How Motörhead & "Ace of Spades" United The Punks & Metalheads | New British Canon

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You don't have to be a punk or a metalhead to love "Ace of Spades" - you just have to have a soul.

"I sang 'the eight of spades' for two years and nobody noticed." - Lemmy This is hilarious. What an absolute legend!

I'm an old punk rocker (61) from Houston TX and I first heard of Motorhead in '81 when our local punk radio show played Ace of Spades. Needles to say, I was stunned. So that very week, I bought No Sleep til Hammersmith. Thanks Lemmy, for all the years of great rock n roll. You showed us how it's done

For me, "The Chase Is Better Than The Catch" is THE Motörhead song that showed me how fucking brilliant the songwriting was, by far, my favorite

I think a common question when writing songs for Motorhead had been: "Could this be the soundtrack for a barfight?"

Will always remember Ace of Spades playing on The Young Ones when it was first shown as a kid. It fit perfectly to the anarchic punk like show!! RIP Lemmy and Rik Mayall.

I love the fact they were so loud they posed a structural danger to the building they were playing in. Makes me think of Disaster Area from Hitch Hiker's. Motorhead were awesome, not my favourite band by a long shot but just awesome. And they were great live, even late in their career when I saw them, probably my third most-seen live band, after The Orb and The Prodigy.

6:12 imagine you’re in a band, one of your members leaves, steals a bunch of your gear, then you ask them to support you on tour, genius move from hawkwind

Other later bands of the 80s and early 90s made punk and metal collide, but Motörhead and AC/DC did it first, yet they both described their music simply as "rock n' roll". Both absolute legends on vinyl and on stage.

Probably should have been mentioned among his influences, Lemmy was a massive Beatles fan, a collector.

The best thing about Motorhead is that they never became a "has been" band. Some of their best albums were the later ones, INFERNO being easily my favourite work from them.

Huzzah, i once saw Motorhead perform at a Halloween event in Nashville, Tennessee. (1999) The crowd assembled kept shouting "Ace of Spades!" And the band never let down their fans played it for them. Going so far as to play it five times in a row,, you could feel the power,, like something was going to be summoned from the abyss. I'd never seen anything like that before OR since. Bless you Lemmy,, bless you!

RIP Lemmy Kilmister. He kept it real AF in interviews, nobody talks to the press like that anymore.

In 2005 I went to see one of my then favourite bands, Motley Crue. They were being supported by Motörhead who I had only heard of, but didn't know. When I walked into the arena, Motörhead had just started playing and it was an experience like no other. I thought I was walking into hell itself. Long story short, in only a 45 minute set, with a third of the amps, and none of the pyro, strippers, midgets or extravagant circus acts of Motley Crue, they absolutely blew Motley Crue out of the water and opened my mind up to a whole new side of rock music that I had never touched before. Lemmy was 60, playing songs I'd never heard before and it was insane. I saw them 2 more times. So glad I did.

Ace of Spades, to me is the best rock song of all time. No matter how many times I hear it played, it always sets off an adrenaline rush.

Motorhead and Johnny cash are probably the only two band/artists that i know of that were able to transcend their respective genres in the ways that they did and have the impact on so many different artists as they did.

As a teen in 80s America into both hardcore and thrash metal, I noticed that any given punk rocker was more likely to be a Motorhead fan than a metalhead was. At one record store customers moved Motorhead's LPs from the metal section to the hardcore section. I can't imagine extreme metal or crust punk without Motorhead. At the very least, these genres would be very different. My favorite songs are Steal Your Face and Dancing On Your Grave.

Lemmy is the only rockstar I personally cried about when I found out he passed away in dec 2015. He inspired me to play the bass, I picked up a 40$ Ibanez 240 from a flea market and practiced off of his albums. I had a huge missed Opportunity to meet Lemmy in person through a mutual friend while he was playing at the jones beach theater. One of my dads friends became the CEO of Windup records on Long Island, he was recording a band called crowbot at the time, an upcoming concert at jones beach had crowbot opening up for motorhead, and my dad had to make 1 phone call. But I only found out about the concert after it happened. I just thought to myself at the time we’ll catch him next time he’s in town. Then he passed away later that year and I cried like a little bitch, this guy was my idol, he seemed indestructible like nothing would stop him from touring and playing loud.

Motörhead a pillar of metal. Inspiration to countless bands.