Vinyl Record

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades on LP vinyl. The 1980 metal classic for high-energy rock shelves, available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Metal · 1980

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1980 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Ace Of Spades is the 1980 Motörhead album where everything about the classic Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor lineup becomes brutally legible. The band had already released Overkill and Bomber in 1979, so the force was not new; what changes here is concentration. Working with producer Vic Maile, Motörhead turn speed, volume and black-humoured fatalism into an album that feels engineered for impact without losing grime. The title track became their deathless calling card, but the surrounding songs are just as important to the record's authority: Love Me Like a Reptile, Shoot You in the Back, Live to Win, Jailbait, The Chase Is Better Than the Catch and The Hammer all treat rock and roll as a high-speed collision between metal, punk and biker-bar blues. Lemmy's bass tone is not support; it is the engine. Clarke's guitar cuts through with dirty precision, while Taylor's drumming gives the chaos a reckless forward lean. Ace Of Spades is concise, funny, threatening and weirdly disciplined, the rare defining album that still sounds like it might ignore every rule attached to its own legacy.

Ace Of Spades matters because it fixed Motörhead's identity in public memory without reducing them to heavy metal, punk or hard rock alone. It captured a British band at the exact point where speed, ugliness, humour and pop-chart visibility could coexist, creating a template later extreme music would keep borrowing from.

For collectors, Ace Of Spades is non-negotiable because it is both the obvious Motörhead entry point and one of the few obvious choices that earns its reputation track by track. It belongs beside Overkill, Bomber and No Sleep 'til Hammersmith as the core run, with the title song only the door in.

Fast, filthy rock and roll with overdriven bass, clipped guitar attack, frantic drums, gravel-throated vocals, gambling fatalism, punk velocity and heavy-metal muscle.

Recommended for: Collectors building the essential Motörhead shelf; Listeners who want the bridge between punk speed and metal force; Fans of hard rock that feels dangerous, concise and unsentimental.

What year was Ace Of Spades released? Ace Of Spades was released in 1980 as Motörhead's fourth studio album. Is Ace Of Spades only about the title track? No. The title track is iconic, but Love Me Like a Reptile, Shoot You in the Back, Live to Win and The Hammer are central to the album's force. Which Motörhead lineup made Ace Of Spades? The classic trio of Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor made the album.