So I've been kinda binging on Motorhead this week. I dunno, I guess I lost my mind and ended up putting in two different orders to Amazon, which resulted in me netting the double CD reissues of the following albums:
Overkill (40th Anniversary edition)
Bomber (40th Anniversary edition)
Ace Of Spades (40th Anniversary edition)
Iron Fist (Expanded Edition)
Another Perfect Day (Expanded Edition)
Orgasmatron (Expanded Edition)
Rock 'N' Roll (Expanded Edition)
That's FOURTEEN Motorhead CD's I'll be listening to before I'm done with this. Actually, I also played the double CD edition of No Remorse, so it's actually 16 (and I could make it 17 by throwing in No Sleep At All, and I might even be able to dig out my old cassette copies of No Sleep Til Hammersith and 1916).
The first three in that list, the 40th Anniversary Edition ones, I guess came out in the last couple years, each one has the respective album on one disc, and a live show on the bonus disc. Overkill has a show at Friars Aylesbury (which I always understood to be a prog rock haven, though I guess they had some "down and dirty" rock n roll also, apparently), the Bomber show was recorded in Le Mans, and the Ace Of Spades show in Belfast.
Orgasmatron has a show from 84 (plus the B-sides to the Deaf Forever single, one of which is a track called On The Road, which appears to be an early version of Built For Speed, with different lyrics), and Rock 'N' Roll has a show from the 86 Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donnington.
Iron Fist and Another Perfect Day haven't arrived yet, but Iron Fist appears to have another B-side, plus a show from Toronto, while Another Perfect Day has a show from Manchester Apollo and yet another B-side.
I'm mildly bummed about those 40th ANniversary Editions, though, because I thought I was buying the Deluxe Editions from 2005 (which seem to be what Iron Fist and the post-Fast Eddie albums are). In particular, the 2005 Deluxe Edition of Overkill has, among it's bonus material, their single of Louie Louie (yes, the Richard Berry classic). I do have a version of Louie Louie on the No Remorse CD, but apparently it's not the one that was actuall on the single. So I'm gonna have to figure out what I'm gonna do about that.
And yeah, I know I shouldn't have spent all this money all at once, but it's kinda weird when you make up in the morning, and you ask yourself, "Why don't I have Overkill or Orgasmatron on CD?!".
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