Artist: MOTORHEAD
Album: 1916 (CD)

Release date: 1991
EAN/UPS: 5099746748128
Media type: CD

1916 is an album by Motorhead. It was released on February 26, 1991 on WTG Records. This was their first album recorded for WTG after the legal battle with GWR Records was resolved. In the album's liner notes, the band says "...to the people we left behind - we didn't want to leave ya, but we really had to go! This album is the better for it. Stale and on a treadmill in our career, a change was needed."

The title track is a reflection on World War I killings, it is an uncharacteristically slow ballad in which Lemmy's singing is only lightly accompanied. "Love Me Forever", a ballad which was later covered by Doro Pesch. "R.A.M.O.N.E.S.", a tribute to punk band the Ramones, was later recorded by the Ramones, which can be found as one of the two studio tracks on Greatest Hits Live. The Ramones also performed it at their final show with Lemmy, with that show being released on video and CD as We're Outta Here.

In the studio the band recorded four songs with the producer, Ed Stasium, before deciding he had to go. When Lemmy listened to one of the mixes of "Going to Brazil", he asked for him to turn up four tracks, and on doing so heard claves and tambourines that Stasium had added. Stasium was fired and Pete Solley was hired as producer.

The album reached number 24 in UK charts and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 1992 Grammys, but lost to Metallica's Metallica.

TRACKLIST:

"The One to Sing the Blues" – 3:07
"I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)" – 3:13
"No Voices in the Sky" – 4:12
"Going to Brazil" – 2:30
"Nightmare/The Dreamtime" – 4:40
"Love Me Forever" – 5:27
"Angel City" (Lemmy) – 3:57
"Make My Day" – 4:24
"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." – 1:26
"Shut You Down" – 2:41
"1916" (Lemmy) – 3:44

All tracks composed by Lemmy, Wurzel, Phil Campbell and Phil Taylor unless otherwise noted

LINE-UP:

Lemmy – bass, vocals
Phil Campbell – guitar
Wurzel – guitar
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor – drums

All tracks except 3, 4, and 6 – produced and mixed by Peter Solley, and engineered by Casey McMackin
Tracks 3, 4, and 6 – produced by Ed Stasium, and engineered by Paul Hemingson
Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc Systems, Hollywood, USA