Well, it was only ten albums ago when we last had Motörhead; this is almost David Bowie levels of frequency. It seems like a long time since we last had a live album, though, and the kind of monstrous thunder that bands like Motörhead create are often better in a live setting than they are in the studio.
That’s certainly the case here, a sound guaranteed to make your ears ring if you play it at the kind of volume that it demands – it's utterly disrespectful to play it at anything approaching “sensible” volume. Of course Ace Of Spades is on here, along with a thumping version of We Are The Road Crew, also from that album.
Fortunately, though, those are the only two tracks on here from the album that we had not so long ago. Most are from Overkill – Overkill (obviously), Stay Clean, Metropolis, No Class, and Capricorn (which Lemmy introduces as “a slow song”. Well... it’s all relative). That just leaves Bomber (with the sounds of aircraft and bombing at the start a la Pink Floyd, and Motörhead, a track that was written (and performed) back when Lemmy was with Hawkwind. I’ve heard the Hawkwind version (of course I have...), which features one of Simon King’s psychedelic violin breaks, but this one goes for undiluted heavy as befits a song about fast driving. Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor absolutely kills the drums on Overkill, going hell for leather – what even is that tempo? 200+ bpm?
Motörhead are about as far from subtlety as it’s possible to get, but for pure power-trio thrash they deliver in (ace of) spades.
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