Ace Of Spades
by Motörhead

Some amazing guitar riffs here. Live to win and Love me like a reptile are my favourites. Just a few too many middling tracks to make this an elite album

Great Head Bangin Sounds, British Rock n Roll at it's Best

From Strangel 02/25/2024 09:43 | #302209

Out of respect I have named my moustache ‘Lemmy’.

Ace of Spades is a classic, but its hard to cool about about the rest of the record. Though considered heavy-metal, this definitely sounds more like hard-rock but with a garage rock edge to it.

This record hasn't aged brilliantly and it is quite a boring listen once you get past 3 or 4 songs. This is because the style and performances are near enough identical from song to song so the lack of variation gets dull pretty quick. The energy in the music seems to slowly drift away as well as you become more familiar with the sound and see they are just repeating themselves. For that first chunk at the start it is fantastic though as it does feel full of passion and life and that leads to some great songs. Overall, this record feels dated now and despite having some brilliant moments it is quite bare and repetitive for me.

Meh. Not my favorite

This album defines speed metal and what I would call punk metal - mixing punk simplicity and agressivness with metal speed and themes. This is banger after banger after banger. The songs aren't lyrical masterpieces but this is not what they supposed to be. Favorites: Ace Of Spades, Shoot You In The Back, Fire Fire, Jailbait and The Chase Is Better Than The Catch.

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From planetneutral 01/29/2021 00:55 | #265236

Hits hard like only the best power trios, but it's all pretty self-similar and so dated lyrically.

I think Overkill has the edge on this album but without doubt the opener takes some beating. Raw, loud, wall to wall power. There is some great guitar work on the album which goes beyond the power riffery they were so noted for.

For those who may be interested, I picked up a Psychedelic album before Christmas by a band called Sam Gopal, album title Escalator. If you want to hear Lemmy (Ian Willis) in a very different place, even pre-Hawkwind then give it a listen. He played lead and rhythm guitar on the album!