OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

Perhaps heretically, I will admit that relatively few Motörhead _albums_ do it for me. It’s more the cumulative effect. :)

Hawkwind … they are also sort of cumulative effect for me, though definitely some great albums … But they are much more all over the map. Sometimes they completely knock me over, sometimes I’m thinking “WTF …?”. :D So it goes!

Cheers,
Carl

> On 02 Sep 2015, at 22:20 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I agree with what you both are saying. It is the last few albums which have
> not really done much for me.
> 
> Most arists settle into a few good tracks an album after a while.
> 
> Hawkwind do things differently to Motorhead, bringing in new people, making
> it easier for Dave.
> 
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:55 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’d more or less concur with that — up to and including the observation
>> that _Sacrifice_ is pretty solid straight through. One could easily gripe
>> at the new one and say he doesn’t sound at his best — though that’s ‘cause
>> he isn’t! He’s 69 and, after the life he’s had, it’s amazing he’s still
>> (pretty much) alive, let alone putting out a record that (at least
>> statistically speaking) few rockers of any stripe would need to be ashamed
>> of.
>> 
>> The ol’ bastard is clearly still pushing too hard. Having to stop shows
>> after a few songs and cancel gigs is a sign you’re overdoing it. I know
>> Lemmy loves to gig, but he needs to take it a bit easier or he’ll run the
>> number of remaining gigs in him down to zero real fast … if he hasn’t
>> already … :/
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Carl
>> 
>> On 02 Sep 2015, at 11:07 , Jonathan Jarrett <
>> jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
>>> I'd say that there's two or three really good tracks on most to all of
>> the Motorhead albums post-, well, _Orgasmatron_? There are one or two
>> stand-outs with more--for me _Sacrifice_ is almost all excellent--but
>> there's something worth hearing on all of them and usually two or three
>> somethings. (Except maybe on _Inferno_ and _Snake Bite Love_, but I guess
>> everyone has their favourites and not-so-favourites.) By some reckonings,
>> that's not much of a hit rate, but it beats many another artist's
>> especially after so long...

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