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Format:Audio CD
I bought this second hand on vinyl in 1980-and-something - the striking `Fist' cover was gnarled and worn, and the vinyl looked like the previous owner had eaten their lunch off it. Playing it loudly on an old record deck seemed to suit its content - this was Motorhead, dirty, loud and a bit gnarled around the edges. I promptly recorded 4 tracks onto a cassette to fill up the last twenty minutes of where another album failed to live up to expectations and subsequently only came across it when the other album was finished.
Roll forward a few years and Nostalgia, that expensive mistress, reared her head - perhaps, it was better than I thought - after all, I had bought Tank's Honour and Blood again and that was a blinder.
Well - Iron Fist the title track kicks things off in pummelling style - fast, loud and menacing, just like I remembered it. So, so far so good. But after ploughing through the whole album a couple of things were patently clear; the cover was still great, the four tracks I had recorded were the pick of the bunch and listening to Motorhead on a cleaned up disc on an expensive system doesn't necessarily add to the whole experience. Most songs don't seem to go anywhere and fizzle out sooner than you'd expect and annoyingly the guitar is way down in the mix which makes the songs a bit lacklustre, particularly when compared to its older brother; Ace of Spades. The four best songs are undoubtedly the caustic title track, the rolling `Don't Need Religion' (hear, hear) with its riff that Bad News would have been proud of, 'America' and the fabulous `Don't let the...grind ya Down'. So not bad but not great - Now I just need to find that cassette and play it on my old cassette deck...
In terms of the live album -well it's Motorhead, and its live -as with their other available live recordings it never deviates from the script and Lemmy doesn't really engage particularly with the audience. All I know is there is no way I can recreate the live sound which makes them what they are, so I don't really get it.
Roll forward a few years and Nostalgia, that expensive mistress, reared her head - perhaps, it was better than I thought - after all, I had bought Tank's Honour and Blood again and that was a blinder.
Well - Iron Fist the title track kicks things off in pummelling style - fast, loud and menacing, just like I remembered it. So, so far so good. But after ploughing through the whole album a couple of things were patently clear; the cover was still great, the four tracks I had recorded were the pick of the bunch and listening to Motorhead on a cleaned up disc on an expensive system doesn't necessarily add to the whole experience. Most songs don't seem to go anywhere and fizzle out sooner than you'd expect and annoyingly the guitar is way down in the mix which makes the songs a bit lacklustre, particularly when compared to its older brother; Ace of Spades. The four best songs are undoubtedly the caustic title track, the rolling `Don't Need Religion' (hear, hear) with its riff that Bad News would have been proud of, 'America' and the fabulous `Don't let the...grind ya Down'. So not bad but not great - Now I just need to find that cassette and play it on my old cassette deck...
In terms of the live album -well it's Motorhead, and its live -as with their other available live recordings it never deviates from the script and Lemmy doesn't really engage particularly with the audience. All I know is there is no way I can recreate the live sound which makes them what they are, so I don't really get it.
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In 1982 motorhead released 'Iron Fist' to which many people was expecting this to be 'Ace of spades 2' however it wasnt to be. I personally think it isnt a bad album, the problem with the album in my opinion is the fact that several songs dont sound complete shuch as:'Im the doctor' 'go to hell' 'loser'. All in all its a fair album but thats all it is.
Format:Audio CD
I enjoyed listening to this album again (haven't heard it for since swapping over from vinyl to mp3).
It is a shame that Fast Eddie left after this album because what followed from Motorhead or Fast Way
never seemed as good. I felt that Motorhead had found a direction over the various albums that they
had produced and the next couple of albums with Fast Eddie, Lemmy and Filthy Phil would have been
even better.
Colin
It is a shame that Fast Eddie left after this album because what followed from Motorhead or Fast Way
never seemed as good. I felt that Motorhead had found a direction over the various albums that they
had produced and the next couple of albums with Fast Eddie, Lemmy and Filthy Phil would have been
even better.
Colin
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