Motörhead (album)

Occupation

• Lemmy Kilmister: vocals, bass
• Eddie Clarke: guitar
• Phil Taylor: drums

Motörhead is the official debut album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. It was released in September 1977 by Chiswick Records and reached number 43 in the UK album charts. It was in 1986 in Great Britain Silver status for 60,000 units sold.

Formation

After recording On Parole and the problems with United Artists Records Larry Wallis left the band and was replaced by Eddie Clarke. In the summer of 1976 gave band manager Tony Secunda Motörhead a contract for a single with Stiff Records and the band recorded White Line Fever and Leaving Here on. However, United Artists prevented the publication because Motörhead still stood with them under contract. End of 1976, United Artists released Motörhead from this contract. From late 1976 to early 1977, the band played a few shows and decided in April 1977 to dissolve. As a farewell concert at the Marquee Club in London Ted Carroll from Chiswick Records was present and offered Motörhead after the show a record contract. Carroll booked the Escape Studio in Kent for two days, so the band could record a single, produced by John "Speedy" Keen (ex - Thunderclap Newman). Instead of the single Motörhead took for a total of eleven songs, the base tracks on, but without vocals. Ted Carroll was impressed by the recordings and admitted the band a few more days to record the vocals and other pieces for a complete studio album.

At the end of the recording sessions Motörhead had a total of 13 tracks recorded, the majority were re-recordings of songs from On Parole ( tracks 1 to 4 and 7 ). There were already recorded for Stiff Records White Line Fever and Keep Us On the Road, another new piece. The last track of the album The Train Kept a Rollin ' is a cover of a piece, the Tiny Bradshaw had written in the 1940s. The remaining five items were City Kids, On Parole Instro and the instrumental and a cover version of ZZ Top (Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers from the 1973 album Tres Hombres ) and I'm Your Witch Doctor of John Mayall. These were published by City for Kids 1980 The Beer Drinkers EP.

Title list

Reviews

Alex Ogg of Allmusic describes the music of the album as "Rock ' n' Roll, as they had never heard of him " and says that Motörhead have put with the album the foundation for the band's sound: Lemmy's harsh vocals and a furious fast wall of guitar, drums and bass. The Rock Hard thinks that Motörhead a "completely independent bastard of rock ' n ' roll and punk " is, the show, " to which feats the band will be able ... ".