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No Sleep Til Hammersmith

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Well if you or anyone of believe that bands like Korn, papa roach or limp bizkit are metal bands........YOU'RE WRONG....
Yes this guys are rock'n'roll.....they are ugly, bad and dirty, and that's what rock is about...
Lemmy & company delivers here a set of classics with an incredible fury, belive me, no other band make a guitar, a bass and a drum kit sound this aggresive. their music is LOUD! and fast.
If you want to know where did all the metal started you shouldn't miss this record, as well as his studio predecesor 'Ace Of Spades'......get it, you won't be sorry

This is probably the best live performance that I have ever heard, maybe one of the best metal preformances ever. This is why Motorhead is considered the godfathers of heavy metal! Intense, blistering, fast, and hard, you've never heard anything like this before!

It cannot get anymore brutal than this. No Sleep smells madness, amphetamines and bestiality. Where most of the heavy metal bands are just cartoons, Motorhead is the real thing. Check out Bomber and Motorhead the two final tracks, nothing so loud has ever been recorded since or will be. This record is absolutely scary. Hail !

If you like Motorhead, this is the CD. Their best songs, the band at their appice, the atmosphere of the show is perfect. The bonus tracks are also great. You wom't regret buying this one.

In 1975 Space rockers 'Hawkwind' made the nearly terminal mistake of firing their charismatic bass player Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister in the middle of a North American tour. 'Hawkwind' brought in a replacement and still keep going to this day with original guitarist Dave Brock still at the controls.
Meanwhile Lemmy slunk back to England with his tail between his legs, which lasted about ten minutes and a bottle of his favorite Jack Daniels, before he decided to form his own band.
When asked what the new band would be like Lemmy replied "We will concentrate on very basic music, loud, fast, raucous, arrogant, paranoid, rock 'n' roll...... It will be so dirty that if we move in next door to you, your grass will burn". Not forgetting this was a full year before anybody like 'The Damned' or The Sex Pistols were even formed.
At first the name 'Bastard' was chosen, but after their first management pointed out it might not be that easy to get on 'Top Of The Pops' with that name 'Motorhead' was chosen. Which just happened to be the name of the last song that Lemmy wrote for 'Hawkwind'.
Lucas Fox was selected on drums, and ex Pink Fairy Larry Wallis selected himself on guitar. If Deep Purple the loudest band in the world, and played at ten, and Spinal Tap played at eleven. Motorhead were a definite twelve, and would still get fans like Trevor Masters and Mark Winslade down the front with their heads in the bass speakers screaming "Louder!"
The Melody Maker reviewed their first concert as "Avoiding any potentially confusing variation in tone and key ..... You won't enjoy this band until you have had a frontal lobotomy" No one gave them a remote chance of success / popularity / playing in tune.
Never the less United Artists signed them up and put them in the studio, during the recording of this album Lucus Fox was pushed off the drum seat by a chap by the name of Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor. When United Artists heard the results of the recordings they completely freaked, and shelved the whole project. (These recordings were later released four years later as 'On Parole' when the scene had changed somewhat and jolly good they are to).
The band starts gigging almost every night to keep body and soul together to an ever growing loyal, but going slightly deaf fan base.
The next major change was brought about by the band deciding they needed a second guitarist, so 'Fast' Eddie Clarke was brought in for an audition, the facts have never been made exactly clear, but when the session finished 'Fast' Eddie Clarke was the guitarist for Motorhead, and Larry Wallis went back to the 'Pink Fairies'. Motorhead carried on as a trio.
With such a large following packing out all their concerts somebody had to swallow the bullet and sign the band up on a recording contract. Bronze records got the band to sign on the doted line. The first release 'Motorhead' (1978) went top 50, a year later and after their first headlining tour, with an appearance on Top Of The Pops, their second album 'Overkill' (1979) reached the top thirty. In the same year they released 'Bomber' (1979) which went to the top half of the top twenty. The following year they released their trump card 'The Ace Of Spades' (1980) smashing it's way up to number four in the charts. The band were now huge, still totally unfashionable, but with an ever growing army of fans.
In 1981 they toured the world and it's neighboring planets, headlining everywhere they went and inspiring a whole new generation of Heavy metal hard rockin' bands. Recordings from the tour were put out as a live album 'No Sleep 'till Hammersmith'. It entered the charts at Number one, Motorhead's first number one and the first live album to enter the charts at number one.
It simply roars from start to finish. All the classics are there from the first four albums, starting at break neck speed with 'Ace Of Spades' and staying that way until the band finally thunder into 'Motorhead'. After you have listened to this album, you know why Lemmy dedicates the song 'The Hammer' to Philthy Animal, and why Eddie Clarke is called 'Fast' As for Lemmy his bombastic bass leads from the front and his graveled vocals leave you wondering if he can make it all the way to the end of the show. (Of course he does, as he has done now at over a thousand shows). Definitely one of the best Live rock albums ever put out. As it says in the Tahitian Queen "If It Is To Loud, You Are Too Old'.
After one more album 'Iron Fist' (1982) another top tenner. 'Fast' Eddie Clarke threw a wobbler and left, being replaced by firstly Brian Robertson of 'Thin Lizzy' fame then by two guitarists Phil Campbell and some bloke called Wurzel who also left leaving Phil Campbell in charge of all things six stringed. Philthy Animal left, then came back, and then left again to be permanently replaced by Mickey Dee. There have been another thirteen studio albums, plus numerous live albums, compilations, DVD's etc along with too many concerts to count. Lemmy is now in his seventh decade and his only signs of slowing down are a few more ice cubes in the Jack and Coke to help with the dehydration.
Motorhead are always good. 'Inferno' from 2004 is a class rock album, but always at the pinnacle for me will be their 1981 live album 'No Sleep 'till Hammersmith'.

Rocked by Mott The Dog.
Rolled by Meow The Cat.

Simply put, this is the classic speed metal live album ever! The 3 man line up of Ian "Lemmy a fiver" Kilmister, "Fast Eddie" Clark & Phil"thy" "Animal" Taylor deliver the goods from the opening note. Motorhead rips through its set starting off with Ace of spades, played even faster than the studio version. Lemmy's gravelly voice & dirty bass sound never let down with Clark's riffs & Taylor's speedy drumming as they continue through "Stay clean", "metropolis", "the hammer", all the way thru to closing the set with a version of "Train kept a' rollin'" that'll have you headbanging forever! Buy this album.

The ultimate heavy metal live album of them all has just gotten even better! Need I say more?

This album is what Motorhead is all about. None of this wrestling theme song stuff. They let it rip. The first song, "Ace Of Spades," sets things off and the guys don't stop. This is the classic line-up and the classic sound that Motorhead brought to the stage. It is one LOUD album that all speed metal fanatics should not only hear but own. Don't let the imposters fool you. Bands like Metallica, Megadeath and the Misfits owe a great deal to this band. Motorhead kicked the door open for them.

The greatest album ever. This is the most brutal, dirty, kickass, loud, rock'n'roll album ever.

Listen to it and change your life.

Motorhead is probably the most under-rated heavy metal band of all time. Even though every metal and hard rock act claim them as an influence, they have a very small but rabid following compared to other bands. In fact it took them years to really catch on in America, (we invented rock n roll anyway didn't we?). But this was the album that opened the doors for them somewhat on this side of the Atlantic. This is their legendary line-up of Lemmy, Eddie, and Philthy. This album is an assualt on the ears. From the opening rip-roaring Ace of Spades, this album is clearly out to kick you in the butt. Motorhead has never worried about fads, trends, or the rest of the whooie that's out there. They are one of those rare bands that sound the same now as they did when they started. And with a road record like Motorhead's, that's a feat in itself. No glam, no acting, and no special effects. Just Lemmy, his boys, and a wall of Marshalls. So c'mon and buy the album, chew on some loose gravel and join the road crew!