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Motorhead
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2215
Motorhead Album Rankings
1
I've said this in other reviews: there is no easy way to take Motorhead's complete history and bottle it up into a concise "greatest hits" package.
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2
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister is a genius. There's no other way to say it; the man is a fucking genius.
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3
I discovered hard rock when I was 14 years old... but I never truly tasted hard rock until I was about 15 or 16, when I was listening to Z-Rock in Chicago.
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4
Nearly 20 years after its release, is Motorhead's 1980 albumAce Of Spadesstill their crowning moment?If you ever want to start a fistfight amongst Motorhead fans, this is the question you should pose.
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5
One thing I've always loved about the British heavy metal band Motorhead is that they're always fun to listen to.
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6
It's not often that a band really finds its niche after two decades together.
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7
I remember the glorious time I spent as a teenager getting into the British metal stalwarts Motorhead.
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8
You can call Motorhead anything you want - call them loud, call them raucous... hell, call them ugly - but don't you dare call them quitters.The year is 1993.
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9
A lot of critics like myself have been recently talking about the comeback of metal - older groups like Judas Priest and W.A.S.P.
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10
Motorhead's 1981 live albumNo Sleep 'Til Hammersmithhas been called one of the best live albums ever released.
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11
"Let me sing a song for you/That's never been sung before": Those are the first words out of Ryan Adams' mouth in "This Is It," the opening song here -- and he delivers them in a strip-mined yelp that
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12
Rock & roll may be here to stay, as Danny and the Juniors once declared, but few styles in rock have endured like heavy metal.
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13
Motorhead might just be the metal act that has the most live albums out.
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14
Conversations about this record with an esteemed colleague, who has always remained somewhere between the punk and the rock, yielded no conclusions other than the fact that this is a fucking Motorhead
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15
Despite what Motorhead might want you to believe, their 1977 self-titled release was not their first effort.
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16
If Lemmy Kilmister and Motorhead proved anything in 1986, they showed they were survivors.
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17
I'm starting to get worried about Lemmy Kilmister and Motorhead.
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18
Considering that most of their metal compadres have burned out or turned to self-parody, Motorhead's continued volatility alone is impressive.
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19
N.B.: The version reviewed is the RoadRaced Revisited reissue.By 1983, Motorhead was experiencing inner turmoil.
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32
Bad record deals have plagued Motorhead's career, resulting in countless low-quality live recordings and pointless re-packagings, but 1994's Live at Brixton is one of the rare exceptions.
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42
If you're reading, you know Motorhead, the diesel fuel of the hard rock engine.
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58
One song on this record, "Lost Johnny," offers the original Motorhead lineup of Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox; Phil Taylor joined in the middle of recording.
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60
This Grammy-nominated album is perhaps the best of Motorhead's career.
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61
This cheaply priced compilation of 12 live Motorhead performances offers precious little in the way of documentation; these songs date mostly from the earlier portion of the band's career, but it's d
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