I bought Motörhead’s No Remorse because it had been some time since i bought anything that had the two dots over a vowel. Actually, we discovered Motörhead on The Young Ones playing Ace Of Spades and it wasn’t long after that we saw a video for Killed By Death on MTV. I had to investigate.
When plunging to unknown territory like this I find that it is usually a safe bet to try the Greatest Hits album first. Then work outward from there. Find the songs you like best on the Greatest Hits album then find the album with your favorite songs on it. It never got that far with Motörhead. No Remorse is the only Motörhead I’ve ever owned.
I think that it was more of a timing issue rather than an indictment of Motörhead. No Remorse has some really good hard driving stuff that I’m quite fond of but overall, I think my interest in Metal was on the way out. Looking at my preliminary list, there are only a handful of albums left in The Metal Years.Aric and I wanted to be where the girls were and the girls were definately not where Lemmy Kilminster and Motörhead were. I saw Lemmy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno once. Jay asked “What kind of name is Lemmy anyway?” To which Lemmy replied “A f*cking stupid name.”
No Remorse was good enough for me to buy twice. I replaced my vinyl with CD eventually and was disappointed to find that the CD omitted the Motörhead cover of Louie, Louie. Yeah, THAT Louie, Louie. It was another of those rare gems that would find its way to my party tapes. The movie Animal House had turned Louie, Louie into a drunken sing-along song. The very interesting thing about Motörhead’s version was that you could understand every single word. This was a double dose of contradiction. First, in every other version of Louie, Louie that I’ve heard, you can’t understand half of what they are saying. Second, in every other Motörhead song I’ve heard you can’t understand half of what they are saying. So mathematically, they cancel each other out and you can understand all of it. Understand?
Ace Of Spades
Jailbait
Killed By Death
Bomber
Iron Fist
Locomotive