[Album Review] Motörhead | Another Perfect Day

Released in 1983, Motörhead’s sixth studio album, Another Perfect Day, is also the first post “classic lineup” with “Fast” Eddie Clark exiting the band to create Fastway the year prior. Enter guitarist Brian “Robbo” Robertson of Thin Lizzy fame. Technically, he was the better axeman, but many fans rejected his ballet slippers and satin shorts. What really sealed his fate, however, was weak album sales.

Well, Robbo’s seemingly universal rejection aside, let’s see if Lemmy and crew can create another perfect album.

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Back At The Funny Farm: A+
I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long. Bless you, Lemmy.

Shine: A+
This riff is so good Lemmy ripped it off for Boogeyman a few years later.

Dancing On Your Grave: A
Love the killer guitar solo over the bridge. Play this at my funeral.

Rock It: A+
Is that a piano in a Motörhead song? My head is going through the wall whenever this comes on.

One Track Mind: A
Pounding slow number that I’d almost rank as high as Stone Dead Forever.

Another Perfect Day: A
Robbo’s blues licks carry this tune to the finish line. I like how the band explodes into the track after the little intro.

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Marching Off To War: B
Finally, a song that is just OK. Standard fare for Motörhead.

I Got Mine: A+
This is the album’s single and I love it. It should have been a hit! Check out that exceptional outro solo!

Tales of Glory: A-
The riff is a variation of Over The Top, which messes with my head a wee bit.

Die You Bastard: B+
The song is a bit messy, but that groove is so good. You know what? Play this one at my funeral, too.

CD bonus track: Turn You Around: A+
Should have made the album.

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Overkill edges out Another Perfect Day as the best Motörhead album from the early years, but it is close for me. When compared to the band’s other albums from the same era, the songs are superior to chunks of Ace of Spades and more consistent than Bomber. It is definitely ahead of the previous album, Iron Fist, and the bunch that followed it, Orgasmatron, Rock ‘N Roll, 1916, and March ör Die.

Lemmy’s songwriting was on fire as 8 outta 10 of these are bona fide bangers. Plus, this is easily the best-sounding Motörhead album from the ’80s. Quote me on it. Tony Platt (AC/DC, Cheap Trick), who was/is a top-notch engineer took on the role of producer this time. He captured the band like no one else could before and no one would again until Bastards in ’93.

As for “Robbo”, most modern takes on his single album tenure are 180° from the initial poor reception he got. It seems like those negative fans took as long as he had in the studio to come around. Although not a shredder like Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhoads, his savage blues licks iced the Another Perfect Day cake. The man earned a free pass from me even if he had taken the stage dressed like Donald Duck.

5/5

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32 thoughts on “[Album Review] Motörhead | Another Perfect Day”

  1. Another Perfect Review.

    This is my favourite Motorhead. I liked Lizzy first, so that seems natural.

    I kind of wish I was a Motorhead fan back in the 80s so I could have ragged on the satin shorts too.

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      1. GUILTY. I cared. If a band didn’t look cool, I didn’t give them a chance. Heck I boycotted Skid Row for 2 years over a nose chain.

        I can attest it was a very real mindset, partly based on peer pressure.

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      2. I didn’t care for the most part, as long as I liked the music. But when Metallica came out with Load… the hair cuts, I was fine with. The eye shadow and black nail polish came off as poser moves to me. Not metal, lol

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      3. It didn’t seem very Metallica, but at that time I was far more open minded. Grunge forced me to change my stance on looks. Here we had bands with (gasp) short hair? Purple hair? I had to chance my prejudices.

        To be fair to Metallica, it was mostly (mostly) Kirk who went with the nail polish and stuff, and he was always the industrial goth member who bought Ministry albums.

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      4. Lars had some eyeshadow going on too. I’m referring mostly about the Until It Sleeps video which was my intro and outro to this new Metallica business. I was listening to all sorts of bands with weird looks, so I’m sure I would not have cared if I enjoyed Load.

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      9. More than likely. I think we also all expand our tastes as we grow. At least most of us do. Some of regress. I think I’ve both grown and regressed. Especially since leaving the record store. I really embraced all the metal bands that they wouldn’t let me play back then.

        I woke up this morning to see the old store I managed was broken in to!

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      11. I think they’re a bit shaken, I know I would have been. Man I remember one night the staff left the door unlocked. Thank God no breakins.

        The budget thing is an ongoing struggle! I still need the Live Evil reissue! I think you have that one?

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  4. YES! Recently played this one after not having heard it in many years. Forgot how good it was! Completely agree with your scoring / grading. This is still the only Motörhead I own on vinyl, but what an album to have! I just love those opening notes of “I Got Mine” when the needle drops, which brings up this point: The track listing on my record is totally different from when I look up the track listing online. My copy opens up with “I Got Mine”, how about yours? I’ll have to take it out again and give it a look. I believe it’s a Canadian pressing…
    I’m not familiar with that bonus track, so I’ll have to check it out. Great review, Kevin!

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    1. Thanks, Jex! I had no idea there were copies with a different track listing. I’ve only owned the CD in the photo that I got around ’98 and the remastered album from a trip to Montreal in 2018. They both have the same track list as what is on Wikipedia. I might have to do a deep dive on Discogs about this now, lol

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