| The Best Of | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by Motörhead | ||||
| Released | September 12, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 1975–2000 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 147:06 | |||
| Label | Metal-Is, Sanctuary | |||
| Motörhead chronology | ||||
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The Best Of is a 2-disc compilation album by the British band Motörhead, released 12 September 2000 on the Sanctuary Records subsidiary label Metal-Is. It includes 37 Motörhead tracks spanning the band's career from 1977–2000, including four previously-unreleased live tracks recorded in 1981. It also includes three non-Motörhead tracks: Girlschool's cover version of Motörhead's "Bomber", a cover version of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' "Please Don't Touch" performed by the Motörhead/Girlschool collaboration Headgirl, and Hawkwind's original version of "Motörhead", the song from which Motörhead frontman Lemmy took the band's name after being fired from Hawkwind. 14 of Motörhead's then-16 studio albums are represented, with March ör Die (1992) and Bastards (1993) excluded.
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| Disc 1 | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Ace of Spades" (from Ace of Spades, 1980) | Lemmy Kilmister, Eddie Clarke, Phil Taylor | 2:50 | ||||||
| 2. | "Overkill" (from Overkill, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 5:14 | ||||||
| 3. | "Bomber" (from Bomber, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:44 | ||||||
| 4. | "Please Don't Touch" (performed by Headgirl; originally performed by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates; from St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1981) | Frederick Heath, Guy Robinson | 2:52 | ||||||
| 5. | "Motörhead" (originally performed by Hawkwind; from Motörhead, 1977) | Kilmister | 3:13 | ||||||
| 6. | "No Class" (from Overkill, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 2:42 | ||||||
| 7. | "Louie Louie" (originally performed by Richard Berry; from "Louie Louie", 1978) | Richard Berry | 2:54 | ||||||
| 8. | "Damage Case" (from Overkill, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor, Mick Farren | 3:05 | ||||||
| 9. | "Too Late Too Late" (from "Overkill", 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:26 | ||||||
| 10. | "Dead Men Tell No Tales" (from Bomber, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:08 | ||||||
| 11. | "Killed by Death" (from No Remorse, 1984) | Kilmister, Michael Burston | 3:56 | ||||||
| 12. | "Metropolis" (from Overkill, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:37 | ||||||
| 13. | "Emergency" (originally performed by Girlschool; from St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1981) | Kim McAuliffe, Kelly Johnson, Denise Dufort, Enid Williams | 3:02 | ||||||
| 14. | "Tear Ya Down" (from Overkill, 1979) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 2:42 | ||||||
| 15. | "White Line Fever" (from "White Line Fever", 1977) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 2:46 | ||||||
| 16. | "Iron Horse / Born to Lose" (from Motörhead, 1977) | Taylor, Mick Brown, Guy Lawrence | 5:22 | ||||||
| 17. | "City Kids" (originally performed by the Pink Fairies; from On Parole, 1979) | Duncan Sanderson, Larry Wallis | 3:46 | ||||||
| 18. | "Motörhead" (performed by Hawkwind; from "Kings of Speed", 1975) | Kilmister | 3:06 | ||||||
| 19. | "Fire Fire" (live, 1981) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 2:47 | ||||||
| 20. | "Bite the Bullet / The Chase Is Better Than the Catch" (live, 1981) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 6:56 | ||||||
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Total length:
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71:08 | ||||||||
| Disc 2 | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Iron Fist" (from Iron Fist, 1982) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 2:56 | ||||||
| 2. | "Heart of Stone" (from Iron Fist, 1982) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:05 | ||||||
| 3. | "Bomber" (performed by Girlschool; from St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1981) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:38 | ||||||
| 4. | "Shine" (from Another Perfect Day, 1983) | Kilmister, Brian Robertson, Taylor | 3:12 | ||||||
| 5. | "I Got Mine" (from Another Perfect Day, 1983) | Kilmister, Robertson, Taylor | 5:26 | ||||||
| 6. | "Ain't My Crime" (from Orgasmatron, 1986) | Kilmister, Burston, Pete Gill, Phil Campbell | 3:46 | ||||||
| 7. | "Doctor Rock" (from Orgasmatron, 1986) | Kilmister, Burston, Gill, Campbell | 3:42 | ||||||
| 8. | "The Chase Is Better Than the Catch" (from Ace of Spades, 1980) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 4:19 | ||||||
| 9. | "Deaf Forever" (from Orgasmatron, 1986) | Kilmister, Burston, Gill, Campbell | 4:29 | ||||||
| 10. | "Orgasmatron" (from Orgasmatron, 1986) | Kilmister, Burston, Gill, Campbell | 5:26 | ||||||
| 11. | "Eat the Rich" (from the Eat the Rich soundtrack, 1987) | Kilmister, Burston, Gill, Campbell | 4:38 | ||||||
| 12. | "Rock 'n' Roll" (from Rock 'n' Roll, 1987) | Kilmister, Burston, Gill, Campbell | 3:52 | ||||||
| 13. | "Dogs" (from Rock 'n' Roll, 1987) | Kilmister, Burston, Gill, Campbell | 3:52 | ||||||
| 14. | "The One to Sing the Blues" (from 1916, 1991) | Kilmister, Burston, Campbell, Taylor | 3:12 | ||||||
| 15. | "Sacrifice" (from Sacrifice, 1995) | Mikkey Dee, Kilmister, Campbell, Burston | 3:19 | ||||||
| 16. | "Overnight Sensation" (from Overnight Sensation, 1996) | Dee, Kilmister, Campbell | 4:13 | ||||||
| 17. | "Snake Bite Love" (from Snake Bite Love, 1998) | Dee, Kilmister, Campbell | 3:35 | ||||||
| 18. | "God Save the Queen" (originally performed by the Sex Pistols; from We Are Motörhead, 2000) | Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon, Glen Matlock | 3:22 | ||||||
| 19. | "Shoot You in the Back" (live, 1981) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 2:48 | ||||||
| 20. | "The Hammer" (live, 1981) | Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor | 3:08 | ||||||
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Total length:
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75:58 | ||||||||