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Motorhead IS Rock 'N' Roll. They embodied everything great about it, the hedonism, the rebellion, the aggression. R.I.P. "Fast Eddie" Clarke, "Philthy Animal" Taylor, and, Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister.
Motorhead was so early that there weren't any metal subgenres yet, but there was not a single metal band that they didn't influence, so thrash bands especially picked up on their speed and outlaw vibe. The Lem always said they were just a rock 'n roll band
Lemmy was such a larger than life character. It was really eye-opening when I went and saw Henry Rollins do spoken word years ago, and he spoke very funnily but also very personally about his friendship with Lemmy in his last few years. There's a 30 minute clip on RU-vid of one of his spoken word where he talks about Lemmy. It's pretty much the same as what I saw. It made me reconsider Lemmy in a new light. Endless respect for the guy. RIP.
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Venom is the band (from Newcastle) that's the missing link between Motörhead and thrash. They took what Motörhead did, played it faster, louder, rawer and filled it with Satanic lyrics to scare people. They are also credited with inventing/popularising the term "black metal". Recommended songs: Black Metal, Witching Hour, Heaven's On Fire. Slower songs like Welcome To Hell and Bathory are also interesting :).
@@SoulSingerDiscoversVenom is a legend and pretty much they were starters of black metal. The name of their second album gave the whole genre the name. I like them Satanism and all included. They did not sound like black metal today, but hey, they started 1979. They had a strong punk flavor in their music and they were incredibly influential, be it for black metal, thrash, or whatever extreme metal came after them. They never became fame, but so were a lot bands in black metal that had a huge impact on metal, like Bathory. Definitely worth to check out. (Venom as well as Bathory, who also invented Viking Metal, their album "Twilight of the Gods" is a milestone and guess what - I wear a Bathory t-shirt regularly. Because I think Quorton, the head of Bathory, was an effing genius.) But I digressed. Check these bands❤ out.
Lemmy wanted Motorhead to be the MC5 when he founded them...and he was Hawkwind's bassist/singer - the song 'Motorhead' was the last song he wrote for Hawkwind.
This song right here is the genesis of Thrash. It also popolarized the double bass drum for thrash. Lemmy was one of the onou guys who rockers and punks could agree on (those were some deep factions back in the 70s). Metallica's Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield bonded over their love of Motorhead when they first met. The song on their first album whiplash was them trying to write a Motorhead like song. Motorhead have so many amazing tracks no one knows about. Their 90s and 2000s albums have so many gems. Theyre worth a deep dive.
Motorhead are exactly what hard rock should be. Raw, loud, unapologetici, no thrills and just playing what they want to play. If you like it great, if you don't, they are going to carry on anyway. For me, they have been a huge influence on my life and Lemmy is one of my all time heroes.
By that, I mean they don't try to be what they are not. They don't wear flashy stage clothes or try to have the highest tech and lasers for the stage show. They just go out and depend on their own originality and brilliance. Hard to ttalk about them in the past tense :(
@@darrencooke4207 I know what you meant BUT the saying is "no frills" whereas YOU said "no thrills" which is wrong. I first saw Motorhead on the Bomber tour in 1979 & their stage show was one of the most advanced & hi-tech around at that time.
Lemmy considered Motorhead's influences to be 50s and 60s rock and roll - Little Richard, The Beatles ect. He formed Motorhead after being kicked out of space rockers Hawkwind (his vocals were on 'Silver Machine' which was pretty high in the charts) and wanted this new band to be faster, dirtier, angrier and louder. Essentially it's still old school rock and roll. Also there's a superb mash up of Overkill with James Brown's Super bad somewhere on YT
Motörhead predates trash metal quite a lot, and while they were often classified as metal due to their rough soundscape, especially in the early 1980s, it was more about people wanting to put labels on something that did not really fit any of them very well. Lemmy insisted Motörhead was rock'n'roll, and I'm not gonna argue with that.
To break out of that "Ace of Spades" sound, I recommend listening to their cover of David Bowie's "Heroes"... it might just change your mind about Motorhead.
Motorhead came out of the 70s - the music was based on the main drug Lemmy and the band liked which was crank or speed - methamphetamines. Loud, fast, and raw sounding music amps the effects of speed. People outside of the drug culture - took a long time in adjusting their hearing to this kind of music - but kids flocked to it, as youth often do, with exuberance and spectacle of a band that appears to be playing over-the-top, non-conformist, adrenaline inducing, musical assaults in large venues veering in unexpected ways like tightrope walkers about to fall, but pulling it back, at the last second, to resolve in a crescendo of delight. The audience would lose their minds. Straight ahead, non-apologetic, fearless - Motorhead pioneered a sound and attitude that defied the conventional wisdom of its era. It rocked harder than any band before it. And opened the door to many bands that followed. R.I.P. Lemmy
Lemmy always said it was music to piss your parents off. This song was the genesis of thrash metal. Phil the drummer set up his kit with a double kick one day and was just messing around at rehearsal and it turned into this song. How you felt at the end of the video is how a lot of us metalheads feel every day, a lot of us are angry or frustrated people and this music helps us get some of that out
I've saw Motorhead live dozens of times and they will always be one of my favorite bands. I was introduced to them on late Sunday night as I was watching The Young Ones on MTV, and they were the musical guest on that particular episode. Was blessed enough once, to actually Lemmy (Actually, I've met three different members of the band at different times), and he was truly one of the nicest guys I have ever met! He treated my brother, my friend and me with all kinds of respect, signing autographs and taking pictures with each of us. (I will take that memory with me to my grave!) I look at Motorhead as one of the most perfect metal/punk hybrids EVER! Respected and loved by both genera's. No they're not uber-technical like Dream Theatre, but their music is distinct and instantly recognizable. Lemmy's bass playing is almost eunique, as he plays chords instead of just keeping the rhythm with individual strings. I view them as both pioneers and the Godfathers of thrash. James Hetfield and Metallica have sung Motorhead's praises and influences for as long as I can remember. I'm glad you gave them a second chance. I'm sorry you were traumatized by Ace Of Spades, as it's my favorite Motorhead song, but I understand why, due to what happened. If you want to check out a 180 degree of this song, you should check out Lemmy's duet with Ozzy on the song I Ain't not Nice Guy. 😀 Love your channel....Keep up the amazingly awesome and kick ass work Till the next video... 🤘
Motorhead is one of My favorites! They self described as rock music. Still one of the loudest shows I ever saw, was Motorhead! You probably like the song Hellraiser by Motorhead. It was in the Hellraiser 3 movie, and Pinhead is in the music video with Lemmy! Keep up the great work My Fine Scottish Lady ❤!
Nothing about Motorhead was ordinary loved by rockers punks and shoe retailers. They toured religiously so you could set your calendar by them and played both the east and west coast of Scotland (unlike the one date in Scotland makes it a UK tour brigade) Live on stage was the best way to experience them
I imagine Scotland is same boat as us here in Canada lol. They'll announce a "North America tour" and it'll be 20+ American dates and a Toronto show maybe Vancouver if they remember western Canada exists but that's rare
Best song on this album. One of my favs. Part of the distortion in Lemmy's voice, at least on studio tracks, was due to him recording the track twice and playing them both at the same time on the studio tracks. That's how he got that sound on the album songs.
Ace of Spades is a great song ... but on repeat for weeks is torment! It's hard to imagine that Lemmy went from the marvellous weirdness of Hawkwind to the stripped down rock 'n' roll that was Motorhead :D. I confess I was never a big fan of the tunes on the whole but Lemmy had that working class, down-to-earth, honesty that meant I always had time for him.
Motörhead - it's real source of heavy metal itself, without it this genre was never be what it is. You should try Motörhead ballads, like "Dead And Gone", "One More Fuкing Time", "Till The End" etc. :)
Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, all part of the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal", they were just before thrash and heavily influenced all the later thrash bands that would soon follow.
Not quite, sure Iron Maiden was but not Judas priest or Motörhead. Judas released their debut album 1973 and Motörhead 1975. Qualifying as just heavy metal. Al though they got a second coming with the nwobhm.
There's nothing to debate or discuss. They're a rock & roll band. Nothing more, nothing less. If you don't like it, they weren't playing it for you in the first place.
Lemmy smoked two packs of Reds a day and drank a fifth of Jack a day. That's where he gets his voice. That, and they were ridiculously loud. Motorhead falls in the pioneer movement along with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zepplin. They were just a tad later. They double kick of the drummer was an attempt to recreate the fast foot of John Bonham from Zepplin. It's a cheat code. Say what you want about Motorhead, but they forged bridges between the metal and punk crowd. They started genres. They were rock and roll at it's grossest and hardest. And you are bobbing your head.
Lemme says rock and roll. But we consider Motorhead metal. And understand that with metal the music is as important than the singing/lyrics. Sometimes even more.
"killed by death" is a fabulous Motorhead song that is a different vibe and is to be played at my funeral. Lemmy was influenced by 60`s rocker Eddie Cochrane.
Motorhead are traditional heavy metal and belonged perfectly alongside bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Saxon, and Ozzy. "Heavy Metal is Rock and Roll...it's just another name for it." - Lemmy. It's not that Lemmy didn't consider Motorhead metal, in his book he does refer to Motorhead as a metal band, it's just that Lemmy hates labels. "there's only two types of music...music you like and music you don't." "Heavy Metal is the true spirit of Rock and Roll." - Lemmy
One of the best lyricists you will find, lemmy was a true poet, check out orgasmatron if you don't believe me, and its alot gentler than this. Or queensryche and silent lucidity, one of the best songs ever recorded.
Being a Motorhead fan since the late 70's I can confirm that Motorhead were a pivotal influence on everykind of fast paced derivative of 'Heavy Metal'. A suggestion is to go to a metal club (say Solids just near Central Station) and ask to hear a Motorhead song. Then drink in the vibe in the room. It will be both cathartic and therapeautic. 'The ONLY way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud' as the song says.
It’s absolutely Rock and Roll. Crossover . Not metal or trash . I saw them in 1980 at Reading . Or about then. I was not sober , That I can tell. Ramones is their Twins
Lemmy always classed Mötorhead as Rock n Roll. They were the one band that was able to unite rockers, metalheads and punks. Now, many of their songs reflect their hedonistic fast living, but Lemmy could have his very emotional and sombre moments. Two that I would highly recommend are "1916" which Sabaton did a good cover of, but does lack the raw emotion that Lemmy put across. The second is "Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me", a brutally emotional song Lemmy wrote as he felt that people didn't get the message in Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun"
Oh, sorry for your extreme exposure to Ace of Spades, one of my favourite Mh songs:) Also, it’s lovely to see intelligent people like you on Yt, thank you!
Motörhead is one of the biggest influences of all Big 4 Bands. It is not wrong to say without Motörhead metal would be not what it is today and most metal musicians acknowledge this fact.
I had a similar traumatic experience working at circuit city way back when Britney Spears came out with hit me baby one more time. Brutal. I feel for you.
I used Ace of spades after a frustrating day at work to get my blood pressure to an acceptable level again by playing it several times on war level volume, and it helped.
This track always reminds me of a drunken house party where we all tried to play this on drums Expert+ on Guitar Hero Metallica edition. No one could make it through. Bunch of unfit blokes. Then my brothers mate, April, who'd so far sat in the corner, stepped up, smashed it, and went on to learn drums... proper drums 👏🏻
Yup. He wrote the song Silver Machine for Hawkwind. But because he was just the lowly base player they didn't want him to sing it. But apparently no one in the band had the range to sing it, including the lead singer Dave Brock. So they eventually allowed him to do it, as he was the only one in the band who could.
Lemmy and the boys never saw themselves as anything other than a Rock & Roll band. I totally agree with that. But, interestingly enough most older Metal bands including Trash cites them as a huge influence on them. Their drummer, the late Phil Taylor was one of the first one to play double-bass drums that way and that fast. It was unknown for the time And yeah, a lot of their songs sound the same and that's why I love them 🤘👍
i can guarantee you that there is at least 1 song from Motorhead that you will absolutely like ; and that song is called _1916_ . it is a sharp departure from anything else they ever did ; and you'll be thanking me once you hear it -- and that's a promise 🙏. for me, the deeper i deconstruct the song/production, the better it gets. Sabaton did a cover/tribute to it a couple of years ago ; and while the 2 versions are completely different (in terms of sound/production), they are each as close to perfect in their delivery/presentation as can be done. (speaking of which .... perhaps we could get a double-feature?) and yes, while Lemmy calls it just simply "rock 'n' roll" , they are deffo pioneers of speed metal / thrash, with a bit of a punk-ish sound thrown it.
Overkill and Ace Of Spades are the archetypal fast Motorhead songs but they have loads of mid-tempo songs, check out Born To Raise Hell or their cover of Louie Louie, they even have a few slow songs such as Metropolis, and 1916 is almost a ballad. Their first album pre-dated NWOBHM by a couple of years but they came to be regarded as one of the leading lights of the movement. Also check out Silver Machine by Hawkwind to hear Lemmy's clean vocals before he developed his trademark growl.
Motorhead saw themselves as rock & roll, never heavy metal, but they heavily influenced early thrash metal with their speed & intensity. They were also aggy enough that early punks, who hated bands with long hair, were into them!
Its not the big 4 of metal, only of thrash, and all 4 deserve their place based on sales, tours and influence. Motorhead are a 70's band who were very much a big influencer on thrash metal. They played "rock'n'roll" but was a fusion of punk, metal and a hard blues. Their songs cover a lot of tempo ranges but driving fast tunes were their staple.
I first got into Motorhead back in 1988. Lemmy was inspired by Little Richard and the MC5. High energy, rough and raw. He does a cover of Stand By Me, that you should check out.
my first Live Rock Concert in Germany, November 29, 1992 (i was 15): Opening act: DIO, second: MOTÖRHEAD, Headliner : RAMONES, and ii have only good memories!!
Lemme would always tell interviewers who asked about playing metal, "We're not a heavy metal band. We play rock n' roll." He swore to his death that they didn't play metal, despite the MASSIVE influence they had on countless metal bands. I saw them a couple of times, and it was always a great show. Lemme was a unique individual
@@EleanorMcHughthe funny part about Peter Murphy denying Bauhaus being goth is that he and the band played up the goth esthetic in their outfits, as well as their music.
Love to see ya again! As a Motörhead fan I have tro be a litle picky now... you missed a part of the song when your camera went off. The song is restarted twice and your break is in the first restart, but your last part of the video starts from the second and last restart of the song. I think the guitar solo in the first restart is the best in the whole song. However, Motörhead witj their including of the rawness and speed from punk rock was a great influncer of what to became the more extreme metal to come, as thrash metal, speed metal, death metal and black metal (also summarized in the term "extreme metal"). This way to almost refuse to stop playing with very long outros or even restart the song to do several endings is something that most probably inspired Manowar to do similar in many of their songs and even more when playing live. About Lemmy and he's voice; he's well known for smoking and drinking alot, also using amphetamine and sometimes coke. So he had this distorted/hars voice from the early days. But it also went worse by the years and at the last decade or decades of his life it was hard to even hear what he was sayning in interwievs.
Motorhead’s sound was in part a reaction to Lemmy’s time in Hawkwind, stripping out the space rock keyboards and synth-stacks in favour of a more aggressive, punchy sound (though Hawkwind can do aggressive when they want to - Brainstorm on the Space Ritual album ❤). It’s also Rock’n’Roll’s answer to punk, every bit as rebellious as the Pistols but with real tight musicianship and no nonsense. Lemmy’s voice wasn’t musical and his playing style owes more to rhythm guitar than conventional bass, but it’s that combo along with the driving drums and high-octane guitars that really makes Motorhead’s sound special. You should check out Girlschool. Their sound is similarly pummelling and they did collaborations with Motorhead as Head Girl.
oh no..... I love Motorhead, and Ace of spades... but, i am pretty much positive you heard it more in that time period than I have in my entire life!! (46yrs btw) that's horrible.. That amount of Ace of Spades would be nothing short of........................OVERKILL!!! :D :D :D :D
I think Lemmy built Motorhead just because he wanted to do something that had NEVER been finr, kind of like when KISS fused goal withbhorror, science fiction and theatricality, or when the Beatles wrote Shelter Shelter and created heavy metal before it existed. Queen did something similar when they write stone Cold Crazy. You never know where new ideas will come from :)
Lemmy would growl at you that Motorhead were a rock and roll band Not thrash Not metal. Rock and Roll. Lemmy said everything he did came from Elvis. But they were definitely pioneers of speed metal and had a huge influence on early thrash. Motorhead were accepted by both punks and metalheads. Their repertoire was actually very diverse, from speed metal to 1950's rock n roll, through power ballads to 1916, which is just a snare and a voice, and will make you cry.
It's a pitty that you experienced that in your youth. That's one of Lemmy's best songs, too. I hate when someone gets a good song ruined by external influences. I've had several that I've had the same kind of thing with other band/songs, so I feel you, lass.
A week and a half to record a reaction? That might be a record. lol. Stupid technology ☹. If you look at some of their albums, Lemmy is not credited with singing, he is credited with 'howling'. 😁. Yes, he smoked and drank, Jack Daniels and lots of it.
The song Motörhead was created during Lemmy's Hawkwind years. I like and have their first albums. A little Lemmy story: a friend of mine knew the drummer of the Band Kingdom Come from Altona, Hamburg, Germany. He told him this story: he was sitting at the Hamburg airport, when a guy showed up and sat down next to him. Introducing himself: "Hello. My name is Lemmy Kilmister. And I want us both to have a good time." And pulled out a bottle of vodka, which they shared :-)
A lot of people have arguements in the comments...........thats the understatement of the year!!!! I burst out laughing when you said that, briliant. try 1916 and Hellraiser 2 totally different styles from this. Motorhead influenced a huge ammounts of bands over the years, I guess you could say they were pioneers, but they were so generally admired for just being Motorhead throughout their career
Saw them at Free Trade Hall in Manchester when that was still a concert venue. Came out deaf as a post, as Motorhead were probably at that time the loudest band on the planet.
Would love to see you react to the (vastly superior) live versions of this from either the literally legendary 'No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith' or 'Stage Fright' live albums...both of those absolutely crush the studio version you have here.
Yeah, it always bothers me a bit when people react to studio versions of Motorhead, although it's usually Ace of Spades so a plus point for choosing a better track!
Philthy Phil had brought a second Bass Drum, and was trying it out when Lemmy and Fast Eddie walked in and 'Overkill' was born. Hawkwind created Motorhead by sacking Lemmy.
The whole genre thing can get a bit silly really. Motorhead laid a lot of the groundwork for what became thrash. Metallica have done Motorhead covers as one of the bands who influenced them and it's unlikely that others weren't similarly influenced. I love Ace of Spades but I think if I'd had your experience of it I might feel the same!
