![]() ![]() The following month, on 6 and 20 October, the band played the song on BBC TV show Top of the Pops. On 6 September 1980, Lemmy was interviewed by Graham Neale on BBC Radio 1's Rock on Saturday show, " Bomber", "Ace of Spades" and "Love Me Like a Reptile" were played. For the lyrics, he said he "used gambling metaphors, mostly cards and dice-when it comes to that sort of thing, I'm more into the one-arm bandits actually, but you can't really sing about spinning fruit, and the wheels coming down". The song opens with an overdriven bass intro played by Lemmy. One sided test pressings (not mis-presses, but used in the trade) escaped the pressing plant and are on the market. īronze also issued German and Spanish 7" vinyl versions which had a different sleeves, as well as a Japanese release, with a colour picture insert with song lyrics in English and Japanese. The picture of the band in Santa outfits used on the cover was taken at the Aylesbury Fair, while the band were on tour. Initially issued as a 7" vinyl single on 27 October 1980 as a preview to the album Ace of Spades and autumn tour, the song was also released by Bronze Records as a 12" vinyl pressing in special Christmas picture sleeves, limited to 50,000 copies. It was released as a single in October 1980. Mediabook.ġ.1 Ace of Spades (40th Anniversary Master) 1.2 Love Me Like a Reptile (40th Anniversary Master) 1.3 Shoot You in the Back (40th Anniversary Master) 1.4 Live to Win (40th Anniversary Master) 1.5 Fast and Loose (40th Anniversary Master) 1.6 (We Are) the Road Crew 1.7 Fire Fire (40th Anniversary Master) 1.8 Jailbait (40th Anniversary Master) 1.9 Dance (40th Anniversary Master) 1.10 Bite the Bullet (40th Anniversary Master) 1.11 The Chase Is Better Than the Catch (40th Anniversary Master) 1.12 The Hammer (40th Anniversary Master) 2.1 Ace of Spades (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast 23rd December 1981) 2.2 Stay Clean (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.3 Over the Top (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.4 The Hammer (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.5 Shoot You in the Back (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.6 Metropolis (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.7 Jailbait (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.8 Leaving Here (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.9 Capricorn (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.10 Too Late, Too Late (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.11 (We Are) the Road Crew 2.12 No Class (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.13 Bite the Bullet (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.14 The Chase Is Better Than the Catch (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.15 Overkill (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2.16 Bomber (Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, 23rd December 1981) 2." Ace of Spades" is a song by English heavy metal band Motörhead and the title track to the album Ace of Spades. The story of Ace Of Spades told through previously unpublished interviews with the people who were there. Live album of a previously unreleased concert, recorded at Whitla Hall, Belfast on 23rd December 1981. This deluxe two CD, 20 page mediabook includes : - Ace Of Spades brand new master created from the original tapes. Pushing at every musical boundary, nothing was harder, nothing was faster, and certainly nothing was louder. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour. Upon it's release in 1980, the 'Ace Of Spades' album was nothing short of a game changer for all forms of hard rock. ![]() And the song altered the course of hard rock. That speaker-destroying opening riff is unstoppable. From zero to 100 mph in a matter of seconds. Few songs in modern history can instantly ignite the adrenaline of music fans the way the song's opening dirty bass riff, and drum roll can. 'Ace Of Spades' - the title track of Motörhead's 1980 iconic, game changing album isn't just one of the greatest hard rock songs ever written - it has truly become a lifestyle anthem for several generations of rockers, metalheads, punks, bikers, athletes, rebels, outcasts, and freethinkers all around the world. ![]()
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