MOTORHEAD Orgasmatron CD. 1992 Castle CLACD283. Check audio (whole album), videos + review video

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Motörhead Orgasmatron
Label: Castle Classics CLACD 283
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Genre: Heavy Metal

Tracklist:
1 Deaf Forever 4:26
2 Nothing Up My Sleeve 3:06
3 Ain’t My Crime 3:43
4 Claw 3:34
5 Mean Machine 2:59
6 Built For Speed 4:56
7 Ridin’ With The Driver 3:46
8 Doctor Rock 3:36
9 Orgasmatron 5:25

Producer, Engineer Bill Laswell, Jason Corsaro
Written By Kilmister/Burston/Campbell/Gill

Recorded in total confusion at Master Rock Studios, London.
Originally released on LP in 1986.

Barcode: 5017615628326
Matrix / Runout: CLACD283

Orgasmatron = Studio album by Motörhead
Released August 9, 1986
Recorded 1986
Master Rock Studios,
London, UK
Genre Heavy metal, speed metal
Length 35:36

Orgasmatron is the seventh album by the British band Motörhead, released in 1986. It is the only full Motörhead album to feature Pete Gill on the drums, although he also played on the four new tracks recorded for the 1984 No Remorse compilation album.

The albums working title was Ridin’ with the Driver and later changed to Orgasmatron, it was too late for Joe Petagno to change the cover art and the train design was used.
It features some of Motörhead’s heaviest songs (“Orgasmatron” and “Deaf Forever”) and it is the album (along with No Remorse) that got Motörhead back on track after the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful 1983 album Another Perfect Day. The album reached number 21 in the UK charts

As well as alluding to the original name of the album, Joe Petagno also commented on the concept behind the album cover:
[Lemmy] was living on a houseboat then, and collecting train models. He said, “You know, Joseph, I want a fucking train.” It seemed weird to me… [laughs] but, yet again it worked.
The preliminary sketch had the Orgasmatron train going in the opposite direction, but Petagno “decided to turn it so it was going out of the picture rather than coming into it.” It gave me a lot of trouble, because [of] trying to fit the head in front of the train with this cow scoop. But it worked in the end.

All tracks composed by Würzel, Phil Campbell, Pete Gill, Lemmy
Lemmy bass, vocals
Phil Campbell guitar
Würzel guitar
Pete Gill drums

ORGASMATRON is what I consider their last “truly great” album. I’m a huge fan of their past albums and I seriously doubted the band could top it. Granted, having 2 guitar players in a band that has been a trio forever would ultimately change the sound. It was nice to hear that the sound wasn’t dramatically altered, yet there are subtle changes that made ORGASMATRON sound fresh. “Deaf Forever” opens the album with a bang: a slow paced number that resonates with heaviness. “Nothing Up My Sleeve” is just classic, fast paced MOTORHEAD. The song slightly reminds me of “20, 000 feet”, a classic SAXON song. “Claw”,”Mean Machine” and “Riding With The Driver” are classic fast MOTORHEAD, while the title track shows a different sound, more akin to BLACK SABBATH. Its a slow, marching number that reeks of heaviness in a way the band hadn’t attempted before. It strays a bit from MOTORHEADs blues-based mayhem and veers directly into more traditional euro-metal.

Μετά και την κυκλοφορία της συλλογής “No remorse” και την πετυχημένη περιοδεία που επακολούθησε, ήταν φανερό ότι ο Lemmy και η εκάστοτε παρέα του έμπαιναν στη δεύτερη φάση της μπάντας. Με ένα νέο line up, αποτελούμενο από το αχτύπητο κιθαριστικό δίδυμο των Campbell/Wurzel και τον εξαιρετικό Pete Gill των SAXON πίσω από τα τύμπανα, καθώς και με μεταγραφή στη νεοϊδρυθείσα GWR, που προέκυψε από τις στάχτες της χρεωκοπημένης Bronze, οι MOTORHEAD έπρεπε να αποδείξουν ότι είχαν πολύ μέλλον ακόμα μπροστά τους. Και τα κατάφεραν μια χαρά. Ο Bill Laswell, ο διάσημος παραγωγός των φίλων τους RAMONES, τους προσέδωσε ένα νέο ηχητικό, σαφώς πιο μοντέρνο αέρα, μέσα από μια κρυστάλλινη παραγωγή και τα χέρια της μπάντας λύθηκαν και έβαλαν στα όργανα φωτιά. Εδώ θα συναντήσετε τρεις από τις πιο διαχρονικές συνθέσεις των MOTORHEAD, το χιλιοδιασκευασμένο ομώνυμο, τον εναρκτήριο “Deaf forever” και το “Nothing up my sleeve”, που το τιμούν μέχρι και σήμερα αρκετά τακτικά στις συναυλίες τους. Επίσης, εδώ υπάρχει το “Built for speed” που μεταμορφώθηκε σε “On the road” για χάρη των οπαδών τους, που τους τιμούν στις ζωντανές εμφανίσεις τους. Τις υπόλοιπες τραγουδάρες ας τις ανακαλύψετε εσείς οι λίγοι, που δεν έχετε ακούσει ακόμα ένα από τα σημαντικότερα άλμπουμ που κυκλοφόρησε η συμμορία του Lemmy. [Γιώργος Κόης]