Une compilation de leurs reprises, déjà connues sauf pour celle de David Bowie apparemment, sort en septembre :
One thing Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee liked to do over their years together in Motörhead, was grab a favourite song by another artist and give it a good old fashioned "Motörheading". To run them through the Motörizer if you will. To rock them, roll them and even give them an extra twist and edge. In celebration of some of those finest moments, the band will release a collection of some of their best covers, called Under Cöver, this September via Silver Linings Music/Motörhead Music, as you can watch in the trailer below.
The collection will include the previously unreleased version of David Bowie's timeless classic "Heroes". It was recorded during the Bad Magic sessions in 2015 by Cameron Webb, and was one of the last songs the band recorded together.
"It's such a great Bowie song, one of his best, and I could only see great things coming out of it from us, and so it proved to be," says Phil Campbell, "and Lemmy ended up loving our version." Mikkey Dee comments: "He was very, very proud of it, not only because it turned out so well but because it was fun! Which is what projects like this should be - fun!"
To that ethic, the rest of the album contains loud and proud, raucous and raging rock 'n' roll takes on the likes of "God Save The Queen" (Sex Pistols), "Cat Scratch Fever" (Ted Nugent), "Rockaway Beach," (The Ramones), Breaking The Law" (Judas Priest) and "Whiplash" (Metallica), which earned the band a Grammy in 2005 for Best Metal Performance.
"We were happy with them at the time and we're happy with them now!" affirms Campbell, whilst Dee says, "We should remember that it's about having some fun with songs that we all loved."
Tracklist:
01. Breaking The Law (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2008
02. God Save The Queen (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2000
03. Heroes (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015
04. Starstruck (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2014
05. Cat Scratch Fever (Produced by Peter Solley) 1992
06. Jumpin' Jack Flash (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001
07. Sympathy For The Devil (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015
08. Hellraiser (Produced by Billy Sherwood) 1992
09. Rockaway Beach (Mixed by Cameron Webb) 2002
10. Shoot 'Em Down (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001
11. Whiplash (Produced by Bruce Bouillet and Bob Kulick) 2005
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
Sur ce nouvel album compilant les reprises, est-ce que ce sont vraiment tous des morceaux joués par MOTORHEAD ? ou seulement chantés par Lemmy, accompagné de guests ?
Et dommage qu'il manque l'excellente version du classique blues "Hoochie Coochie Man", face B de 1983.
Mikkey Dee est fier de cette sortie et affirme que c'était une volonté du groupe de son vivant.
Drummer Mikkey Dee is very proud of the upcoming Motörhead collection, Under Cöver, and thinks fans will enjoy it, especially because the album was meant to be. Speaking to Billboard from his home in Sweden, he says, “We usually released an album pretty much every other year. Many, many moons ago, we were sitting around a table and talking about how it would be fun to make a covers record. Lemmy would choose four songs, [guitarist] Phil [Campbell] would choose four songs and I would choose four songs. Just songs that everybody liked over the years, but we never went into the studio to make a complete covers album.”
Dee adds, “We have done some great cover songs over all the years. We gathered all the stuff we’d done and said, ‘Let’s just put ’em all on one record and give the fans a cool booklet with some history.’ We’d done a few more things, but this collection was perfect, I thought.”
Asked if Motörhead has more unreleased material that might see the light of day, Dee is confident that it will. “There is some stuff around, but I don’t know exactly what. I know we have a lot of live [material], but there’s nothing in the plans as of now and we haven’t talked about it, but I’m sure there is plenty, both video and audio.”
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
Ce que Dee raconte, c'est que le groupe avait envie de faire un album de reprises. Pas une compil de leur vieilles reprises !
Ils profitent donc de l'existence de l'inédit "Heroes" pour nous refourguer cette merde !! Lemmy detestait toute ces compils qui pourrissait la disco du groupe (et sur lesquels il n'avait aucun droit). Cela m'étonnerait fortement qu'il aurait approuvé une compil aussi insignifiante.
