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Another Perfect Day

Motorhead

Bronze Records, 1983

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 06/18/2000

N.B.: The version reviewed is the RoadRaced Revisitedreissue.

By 1983, Motorhead was experiencing inner turmoil. Guitarist"Fast" Eddie Clarke had departed the band the year prior, not longafter bassist/vocalist Lemmy Kilmister recorded a cover of "StandBy Your Man" with punk high priestess Wendy O. Williams. Clarke'sdeparture was the first major lineup change since 1976, when Clarkejoined the band and guitarist Larry Wallis left.

In was former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian "Robbo" Robertson, amusician who, in retrospect, was as out of place in Motorhead asPee-Wee Herman at a rave party. Musically, his style was muchdifferent than the balls-to-the-wall blues/rock that Motorhead hadbeen bashing out for nearly 10 years. Add to this the fact thatRobertson refused to play some of Motorhead's classic songs inconcert, and you knew that things had to get worse before they gotbetter.

The one album Roberston recorded with Motorhead, Another Perfect Day, is hardly the band's masterpiece - butit is also no waste of time. If anything, this could well beMotorhead's attempt to be Thin Lizzy - and, for the most part, theresult is forgettable.