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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!
It’s like one bad song that went on and on and on. Double album, no thank you
I don't think any live album should really be on this list, and this one is no exception.
This hurt my ears on mute.
Yuck 0/5
My favourite song was the one where a fast guitar riff was repeated for 3 minutes while the singer made guttural throat noises into the mic
I didnt like this album :(
Uggghhhhhhhhhhhh who gives a fuck about a live Motörhead album, not me especially when I already listened to and was underwhelmed by Ace of Spades a few weeks ago. The only good thing is Overkill is on here which has a fun gimmick. This album sucks, and is the first I can without a doubt say shouldn’t be on this list. Fuck off. And of course fucking Jailbait is on here again, disgusting.
Absolutely no need for what sounds like a bootlegged Motörhead concert on this list. Interesting that they open with Ace of Spades though 2.9/10
Eugh another live album
wtf. More unlistenable.
A little Motorhead is a good thing. More Motorhead is a better thing. A double live Motorhead is turning me into a Mushhead. One star for being a live album. If there was a category called 1001 live albums that I need to listen to before I die, I'd give it more than one star.
Didn't fancy that one bit.
i hate this
Not for me. 1/5
I got to Overkill and just couldn’t do it anymore. There was so much left after that. DNF
The sound quality is super shit. I can't make out what he's singing, sounds exactly the same as when there are drunks in front of my house screaming at each other I liked some melodies, but let's be real, this is unlistenable
surprisingly listenable yet shit
it’s all one song bro 2/10
Motorhead is a fine band, but I've already had an album full of the best of these songs on here, these live versions not only fail to add anything to the music, but are also poorly recorded and mixed. I gave them two spades last time, only one this time.
Live album, ain't listening
Yucky I didn’t like this. I understand that it was number 1 in UK but please never come near me. Just exactly the type of music I do not like. Sorrrrryhh.
Amazing band! All the songs sound exactly the same, and they're all shit, but the band is still legendary (FOR WHAT? 0_o). And even though their studio takes are recorded like crap, one should listen to live album, which is recorded in the crappiest way of all possible. Quintessence of crap in one single release. First time here i regret that 1 star is minimum, cause it's definitely 0 out of 5.
I usually do not like live albums.
Not for me …
I'm sure the songs are great - but you can't tell thanks to the awful sound quality...
Horrible vocals.
Why is this even on this list? Pointless
It's quite obvious at this point that I don't like heavy metal, either that or Motorhead is overrated.
Too shouty. Did not like it.
I don't think I like hard rock...
uhhh... I loved the first track. A sweaty, frantic, wailing first track. And then it just kept... going? Lost interest quickly. Nothing grabbed me, once the initial shock got in. I'd vastly prefer being at that venue than getting 1 hour of this album in my kitchen. a low 2, -1 "live album tax." 1/5
Da e nåken godinga her, men livealbum
Every song sounded the same.
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.
If I were a heavy metal fan, I would say it's mighty head banging music. But alas, it's simply not my genre.
Ace of Spades is a head-banging classic. The rest of the album gave me a migraine though.
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.
Bit hectic after a day at work.
trash. Sounds like shit all around. Vocals: shit, instrumentation: shit, mixing: shit.
3 stars if it wasn’t a live album
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
Oef, live vind ik dit echt moeilijk.
This is not what I call music. It's noisy and makes me feel anxieety.
I don't like live albums and I don't like bad albums so this album checked no boxes for me. 1/5
Ugghhh.....noise
It’s metal and it’s live
Live, dead, I still can’t stand the noise
I like motorhead, I don't like live recordings
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.
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).
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.
no me gusta
Didn’t like this album
Good news, motorhead fans! Hammersmith has come and gone, since this is a live album, and you can all now sleep soundly. I know I certainly will.
If this is a list of 1,001 songs to listen to before you die, of all the Motorhead albums you could have chosen, why this one? The recording quality is so average.
A good friend knew Lemmy back in the ‘90’s & before I got to know her, & says he was an absolutely top, top bloke. RIP. But much as this makes me want to feel otherwise, I’m afraid this isn’t my music, its just awful. throughout.
No
Just not my thing
Bitte keine live Alben mehr! 1.0
Skipped. Motorhead stresses me out.
Right off the bat, I pretty much hate this. It’s so loud, and it’s just grating on me today. I am feeling pretty mellow, so that’s not helpful. But I’m not sure I’d like it much anyway. I don’t even want to listen to it, so I’m moving on.
These live albums are uniformly terrible why
I will not listen to anymore metal It does not spark joy
No me gusta nada este tipo de música... lo intenté pero no pude escuchar más de dos canciones...
Album? I thought they only had one song!
What could be worse than uninspiring, loud hard rock? A *shitty* recording of uninspiring loud hard rock! Next!
I had to stop. This was fucking terrible
I just can’t. This is not enjoyable for me. Did not listen for more than a minute or so.
Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic wrote, "the performance: in a word, it's breakneck. [...] Motorhead could do no wrong at this point in time, as they were laying the foundation for the coming thrash movement, in a way, and their winning streak continues here on No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, one of the best live metal albums of all time." In the 2011 book Overkill: The Untold Story of Motörhead, biographer Joel McIver calls the album "the peak of the Lemmy/Clarke/Philthy line-up's career." Robert Christgau wrote, "Vic Maile's power-packed definition obliterates my bias against live recording. Remakes of white lies like 'No Class' and 'Stay Clean' and calling cards like 'Bomber' and 'Motorhead' save valuable shelf space. So what if it gives me a headache? Sometimes a headache comes as a relief." The Daily Telegraph rated it the best live album of all time. "So what if it gives me a headache? Sometimes a headache comes as a relief." Headache indeed
No
2metal4me
Nope, nope, nope.
Ugh. I guess I’m an old fuddy duddy, but I’m not a fan of this style at all.
70’er speed metal, energisk, tempofyldt, guitarsoloer