Bomber by Motorhead

Bomber was Motörhead's third studio album and their second for Bronze, and it arrived in 1979 hot on the heels of Overkill, the record where they'd finally hit their stride. With the Overkill title track in the UK top 40 and another Top of the Pops spot behind them, Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor went back into the studio that summer with Jimmy Miller producing, working at the Roundhouse and Olympic.

The catch was time. Overkill's songs had been hammered into shape on stage first; these hadn't, and Lemmy later grumbled that a few weeks on the road would have roughed them up. He had a point, there's a touch more gloss than usual, but it's still a power trio playing like a demolition crew: Lemmy's bass snarling like a busted engine, Clarke's riffs greasy and fast, Taylor battering the kit, with "Stone Dead Forever" charging hardest. It got to number 12 on the UK albums chart.

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