1916 (album)
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| Studio album by Motörhead | ||||
| Released | 26 February 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 39:28 | |||
| Label | WTG / Epic | |||
| Producer | Peter Solley, Ed Stasium | |||
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | A+ |
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1916 is the ninth studio album by the band Motörhead, released 26 February 1991, on WTG Records (a subsidiary of Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music International), their first with the label.1916 reached number 24 in UK charts and number 142 in the US. The single "The One to Sing the Blues" peaked at #45.
In 1990, Motörhead vocalist and bassist Lemmy Kilmister moved from England to the U.S., settling in West Hollywood within walking distance of the Rainbow Bar and Grill. With Phil Carson managing the band, the sessions for what would become the album 1916 began with Ed Stasium, who was best known for producing Living Colour. In the studio the band recorded four songs with the producer before deciding he had to go. When Lemmy listened to one of the mixes of Going to Brazil, he asked for him to turn up four tracks, and on doing so heard claves and tambourines Stasium had added without the band's knowledge. Stasium was fired and Pete Solley was hired as producer. According to Stasium, Lemmy's drug and alcohol intake had far exceeded the limitations of Stasium's patience so he quit.
1916 was Motörhead's first studio album in nearly four years, and their first release on WTG after their legal battle with GWR Records was resolved. Some of the songs on 1916 – including "The One to Sing the Blues," "I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)," "No Voices in the Sky," "Going to Brazil" and "Shut You Down" – were originally performed live on Motörhead's 1989 and 1990 tours. The title track, an uncharacteristically slow ballad in which Lemmy's singing is only lightly accompanied, is a tribute to and reflection on young soldiers who fell in battle during World War I. In his 2002 memoir, Lemmy reveals that the song was inspired by the Battle of the Somme:
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