Motörhead - Stone Deaf Forever! [5CD Remastered Box Set] (2003)

This is the first fully comprehensive box set collection covering motörheads entire career from 1975-2002. The first box set to be issued with full band approval. The track list was compiled in association with the band and fan club. It contains a new 12,000 word essay by Classic Rock editor and famed heavy metal journalist Mick Wall. It also features many rare recordings of motörhead classics including 19 previously unreleased tracks. It contains a lavish, 60 page booklet featuring rare and unpublished photos and memorabilia from the motörarchives. The set contains a full colour replica tour poster and a motörhead button. The cover art features a newly commissioned painting by long time motörhead artist Joe Petagno.

Simply put, this is the one. This is the authoritative career-spanning overview that Motörhead fans have been waiting for. When Lemmy Kilmister, uh, left Hawkwind in 1975 (he was axed), he dreamed of doing, in his words, "the British version of the MC5, simple as that." Of course, his little "fast and vicious" outfit made quite a name for themselves, and this set celebrates the group in all of its testosterone-fueled glory. With 99 tracks spread over five CDs, Stone Deaf Forever offers a glimpse of every single phase of the band's evolution from punk-metal burners to plodding metal gods--every album and every lineup is represented. (The classic trio incarnation--Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke, and "Philthy Animal" Taylor--is responsible for more than a disc and a half's worth of the material.) There are 19 previously unreleased cuts, mostly tracks recorded for BBC sessions (and there's also the famous bootleg of Chuck Berry's "Nadine"). Disc five is all live recordings, which has the added benefit of Lemmy's concert banter ("this one is about Los Angeles, I wrote it in England, I was thinking about Italy"). Featuring Lemmy's involvement every step of the way, Stone Deaf Forever is a definitive introduction for newcomers and, thanks to the terrific rarities, a gift for hardcore fans as well. Throw in the perfectly executed 60-page booklet--with notes by Mick Wall--and you have a wonderful survey of one of the most unique and exciting performers in hard-rock history. --Marc Greilsamer

99 Tracks on 5 discs all remastered from across the band's entire career to date / 19 Unreleased tracks / Intro by Lemmy/ Exclusive poster signed by Justin Hampton / 60 Page booklet featuring loads of rare photos and memorabilia / New Essay written by Classic Rock' Mick Wall

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Tracks 5-1 & 5-2 from 'What's Words Worth' recorded live at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London on February 18, 1978; tracks 5-3 & 5-4 from 'BBC Live & In Session' recorded live for BBC In Concert at the Paris Theatre London on May 16, 1979; trcks 5-5 & 5-6 from 'No Sleep Til Hammersmith'; tracks 5-7 & 5-8 previously unreleased; tracks 5-9 & 510 from 'The Birthday Party' recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, London on June 26, 1985; tracks 5-11 & 5-12 from 'Live At Brixton' recorded live at Brixton Academy, Brixton on December 23, 1987; tracks 5-13 & 5-14 from 'No Sleep At All' recorded live at Giants Of Rock Festival, Hameenlinna, Finland on July 2, 1988; track 5-15 from Greek single 'Live In Athens' recorded live at Sporting Hall, Athens, Greece on December 3, 1988; tracks 5-16 & 5-17 from 'Everything Louder' video recorded live at Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany; track 5-18 previously unreleased; tracks 5-19 to 5-21 from 'Everything Louder Than Everyone Else' recorded live at The Docks, Hamburg, Germany on May 21, 1998.