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I'm just happy to see this album being *discussed* ! -- Another Perfect Day didn't come on my radar til about 5 years ago, and my impression of the album is that Lemmy tried to combine his trademark aesthetic with tight songwriting: he wanted catchy pop songs without compromising Motörhead's DNA, and they totally succeeded imo. EDIT: who cares if no track from APD end up on compilations: this one is strictly for the heads! and who buys a fkn compilation anyway?! I'm w Martin on this one, as is any serious Motörhead aficionado.
To me there’s a few too many metropolis style tracks on there for me but jeez when this albums on its fukkin ON ! Funny farm, rock it ,tales of glory , i got mine Dancing on your grave are absolute monsters
Another Perfect Day has always been my favorite album. I made that decision years ago when I went through the discography up to that point (late 90s) blind to reviews. I was rather surprised to find out that the album isn’t well regarded by Motörhead fans cause… I think it’s awesome.
Big Thin Lizzy fan when I was young kid back in 1980 found out about Motorhead and when Another perfect day came out Robbo joined Motorhead I had to get it never disappointed me Great Album ♠️♠️♠️🤘🤘
Probably the best contrarian choice yet. Perfect album! Not just my favorite Motörhead but one of my favorites by anyone ever. Robbo gives possibly my favorite guitar performance on an album too. Just the perfect mix of beautiful melody and heaviness.
This is my favorite Motorhead album and Brian Robertson adds some kick ass guitar work on this unfairly dismissed album dancing on your grave, back to the funny farm and the seriously underrated I got mine are classic Motorhead with a nice tough melodic touch
I revisited all the Motörhead stuff up to Sacrifice and this came only second to Overkill in my estimation. Maybe only because of familiarity I also prefer the slower bluesy songs on this album. I’ve got two dozen other albums for the aggressive fast tracks, the title track and One Track Mind is where Robbo really shines. So many layers of guitars, solos coming in out even some affects and an atmosphere to the record. In another life maybe Robbo could’ve made some Shoegaze. The fast songs don’t hit me the same as the Eddie tracks. Also I love the debut, it’s punky, it’s got so many of their best songs and it’s got a unique sound unlike their later albums. Maybe it’s the Hawkwind fan in me but its a favourite. Of the later stuff I might put Bastards, Sacrifice, Inferno and 1916 over 2/3 fast Eddie albums.
I absolutely love this album. I bought it on vinyl when it came out. It sometimes is my favourite and never leaves my top 5. Perhaps this is the contrarian in me but I'm really into what I call bands going against the grain. By that I mean bands not doing what's expected of them,like say Tank's Power of the hunter album is my favourite because it doesn't have a typical "heavy" production. In the case of Motorhead it's choosing a guy like Brian Robertson to come in and it shouldn't work but it does and the differences he brings only make things more interesting. I just love that whole concept. Great episode,Marco and Martin. By the way,Martin,speaking of Tank,how about a ranking of their albums with Mr.Pardo? Excluding the non-Algy Ward ones of course! That's like Black Sabbath without Iommi or.....Motorhead without Lemmy!
1:20 Maybe that works for Priest and Sad Wings of Destiny too...that could be an interesting topic to have its own video, bands that 'started' with their sophomore album, besides Motörhead and Priest. Sleep, Carcass or Motley Crüe perhaps? not sure about Kyuss or Megadeth.
I'm kinda ''so-so'' for Another Perfect Day, like you say Martin, i love the later stuff from Motorhead, my top 3 favorite albums are 3- Overnight Sensation 2- Motorizer 1- Inferno.
Great to see some love for Motorize and Inferno! I personally prefer "We Are Motorhead" to Overnight Sensation, but I dig all of the Phil Campbell albums.
Yes, fantastic album! I'm a huge fan of Thin Lizzy and "Robbo", love what he brings to this record. I never really got the title though; "Another Perfect Day". Seems an odd title for a Motorhead album - putting me to mind of Lou Reed more than Lemmy. Very different title to "Overkill", "Bomber", "Iron Fist", and "Ace of Spades".
Hi guys! Cool show again!😎👍 I'm so happy, Martin, you picked this album! I'm not a die-hard Motorhead fan but this one with Brian Robertson stands out with its great melodic riffs. Would probably be my no.1 too. Dancing On Your Grave and Shine are sooooo good rock songs! "Brian raises the sophistication level" - well said Martin!😀
Perfect timing again. I just went to the Rainbow Bar and Grill today for the first time, which was Lemmy’s home away from home. Hard to pick a favorite Motorhead album.
I always pictured Motörhead as a band that went into the studio for a few weeks, banged out an album, then went right back on the road. A lot of the songs blend together, and I never got into them (with the exception of Ace of spades) I just listened to this album yesterday (September 2024) and not being a Motörhead fan, I have to say this album is great! It’s as if Thin Lizzy and Motörhead had a baby. Melodic, hard, well written excellent songs. It may not be a Motörhead fanatics favorite album, but I think it’s great. It feels like there was some time taken to craft the songs, not just bang them out to get back on the road.
I agree that this is a very worthy catalog entry and the subtle changes brought by Robbo and Platt are welcome new wrinkles in the formula. (Going forward, it would be these occasional new features that would keep Motorhead from becoming stale). Robbo's tone on APD is gritty enough, but he does a bit of brighter arpeggio picked chord voicings (never part of Fast Eddie's vocabluary), and Platt puts a bit of studio sparkle on there, but otherwise we get proper Motor-esque 6 string grime. And the tunes are really inspired overall.
I've not really heard any Motorhead after Rock n Roll. The first Motorhead I had was a Castle Communication release that had paired Overkill with Another Perfect Day, so I played them to death. Overkill is my favourite album, but APD is a close second. No Remorse the post APD compilation has Shine and Dancing on your Grave. There are only 2 tracks from Bomber, 3 from Ace of Spades , 4 from Overkill , 2 from No Sleep and Iron Fist. The rest being single only tracks or new recordings.
I always loved Another Perfect Day. Bought it when it came out, played it over and over. But it did change the formula a bit. Ace Of Spades is the best because of its economy, its straightforward effectiveness. It makes the hardest, most compact impact with just one treacherous false pause: The Chase Is Better Than The Catch, treacherous because of its unrelenting tension and for leading to The Hammer. I never got to hear Rock'n'Roll but when I heard 1916, back in 1991, I passed - this was no longer the band I once loved. Then I got March Or Die and never heard anything passed that one.
Fantastic Pick! This has been my favorite Motorhead album since it's release. Better musicianship, better production, and great songs. I love all 10 songs on the original release. "I really like this jacket but the sleeves are much too long" is classic Lemmy! This was my first time seeing the band at a dumpy little club in Berkeley, CA. They were listed on the schedule board as the "Kingston Trio" and played from 12:30 - 2:00AM. An amazing show
Exactly! It's "polished" by Motörhead standards but rocks and is still pretty raw. Robbo definitely added something to the sound and brought out something in Lenny. I Got Mine remains a personal favorite.
I agree with a lot of Martin's points regarding the Motörhead catalog. I'd rank the debut as their worst for sure (I like March Or Die actually) and their 90s trio of Bastards/Sacrifice/Overnight Sensation is probably my favorite period from them. The years after that were their "difficult" years in my opinion, with three albums that were not very good (not bad either). Their last phase started gloriously with Inferno - man, what a heavy and focused monster of an album. After that it was more (Motörizer) or less (The World Is Yours) greatness up until the end. And Another Perfect Day is a great album, no doubt. Headless Cross, too, by the way :-)
While it’s not my favourite it is a good album. Always thought it would have been better if Turn You Round was on the original album though. It’s great. I think 1916 is one of their very best albums by the way. Maybe even my very favourite, I feel that that was their comeback album not Bastards, as that didn’t even chart in the US or the UK
Yeah, this one is my favorite too - along with Bastards. Motörhead never made a bad album. Had no clue the North American versions had a different track order, so I learned something new today. I probably got this album for the first time on CD in the early 2000’s and it was the U.K. - and I’m assuming band approved, order used.
I would say APD and Bastards are the best from the post-Eddie era, which is still my fave Motorhead period. Many of their later albums had an even more recognizable style, lacking the bluesy feel that Eddie added to the songs but I suppose they had to change and go heavier, had they not and stuck to their classic sound they may have ended as a band even before the '80s ended. This album though I remember wasn't well received by neither fans nor critics, it's only later on it gained a reputation. At the time I think it was considered too much of a departure musically, even too clean sounding and less gritty but even Saxon pretty much always sounded 'big' like this it just wasn't what Motorheadbangers expected from their band. "Rock It", though apparently not a single surprisingly, got quite a bit of airplay in Europe I recall. Maybe it was a case of radio simply flipping over the 3 song pre-release promo 'EP' featuring three songs; One Track Mind, I Got Mine and Rock It. The two first mentioned songs with mixes different to the album, listed on the sleeve as (believe it or not) AOR edits.
Martin, your dead on. My favorite , is this album. Actually. , time flew. LEMMY RIP 12-28-15. Almost 6️⃣ years. Many so called “ die- hards” dish this, I love it. To me , Brian Robertson doesn’t get proper credit. Marco/ MARTIN, as usual, great show. 👍💯
I guess thats not really a contrarian choice anymore as much as it was when it came up.. I remember everyone hating on this back then, but as years have passed i feel like ppl started to enjoy this great album. So yes, different but awesome.. the light thin lizzy influence absolutely worked😉👍
Gave a like to this video immediately. Definitely a contrarian choice but has long been my favorite Motoralbum as well. I owned this on the original vinyl format and was blown away from beginning to end. To hell with "Die You Bastard" being "a bit naff" as heard in recent documentaries. That song still blows me away every time. Brian Robertson was definitely "A bit musical" and it pays off here. I go back to this album often.
Agreed, totally under-rated, probably my second favorite album by them. Wish they had kept the lineup together for at least one more album, but from the sounds of things it was a nightmare from the jump having Robbo in the fold.
Another Perfect Day is absolutely a great one! The classic line up did their thing first and mlre than earned their legendary status but I really do believe that the band has many records that are as good as the classics or even better. Orgasmatron, 1916, Sacrifice, Inferno and Motörizer are the best of the later stuff for me. There are really good ones between or after these too but there is that something extra that works for me in this bunch. Just the right timing for the release might have something to do with it but I think that there's some certain quality in the songwriting there. A good mix of faster rockers, slower ones and the more experimental songs. Just the flow of the album or something. I don't have a perfect answer why but those are the ones I most often revisit. As for Sabbath's Headless Cross. I think there are more epic songwriting there and overall one of the greatest vocal performances of Tony Martin on a record. When Death Calls, Nightwing and the title track are just powerful, dark and heavy represent well how good the Martin era actually was. But then again it's almost impossible for me to choose between The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross and Tyr. I like them all a lot. The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that of the five records they did with TM Forbidden is without a doubt the worst.
Another perfect day just sounds like any other Motörhead album great it’s just has a cleaner sound and many of the later Motörhead albums just as good as classic era the 95 overnight sensation album rates as high for me the song civil war is one of my favourites
I don't know about about the Born Again comparison. Another perfect day has got lots of strong songs on it, that today are regarded as Motörhead classics (I Got Mine, Dancing On Your Grave, Back At The Funny Farm...). Born Again sounds like it was recorded in a drunken stupor. The first Motörhead album isn't one of the worst in the band's catalogue. Motorhead, Vibrator, Lost Johnny, Iron Horse, Keep Us On The Road, On Parole, all great stuff, I love that album, it's essential Motörhead to me. "Ace Of Spades" now? Are you out of your mind? Go through this album track by track and you have nine of my favourite Motorhead bangers of all time. And I am a Motorhead fan for 36 years now, I know all of their albums, and my favourite song is not Ace Of Spades. Dear god. That shocks me.
just received the anniversary edition of this fine release. love it... it is in my top 5 ever motorhead album list. not a shit song on it. all belters . killer album.
My top 2 Motorhead albums are No Sleep Til Hammersmith and Another Perfect Day. I had the original cassette and just bought a repress of APD and the song order is different.
I have not watched this ep. yet, but can easily concur with this very Contrarian choice without having done so! I simply loved B. Robertson's guitar work on this album, Tony Platt's nicely polished (for Motorhead) knob job behind the boards, and even the previously who'd of ever thunk it use of Fender Rhodes and piano on a couple of tracks!! Besides, as far as accusations of over-commercial and sell-out might have been at the time, nowhere near as refined as those Peter Solley-produced platters from the early nineties, or some of the Bill Laswell-handled tracks on "Orgasmatron." Yeah, I still have one of those crappy old original Polygram cassette versions of this album, in which by the end of each side there starts to be a real deterioration sound, and it's not even an overly long release!! P.S., '83 was a great if unintentional Contrarian year for Tony Platt, what with his fine engineering work on AC/DC's best B. Johnson-era album, "Flick Of The Switch". All opinions to the contrary are absolutely erroneous and infinitely incorrect!!!
@@thecontrarians2438 Postscript: Just finished watching, and congratulations on achieving the fiftieth episode in the regular series, great stuff, even though I still have a lot to catch up on! Also, I love how you always include lots of photos of the international cassette versions. Dead format to most sensible folks, but I will always have a soft spot for 'em, 'cause ninety-percent of my original collection was amassed in that highly-controversial format. Still paying ridiculous storage fees to 'house' both them and the majority of my CD collection due to inhospitable and squalid living conditions. Friendly tip to the younglings out there: Keep pilfering (lol!) and streaming your music; don't be a future Hoarders 'contestant' like yours truly inevitably will turn out to be...!!
@@averyteplitsky885 Thank you! The 50 kinda just creeped on us, we didnt even really notice! I love showing all kinds of versions, 8 track, international versions, singles, Cassettes, plus they're good because they arent copy protected, same with ads and stuff, originally we used a lot of photos martin had permission for from his books, occasionally i would just grab stuff off google but i realized that we should be careful about using other folk's material, so i try to stick with stuff i know is ok
This is easily my favourite Motorhead album, but then I approach it as a Brian Robertson fan rather than a Motorhead fan. I think it's a great guitar album with the added melodicism and layered arrangements transforming the band's template enough to make it a much more interesting prospect, as well as containing some great solos. Brian Robertson is possibly one of the biggest wasted talents in rock history. It's worth noting that when Robbo left Motorhead he took Phil Taylor with him, I think to work on a new project with Chris Glenn on bass. That may well have soured Lemmy's opinion of this period just a little. Lemmy was sufficiently impressed by Another Perfect Day to hire two guitar players for his next line-up of Motorhead, so something must have stuck. I have a signed copy of this album I picked up in the discount rack, as it was notably less successful than previous Motorhead albums in the UK.
No problems with Another Perfect Day being named as the best Motorhead record. It`s the best sounding Motorhead record of the whole discography and Robbo`s guitar work is otherworldly. (Check out the extended solo on One Track Mind ... amazing.) . I`d place this as a tie with Bomber and Ace of Spades on my scorecard as the best Mo`Head album.
I'm not sure it's their best (1916, IMO), but this one is killer - melancholy bad boy vibe (the rarest of rock emotions, see also Thunders, J. and Social Distortion) with amazing amazing guitar playing. Also agree that their golden era (Lemmy, Phil, Fast Eddie stuff) isn't as great as what they did later.
Love this album. And probably the last really great Motörhead album. I know they’ve done like 15 albums after this one. Lol. I quit after Overnite Sensation. So I can assertively say anything post APD to Overnite doesn’t compare.
What an amazing album! Not my fav, although not sure what my fav would be!?! Ace of Spades, Overkill, Another Perfect Day, Sacrifice,...??? Not sure... Cool show!
Great album. Underated as hell. Have liked it from day one. Remember buyed it back in 83 and everyone shittalked me,i said fuck of to all of them. The funny thing is mostly everyone of these smartasses think its a good album now..!
Motorheads one of them bands that really don't have a Bad album with my favorite being Iron Fist of the classic era and Sacrifice/Inferno in a tie for modern favs
This sounds like a dis, but I don't mean it that way. Motorhead more or less made the same album over and over, and how great the individual albums are depends on the strength of the songs, and how inspired the performances were. I don't see APD as much of a departure from the norm, really. I also would put it in the top half, even top 5 records they ever did.
Nice. My least favorite Albums are the first, "We are Motörhead" & "Hammered". I totally agree with Martin on the later stuff. "The Wörld is Yours" is one of my favorite Albums by Motörhead.
This might be the "most contrarian", contrarian opinion yet. APD is my favorite Motorhead album, and I think it's an album that alot of Motorhead fans have taken more of a liking to over the years. The RUclips rankings I've seen on the Motorhead discography usually has APD in the top half, if not the top 5. Even saw it #1 on one list. 👍
@@thecontrarians2438 you would be right. But some of Martin's contrarian choices are " very contrarian", where this one didn't come from way outta left field, lol.
I think fans would have forgiven Robbo for wearing shorts on tour if the band had played a few of the old songs. I think they simply played the whole new album, and only ‘The Chase is Better than the Catch’ from the previous albums. That’d test anyone’s patience! [edit] Just checked the set lists and I guess it wasn’t quite that bad, but it looks like they pretty much ditched the classic songs apart from Iron Horse/Born to Lose
Another perfect day is definitely one of the best Motörhead albums. slightly lower than Overkill Bomber and Ace of Spades but i think it deserves the 4th place
Another Perfect Day is a great album!... But not number one for me. I could consider it to my top three though and I think I'd choose Overkill as the best one. Nice show!!
I don’t have a problem with this choice. I think the problem with it does have is that it may start to move towards something a bit slightly polished and some people don’t want to hear or even think of Motörhead that way. Plus the loss of the “original” guitarist will always give some people the excuse the slam any album afterwards. Also I want to Echo Martin‘s comment about latter day Motörhead being really good. In fact my contrarian choice for best Motörhead album would probably be Inferno. That album is so heavy and then ends with the, dare I say, beautiful song Whorehouse Blues.
This album has come up on SOT a lot the last couple of years so, I gave it a shot. I actually like it. I would have skipped this video had you chosen any other album of theirs. I normally don't care for Motorhead that much beyond Ace Of Spades. I never quite got Lemmy's vocals. They would have been a cool band with a real singer. I know that's blasphemy in the Metal world but, there are a lot of Metal bands like that for me. I like melodic singers and avoid shouty "vocalists".
I can honestly say I never met a Motorhead album I didn't like. conversely, I love very few Motorhead LPs. if I had to choose one, I suppose I have to be predictable and go with Overkill. it's a sweet spot for me of raw and dirty and uncompromising-without being unlistenable. as for Another Perfect Day-maybe?_it's slick for Motorhead, but I don't think it's slick compared to any other metal band of the time. it's definitely not an album I'd skip in their catalogue. I also feel compelled to defend Rock 'n' Roll as the most genuinely humorous record by Motorhead. it might not be the best, but it's the funniest!
I bought Another Perfect Day when it came out. It was still almost the meanest stuff I knew. Yes, Metallica was in the pipeline but not yet on my turntable. Priest was tame in comparison. I have to say "almost" because the Stooges were head and shoulder over Motorhead. Fun House was the hardest record I had.
Yeah...for me Overkill/Bomber/Ace of Spades/Iron Fist are their top most classic albums, although I always have second thoughts about it, I have the impulse to include Another Perfect Day on that pack.
@@Morbidous Same here, although I do think as Martin suggests Ace of Spades taken song by song is a bit overrated, maybe if they'd left a couple of songs off I'd rate it higher.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Sometimes the most iconic or popular album doesn't mean the best one, I'm thinking in Sabbath - Paranoid or Priest - Brittish Steel, but with Ace of Spades I'm not so sure, for me at least is perfect, but I agree they have at least a couple more records with that level of..let's say perfection, that didn't get the recognition Ace of Spades got.
My ranked Motörhead catalogue. 1. We Are Motörhead 2. Bastards 3. Kiss of Death 4. Bomber 5. Snake Bite Love 6. Inferno 7. Ace Of Spades 8. Another Perfect Day 9. Orgasmatrom 10. Hammered 11. Iron Fist 12. 1916 13. The World is Yours 14. Overkill 15. Rock and Roll. 16. Sacrifice 17. Aftershock 18. Bad Majic 19. Overnight Sensation 20. March or Die 21. Motorizer 22. Motörhead The last three are the only albums I don't love.
Love this album and for me 'Rock It' has a wonderful coda. Here in the U.K,. from reviews i've read in later years, the album seems to have been reassessed as one of their best. I was present at one of their concerts with this line-up but the fans gave Brian Robertson a such a hard time which was a shame. Lemmy was not a happy bunny. Controversially i think Ace Of Spades is overrated although a very good Motorhead album there are many others, especially in the latter part of their career, which are superior to my mind. As a final point i wonder if the majority of real die hard fans would place Ace Of Spades at the apex of their career? Certainly commercially but musically?
Great pick! But is this really that contrarian? I guess back in the 80s the album‘s reception was much more negative but nowadays I have the impression it is appreciated by most fans and many (including me) consider it their favorite.
ya you're right, its not as tough of an argue as its perceived as a great record, but where i think Martin is Contrarian a bit is that Ace and Overkill are generally considered the two best, so this one is a slight contrarian pick, especially compared to some of our other shows
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Another Perfect Day is a great album
I'm just happy to see this album being *discussed* ! -- Another Perfect Day didn't come on my radar til about 5 years ago, and my impression of the album is that Lemmy tried to combine his trademark aesthetic with tight songwriting: he wanted catchy pop songs without compromising Motörhead's DNA, and they totally succeeded imo. EDIT: who cares if no track from APD end up on compilations: this one is strictly for the heads! and who buys a fkn compilation anyway?! I'm w Martin on this one, as is any serious Motörhead aficionado.
To me there’s a few too many metropolis style tracks on there for me but jeez when this albums on its fukkin ON ! Funny farm, rock it ,tales of glory , i got mine Dancing on your grave are absolute monsters
Another Perfect Day has always been my favorite album. I made that decision years ago when I went through the discography up to that point (late 90s) blind to reviews. I was rather surprised to find out that the album isn’t well regarded by Motörhead fans cause… I think it’s awesome.
Big Thin Lizzy fan when I was young kid back in 1980 found out about Motorhead and when Another perfect day came out Robbo joined Motorhead I had to get it never disappointed me Great Album ♠️♠️♠️🤘🤘
All my Motörhead friends LOVE Another Perfect Day.
I agree with martin on this one!
always loved Another Perfect Day, maybe because it kinda stands out from the others in a way.
Probably the best contrarian choice yet. Perfect album! Not just my favorite Motörhead but one of my favorites by anyone ever. Robbo gives possibly my favorite guitar performance on an album too. Just the perfect mix of beautiful melody and heaviness.
Depends on the day, but today this is my favorite Motörhead
album. To me it's an Every Songer! I could've handled another album with Brian.
One of all time favorite saw the tour 👍🤘Robbo kicks ass some of lemmys best lyrics
This is my favorite Motorhead album and Brian Robertson adds some kick ass guitar work on this unfairly dismissed album dancing on your grave, back to the funny farm and the seriously underrated I got mine are classic Motorhead with a nice tough melodic touch
Bought the album when it was released. I've always regarded it as a first rate record.
I revisited all the Motörhead stuff up to Sacrifice and this came only second to Overkill in my estimation. Maybe only because of familiarity
I also prefer the slower bluesy songs on this album. I’ve got two dozen other albums for the aggressive fast tracks, the title track and One Track Mind is where Robbo really shines. So many layers of guitars, solos coming in out even some affects and an atmosphere to the record. In another life maybe Robbo could’ve made some Shoegaze. The fast songs don’t hit me the same as the Eddie tracks.
Also I love the debut, it’s punky, it’s got so many of their best songs and it’s got a unique sound unlike their later albums. Maybe it’s the Hawkwind fan in me but its a favourite. Of the later stuff I might put Bastards, Sacrifice, Inferno and 1916 over 2/3 fast Eddie albums.
great point about the bluesy tracks!
The late era albums are criminally overlooked. Some classics there.
I have to say I agree with everything Martin said. Except for what he said about "1916". Love that one.
Then again, I also like "Headless Cross"
I was kind of shocked to hear that people didn't like that album cover. I love how colorful it is, and I bet it looked great on concert shirts.
One of the very best.
I love that "Shine" sounds like ZZ TOP crossed with THIN LIZZY played by MOTORHEAD
I am one of those that likes “1916”, I’m in my mid 50’s, so that wasn’t really my era of the band, but I still really like that album.
Agreed. Fantastic album.
I absolutely love this album. I bought it on vinyl when it came out. It sometimes is my favourite and never leaves my top 5. Perhaps this is the contrarian in me but I'm really into what I call bands going against the grain. By that I mean bands not doing what's expected of them,like say Tank's Power of the hunter album is my favourite because it doesn't have a typical "heavy" production. In the case of Motorhead it's choosing a guy like Brian Robertson to come in and it shouldn't work but it does and the differences he brings only make things more interesting. I just love that whole concept. Great episode,Marco and Martin. By the way,Martin,speaking of Tank,how about a ranking of their albums with Mr.Pardo? Excluding the non-Algy Ward ones of course! That's like Black Sabbath without Iommi or.....Motorhead without Lemmy!
P.S. What does "ropey" mean??!!
Thanks!! You'll have to ask Martin what "Ropey" means lol
1:20 Maybe that works for Priest and Sad Wings of Destiny too...that could be an interesting topic to have its own video, bands that 'started' with their sophomore album, besides Motörhead and Priest. Sleep, Carcass or Motley Crüe perhaps? not sure about Kyuss or Megadeth.
great suggestion!
It's been my favorite Motorhead album since it's release!
I'm kinda ''so-so'' for Another Perfect Day, like you say Martin, i love the later stuff from Motorhead, my top 3 favorite albums are 3- Overnight Sensation 2- Motorizer 1- Inferno.
Great to see some love for Motorize and Inferno! I personally prefer "We Are Motorhead" to Overnight Sensation, but I dig all of the Phil Campbell albums.
@@reedl2353 i agree We Are Motorhead is also a good album, i really really like the later stuff.
Yes, fantastic album! I'm a huge fan of Thin Lizzy and "Robbo", love what he brings to this record. I never really got the title though; "Another Perfect Day". Seems an odd title for a Motorhead album - putting me to mind of Lou Reed more than Lemmy. Very different title to "Overkill", "Bomber", "Iron Fist", and "Ace of Spades".
if you read the comic on the original vinyl sleeve you will understand the title "another perfect day"
@@franciskocher200 oh cool, I've never had the vinyl and didn't realise there was a comic. I'll check it out, thanks!
SEPULTURA , named themselves Dancing on your GRAVE( SEPULTURA “ is Grave in PORTUGUESE .
June 30 1983, my first concert Motorhead + Anvil. Still love this album to death.
Martin's shirt reminds me that Sepultura is where Max made his best albums. :-)
Hi guys! Cool show again!😎👍 I'm so happy, Martin, you picked this album! I'm not a die-hard Motorhead fan but this one with Brian Robertson stands out with its great melodic riffs. Would probably be my no.1 too. Dancing On Your Grave and Shine are sooooo good rock songs!
"Brian raises the sophistication level" - well said Martin!😀
Thanks very much for the comment!
Perfect timing again. I just went to the Rainbow Bar and Grill today for the first time, which was Lemmy’s home away from home. Hard to pick a favorite Motorhead album.
I always pictured Motörhead as a band that went into the studio for a few weeks, banged out an album, then went right back on the road. A lot of the songs blend together, and I never got into them (with the exception of Ace of spades) I just listened to this album yesterday (September 2024) and not being a Motörhead fan, I have to say this album is great! It’s as if Thin Lizzy and Motörhead had a baby. Melodic, hard, well written excellent songs. It may not be a Motörhead fanatics favorite album, but I think it’s great. It feels like there was some time taken to craft the songs, not just bang them out to get back on the road.
Yes, 1916 is a Rock and Roll Rager!
My favourite Motorhead album
Am glad that people have finally warmed up to it.
It is simply superb from start to finish!
Saw them on that tour. Very good indeed.
That band pic on the Ace of Spades tour poster shown in the video is actually much cooler than the Ace of Spades album cover. 😁
ya i noticed the variations on the tour poster too!
Couldn't agree more, love this album. Also love some of the albums he showed, Overnigt Senation has a little warm and cozy place in my heart.
I agree that this is a very worthy catalog entry and the subtle changes brought by Robbo and Platt are welcome new wrinkles in the formula. (Going forward, it would be these occasional new features that would keep Motorhead from becoming stale). Robbo's tone on APD is gritty enough, but he does a bit of brighter arpeggio picked chord voicings (never part of Fast Eddie's vocabluary), and Platt puts a bit of studio sparkle on there, but otherwise we get proper Motor-esque 6 string grime. And the tunes are really inspired overall.
I've not really heard any Motorhead after Rock n Roll. The first Motorhead I had was a Castle Communication release that had paired Overkill with Another Perfect Day, so I played them to death. Overkill is my favourite album, but APD is a close second.
No Remorse the post APD compilation has Shine and Dancing on your Grave. There are only 2 tracks from Bomber, 3 from Ace of Spades , 4 from Overkill , 2 from No Sleep and Iron Fist. The rest being single only tracks or new recordings.
It’s my favorite Motörhead album, without a doubt. It’s amazing from front-to-back. Raw, aggressive and actually progressive.
I always loved Another Perfect Day. Bought it when it came out, played it over and over. But it did change the formula a bit. Ace Of Spades is the best because of its economy, its straightforward effectiveness. It makes the hardest, most compact impact with just one treacherous false pause: The Chase Is Better Than The Catch, treacherous because of its unrelenting tension and for leading to The Hammer.
I never got to hear Rock'n'Roll but when I heard 1916, back in 1991, I passed - this was no longer the band I once loved. Then I got March Or Die and never heard anything passed that one.
Fantastic Pick! This has been my favorite Motorhead album since it's release. Better musicianship, better production, and great songs. I love all 10 songs on the original release. "I really like this jacket but the sleeves are much too long" is classic Lemmy! This was my first time seeing the band at a dumpy little club in Berkeley, CA. They were listed on the schedule board as the "Kingston Trio" and played from 12:30 - 2:00AM. An amazing show
Exactly! It's "polished" by Motörhead standards but rocks and is still pretty raw. Robbo definitely added something to the sound and brought out something in Lenny. I Got Mine remains a personal favorite.
I agree with a lot of Martin's points regarding the Motörhead catalog. I'd rank the debut as their worst for sure (I like March Or Die actually) and their 90s trio of Bastards/Sacrifice/Overnight Sensation is probably my favorite period from them. The years after that were their "difficult" years in my opinion, with three albums that were not very good (not bad either). Their last phase started gloriously with Inferno - man, what a heavy and focused monster of an album. After that it was more (Motörizer) or less (The World Is Yours) greatness up until the end.
And Another Perfect Day is a great album, no doubt. Headless Cross, too, by the way :-)
While it’s not my favourite it is a good album. Always thought it would have been better if Turn You Round was on the original album though. It’s great. I think 1916 is one of their very best albums by the way. Maybe even my very favourite, I feel that that was their comeback album not Bastards, as that didn’t even chart in the US or the UK
I’ve been listening to this album for the last two years, really great one. I got mine and Another perfect day are my favorite songs.
Before it came out we hoped for Motor-Lizzy. It’s not, but it is a more melodic Motörhead. My favourite is still Bomber, but it’s a good album.
I'm not a big fan of Motorhead but I've heard APD a few times on RUclips. I like it a lot.
Yeah, this one is my favorite too - along with Bastards. Motörhead never made a bad album.
Had no clue the North American versions had a different track order, so I learned something new today. I probably got this album for the first time on CD in the early 2000’s and it was the U.K. - and I’m assuming band approved, order used.
Martin, 1916 is a bangin' album! 🤘
"Another Perfect Day" is a great Contrarians pick or something such as "Bastards", "Sacrifice" or "The World Is Yours" as possible selections.
Thank you so much Martin 🙂 Bomber is my favorite Motorhead album and Another Perfect Day number 2 Overkill number 3
I would say APD and Bastards are the best from the post-Eddie era, which is still my fave Motorhead period. Many of their later albums had an even more recognizable style, lacking the bluesy feel that Eddie added to the songs but I suppose they had to change and go heavier, had they not and stuck to their classic sound they may have ended as a band even before the '80s ended. This album though I remember wasn't well received by neither fans nor critics, it's only later on it gained a reputation.
At the time I think it was considered too much of a departure musically, even too clean sounding and less gritty but even Saxon pretty much always sounded 'big' like this it just wasn't what Motorheadbangers expected from their band. "Rock It", though apparently not a single surprisingly, got quite a bit of airplay in Europe I recall. Maybe it was a case of radio simply flipping over the 3 song pre-release promo 'EP' featuring three songs; One Track Mind, I Got Mine and Rock It. The two first mentioned songs with mixes different to the album, listed on the sleeve as (believe it or not) AOR edits.
good points thanks for the comment!
I'm not the biggest Motorhead fan, but I love Ace of Spades and Another Perfect Day.
Martin, your dead on. My favorite , is this album. Actually. , time flew. LEMMY RIP 12-28-15. Almost 6️⃣ years. Many so called “ die- hards” dish this, I love it. To me , Brian Robertson doesn’t get proper credit. Marco/ MARTIN, as usual, great show. 👍💯
Thanks Gary!~ We appreciate your comments!!!
I guess thats not really a contrarian choice anymore as much as it was when it came up..
I remember everyone hating on this back then, but as years have passed i feel like ppl started to enjoy this great album. So yes, different but awesome.. the light thin lizzy influence absolutely worked😉👍
Gave a like to this video immediately. Definitely a contrarian choice but has long been my favorite Motoralbum as well. I owned this on the original vinyl format and was blown away from beginning to end. To hell with "Die You Bastard" being "a bit naff" as heard in recent documentaries. That song still blows me away every time. Brian Robertson was definitely "A bit musical" and it pays off here. I go back to this album often.
Thank you !
I really like this jacket but the sleeves are much too long!!
Agreed, totally under-rated, probably my second favorite album by them. Wish they had kept the lineup together for at least one more album, but from the sounds of things it was a nightmare from the jump having Robbo in the fold.
Thanks Dannyjoe!
Another Perfect Day is absolutely a great one! The classic line up did their thing first and mlre than earned their legendary status but I really do believe that the band has many records that are as good as the classics or even better. Orgasmatron, 1916, Sacrifice, Inferno and Motörizer are the best of the later stuff for me. There are really good ones between or after these too but there is that something extra that works for me in this bunch. Just the right timing for the release might have something to do with it but I think that there's some certain quality in the songwriting there. A good mix of faster rockers, slower ones and the more experimental songs. Just the flow of the album or something. I don't have a perfect answer why but those are the ones I most often revisit.
As for Sabbath's Headless Cross. I think there are more epic songwriting there and overall one of the greatest vocal performances of Tony Martin on a record. When Death Calls, Nightwing and the title track are just powerful, dark and heavy represent well how good the Martin era actually was. But then again it's almost impossible for me to choose between The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross and Tyr. I like them all a lot. The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that of the five records they did with TM Forbidden is without a doubt the worst.
Ya good call on Sabbath, I don't hate Headless cross as much as Martin, but it also isnt one of my go to records.
Another perfect day is one of my top 5 Motorhead albums.
Thanks for this ! I've always thought APD did not get the respect it deserves
Another perfect day just sounds like any other Motörhead album great it’s just has a cleaner sound and many of the later Motörhead albums just as good as classic era the 95 overnight sensation album rates as high for me the song civil war is one of my favourites
I don't know about about the Born Again comparison. Another perfect day has got lots of strong songs on it, that today are regarded as Motörhead classics (I Got Mine, Dancing On Your Grave, Back At The Funny Farm...). Born Again sounds like it was recorded in a drunken stupor. The first Motörhead album isn't one of the worst in the band's catalogue. Motorhead, Vibrator, Lost Johnny, Iron Horse, Keep Us On The Road, On Parole, all great stuff, I love that album, it's essential Motörhead to me. "Ace Of Spades" now? Are you out of your mind? Go through this album track by track and you have nine of my favourite Motorhead bangers of all time. And I am a Motorhead fan for 36 years now, I know all of their albums, and my favourite song is not Ace Of Spades. Dear god. That shocks me.
My favorite Motörhead album too.
just received the anniversary edition of this fine release. love it... it is in my top 5 ever motorhead album list. not a shit song on it. all belters . killer album.
I heard the Motörhead anniversary albums are top notch!
My top 2 Motorhead albums are No Sleep Til Hammersmith and Another Perfect Day. I had the original cassette and just bought a repress of APD and the song order is different.
I have not watched this ep. yet, but can easily concur with this very Contrarian choice without having done so! I simply loved B. Robertson's guitar work on this album, Tony Platt's nicely polished (for Motorhead) knob job behind the boards, and even the previously who'd of ever thunk it use of Fender Rhodes and piano on a couple of tracks!! Besides, as far as accusations of over-commercial and sell-out might have been at the time, nowhere near as refined as those Peter Solley-produced platters from the early nineties, or some of the Bill Laswell-handled tracks on "Orgasmatron." Yeah, I still have one of those crappy old original Polygram cassette versions of this album, in which by the end of each side there starts to be a real deterioration sound, and it's not even an overly long release!!
P.S., '83 was a great if unintentional Contrarian year for Tony Platt, what with his fine engineering work on AC/DC's best B. Johnson-era album, "Flick Of The Switch". All opinions to the contrary are absolutely erroneous and infinitely incorrect!!!
Wait until you watch it!
@@thecontrarians2438 Will do, once I finish my arduous weekly archiving & cataloguing of voluminous belly button lint, tmi, lol!!
@@averyteplitsky885 haha no worries take your time, it'll still be here
@@thecontrarians2438 Postscript: Just finished watching, and congratulations on achieving the fiftieth episode in the regular series, great stuff, even though I still have a lot to catch up on! Also, I love how you always include lots of photos of the international cassette versions. Dead format to most sensible folks, but I will always have a soft spot for 'em, 'cause ninety-percent of my original collection was amassed in that highly-controversial format. Still paying ridiculous storage fees to 'house' both them and the majority of my CD collection due to inhospitable and squalid living conditions. Friendly tip to the younglings out there: Keep pilfering (lol!) and streaming your music; don't be a future Hoarders 'contestant' like yours truly inevitably will turn out to be...!!
@@averyteplitsky885 Thank you! The 50 kinda just creeped on us, we didnt even really notice! I love showing all kinds of versions, 8 track, international versions, singles, Cassettes, plus they're good because they arent copy protected, same with ads and stuff, originally we used a lot of photos martin had permission for from his books, occasionally i would just grab stuff off google but i realized that we should be careful about using other folk's material, so i try to stick with stuff i know is ok
This is easily my favourite Motorhead album, but then I approach it as a Brian Robertson fan rather than a Motorhead fan. I think it's a great guitar album with the added melodicism and layered arrangements transforming the band's template enough to make it a much more interesting prospect, as well as containing some great solos. Brian Robertson is possibly one of the biggest wasted talents in rock history. It's worth noting that when Robbo left Motorhead he took Phil Taylor with him, I think to work on a new project with Chris Glenn on bass. That may well have soured Lemmy's opinion of this period just a little. Lemmy was sufficiently impressed by Another Perfect Day to hire two guitar players for his next line-up of Motorhead, so something must have stuck. I have a signed copy of this album I picked up in the discount rack, as it was notably less successful than previous Motorhead albums in the UK.
All the albums until 1916 included are great...😃👍🤘🤘
No problems with Another Perfect Day being named as the best Motorhead record. It`s the best sounding Motorhead record of the whole discography and Robbo`s guitar work is otherworldly. (Check out the extended solo on One Track Mind ... amazing.) . I`d place this as a tie with Bomber and Ace of Spades on my scorecard as the best Mo`Head album.
awesome cant argue with you your points are dead on!
I'm not sure it's their best (1916, IMO), but this one is killer - melancholy bad boy vibe (the rarest of rock emotions, see also Thunders, J. and Social Distortion) with amazing amazing guitar playing. Also agree that their golden era (Lemmy, Phil, Fast Eddie stuff) isn't as great as what they did later.
Love this album. And probably the last really great Motörhead album. I know they’ve done like 15 albums after this one. Lol. I quit after Overnite Sensation. So I can assertively say anything post APD to Overnite doesn’t compare.
Fantastic album with a superior production to its predecessors . I really like this jacket but the sleeves are much too long , absolute gold.
What an amazing album! Not my fav, although not sure what my fav would be!?! Ace of Spades, Overkill, Another Perfect Day, Sacrifice,...??? Not sure... Cool show!
Thank you!!
APD is actually my favorite MH album. Also, Bomber might be my favorite classic era record.
Great album. Underated as hell. Have liked it from day one. Remember buyed it back in 83 and everyone shittalked me,i said fuck of to all of them. The funny thing is mostly everyone of these smartasses think its a good album now..!
you're a contrarian at heart!
1916
Another perfect day
Motorheads one of them bands that really don't have a Bad album with my favorite being Iron Fist of the classic era and Sacrifice/Inferno in a tie for modern favs
I ranked APD #1 in my Motorhead video and March Or Die the worst :)
This sounds like a dis, but I don't mean it that way. Motorhead more or less made the same album over and over, and how great the individual albums are depends on the strength of the songs, and how inspired the performances were. I don't see APD as much of a departure from the norm, really. I also would put it in the top half, even top 5 records they ever did.
Nice. My least favorite Albums are the first, "We are Motörhead" & "Hammered". I totally agree with Martin on the later stuff. "The Wörld is Yours" is one of my favorite Albums by Motörhead.
This might be the "most contrarian", contrarian opinion yet. APD is my favorite Motorhead album, and I think it's an album that alot of Motorhead fans have taken more of a liking to over the years. The RUclips rankings I've seen on the Motorhead discography usually has APD in the top half, if not the top 5. Even saw it #1 on one list. 👍
its regarded pretty highly! but i still think its more common to see ace or overkil in the first slot, but youre not wrong
@@thecontrarians2438 you would be right. But some of Martin's contrarian choices are " very contrarian", where this one didn't come from way outta left field, lol.
I think fans would have forgiven Robbo for wearing shorts on tour if the band had played a few of the old songs. I think they simply played the whole new album, and only ‘The Chase is Better than the Catch’ from the previous albums. That’d test anyone’s patience! [edit] Just checked the set lists and I guess it wasn’t quite that bad, but it looks like they pretty much ditched the classic songs apart from Iron Horse/Born to Lose
Another perfect day is definitely one of the best Motörhead albums. slightly lower than Overkill Bomber and Ace of Spades but i think it deserves the 4th place
Another Perfect Day is a great album!... But not number one for me. I could consider it to my top three though and I think I'd choose Overkill as the best one. Nice show!!
Thank for the comment!
My first Motorhead album :)
I don’t have a problem with this choice. I think the problem with it does have is that it may start to move towards something a bit slightly polished and some people don’t want to hear or even think of Motörhead that way. Plus the loss of the “original” guitarist will always give some people the excuse the slam any album afterwards.
Also I want to Echo Martin‘s comment about latter day Motörhead being really good. In fact my contrarian choice for best Motörhead album would probably be Inferno. That album is so heavy and then ends with the, dare I say, beautiful song Whorehouse Blues.
@Kevin Turchin- The irony being that lots of people don’t realise that Fast Eddie wasn’t the original guitarist either.
@@markporter1901 Hence my use of “original”.
Love this album !
This album has come up on SOT a lot the last couple of years so, I gave it a shot. I actually like it. I would have skipped this video had you chosen any other album of theirs. I normally don't care for Motorhead that much beyond Ace Of Spades. I never quite got Lemmy's vocals. They would have been a cool band with a real singer. I know that's blasphemy in the Metal world but, there are a lot of Metal bands like that for me. I like melodic singers and avoid shouty "vocalists".
Would this album =In Through The Out Door=Polarizing music yet Timeless all the same?
you mean the Zeppelin album? I actually quite like ITTOD but i know most people consider it Zeppelin's worst.
I always liked the album but funny over time ''All of my love"has seeped into my Soul.The sappiest song they ever did!@@thecontrarians2438
I can honestly say I never met a Motorhead album I didn't like. conversely, I love very few Motorhead LPs. if I had to choose one, I suppose I have to be predictable and go with Overkill. it's a sweet spot for me of raw and dirty and uncompromising-without being unlistenable. as for Another Perfect Day-maybe?_it's slick for Motorhead, but I don't think it's slick compared to any other metal band of the time. it's definitely not an album I'd skip in their catalogue. I also feel compelled to defend Rock 'n' Roll as the most genuinely humorous record by Motorhead. it might not be the best, but it's the funniest!
I bought Another Perfect Day when it came out. It was still almost the meanest stuff I knew. Yes, Metallica was in the pipeline but not yet on my turntable. Priest was tame in comparison.
I have to say "almost" because the Stooges were head and shoulder over Motorhead. Fun House was the hardest record I had.
Great album, maybe the last classic from them
Yeah...for me Overkill/Bomber/Ace of Spades/Iron Fist are their top most classic albums, although I always have second thoughts about it, I have the impulse to include Another Perfect Day on that pack.
@@Morbidous Same here, although I do think as Martin suggests Ace of Spades taken song by song is a bit overrated, maybe if they'd left a couple of songs off I'd rate it higher.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Sometimes the most iconic or popular album doesn't mean the best one, I'm thinking in Sabbath - Paranoid or Priest - Brittish Steel, but with Ace of Spades I'm not so sure, for me at least is perfect, but I agree they have at least a couple more records with that level of..let's say perfection, that didn't get the recognition Ace of Spades got.
To me the last classic was Orgasmatron.
My ranked Motörhead catalogue.
1. We Are Motörhead
2. Bastards
3. Kiss of Death
4. Bomber
5. Snake Bite Love
6. Inferno
7. Ace Of Spades
8. Another Perfect Day
9. Orgasmatrom
10. Hammered
11. Iron Fist
12. 1916
13. The World is Yours
14. Overkill
15. Rock and Roll.
16. Sacrifice
17. Aftershock
18. Bad Majic
19. Overnight Sensation
20. March or Die
21. Motorizer
22. Motörhead
The last three are the only albums I don't love.
Snake Bite Love at 5?
Love this album and for me 'Rock It' has a wonderful coda. Here in the U.K,. from reviews i've read in later years, the album seems to have been reassessed as one of their best. I was present at one of their concerts with this line-up but the fans gave Brian Robertson a such a hard time which was a shame. Lemmy was not a happy bunny. Controversially i think Ace Of Spades is overrated although a very good Motorhead album there are many others, especially in the latter part of their career, which are superior to my mind. As a final point i wonder if the majority of real die hard fans would place Ace Of Spades at the apex of their career? Certainly commercially but musically?
Totally agree. AOS is generally quoted because people love the title track so much (Rightly so). They did much better albums though.
Love this album
High steppin' like an Indian brave....DANCING ON YOUR GRAVE!
Sorry, boys. Bastards will always be #1.
Great pick! But is this really that contrarian? I guess back in the 80s the album‘s reception was much more negative but nowadays I have the impression it is appreciated by most fans and many (including me) consider it their favorite.
ya you're right, its not as tough of an argue as its perceived as a great record, but where i think Martin is Contrarian a bit is that Ace and Overkill are generally considered the two best, so this one is a slight contrarian pick, especially compared to some of our other shows
@@thecontrarians2438 Ah, I see. Love talking Motörhead. btw: Martin‘s book is great.
Bought the album when it came out, saw them with Robbo on the tour. Album was great, gig was not good
Great album.
Dancing On Your Grave 💀
Another Perfect day is their best , then comes Overkill and Ace of Spades . .
Great album, but live Robbo just didn't want to he there and he made it obvious.