Motörhead – 1916

Is there a better Motorhead song than "No Voices in the Sky"? Perfection.

In the liner notes: “stale and on a trendmill in our career, a change was needed. We decided a change of locale was an idea to try, and we think it’s done us good musically, and attitude-wise”. This record arose in the immediate of Lemmy’s relocation in America. The band’s sound enjoys an evident regeneration and hasn’t been so focused in years. Kilmister talked about this album as a renaissance upheavel and there are reasons to sense that here the band is on the right track to reconfirm its relevance at the wake of that turbulent period for rock music that were the nineties. The terrific opener “The one to sing the blues” fiercely chops the random listener eventual mistrust for the band entering a new decade with a vigorous execution and a well designed structure. Things get frantic with the ultrasonic “I’m so bad (baby I don’t care)” where the band is tighter than ever and proves its state of excellent form, with Lemmy sardonically lying to be “older than the Rolling Stones”. The punk libertarian cynical ‘eat the rich’ statement of “No voices in the sky” sums Lemmy’s doctrine while the high energy level continues with “Going to Brazil”, a stomping rock’n’roll shuffle on mescaline. The more thematic songs in line with the album’s title are the hazy “Nightmare/the dreamtime”, effective in picturing the trench soldiers’ paranoias and inescapable nightmares, but above all the title track is the real unexpected gem, conducted with keyboards and cello, in which Kilmister re the suffering and sacrifice of those very young World War I soldiers. It would be very emotional juxtaposing this song with the images from the final act of Kubrick’s “Paths of glory”. “Love me forever” is in step with its time, balancing a dark grunge arpeggio with a Sabbath flavoured chorus riff. “Angel city” is more fun and extols the joys of the L.A. rock star system where Lemmy had by then placed himself, allowing piano and sax in the band’s instrumentation. The rest is less relevant and more usual material, however maintaining an intense level of energy which fulfills the fans’ expectations about a sacred word for Motörhead that is integrity.

Hi all,
has it printed inner sleeve as european press?
My copy hasn't and many copies I saw on web hasn't as well.
please let me know