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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This could be Motorhead's finest hour - if you like your 80's rock heavier than hell. This is the best line-up, the classic 3 piece with Fast Eddie and Philthy Phil Taylor. Classic 'Head gig fave's like "Stone Dead Forever" and "Over the Top" line up with "Dead men smell toe nails!" - as Lemmy introduced it at The Bingley Hall on the Bomber tour in 1980. It could be argued that "Overkill" is a better album, but "Bomber" really put the Motor boys on the rock map. They toured heavily all the time, but the Bomber tour was spectacular with the Bomber suspended above the stage. It nearly killed them one gig when it broke it's moorings in Germany, but that's another story. Great album, great band.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Bomber" is a bit of a strange album. It falls between the two most revered Motorhead studio albums "Overkill" and "Ace of spades" and other than the title track and "Dead men tell no tales" gets largely forgotten about when the band play live. There are a lot of strong tracks but the sound is pretty wierd. Lemmy`s bass is less distorted and more trebley than usual and often "Fast" Eddie Clarke`s guitar lines play around the more dominant bass, instead of straight ahead heads down riffing. Philthy`s drums are also a bit quieter than normal. The cream of the crop here are "Stone dead forever", "Dead men tell no tales", the creepy "Sweet revenge" and the immortal title track. Also "Fast" Eddie cuts his only album lead vocal on the bluesy "Step down". There are a few fillers, "Talking head" and "Sharpshooter" being more worthy than memorable. The second disc contains a bunch of out-takes that aren`t really essential and the brilliant live tracks from the excellent "Golden years" EP which was released between this and "Ace of spades". Like "Another perfect day" and "Orgasmatron", (very) slightly different from the usual Motorhead album.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Having lived with the original 1991 CD issue (CLACD 227) of this album for the past few years I've finally decided to 'upgrade'. And what a disappointment I found the remaster to be. Sure, the bonus tracks are great, but the sound....
Compared side by side with my earlier disc this one is MUCH louder. But because of the modern compression applied to achieve that boost in volume (and possibly some other digital tampering) it's less "natural" sounding than the original CD. I can't crank it up without it rapidly getting harsh on my ears. Yet I have no problem pumping the 1991 disc up loud, and loving it.
I'd say to anyone who wants to be able to enjoy their Motorhead at high volume, seek out the original Castle discs. If your ears are used to modern remasters those early CDs will probably at first sound a bit too quiet or tame (lacking the artifically induced "punch" common to many remasters), but crank them up loud and you'll soon see how they can be a more enjoyable and rewarding listening experience.
As for the music itself, I probably wouldn't recommend Bomber to a Motorhead beginner. It does contain some truly classic Motorhead moments (such as the title track and Stone Dead Forever), but taken as a whole it may seem a bit of a hit-and-miss collection of songs to the uninitiated.
My advice? Buy it after Ace Of Spades or Overkill, and before Iron Fist.
Compared side by side with my earlier disc this one is MUCH louder. But because of the modern compression applied to achieve that boost in volume (and possibly some other digital tampering) it's less "natural" sounding than the original CD. I can't crank it up without it rapidly getting harsh on my ears. Yet I have no problem pumping the 1991 disc up loud, and loving it.
I'd say to anyone who wants to be able to enjoy their Motorhead at high volume, seek out the original Castle discs. If your ears are used to modern remasters those early CDs will probably at first sound a bit too quiet or tame (lacking the artifically induced "punch" common to many remasters), but crank them up loud and you'll soon see how they can be a more enjoyable and rewarding listening experience.
As for the music itself, I probably wouldn't recommend Bomber to a Motorhead beginner. It does contain some truly classic Motorhead moments (such as the title track and Stone Dead Forever), but taken as a whole it may seem a bit of a hit-and-miss collection of songs to the uninitiated.
My advice? Buy it after Ace Of Spades or Overkill, and before Iron Fist.
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classic but more
classic motorhead cd gimme more motorhead well they have a bonus cd with 10 extra songs including some live tracks like leaving here and stone dead forever well worth getting.
Published 6 months ago by pig
nice stuff
With motorhead its safe to say that you know what you are going to get, they are what they are and for some thats fine and for others it their weakness, im somewhere in the middle... Read more
Published 20 months ago by sean paul mccann
Why Motörhead is such a great rock band
For me, 'Bomber' sums up why Motörhead is such a great rock band.
The songs are riff-based, great music created by three musicians who are 'in the zone' at that point in... Read more
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Published on 6 Feb 2010 by B. Hurst
The 2 CD DeLuxe Expanded Edition.
CD 1 is the album we know and love in it's original entirety.
CD 2 has 5 outtakes / different versions of some of the album tracks, and 5 Live tracks which were the Live... Read more
CD 2 has 5 outtakes / different versions of some of the album tracks, and 5 Live tracks which were the Live... Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2008 by Alan Burridge
not the best
I loved this one when it came out, but listening to it again 20+ years later, I think there are quite a lot of fillers on it. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2008 by S. Gerhand
'QUIET' Motorhead!!!!!!!
I wouldn't really recommend this CD. It is the original line up, but they seem to be playing a relaxed, even laid back type of rock n roll. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2007 by kiss the sky
An often forgotten classic
I agree with the reviewer below; this is an underrated album. It's little surprise really, considering that it was released in-between their classics "Overkill" and "Ace of Spades"... Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2007 by Chris
One of the most underated albums Motorhead ever made.
This has to be one of Motorheads finest albums. The recording quality isn`t all that it could have been but the songs are great. Personnal Favs... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2006 by JT
Explosive...
Proof that Overkill was no fluke. OK so there are a couple of tracks on this one that I don't especially care for but the rest of it is excellent, particularly All The Aces,... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2006
H-bomb, not small bomb
The title track is one of my personal top 5 tracks, the pure weight of these songs hits you like an anvil. Throe this into your CD player, crank up the volume, sit back and enjoy. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2004
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