MOTORHEAD

THE WORLD IS OURS - VOL 2 -
Anywhere Crazy as Anywhere Else

There is a certain advert on the TV with the strap line "Does just what it says on the tin". Having listened to this double CD, I think it's safe to say this could equally apply to MOTORHEAD.


Unbelievably formed back in 1975, the band have been on a one man quest ever since to deafen the rock loving audience of the world. Step forward and take a bow, Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known to all and sundry as Lemmy.
Now I can't claim to be an expert on this band and my knowledge really only extends to the assistance he gave the Damned in the late 70's, when yet another bassist had abandoned ship. Whilst typically pigeon holed as heavy metal, his fusion of punk rock into the genre later helped to pioneer speed and thrash metal Indeed Lemmy has been quoted as saying he has more in common aesthetically with The Damned, than bands such as Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.




However, I did read his autobiography "White Line Fever" and thoroughly enjoyed the romp through the booze and drugs excesses and wanton debauchery that became the band's trade mark, especially in the days of drummer "Philthy Animal" Taylor and guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke.



This CD is the follow up to last years unsurprisingly named "The World Is Ours - Vol 1". Encompassing 38 live tracks taken from live gigs in locations all over the world including Germany, Brazil and the Sonisphere festival in good old blighty. I guess if you are already a fan of the band then you have got the majority of these tracks somewhere in your collection of the twenty studio albums, seven live recordings, five compilation albums and five EPs that the band has released to date! Still you can never have too much of a good thing.

I think its fair to say that they've never deviated too much from a winning formula. But listening to these as a novice, I've got to say it's quite pleasing to hear echoes of a time when British rock music ruled the globe (Led Zep, Deep Purple, Priest, Maiden, Sabbath etc). There are the obligatory screeching guitars, the almost lost art of the drum solo and, over the top, the ever present vocals of Lemmy, sounding like he just had his larynx sandpapered. Whilst never having been darlings of the uber cool music press they still write songs on a diverse range of subject matters including war, good versus evil, abuse of power, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, and, most famously, gambling on their signature tune "Ace of Spades".

Whilst not recognizing many of the tracks, I was obviously previously acquainted with the aforementioned "Spades", as well as "Bomber" and "Overkill". But in the overall scheme of things it doesn't really matter if you've not heard the rest before, Motorhead are Motorhead and if you are a fan of loud, dirty, bad arse rock'n'roll you gonna love them anyway!

Bones



TRACK LISTING:

WACKEN OPEN AIR
GERMANY, AUGUST 6th, 2011
01 Iron Fist
02 Stay Clean
03 Get Back In Line
04 Metropolis
05 Over the Top
06 One Night Stand
07 Rock Out
08 The Thousand Names

SONISPHERE FESTIVAL UK, JULY 10th, 2011
01 Iron Fist
02 I Know How To Die
03 In The Name of Tragedy
04 Killed by Death
05 Ace of Spades
06 Overkill

ROCK IN RIO
BRAZIL, SEPTEMBER 25th, 2011
01 Stay Clean
02 Over the Top
03 The Chase Is Better Than the Catch
04 Going to Brazil
05 Killed by Death

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