Another Perfect Day
	Produced by Tony Platt
	Released on May 1983
	UK CHART POSITION #20 . . . US CHART POSITION #153
	Find it at GEMM
811 365-1 M-1 cover [high resolution scan]

O mifriggengawd. That was my reaction to Motorhead the first time around. If Ozzy and Dio rocked, Lemmy & Co. rolled over your poor, unsuspecting butt like a giant boulder. The word “relentless” comes up a lot in Motorhead reviews and it’s no accident. That word was waiting in the dictionary all lonely-like for something like Motorhead to come along and put it to good use. Another Perfect Day is another perfect album of relentless heavy metal from the original metal heavies. Okay, maybe not the original heavies, since Black Sabbath and Deep Purple didn’t exactly rock like runway models, and even Hawkwind (whatever planet they were on) played at a double G-force. But when a track like “Die You Bastard” or “Back at the Funny Farm” comes rumbling down at you, it looks twice as big as anything those other metal mountain gods might have hurled at you before. This album was the first (and only) one to feature Brian Robertson. I’m bound by some critic’s oath to put that in somewhere, since I know how much the lemurs love their lineup cards. An hilarious cartoon on the inner sleeve pokes fun at the pairing. It also shows that Motorhead gets the whole music/mythology thing. The early heavy metal bands understood that cultivating a dark image was good for business: Zeppelin, Sabbath, BOC, Priest. But where Dio and Ozzy and Alice were kind of a cartoon caricature of evil, Motorhead wasn’t. Yes they’ve got a demon belching fire from its eye socket on the cover; now forget all that crap and listen to the music. That’s where the real heat is: in Lemmy’s low-rung bass and bon scotched & whiskeyed voice, the philthy skins and Robbo’s twice-tracked acrobataxe. If this record had a picture of a daisy on the cover the plastic inside would still belch fire. And that’s what endears Motorhead to me the most: the fire comes from within. They’re a combustible engine, and the longer they run the hotter they get. When the ride is over, your body is numb and your head is thick with a rumbling. Mine were after this album and I can’t wait for more.

TRACK LISTING

1. I GOT MINE    5:38
2. ONE TRACK MIND    5:35
3. ROCK IT    3:55
4. MARCHING OFF TO WAR    4:11
5. TALES OF GLORY    2:54
6. BACK AT THE FUNNY FARM    4:12
7. DANCING ON YOUR GRAVE    4:27
8. SHINE    3:08
9. ANOTHER PEFECT DAY    5:54
10. DIE YOU BASTARD    4:22
    
    CD reissue bonus tracks
    
11. TURN YOU AROUND AGAIN
12. HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
13. (DON'T NEED) RELIGION
    
    30th anniversary reissue bonus disc
    
11. TURN YOU AROUND AGAIN
12. BACK AT THE FUNNY FARM
13. TALES OF GLORY
14. HEART OF STONE
15. SHOOT YOU IN THE BACK
16. MARCHING OFF TO WAR
17. IRON HORSE
18. ANOTHER PERFECT DAY
19. HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
20. (DON'T NEED) RELIGION
21. ONE TRACK MIND
22. GO TO HELL
23. AMERICA
24. SHINE
25. DANCING ON YOUR GRAVE
26. ROCK IT
27. I GOT MINE
28. BITE THE BULLET
29. THE CHASE IS BETTER THAN THE CATCH
    
    Tracks 1-10 written by Lemmy Kilmister/Phil Taylor/Brian Robertson

CREDITS

LEMMY KILMISTER -- bass, vocals
BRIAN ROBERTSON -- guitars
PHIL TAYLOR -- drums
Tony Platt -- mixing
Paul Howden -- cartoon

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