Artist: MOTORHEAD
Album: BOMBER REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1979/ 2004
EAN/UPS: 5050749204028
Media type: CD

Bomber was the third Motorhead album to be released (although the fourth to be recorded - see On Parole). It was recorded in 1979, the same year as Overkill. The album reached number 12 on the UK charts and brought some of Motörhead's most popular songs, like "Bomber", "Dead Men Tell No Tales" and "Stone Dead Forever".

During the recording of this album, the producer Jimmy Miller was increasingly under the influence of heroin, at one point disappearing entirely from the studio, later being found asleep at the wheel of his car. Ironically the album features the band's first anti-heroin song - "Dead Men Tell No Tales".

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". The title track was inspired by Len Deighton's novel Bomber. On one track, "Step Down", "Fast" Eddie Clarke is featured on vocals.

TRACKLIST:

"Dead Men Tell No Tales" – 3:07
"Lawman" – 3:56
"Sweet Revenge" – 4:10
"Sharpshooter" – 3:19
"Poison" – 2:54
"Stone Dead Forever" – 4:54
"All the Aces" – 3:24
"Step Down" – 3:41
"Talking Head" – 3:40
"Bomber" – 3:43

Bonus Tracks
The CD re-issues have added tracks:

"Over the Top" – 3:21
"Leaving Here [Live]" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland) – 3:02
"Stone Dead Forever [Live]" – 5:20
"Dead Men Tell No Tales [Live]" – 2:54
"Too Late Too Late [Live]" – 3:21

Tracks 12 through 15 were taken from the band's successful The Golden Years EP, released the following year.

LINE-UP:

Lemmy - vocals, bass, eight-string bass
"Fast" Eddie Clarke - guitar, vocals on "Step Down"
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor - drums

Adrian Chesterman - sleeve artwork
Joe Petagno - Snaggletooth logo
Recorded July 7 – August 31, 1979 at Roundhouse Studios and Olympic Studios
Produced by Jimmy Miller