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Motorhead -1979 box [8 disc]

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A massive 40th anniversary box set featuring 8 discs, Overkill, Bomber, No Class 7”, The Rest Of 79 (rare tracks) and two double live albums of previously unheard concert material from the 79 tours. The box also includes a 40-page period-accurate music magazine featuring unseen photos and fresh interviews regarding the era, Bomber Tour programme, Overkill sheet music book and a badge set

Overkill
Motörhead’s landmark second album, Overkill, marked a major leap forward for the band, and it remains one of their all-time best, without question. In fact, some fans consider it their single best, topping even Ace of Spaces. It’s a ferocious album, for sure, perfectly showcasing Motörhead’s trademark style of no holds barred proto-thrash — a kind of punk-inflected heavy metal style that is sloppy and raw yet forceful and in your face. Motörhead, the band’s self-titled debut from 1977, had been rush-recorded, and its stripped-down, super-raw sound wasn’t all that impressive, at least not relative to what would follow. Overkill is what followed, recorded in December 1978 and January 1979, and released not long thereafter. The band’s sound is fully formed here, and it totally explodes right off the bat on the five-minute title track. A number of Motörhead standards follow, among them “Stay Clean” and “No Class.” Produced by Jimmy Miller, who had helmed a number of classic Rolling Stones albums (Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup), Overkill sounds wonderful, especially on the numerous remastered editions of this album. The band’s classic lineup — Lemmy (bass and vocals), “Fast” Eddie Clarke (guitar), and “Philthy Animal” Taylor (drums) — is well in place here, and they seem eager to rip loose wildly on every single song. This, in addition to the solid track listing and Miller’s production, makes Overkill a perfect Motörhead album. Several great ones would follow, of course, but Overkill was the first of the great ones, and quite possibly the greatest of all.

Bomber
Recorded in late summer 1979 and released by the end of the year, Bomber quickly followed up Overkill, Motörhead’s landmark breakthrough album from earlier in the year. Bomber bears a lot in common with its fan-favorite predecessor. For starters, it features the classic Motörhead lineup: Lemmy (bass and vocals), “Fast” Eddie Clarke (guitar), and “Philthy Animal” Taylor (drums). Also like Overkill, Bomber features the production grace of Jimmy Miller, the man responsible for the Rolling Stones’ late-’60s/early-’70s albums, including such masterpieces as Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main St. And the music here on Bomber explodes on song after song, thanks to the crazed performances of the aforementioned bandmembers as well as the well-overdriven, ear-rattling production perfection of Miller. Actually, there’s only one marked difference between Overkill and Bomber that’s worth noting: the songs. There are a couple killers here, namely “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” “Stone Dead Forever,” and “Bomber,” but overall, the songs of Bomber aren’t as strong as those of Overkill were. Granted, this is somewhat of a moot point to raise, as Bomber is still a top-shelf Motörhead album, one of their all-time best, without question. But it does fall just a notch or two below Overkill and Ace of Spades, the latter of which would follow a year later and catapult the band to further acclaim. Bomber kicks ass, in any event, and its best moments are as superlative as any Motörhead would ever record. The band was really on fire during this point in time and could seemingly do no wrong.

Lp 1: Overkill
1. Overkill
2. Stay Clean
3. (I Won’t) Pay Your Price
4. I’ll Be Your Sister
5. Capricorn
6. No Class
7. Damage Case
8. Tear Ya Down
9. Metropolis
10. Limb For Limb

Lp 2: Bomber
1. Dead Men Tell No Tales
2. Lawman
3. Sweet Revenge
4. Sharpshooter
5. Poison
6. Stone Dead Forever
7. All The Aces
8. Step Down
9. Talking Head
10. Bomber

Lp 3/4: Good N Loud – Live At Aylesbury Friars, 1979
1. Overkill
2. Stay Clean
3. Keep Us On The Road
4. No Class
5. Leaving Here
6. Iron Horse / Born To Lose
7. Metropolis
8. The Watcher
9. Damage Case
10. (I Won’t) Pay Your Price
11. Capricorn
12. Too Late, Too Late
13. I’ll Be Your Sister
14. I’m Your Witchdoctor
15. Train Kept A-Rollin
16. White Line Fever
17. Motörhead

Lp 5/6: Sharpshooter – Live At Le Mans, 1979
1. Overkill
2. Stay Clean
3. No Class
4. Metropolis
5. All The Aces
6. Dead Men Tell No Tales
7. I’ll Be Your Sister
8. Lawman
9. Too Late, Too Late
10. Poison
11. (I Won’t) Pay Your Price
12. Sharpshooter
13. Capricorn
14. Train Kept A-Rollin
15. Bomber
16. Limb From Limb
17. White Line Fever
18. Motörhead

Lp 7: The Rest From 79
1. Too Late, Too Late-Single B-side
2. Like A Nightmare-alternative version
3. Over The Top-Single B-side
4. Stone Dead Forever-alternative version
5. Sharpshooter-alternative version
6. Bomber-alternative version
7. Step Down-alternative version
8. Fun On The Farm-Bomber outtake
9. Treat Me Nice-Bomber outtake
10. You Ain’t Gonna Live Forever-Bomber outtake

No Class 7″
1. No Class
2. Like A Nightmare

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BMG Records

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