Artist: MOTORHEAD
Album: OVERKILL REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1979/ 2004
EAN/UPS: 5050749203922
Media type: CD

Overkill is the second album released by Motorhead, in 1979, and their first for Bronze Records. It peaked at number 24 on the UK charts.

Bronze Records signed the band in 1978 and gave them time in Wessex Studios in London to record Chuck Berry's "Louie, Louie" and a new song by the band, "Tear Ya Down". The band toured to promote the single "Louie Louie while Chiswick released the Motorhead 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.

The first release from those sessions was a release of "Overkill" backed with "Too Late Too Late" in 7" and 12" pressings. The Chiswick album "Motorhead" had been a hasty affair as was its production, although it had a sub-bootleg quality which may be appealing, Overkill had more spring and bounce, and a thundering title track that would become a show-stopper for years to come.

TRACKLIST:

01 "Overkill" – 5:12
02 "Stay Clean" – 2:40
03 "(I Won't) Pay Your Price" – 2:56
04 "I'll Be Your Sister" – 2:51
05 "Capricorn" – 4:06
06 "No Class" – 2:39
07 "Damage Case" (Eddie Clarke/Lemmy Kilmister/Phil Taylor/Mick Farren) – 2:59
08 "Tear Ya Down" – 2:39
09 "Metropolis" – 3:34
10 "Limb From Limb" – 4:54

BONUS TRACKS:

"Too Late, Too Late" [B-side of Overkill] - 3:25
"Like a Nightmare" [B-side of No Class] - 4:13
"Louie Louie" [Single] (Richard Berry) - 2:47
"Tear Ya Down" [Instrumental Version] - 2:39
"Louie Louie" [Alternative Version] (Berry) - 2:52

LINE-UP:

Lemmy Kilmister – bass, vocals, second guitar solo on "Limb From Limb"
"Fast" Eddie Clarke – guitar
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor – drums

Joe Petagno – sleeve artwork
Recorded December, 1978 – January, 1979 at Roundhouse Studios and Sound Development Studios, UK – except "Tear Ya Down" originally recorded at Wessex Studios
Produced by Jimmy Miller – except "Tear Ya Down", produced by Neil Richmond, remixed at Roundhouse Studios by Jimmy Miller
Engineered by Ashley Howe and Trevor Hallesy