Over the Top: The Rarities

Over The Top: The Rarities
Compilation album by Motörhead
Released 26 September 2000
Genre Heavy Metal
Length 36:40
Label Sanctuary Records
Producer Steve Hammonds, Julian Wall
Motörhead chronology

The Best Of
(2000)
Over The Top: The Rarities
(2000)
Tear Ya Down: The Rarities
(2002)
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Over The Top: The Rarities is a compilation album released in 2000 by the British band Motörhead on the Sanctuary Records label. It features rare alternative recordings of several songs throughout the band's history.

Most of the included tracks are alternative versions of well-known early Motörhead songs such as Capricorn, as well as two songs under new unofficial titles; "Lemmy Goes To The Pub" (alternate version of "Heart Of Stone") and "Same Old Song, I'm Gone" (alternative of "Remember Me, I'm Gone"). Also included is a collaboration with Girlschool, a recording of "Please Don't Touch" under the combined band name of HeadGirl.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Eddie Clarke, Ian Kilmister and Phil Taylor, unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Tear Ya Down" [instrumental version] - 2:39
  2. "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry) - 2:54
  3. "Over The Top" - 3:20
  4. "Please Don't Touch" (Heath Robinson) (performed by MotörHeadGirlSchool) - 2:48
  5. "Emergency" (Denise Dufort / Kelly Johnson / Kim McAuliffe / Tony Williams) - 2:59
  6. "Over The Top" [alternate version] - 3:04
  7. "Capricorn" - 4:54
  8. "Train Kept-A-Rollin" (Tiny Bradshaw / Howard Kay / Lois Mann) - 2:44
  9. "(Don't Let 'Em) Grind You Down" [alternative version] - 3:07
  10. "Lemmy Goes To The Pub" [alternative version of "Heart Of Stone"]- 3:01
  11. "Same Old Song, I'm Gone" [alternative version of "Remember Me, I'm Gone"] - 2:19
  12. "(Don't Need) Religion" - 2:51

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Release history

Date Label Format Catalog
26 September 2000 Castle Music Ltd. CD 683
26 September 2000 Castle Music Ltd. CD 685
2001 Castle Music Ltd. CD CMRCD 176
8 February 2006 Sanctuary CD SMRDD 209

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