Name: Ace Of Spades
Label: BRONZE
Year: 1980
Review: Unless you’ve been living in a cave without electricity in an undiscovered country, there’s no way you haven’t heard the title track. In face, it handily sums up what’s great about this album: Motörhead take plenty of risks, no prisoners, and leave the bulk of their metal brethren trailing in their dust.
Name: Overkill
Label: BRONZE
Year: 1979
Review: Another great album with a thundering title track, Overkill is the sound of Motörhead nailing their colours to the mast with aplomb. Full of racing tempos, Lemmy’s trademark snarling vocals that have only become gruffer over the years and a tearaway spirit that always makes the band a delight.
Name: Bomber
Label: BRONZE
Year: 1979
Review: Back in 1979, it wasn’t uncommon for a band in their prime to release an album every six months. And why not? On this, the album that proceeded Overkill, Motörhead are on stampeding form. It sounds like a catalogue of good times and warning signs, proving the band were definitely in possession of the brains to match their balls.
Name: No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
Label: BRONZE
Year: 1981
Review: That Motörhead have recorded arguably the definitive rock ‘n’ roll live albums tells you everything you need to know about their spirit: what they brought into the studio, they took on tour. Also, it’s a double-disc release, so it solves the problem of their early albums in particular all being so short. It’s like the band knew that they’d left people wanting more.
Name: March Or Die
Label: EPIC
Year: 1992
Review: Motörhead’s work ethic and impact has hardly deteriorated over the course of their career, but March Or Die is their least characteristic album. It’s shorn of much of the attitude and cool that makes the band so listenable, there are far too many ballads and concessions to a more mainstream audience and the whole thing just sounds confused, really. A blip.