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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The 2 CD DeLuxe Expanded Edition., 26 Aug 2008
CD 1 has the classic album featured just as it was released back in 1980. CD 2 is choc-a-bloc with bonus tracks, which is fine if you like that kind of thing? If you're a Motorhead collector, you will find them marvellous, but 2 takes of 'Love Me Like A Reptile' and 'Dirty Love' amongst others from the album may not float your boat, so maybe...FOUR tracks recorded for David 'Kid' Jensen's BBC Radio 1 show will?
This session for Kid was a complete surprise to Motorhead fans the UK over, the band had never mentioned them, and as most of us were driving home from work when Kid's show was on the air, we (and the Record Fair bootlegger's) missed them completely. So here they are, caught in the safety net by the jolly old BBC, bless 'em.
The CD is in a cardboard slip-case, and the booklet is brimming with repros of memorabilia from the era. Top-notch!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Classic Album!, 20 Oct 2009
Sky Arts has recently shown some of the "Classic Albums" series and I happened to catch the programme about Motorhead's classic Ace of Spades album. Although I have some compilation CDs, and some live stuff, I realised I was missing this masterpiece!
Originally released on the 8th November 1980 on Gerry Bron's Bronze label, Ace of Spades has resurfaced a few times over the years as the rights moved from one company to another. After Bronze folded the first CD version appeared in the eighties on Legacy Records. Castle Communications produced the first CD of the nineties, followed by Castle's Essential CD release a few years later - the first with bonus tracks!
As Castle became part of Sanctuary Records Group the first version of this double CD was released in 2005 as SMEDD243, finally Sanctuary itself became part of Universal Music Group. This latest version of the double CD was released in 2008 as part of Universal's familiar DELUXE Edition series, with the white banded plastic slipcase. The track listing is the same as the 2005 release, of which some copies are still around, but these versions DO NOT include the Girlschool St. Valentine's Day Massacre tracks that are on the 1996 single disc on Essential! So if you have that version you will need to keep it if you buy this one too.
Sadly I never caught this classic line up live, although I've seen the current band a few times. Very influential and very good live Motorhead continue to showcase Lemmy's awesome presence. Ace of Spades shows how good they could be in the studio, and this Deluxe Edition gives you as many alternate takes and radio sessions as you will probably ever need! A real Classic!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Battering ram of an album, 11 Jan 2007
"You know I'm born to lose.
And Gambling's for fools.
But that's the way I like it Baby, I don't want to live forever".
If you don't know this line off by heart, backwards and in your sleep, you really don't know rock and roll !
That immortal line from this album's legendary title track pretty much sums up the attitude brought to the listener on this, arguably Motorhead's finest musical moment.
Ace of Spades is a good time album. It has a rock N roll `live fast die young' message that goes all the way up to 11.
Tracks like `Love Me Like a Reptile', `The Chase is Better Than The Catch', ` Fast and Lose', and `Jail Bait', ooze sexual promiscuity, making it fun and naughty, punching Lemmy's own personal way of living straight into your face and leaving you dazed but warmly content with the results.
`Shoot you in the back', and, `(We are) The Road Crew', demonstrate Motorhead's panache for writing straight down the line rock and roll anthems, infused with a bottle of Jack and some hint of powdered narcotic thrown in the mix.
The title track and `The Hammer', further go to show that Motorhead are rightly the godfathers of post NWOBHM speed and heaviness. These tracks in particular having a monstrous metal feel, pounding out blitzkrieg bass and blistering lead guitar work.
This album "rocks" in the true sense of the word.
Motorhead's finest moment, bringing the "Overkill", "Bomber" and "Ace of Spades" era to a marvellous conclusion.
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