1916 (album)

March 2021 November 2012 1916 Album Motörhead Motörhead - 1916 (1991).jpg 21 January 1991New albums Music Week 26 January 1991 1990 Heavy metal 39 28 WTG Peter Solley, Ed Stasium Nö Sleep at All 1988 March ör Die 1992 1916 studio The One to Sing the Blues 24 December 1990 1916 is the ninth studio album by British rock band Motörhead, released in January 1991.https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/569/mode/2up The Great Rock Discography 1995 569 9780862415419 Strong Martin Charles It was their first on WTG Records. The single "The One to Sing the Blues" peaked at number 45. The album was the final Motörhead album to feature Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor on drums in its entirety. Background In 1990, Motörhead frontman Lemmy moved from England to the U.S., settling in West Hollywood within walking distance of the Rainbow Bar and Grill. With Phil Carson managing the band, the sessions for what would become the album 1916 began with Ed Stasium, best known for producing the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Living Colour. The band recorded four songs with the producer before deciding he had to go. When Lemmy listened to a mix of "Going to Brazil", he asked him to turn up four tracks, and on doing so heard claves and tambourines Stasium had added without the band's knowledge. Stasium was fired and Peter Solley hired as producer.Kilmister, Ian Fraser and Garza, Janiss White Line Fever (2002) — Simon & Schuster pp. 227–228 0-684-85868-1. Recording 1916 was Motörhead's first studio album in nearly four years, and their first release on WTG after a legal battle with GWR Records was resolved. Some of its songs – including "The One to Sing the Blues", "I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)", "No Voices in the Sky", "Going to Brazil" and "Shut You Down" – were originally performed on Motörhead's 1989 and 1990 tours.http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/motorhead-33d68059.html?song=I%27m+So+Bad+%28Baby+I+Don%27t+Care%29 I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care) by Motörhead 22 August 2012 13 July 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150713122338/http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/motorhead-33d68059.html?song=I%27m+So+Bad+%28Baby+I+Don%27t+Care%29 livehttp://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/motorhead-33d68059.html?song=Going+to+Brazil Going to Brazil by Motörhead 22 August 2012 23 August 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120823032157/http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/motorhead-33d68059.html?song=Going+to+Brazil livehttp://www.setlist.fm/setlist/motorhead/1990/hollywood-palladium-hollywood-ca-4bd4bfb6.html Motörhead Concert Setlist at Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood on November 9, 1990 setlist.fm 22 August 2012 10 July 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150710175340/http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/motorhead/1990/hollywood-palladium-hollywood-ca-4bd4bfb6.html live The title track – an uncharacteristically slow ballad in which Lemmy's singing is only lightly accompanied – is a tribute to, and reflection on, young soldiers who fell in battle during World War I. In his 2002 memoir, Lemmy reveals that the song was inspired by the Battle of the Somme: Nightmare/The Dreamtime' and '1916' both relied heavily on keyboards, which was very different for Motörhead – or any heavy band in 1990. I wrote the words before the music. It's about the Battle of the Somme in World War I...Nineteen thousand Englishmen were killed before noon, a whole generation destroyed, in three hours – think about that! It was terrible – there were three or four towns in northern Lancashire and south Yorkshire where that whole generation of men were completely wiped out." Although songs like the ballad "Love Me Forever" and "Angel City" (which includes a saxophone) were stylistic departures for the band, the album still contained Motörhead's ear-splitting brand of rock 'n' roll, including "I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)" and "R.A.M.O.N.E.S", a tribute to punk band the Ramones, by whom it was covered. In the 2002 book Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones, Everett True quotes singer Joey Ramone as saying: "It was the ultimate honour – like John Lennon wrote a song for you." In the album's liner notes, the band says: "To the people we left behind – we didn't want to leave ya, but we really had to go! This album is the better for it. Stale and on a treadmill in our career, a change was needed. We decided a change of locale was an idea to try, and we think its done us good musicially, and attitude wise (which is even worse)." The absence of French, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Portuguese flags from the album artwork was explained as an unintentional oversight. "Love Me Forever" was later covered by Doro Pesch, and Beyond the Black. The Yugoslavian release of the album on ZKP-RTVL was the final record to be released in Slovenia prior to its independence and the renaming of the label to ZKP-RTVS.https://www.discogs.com/Mot%C3%B6rhead-1916/release/5316739 Motörhead - 1916 Discogs 31 December 2019 25 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201125061417/https://www.discogs.com/Mot%C3%B6rhead-1916/release/5316739 live Critical reception AllMusic 3 5https://www.allmusic.com/album/1916-mw0000314148 Motörhead - 1916 review Henderson Alex AllMusic All Media Network 2022-08-05 5 August 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220805111015/https://www.allmusic.com/album/1916-mw0000314148 live Classic Rock (reissue review) 9/10Kris Needs Kris Needs The Hard Stuff: Reissues Classic Rock 197 June 2014 95 Robert Christgau A−http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=969&name=Motorhead Robert Christgau: CG: Motorhead 23 November 2014 10 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210410204804/http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=969&name=Motorhead live Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 Popoff Martin Martin Popoff The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties Collector's Guide Publishing August 1, 2007 Burlington, Ontario, Canada 295 978-1-894959-62-9 Entertainment Weekly A+https://ew.com/article/1991/03/08/1916/ 1916 Garza Janiss Entertainment Weekly 8 March 1991 2022-08-05 5 August 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220805111004/https://ew.com/article/1991/03/08/1916/ live Kerrang! 5 5War(t) this way Kerrang! 19 January 1991 Kaye Don 324 22 0262-6624 https://issuu.com/obarnes/docs/kerrang_324 2022-08-05 5 August 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220805111004/https://issuu.com/obarnes/docs/kerrang_324 live Q 4 5Motörhead - 1916 Q March 1991 54 Rolling Stone 3.5 5Motörhead - 1916 Rolling Stone 21 March 1991 600 Select 4 5Select Life's a Riot Perry Neil 77 March 1991 The LP received mostly positive reviews from contemporary critics. Robert Christgau rated it an A−, calling it "sonically retrograde and philosophically advanced." Rolling Stone remarked how the album "..manages to mingle ruthlessness and listenability like never before... creating a new threshold of sharpness for the genre. Fortunately, the crisper approach only makes the cruelty of the group's playing more pronounced." Q also praised the album and wrote that "at 45 the godfather of thrash metal still won't give the old folks a break...Motorhead's ninth studio album is a mad morass of noise, the turbocharged twin guitars of Wurzel and Campbell adding a modern machine sheen to the more primeval approach of Lemmy's shot-blasted vocals." Select reviewer called 1916 "the most cohesive and downright ferocious record to appear under the Motorhead banner since the timeless blast of 'Ace of Spades' in 1980... Motorhead badly needed an album like this, but no one could have guessed they'd do it so convincingly." In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Alex Henderson wrote that "the band's sound hadn't changed much, and time hadn't made its sledgehammer approach any less appealing... whether the subject matter is humorously fun or more serious, Motörhead is as inspired as ever on 1916." Reviewing a reissue on the Hear No Evil label,discogs.com/Motörhead-1916/release/6242179 Kris Needs wrote in Classic Rock: "One of their most well-rounded sets, this memorabilia-stacked reissue comes with two non-album belters, 'Eagle Rock' and runaway hell train 'Dead Man's Hand'." In the Motörhead documentary The Guts and the Glory, Lemmy stated: "That was really the renaissance album for Motörhead, 1916... It got great reviews, which [its predecessor] Rock 'n' Roll didn't." The album was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 1992 Grammys, but lost to Metallica's Metallica (The Black Album), released approximately six months after 1916. Track listing Ian Kilmister, Michael Burston, Phil Campbell and Phil Taylor except "Angel City" and "1916," written solely by Kilmister. The One to Sing the Blues 3:08 I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care) 3:14 No Voices in the Sky 4:12 Going to Brazil 2:31 Nightmare / The Dreamtime 4:42 Love Me Forever 5:28 Angel City 3:57 Make My Day 4:25 Ramones 1:26 Shut You Down 2:42 1916 3:48 39:28 Original release Castle Communications 1996 reissue bonus tracks Eagle Rock 3:11 Dead Man's Hand 3:31 46:15 Personnel Per the album's liner notes.1916, Motörhead, Sony Music Entertainment Inc., 1991 liner notes, page 1, 2 and rear Lemmy – lead vocals, bass Phil "Wizzö" Campbell – guitar Michael "Würzel" Burston – guitar Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor – drums James Hoskins – cello on "1916" Production Peter Solley – producer, mixing Ed Stasium – producer ("No Voices in the Sky", "Going To Brazil" and "Love Me Forever") Casey McMackin – engineer Paul Hemingson – engineer ("No Voices in the Sky", "Going To Brazil" and "Love Me Forever") Steve Hall – mastering Graig Nelson – album cover Toni Hanzon – album cover Joe Petagno – Snaggletooth Charts Chart (1991) Peakposition Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)Kent David David Kent (historian) Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 illustrated Australian Chart Book St Ives, N.S.W. 1993 0-646-11917-6 95 Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)Pennanen Timo Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 1st Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava Helsinki 2006 978-951-1-21053-5 fi 11Germany 14 1178 Motörhead 1916 true November 8, 2023Sweden 23 Motörhead 1916 true November 8, 2023Switzerland 24 Motörhead 1916 true November 8, 2023UK2 24 19910127 true November 8, 2023Billboard200 142 Motorhead Billboard 200 true November 8, 2023 References External links Motörhead official website Category:1991 albums Category:Motörhead albums Category:Albums produced by Ed Stasium Category:Epic Records albums