![]() Seconds later, Taylor’s machine-gun drum-fill set the band off on some of the most thrilling and high-speed two minutes and 46 seconds in rock history. Everyone else is just pretending.’” The album’s title track certainly lived up to this claim.įrom the moment audiences heard Lemmy’s aggressive and exhilarating bass introduction on “Ace of Spades,” they were hooked. Reviewing the Ace of Spades album, Bushnell details the experience of listening to the album as an overwhelming, sensational journey from start to finish concluding: “When I finally recovered my senses I wrote ‘There’s no two ways about it, Motörhead ARE heavy metal in the only meaningful sense of the term. In their previous three albums, the band had created a reputation for playing face melting rock and roll, and picked up a devoted following along the way. He described that they would “concentrate on very basic music: loud, fast, city, raucous, arrogant, paranoid, speedfreak rock n roll … it will be so loud that if we move in next door to you, your lawn will die.”Īnd that’s exactly what they did. ![]() Allmusic’s Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the band saying: “Motörhead’s overwhelmingly loud and fast style of heavy metal was one of the most groundbreaking styles the genre had to offer in the late ’70s” and though “Motörhead wasn’t punk rock … they were the first metal band to harness that energy and, in the process, they created speed metal and thrash metal.” Lemmy has stated that in forming Motörhead, he wanted to create a band that would play loud, fast rock and roll. ![]() The band is commonly viewed as a heavy metal group, but their embracing of punk attitude and speed made them early pioneers in the speed and thrash metal sounds. With Wallis’ departure soon after Clarke’s audition, Motörhead was left with the band’s now-iconic trio of Lemmy, Taylor and Clarke. Fox was quickly replaced with Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor and by 1976, “Fast” Eddie Clarke had joined the group as a second guitarist. He first recruited guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox. The band was formed in 1975 after bassist Ian “Lemmy” Kilmester had been dismissed from Hawkwind. The result is about as perfect a rock and roll statement as Lemmy (or anyone, for that matter) has ever made.” The song’s lasting legacy was confirmed when VH1 named the song tenth on its 2009 list of “Top 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs of All Time.”īy the time Motörhead had released “Ace of Spades” they were a seasoned band with even more years of experience as individuals in the UK music scene. They just fed that blues a handful of amphetamines. At its release, Gary Bushnell wrote for Sounds magazine: “The new single ‘Ace Of Spades’ kicks off side one at a pace so ferocious it makes the UK Subs sound like doddering old men playing the spoons.” In 2015, David Swanson wrote “Beneath the speed and aggression sits a near-perfect blues song at its core. ![]() On October 27, 1980, Motörhead released their latest single, “Ace of Spades” in anticipation of their fourth studio album of the same name. ![]()
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