Motorhead - Under Cover

http://imotorhead.com/motorhead-to-release-under-cover/



Covers compilation to include unreleased version of David Bowie’s “Heroes”




"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 Under Cöver, a collection of some of their best covers, and a collection which will include the previously unreleased version of David Bowie’s timeless classic “Heroes”. 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.”

“He was very, very proud of it,” says Mikkey Dee, “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.”

So there you are. If that doesn’t have you scrambling for your music delivery device, then check your pulse pronto. Or just start scrambling for a copy of Under Cöver immediately. You won’t be sorry."



TRACKLISTING

1. Breaking the Law (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2008

2. God Save the Queen (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2000

3. Heroes (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015

4. Starstruck (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2014

5. Cat Scratch Fever (Produced by Peter Solley) 1992

6. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001

7. Sympathy for the Devil (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015

8. Hellraiser (Produced by Billy Sherwood) 1992

9. 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

Nice. It's an obvious cash grab, but I'll pick it up cuz it's more convenient than trying to track down all of the compilations/tribute albums that most of these songs came from.

Definite a cash grab and they can grab my cash because I will grab it

Will get this one. I have been listening to a lot of motorhead lately. As a matter of fact, i grabbed a motorhead compilation titled essential noize while on vacation in europe a few days ago.

I've already got almost all of these songs, as I have 28 Motorhead CD's and just grabbed my first two albums, (yes vinyl), from them yesterday, so I might as well keep the Motor humming.

I don't like most of the song choices. So I'll pass on it...

I already have their Whiplash cover on the Metallica tribute album. And that's the only song from the list that interests me.

Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" is a good song... but it's overplayed and kinda boring now. Although Stryper did a decent cover a few years back.

Dig Motorhead...this is a big giant yawn.

Do motorhead have any unreleased tracks? That would be fun to have on cd. Some sort of post lemmy's death studio album.

When I first saw this I thought, What about Louie Louie or Emergency? But then I remembered that I already have those so I'll probably pick this up. I love the way that they make covers theirs (particularly Whiplash)

Cash grab or not, I'll buy it.

Boris2008 wrote:

When I first saw this I thought, What about Louie Louie or Emergency? But then I remembered that I already have those so I'll probably pick this up. I love the way that they make covers theirs (particularly Whiplash)

Those were previous to this line-up. According to the press release, it's just songs recorded by the final line-up of Motorhead.

Here's the Bowie cover:

i may get this. but the part that hurts is that it's the only new thing from Motorhead we'll ever get.

Good bowie cover.

According to Amazon the release date for this has been changed from September 1st to October 13th???

I'm not a big Motorhead fan because of Lemmy's vocals but I will be picking this up.

That Bowie cover is excellent and that's the best I've ever heard Lemmy actually sing.

I have 7 of the 11 tracks on here already, but I'll still pick this up. Gimme Motorhead til I'm dead.

Anyone seen an actual copy of this yet? Online sources say it came out this past Friday (Sept.1) but I checked Best Buy and FYE and neither had it. Amazon originally said Oct. 13th, but has copies for sale now, but won't ship for 3 to 4 weeks.

Weird.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Anyone seen an actual copy of this yet? Online sources say it came out this past Friday (Sept.1) but I checked Best Buy and FYE and neither had it. Amazon originally said Oct. 13th, but has copies for sale now, but won't ship for 3 to 4 weeks.

Weird.

September 1 was the European release date. All the copies for sale on Amazon are the European versions. The October 13 release date is for the vinyl it looks like.

So what does all this mean? I have no idea.

These didn't make the cut?

Neither of those songs feature the whole band. It's Lemmy supplying vocals backed by other musicians. Phil Campbell played some guitar on 'The Trooper' too.

Yes i recall the trooper not being covered by motorhead, but lemmy was behind the mic. Actually this cover album of maiden is very very good. Chuck billy performs great on fear of the dark

I got lost on Youtube listening to the Heroes cover and found a bunch of covers.

This is now available on Amazon in case you want to pick it up.

Witchfinder wrote:

This is now available on Amazon in case you want to pick it up.

I will eventually. But right now i have 6 cds on their way to me. So i will need to digest those first.