It converted my dad... - This Motorhead album made my dad a fan.Despite being a lover of a lot of metal and hard rock (AD/DC, Metallica, Judas Priest etc.), every time I played some Motorhead for him, he certainly didn t hate it, but nothing ever really struck him as anything special.That is, until he heard Crazy Like A Fox. That song made him jump around the living room, dancing and playing the air guitar. Yes, a dignified, 51 year old man did this. Such is the power of a good Motorhead song.He has since taken the album from me and won t give it back. He loves it.And its quite a good album too. It has nice production and is very heavy, with about 4/5ths of it being great, just like all the albums Motorhead has released since March Or Die.Highlights include the absolutely rocking Crazy Like A Fox which just happens to include some of the funnier lyrics Lemmys written (Don t you turn your back on me/You just make it worse/You look just as beautiful/When you re movin in reverse), the title track, with its unsual-for-Motorhead but surprisingly appropriate use of accoustic guitars, and (my personal album fav) Love Can t Buy You Money, boasting a riff that literally gave my dad goosebumps. That riff is a stomper. It kinda reminds me of a much much much heavier Guns n Roses.As always, there are just a few songs that just don t do it for me like the others (Broken is, uh, broken, and Shake The World doesn t really grab me, though my dad really likes it), but like I said, 4/5ths of it is good stuff. Fans will dig it, and those looking for an introduction to the later era of Motorhead will find this album to be about as good as anything else they ve done since Orgasmatron.So buy and enjoy, its business as usual with Overnight Sensation and business continues to be darn good.
Motorhead - Overnight Sensation (CMC International) - Good worthy follow-up to their Sacrifice effort. Some fans say this CD is Motorhead s most diverse work in years.Still a great catalog title from Lemmy and crew,that s a true keeper.Well,to MOST Motorhead fans it is.Tracks that I thought made the grade were the metal gems,Civil War,Eat The Gun,the humorous Crazy Like A Fox and the steady rocker Shake The World. Also liked Love Can t Buy You Money. It s just that I ve got SO much Motorhead and I still don t have every one of their releases. Maybe half of their repertoire. Still churning out that must-have British heavy metal after all these years.
Excellent - This album is a little more diverse in style than a typical Motorhead album but it doesn t veer far from the proven path. Its a very solid effort by Lemmy and the gang and probably one of their five best albums.Choice cuts: I Don t Believe a Word, Broken, and Shake the World.
Lost there touch? HA!!! - Im a huge fan of Motorhead, and I hope to see them before I die. I own all there cds, and this cd is like any other album Motorhead releases. Its hard rocking and in the early 90 s, each cd has a ballad. This cd has one amazing ballad, Dont belive a word. The rest are hard rocking numbers, as only Motorhead can do. Im so sick of hearing Ace of Spades is there finest hour and they havent done anything after the cd. Motorhead albums all are worth listening too, and none of them lose an edge from 75 to 05. Lemmy is 60 plus now and he still rocks harder then anyone else. Where is everyone s hero Ozzy? Oh right, retired. Maybe Lemmy is a robot, thats why he is damn durable and amazing.
A Pleasant Surprise - Being very much into early Motorhead and the Fast Eddie period, I had ignored most of Motorheads albums after 1916, the album not the year. But this cd is honestly one of the bands best ever. Its both more thrashy and melodic...definitely more crafted in songsmanship than later albums like Sacrifice, but not as slick (a good thing to me) as Bastards. Its also got a very unified feel to it.The best compliment I can make about Overnight Sensation is that I now have to add at least four or five songs from it to my running list/cd compiliation of Motorheads best songs. And its a testament to this bands greatness that their best stuff will not even fit on two 80 minute cds anymore. Not that I am complaining.