. No. Nah ah. Not gonna happen.
Nice
Christ they just keep going. How many times can you play the same song?
Lemmy is a king
Fast, heavy. More punk than I thought.
Super-heavy. Hilarious how the "slow song" just drops from 150mph to, like, 90.
Lemmy ist so iconic ich liebe ihn
Live gibt hier überhaupt nichts.
I love motorhead. This album isn't bad. I just don't super fuck with live albums, add in that it's like almost 2 hours of different shows it seems. It's just not a vibe for me honestly.
Energetic live album, enjoyed it but not excessively! I need to be in the right mood for metal.
Another Motorhead album already, you're too kind! Sadly I imagine this might be the last to make the list. If you ask me Bastards and Overkill deserve a spot at the very least. The album itself: its fun. The songs are from the first 3 Motorhead albums and they are performed marvelously. Not much more to say. It's Motorhead they bleed rock'n'roll and don't give you any bullshit. Rock gods.
Was alright
Sleep is for the weak
The classic lineup! You really get a feel for the power of the band. I remember how HEAVY this was considered at the time, and how quaint that idea feels now.
A big ol' loud album for a Thursday morning. Not sure the Deluxe version is needed but how can you not enjoy Lemmy and Ace of Spades?
no me gusta
I enjoyed that way more than I was expecting. expecially considering how crap the recording quality is. i'd absolutely love to give it a 5 because of my enjoyment from it, but the quality of it really is a bit shit.
I once motorboated my auntie at a wedding. Everyone was disgusted, but we didn't care. In fairness, she gave me head at the altar during the ceremony too. I was 8 years old. Love a Spackman wedding, the perfect storm of pleasure and crime. Lemmy was also there and gave me the thumbs up, so I'll take that as a victory. He refused to give me head.
I actually quite it enjoyed it which is surprising. What I was expecting was a clusterfuck of black t shirts and stonewashed jeans doing rock n roll by numbers, what I got was...well I was that...but the live element made it better, which doesn't usually happen.
I once bought tickets to see Motorhead live but Lemmy died about a week after the ticket purchase. I never got to see Motorhead because Lemmy was dead. I did get a full refund on the tickets though. That's it, that's my story. I'm not as good at this as Nigel am I?
A straightforward live album from Motorhead. Perhaps this is essential listening for Motorhead fans, but I could take or leave it.
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
This is a banger of a live album. As I think I said with Motörhead before, I wouldn't usually listen to them but I'm happy when I do.
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.
Como si te pasara un tren por encima...
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.
A solid rock album with plenty of gusto. However there's not much variety (several songs sound very similar to the classic Ace Of Spades. I do like Lemmy's vocals mind: I would highly recommend his first album with a Sam Gopal. That is an album worth seeking out.
Love ace of spades but the rest sounded same.
This is the distillation of rock to it's purest essence
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.
never really a fan of the music, okay then a 3 because of lemmy
Not sure if live albums should be on the list but this well-known album seems like a proper choice: classic Motorhead songs by the classic Motorhead line up. The songs sound better on the studio albums.
I was familiar with the overall sound of Motorhead and of course their best known song Ace of Spades, but never checked out their regular albums. But then again, perhaps their music is best enjoyed live (or at least through a well produced live album).
Classic live heavy metal album - and very fast!