All The Aces: The Best Of Motorhead CD

Contains five previously released albums NO SLEEP 'TIL HAMMERSMITH, ACE OF SPADES, BOMBER, OVERKILL, and MOTORHEAD plus a CD called MELTDOWN, which contains rare studio and live tracks.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Motorhead includes: Lemmy Kilmeister (vocals, bass).
All track have been digitally remastered.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Death, taxes, and Motörhead's seemingly indestructible Lemmy are some of life's only certainties, but almost as guaranteed are those yearly releases of mostly redundant "greatest-hits" sets mining the extensive catalog of these English metal legends. Famously abused over past decades due to early contractual blunders, this catalog has actually been given some measure of order -- and respect -- since it was corralled by Sanctuary in the early '00s; but that's hardly stopped them from keeping on with this questionable practice or reissues and re-packagings. 2007's Best of Motörhead: Deaf Forever represents an unfortunate relapse into such bad behavior, as its 20 tracks -- whilst uniformly fantastic by most any heavy metal definition -- in no way constitute a definitive collection of most popular Motörhead songs. The obligatory "Ace of Spades" leads off an initial parade of career essentials like "Bomber," "Iron Fist," and "Overkill," but these soon give way to a more nebulous sequence of would-be best-of candidates ("No Class," "Speed Freak," "The Chase Is Better Than the Catch," etc.), forgotten album tracks ("I'm the Doctor," "America," "All the Aces") and hard-to-find B-sides and oddities ("Dirty Love," "Lemmy Goes to the Pub"), which certainly have their place elsewhere, but not on a one-disc grouping such as this. Even so, first time Motörhead explorers could do a lot worse than Best of Motörhead: Deaf Forever, and, ironically, it may actually turn out to be a very decent selection of songs, when compared to next year's edition, and the following, and the following...~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Oh, the irony of experiencing the rough-as-charcoal indie metal of the mighty Motörhead in the bright, clean, pristine DVD Audio format! Sadly, other than that little novelty, there's nothing particularly exciting about this Motörhead collection -- just one of seemingly hundreds flooding the market. A few bona fide metal classics like "Ace of Spades" and "Overkill" are sprinkled into a seemingly arbitrary selection of secondary favorites ("All the Aces," the Girlschool collaboration "Please Don't Touch"), and an unfeasibly large quantity of songs from 1982's Iron Fist (both inconsequential album cuts like "I'm the Doctor," "America," and "Bang to Rights" and the B-side "Lemmy Goes to the Pub"). ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Although it isn't as extensive as No Remorse, All the Aces: The Best of Motörhead does gather the best of the best of that collection, as well as the cream of the uneven, Bill Laswell-produced Orgasmatron (although the "Ace of Spades" remix that closes the original track listing could have been left off in favor of another, more necessary item). There's plenty of quality material from Motörhead's early-'80s heyday that didn't make the cut here, so it's better to think of All the Aces as a concise survey rather than a definitive encapsulation. But it is a very good concise survey. [In 1999, Castle reissued All the Aces with two live bonus tracks and a separate bonus disc titled "The Muggers Tapes," a live recording of a side project called the Muggers featuring Eddie Clarke, Phil Taylor, John "Speedy" Keen, and Billy Wrath. It's closer to heavy pub rock than metal, and it's designed to entice the Motörhead rarities collector who already has the material here; it pales in comparison to the power of the Motörhead songs, and non-collectors probably won't find it all that crucial.] ~ Steve Huey
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