{"id":1405,"date":"2016-12-29T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2016-12-30T01:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T06:51:58","slug":"what-i-missed-in-2016-motorheads-parting-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/12\/29\/what-i-missed-in-2016-motorheads-parting-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Missed In 2016: Motorhead&#8217;s Parting Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I launched this blog in March, I have tried to write about as many wonderful things as I can, in essays, the podcast, and every Friday in the New Release Roundup. Try as I might, I can\u2019t write about all the good stuff coming out. This will be my annual attempt to correct that. For the next ten days, I\u2019ll be highlighting albums I missed in 2016. To cast an even wider net, I\u2019ve enlisted some talented friends to write about some of their favorites this year. Look for that Friday. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imotorhead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motorhead<\/a> \u2013 <em>Clean Your Clock (Live In Munich 2015)<\/em> <\/strong><br \/>\nLemmy Kilmister kind of kicked off the parade of lost and lamented musicians in 2016 when he died between Christmas and New Year\u2019s last year. That makes this is the last live album Motorhead recorded, and as parting shots go, it\u2019s a good one. When those first few riffs of \u201cBomber\u201d punch you in the face, try to reconcile the fact that this is just three guys onstage \u2013 Lemmy on vocals and bass, Phil Campbell on guitar, and Mikkey Dee on drums. They are all monsters, and together, they fill all available space in the air around them vibrating sound. This is a sixteen-track ass kicking, and yes, that includes \u201cAce of Spades,\u201d if you were wondering. They spread the material around a 36-year period, from <em>Overkill<\/em> in 1979 to their final studio album, <em>Bad Magic<\/em> in 2015. There\u2019s even a little acoustic action in \u201cWhorehouse Blues,\u201d which Lemmy introduces as \u201ca song from our blues delta phase.\u201d It\u2019s just as gritty as anything else they play. It fits. Lemmy sounds a bit rough vocally, but you don\u2019t put on a Motorhead live album if you\u2019re looking for an aria. His growl is what the material calls for anyway. If you need your clock cleaned for 2017, stop here first. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xS9K2fT00Rg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtfGxK1cX_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I launched this blog in March, I have tried to write about as many wonderful things as I can, in essays, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[923,924,922],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-lemmy","tag-motorhead","tag-what-i-missed-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/motorhead_cleanyourclock_large.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-mF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}