Motörhead : Overkill (Deluxe Edition)

ONLY WAY TO FEEL THE NOISE

IS WHEN IT'S

GOOD AND LOUD 

 Overkill

 is the second

 studio album

 by English 

Rock Band

 Motörhead 

released in 

March 1979.

 It was the band's

 first album with

 Bronze Records. 

Kerrang! 

magazine

 listed the album

 at number 46

 among the

 "100 Greatest

 Heavy Metal Albums

 of All Time".

American

 thrash metal band

 Overkill 

was named 

after this album.

Background

Bronze Records 

signed Motörhead

 in 1978

 and booked them

 time in 

London's Wessex Studios

 to record a 

single consisting of 

Richard Berry's 

"Louie Louie" 

and a new song

 by the band called 

"Tear Ya Down". 

The band toured 

to promote the single 

"Louie Louie",

 which became a

 modest hit,

 while Chiswick

 released the

 Motörhead album

 in white vinyl, 

to keep the

 momentum going. 

Sales of the single

 brought the band

 their first appearance 

on BBC Television's

 Top of the Pops, 

which gave Bronze

 the confidence to

 get the band back

 into the studio

 to record a

 second album

"No Class" 

was lifted from the album

 as a follow-up single,

 backed with a 

previously unreleased song, 

"Like a Nightmare". 

While the 

Chiswick album

 Motörhead

 had been a hasty affair 

although it had a

 sub-bootleg quality 

which some fans 

found appealing

 Overkill 

had more 

spring and bounce, 

and a title track

 that would become a

 show-stopper

 for years to come. 

Three weeks after 

the initial release

 of the album

 in black vinyl, 

the album was

 released in a

 limited edition of 

15,000 in green vinyl. 

With a view to

 increasing the sales, 

the single was released

 in three different covers, 

one each of

 Lemmy, 

Clarke 

and Taylor.

TRACKLIST

CD 1

Overkill

Stay Clean

(I Won't) Pay Your Price

I'll Be Your Sister

Capricorn

No Class

Damage Case

Tear Ya Down

Metropolis

Limb From Limb

Too Late, Too Late

Like A Nightmare

Overkill 

(Single Edit)

Stay Clean

 (Live Hammersmith 1981)

Metropolis

 (Live Hammersmith 1981)

No Class

 (Live Hammersmith 1981)

Overkill

 (Live Hammersmith 1981)

Capricorn

 (Live Hammersmith 1981)

CD 2

Louie Louie

 (Single A-Side)

Louie, Louie 

(Alternative Version 1)

Louie, Louie

 (Alternative Version 2)

Tear Ya Down

 (B-Side Single 'Louie Louie')

Tear Ya Down 

(Alternative Version)

Tear Ya Down

 (Instrumental Version)

Capricorn 

(Instrumental Version)

Too Late Too Late 

(B-Side Single, 'Overkill')

Like A Nightmare 

(B-Side Single 'No Class')

Like A Nightmare 

(Alternative Version)

Overkill

 (Just Vocals)

No Class

 (Just Vocals)

Tear Ya Down (Edit) 

(Just Vocals)

(I Won't) Pay Your Price (Edit) 

(Just Vocals)

Louie Louie

 (BBC Live)

I'll Be Your Sister 

(BBC Live)

Tear Ya Down

 (BBC Live)

Stay Clean

 (BBC Live)

No Class (BBC Live)

I'll Be Your Sister 

(BBC Live)

Too Late, Too Late

 (BBC Live)

(I Won't) Pay Your Price

(BBC Live)

Capricorn 

(BBC Live)

Limb From Limb

 (BBC Live)

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