Overnight Sensation
| Overnight Sensation | ||||
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| Studio album by Motörhead | ||||
| Released | 15 October 1996 | |||
| Recorded |
1996 Ocean Studio Track House Recording Studio | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, rock 'n' roll | |||
| Length | 41:19 | |||
| Label | CMC, Steamhammer, SPV GmbH | |||
| Producer |
Howard Benson Duane Baron | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Overnight Sensation, released in 1996, is the thirteenth studio album by the British band Motörhead.
History
Following the departure of Würzel in 1995, the band returned to the same three-man "classic Motörhead line up": bass guitar/vocals, lead guitar, and drums. This album was also the first since Ace of Spades to have a picture of the band on the cover. Despite being only a three-piece band, the band had a heavier style on this work than on its previous album, Sacrifice.[2]
Lemmy recalls that, amidst the touring, the record took about four weeks to write new songs and four weeks to record in the studio.[3] Lemmy talked about the return to being a three piece:
...it went the same as a four-piece except one guy wasn't there! Or the same as the Everly Brothers plus one. It was a bit more fraught, but that was just because Phil, being the only guitarist, felt that there was a lot riding on his shoulders (which there was). So he was under added pressure, but he proved himself well. Overnight Sensation is a great album for him. Mikkey was his usual perfect self - he always finishes his drums tracks well ahead of schedule. This time around he did them in one day.[3]
Overnight Sensation was the band's first official record for CMC — Sacrifice was already partly in the States on import but the label proved itself with Overnight Sensation and it became the best-distributed record the band had for some time.[3]
Track listing
All songs written by Phil Campbell, Lemmy, and Mikkey Dee unless otherwise stated.
| No. | Title | Length | |
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| 1. | "Civil War" (Campbell, Dee, Lemmy, Max Ax) | 3:01 | |
| 2. | "Crazy Like a Fox" | 4:32 | |
| 3. | "I Don't Believe a Word" | 6:31 | |
| 4. | "Eat the Gun" | 2:13 | |
| 5. | "Overnight Sensation" | 4:10 | |
| 6. | "Love Can't Buy You Money" | 3:06 | |
| 7. | "Broken" | 4:34 | |
| 8. | "Them Not Me" | 2:47 | |
| 9. | "Murder Show" | 3:03 | |
| 10. | "Shake the World" | 3:29 | |
| 11. | "Listen to Your Heart" (Lemmy) | 3:45 |
Credits
- Lemmy – lead vocals, bass, harmonica on track 2, acoustic guitar on tracks 5 and 11
- Phil "Wizzö" Campbell – rhythm and lead guitar
- Mikkey Dee – drums
- Recorded at Ocean Studio and Track House Recording Studio
- Produced by Howard Benson and Duane Barron
- Co-produced by Ryan Dorn and Motörhead
- Mixed by Ryan Dorn and Duane Barron
- Assistant engineered by James Ornelas, Evan Levy, and Duane Barron
- Mixed at The Gallery
- Mastered at Digiprep by Dan Hersch
- Cover photo by Annamaria DiSanto
References
- ↑ Allmusic Review
- ↑ "Motörhead--Overnight Sensation (1996/CMC)". Metal Reviews. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kilmister, Ian and Garza, Janiss White Line Fever (2002) — Simon & Schuster pp. 276—277 ISBN 0-684-85868-1.
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