Cracking stuff, thanks!
Killed by Death
Edited to include badass bass solo!
Balls, can't get the embed to work.
GOOD THREAD
Look for Assasin, Ramones, or Orgasmatron.
Not sure about the latest album. Not bad, but not their best either.
Motorhead: Inspiring better bands since 1873 😉
They were bloody brilliant on the tour with the Wildhearts supporting mind. And stinkingly awful at Hyde Park.
Motorhead - stuck in a timewarp since the early 80s
Motorhead - how rock and roll was always [i][b]meant[/b][/i] to be.
My first record was bomber sometime in the early 80's. I still love the early stuff. But now they maybe have 1 or 2 ok songs on each lp. They'll only stop when Lemmy dies and you have to give them credit for that.
Qwality!!!
Best B side ever:
Aparently an umlart over a letter should elongate the pronuncation, so it should righly be Motuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurhead 😀
Motorhead - stuck in a timewarp since the early 80s
Have you actually listened to them since you saw them on the Young Ones TJ?
The only thing in an early 80's timewarp round here is your view on the helmet debate..... 😉
rusty - You mean these clips are not representative?
they really are not a load of outdated clichés?
rusty - You mean these clips are not representative?they really are not a load of outdated clichés?
They now do quiet as well as loud, Lemmy's got new teeth and the
fans have much less hair. 😀
See, PROGRESS!
Computer numpty, no idea how to put a link up, We are the Road Crew please somebody.
Yes - its the same old clichés 🙂
Even by 1985 this was all rather passé In 2011? Oh dear retro tunes indeed
Thanks TJ
Audiophile - its really easy. find the clip you want on youtube, copy the URL, go to stw reply box click video and paste the url in there
Love the original Hawkwind version of Motorhead, one of the best things they ever did.
And the only song I've ever heard that contains the word 'parallelogram'. 😀
Still love this too:
Stacia Blake, indeed a fine figure of a woman........
TJ if you don't like the music then stay off the thread, it really is that simple, saves you getting stressed
Funny review of new album in the Grauniad:
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/06/motorhead-the-world-is-yours-cd-review ]Review[/url]
[i]"You wouldn't believe what it was like then," Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister recently informed a young journalist. "If you could go back, you wouldn't come back here." It's worth noting that the burnished and halcyon era to which he refers is 1975 – the year of race riots in Leeds, Margaret Thatcher's election to the leadership of the Conservative party, and 261 deaths in terrorist attacks related to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, in both mainland Britain and Northern Ireland itself. On the plus side, of course, you could smoke in pubs.[/i]
This was followed by lots of comments including this classic..
[i]You know, you can pull out bad news and bad events from any damned year you care to name. Doing so doesn't refute a suggestion that a given period was, overall, for some people, a better place to be and to live. I have incredibly fond memories of the late seventies and those memories have nothing to do with the bad things going on at the time. They have to do with the really good things that were going on at the time.
I would go back to those days in a heartbeat, although I admit I'd miss the internet and the vast improvements in British food. Those are honestly the only things I'd miss, though. Music was better then. Pubs were better then (no ****ing TVs in them for a start). Sex was better then - no AIDS, no need for condoms, a healthier, more liberal attitude all round. In a weird way, the fact that our pleasures weren't so ubiquitous and easy to download... I mean attain... made them more intense and more valued. Buying a new album was an event. You had this wonderful big artefact and you'd pore over the sleeve notes and the art. You'd actually bother to know the names of each track and who played what on them. If you wanted to copy the music it was cassette tapes and that was your only option. You treasured these things.
We had civil liberties back then. No CCTV, far less state intrusion into our lives and if the old Bill decided to get a bit arsey we weren't averse to getting a bit arsey back; reminding them who they were supposed to be serving. Some may find this hard to believe but , certainly amongst educated youth, feminism was more advanced then than it is now. If a lap-dancing club had opened anywhere near my uni it would have been picketed out of existence, and not just by women either. Now we hear of students becoming lap-dancers to pay for their tuition fees. Yeah, that's another thing - I had a grant from the government to pay for my university education. That's right, the government gave me money so that i could go to university. As a working class kid I couldn't have gone at all without that. We didn't do multi-thousand-pound loans in those days. We did grants. I left university after three excellent, beer-swilling, joyful years with this much debt: none at all.
But hey, now we have bloody cellphones so that we can be contactable for inane, pointless conversations all the time. Now we have communications technology that means we're never really away from the bloody desk. Now we have global warming and a level of overpopulation we would barely have believed back in the seventies. Now we have X-boxes and X-Factors and shitty, drab, unoriginal, unexciting little indie bands like the bloody xx.
Christ, I hate this age. I hate what this country has become. I'm with you, Lemmy. Let's go shoot some pool, play some arrows and drink some Jack in a smokey old seventies boozer. I'll go stick some rock on the juke.
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Was going to post something derogatory about TJ, but that would have been as relevant as his postings are on this thread.
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Don't get me wrong - I quite like motorhead. I saw loads of hard rock / heavy metal bands back in the day - you know in their natural habit of the 70s
However it is now 2011 not 1983. Times have moved on and so has music. Unless you are a metal / hard rock fan when you are stuck in a timewarp. Just admit it and be happy in your choices chaps.
Pop music is an ephemeral thing attached to a time. Is Bill Haley relevant today? Drapecoats and brothel creepers? How about lace and big hair of the new romantics?
Some songs are classics and stand the test of time - such as Ace of Spades. However they remain firmly of their time. See the guradian quotes
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So only things of the 'now' have any relevance?
What a load of old cock.
I was at the O2, Leeds last month and yes, it was full of old blokes, but equally there was a fair number of much younger fans so I feel their music does still have relevance.
The thing about 'Head that doesn't date them is that they never followed a genre of rock (glam, thrash, death, new wave etc) is ( to paraphrase) 'they are Motorhead, and they play rock n' roll'.
My 14 year old thinks they're great.
He did draw the line at going to their recent gig in Brighton with his Mum though. I think he was worried she'd show him up in the mosh pit.
Lemmy on the Girlie Show sometime in the early nineties talking to Sarah Cox:
"I may be f***ing old, but you missed some great parties"
One of my favourite quotes ever.
TJ, you really do spout some junk, so if we kill Rock off in 1983 then we miss out on so many classic albums, Nevermind, Appetite for Destruction, The Black Album - Metallica just to name 3 very quickly
Are you just upset that Cliff hasn't had a hit parade song out for a while? 😆
Pop music is an ephemeral thing attached to a time. Is Bill Haley relevant today? Drapecoats and brothel creepers? How about lace and big hair of the new romantics?
What a load of rubbish.
You'd better have a word with the controller of Radio 3 TJ, they're in the middle of wasting the first 12 days of January with a Mozart season, undoubtedly one of the most famous 'ephemeral Pop Musicians' of his day.
One of the most wonderful things about music TJ is that it IS timeless.
Would you denegrate all other artforms in the same way? All those pointless art galleries and their irrelevant, meaningless old masters - all those libraries full of pointless old 'classics'?
You've surpassed yourself this time. 😀
So if music is not of its time, its irrelevant? Bit like saying old motorbikes are rubbish because they're not modern.
Where would Metal be without Motorhead or Black Sabbath or Led Zep etc etc.
Just because its old doesnt mean it needs to reinvent or restyle to the genre's latest brand / image.
Have you guys seen spinal tap?
Have you guys seen spinal tap?
Yes.
You can spoof anything.
And if you'd ever listened to 'Killed by Death' (amongst others) I think you'll find Lemmy himself is very switched on to the concept of self parody.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever TJ, as a very wise man once said, but you've crossed it with this thread. 🙂
Admit defeat and stop digging?
Sorry guys. I wish I could find a pic of me back in my metal days
To make up for me arguing on this thread
I am tempted into a nostalgia kick now.
Stacia was probably the best dancer of her generation, no other dance artist could match her shear presence on the stage, her interpetation and choreography would hold an audience mesmerized. To this day, I still don't know how she managed to captivate an audience such as she did.
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I know B A, it's a mystery as to why she was so popular isn't it?
Dancing is a serious business - frankly, not the greatest Brise I've ever seen, but her Arriere surpasses Arsey Bustle's anyday of the week.
Try a google image search for a couple more large pointers as to her success. 😯
Radio 6 is a good example of understanding that just 'new' music is relevant.
One minute Lady Gaga, the next Squeeze, then the Stone Roses and possibly some Japan...
Even tough I'm still a fan of rock I find that Motorhead leave me cold. Just feel that Lemmy is a victim of his own image and should grow up a bit. Bit like the blokes who get involved in motorbike gangs. Still there are plenty of examples in all sorts of walks of life, not just music. "Sir" Alan Sugar comes to mind. In fact put AS in a dirty long hair wig and stick a couple of rubber warts on his face and you've probably got Lemmy.
Strangely enough I find myself nodding when Mr. Mastiles speaks.
Motorhead is Motorhead, that is all. No genre, no fashion, no fad. A good old rock and roll band. Also agree about 6 Music. TJ, you only see Motorhead as a cliche because of your need to label, pigeonhole and catalogue. The band have been doing their own thing since day 1, and long may they continue.
grow up a bit
Do you have details of what I should be wearing / doing at a particular point in my life? I'm sorry but I missed the part about prescribed behaviour being mandatory.
A friend of mine came out of a Motorhead concert with his ears bleeding back in the day. I wasn't much of a fan then, but after hearing the Hayseed Dixies cover of the Ace of Spades, I'm more convinced that they wrote timeless classics...