1079. Motörhead / The Wörld Is Ours - Vol 1: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else [Live]. 2011. 4/5

There are positives and negatives of releasing a live album. But when it comes to a regular litany of live releases the major problem you have is ensuring each has a uniqueness that enables it to be different from the previous live album or the future live album, so that you can maximise the sales. Because let’s face it, if you are only playing the same songs live all the time, then just how do you expect to sell live albums? This is just one of the questions that needs to be acted on when you are on the verge of releasing two live albums, almost back to back.

The Wörld Is Ours - Vol 1: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else was recorded over the first half of the tour that followed the release of the album The Wörld Is Yours. With the studio album, this album and the follow up live album it gave Motörhead three years with consecutive album releases, enough for even the most diehard fan to digest.
There are three parts to the two CD collection. It has the entire 17 song setlist from Santiago, Chile in April 2011, with the four final song taking up the first part of the second CD. It contains two songs off the new album (“Get Back in Line” and “I Know How to Die”), two from the previous album Motörizer (“Rock Out” and “The Thousand Names of God”) and one from Inferno (“In the Name of Tragedy”). The remainder are all from the distant past and are mostly classed as the fan favourites.
The remainder of the second CD is filled with songs from two other shows, one in New York and one in Manchester. While there are a few different songs here than were played in Chile, there are also a few double-ups, which seems a little strange for a release such as this. I don’t have a problem with the band filling space with different songs from places they have played on tour, but the same song? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Is this a good live album? Well yes, it is. It fulfills the brief by having new material the band is touring on and the great songs. The question could be asked though as to whether it could be better? Possibly, but that precludes the fact that there are plenty of songs from the band’s back catalogue that I would have liked to have heard. That’s not what this is about. It is a faithful recording of this tour – the first half anyway – and for that it is well worth the effort.

Rating: “You know me, you can't resist, Devil's grip, the iron fist”. 4/5