SHOOT STRAIGHT
TRAVEL FAR
STONE CRAZY
ALL WE EVER ARE
Bomber
is the third
studio album
by English
Rock band
It was released on
October,12th 1979
by Bronze Records,
their second with the label.
Background
By 1979,
Motörhead
had been together
for four years
and had amassed
a loyal following
in both punk
and heavy metal circles.
After recording
an album
for United Artists
that the label shelved,
the band released its
eponymous debut LP
in 1977,
but it was with 1979's
Overkill t
hat the band
hit their stride.
The title track landed
in the UK Top 40 and,
after appearing again on
Top of the Pops,
the band returned to
the studio that summer
with legendary producer
Jimmy Miller
to record what would
become
Bomber.
However,
the band did not have
the opportunity to work
up the songs
on the road,
as they had with
their previous album.
Nonetheless,
Bomber
would peak at No. 12
on the
UK albums chart,
their strongest showing
up to that point.
Recording
During the recording
of this album,
Jimmy Miller
was increasingly
under the influence
of heroin,
at one point disappearing
entirely from the studio
and being found
asleep at the
wheel of his car.
The album features
the band's first
anti-heroin song
"Dead Men Tell No Tales".
Miller had produced
some of
the Rolling Stones
most heralded work
from 1968 to 1973 but,
after struggling through
the sessions for
1973's
Goats Head Soup,
had been shown the door.
The band returned to
Roundhouse Recording Studios
in London
with additional recording
taking place at
at Olympic Studios.
This album caught
Lemmy at his
most ferocious,
hitting hard at
the police in
"Lawman",
marriage and how
his father left him
and his mother in
"Poison",
television in
"Talking Head"
and show business in
"All the Aces".
This album is the first to have
a picture of the band
on the cover,
which features
all three members
inside a plane.
The title track was
inspired by
Len Deighton's novel
Bomber.
On one track,
"Step Down",
Eddie Clarke
is featured
on vocals
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