1080. Motörhead / The Wörld Is Ours - Vol 2: Anyplace Crazy As Anywhere Else [Live]. 2012. 4/5

Much like I said in my review for the previous album, the positives and negatives of live album releases are many and varied. There is little doubt that if a band is going to make a habit of making live releases – something Motörhead has become proficient in over the years – then the material must good enough to encourage the fan to part with their hard earned cash to buy them. This relates not just to the quality of the performances themselves, but the material of which they are performing. A boring live performance makes no one happy.

Putting aside the good things for the moment, there are a couple of problems straight up with this release. The fact that it contains their entire performance from Wacken in 2011 is not one of them, but the set list probably is. Apart from a couple of minor changes it is the same set list that they did for the majority of this tour, and therefore almost identical to the set list found on the previous release. This creates a problem for the fan when it comes to buying, because what is here that is any different to what you may already have? What exacerbates this is the material that is brought in to fill out the second CD, because most of it also has been repeated and on this release itself. For goodness sakes, there are THREE separate versions of “Killed By Death” on this album alone, and I love this song, but surely no one needs three versions of it on! It’s nice to hear the band at Sonisphere and at Rock in Rio, but when it is just the same songs we have already heard it could be described as superfluous.

Despite this, the whole package is another very good live album. The band sounds great, though Lemmy’s vocals do at times sound like they have been given a heavy workout. The idea of recording the tour thoroughly, and giving the fans the chance to hear material from six different concerts over the course of that time is noteworthy. You just have to be up for hearing those songs on multiple occasions. And that’s not always an easy thing to do.

Rating: “We are Motörhead, and we play fucking rock and roll!”.  4/5