Review: Motörhead – Live At Montreux Jazz Festival ’07

BMG (June 16th, 2023)

Reviewer: Colm Banville

Motörhead at a jazz festival? I hear you cry! But fear not, it ain’t jazz they’re playing on this, their latest opus, but their own louder-than-everyone-else material from way back when.

”Here’s a bit of jazz for you”, lead singer Lemmy announces playfully to the French audience. ”We are Motorhead, and we play rock-‘n’-roll!”. And straight off, Lemmy, Phil and Mikey Dee tear into a blistering performance of their band logo, ‘Snaggletooth‘.

This live album has everything you would expect, and more, from the swish ‘Be My Baby‘ to the hard rock of ‘Over The Top‘, and a thundering version of ‘Overkill‘.
The most stand-out tune on the album is one dedicated  by Lemmy to the Thin Lizzy frontman, the late, great Phil Lynott – a fast, explosive cover of an original Bob Segar song, ‘Rosalie‘, a version which both Phil and Bob would surely approve of.

This a perfect album with great, golden, timeless treasures. It’s an album that definitely belongs in your hard rock collection. I give it a hundred out of a hundred, and, yes, everything here is louder than everything else!

Tracklist:

1. Snaggletooth
2. Stay Clean
3. Be My Baby
4. Killers
5. Metropolis
6. Over the Top
7. One Night Stand
8. I Got Mine
9. In the Name of Tragedy
10. Sword of Glory
11. Rosalie
12. Sacrifice
13. Just ‘Cos You Got the Power
14. Going to Brazil
15. Killed By Death
16. Iron Fist
17. Whorehouse Blues
18. Ace of Spades
19. Overkill