(2020) Motörhead - Ace of Spades [40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] [FLAC]

(2020) Motörhead - Ace of Spades [40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]





Review:

…Includes a live album of a newly unearthed, previously unreleased concert from the Ace Up Your Sleeve tour.

With the 1980 release of Ace of Spades, Motörhead had their anthem of anthems — that is, the title track — the one trademark song that would summarize everything that made this early incarnation of the band so legendary, a song that would be blasted by legions of metalheads for generations on end. It’s a legendary song, for sure, all two minutes and 49 bracing seconds of it. And the album of the same name is legendary as well, among Motörhead’s all-time best, often considered their single best, in fact, along with Overkill. Ace of Spades was Motörhead’s third great album in a row, following the 1979 releases of Overkill and Bomber, respectively. Those two albums have a lot in common with Ace of Spaces. The classic lineup — Lemmy (bass and vocals), “Fast” Eddie Clarke (guitar), and “Philthy Animal” Taylor (drums) — is still in place and sounding as alive and crazed as ever. The album is still rock-solid, boasting several superlative standouts. Actually, besides the especially high number of standouts on Ace of Spades — at least relative to Bomber, which wasn’t quite as strong overall as Overkill had been — the only key difference between this 1980 album and its two 1979 predecessors is the producer, in this case Vic Maile. The result of his work isn’t all that different from that of Jimmy Miller, the longtime Rolling Stones producer who had worked on Overkill and Bomber, but it’s enough to give Ace of Spades a feeling distinct from its two very similar-sounding predecessors. This singular sound (still loud and in your face, rest assured), along with the exceptionally strong songwriting and the legendary stature of the title track, makes Ace of Spades the ideal Motörhead album if one were to choose one and only one studio album. It’s highly debatable whether Ace of Spades is tops over the breakthrough Overkill, as the latter is more landmark because of its earlier release, and is somewhat rougher around the edges, too. Either way, Ace of Spades rightly deserves its legacy as a classic. There’s no debating that.











Tracklist:



CD1-Original Ace of Spades album

01 Ace of Spades

02 Love Me Like a Reptile

03 Shoot You in the Back

04 Live to Win

05 Fast and Loose

06 (We Are) The Road Crew

07 Fire Fire

08 Jailbait

09 Dance

10 Bite the Bullet

11 The Chase Is Better Than the Catch

12 The Hammer



CD2-Live from Belfast 23/12/81

(Previously unreleased)

01 Ace Of Spades

02 Stay Clean

03 Over The Top

04 The Hammer

05 Shoot You In The Back

06 Metropolis

07 Jailbait

08 Leaving Here

09 Capricorn

10 Too Late, Too Late

11 (We Are) The Road Crew

12 No Class

13 Bite The Bullet

14 The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

15 Overkill

16 Bomber

17 Motörhead





Media Report:

Genre: hard rock/heavy metal

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits