Tear Ya Down: The Rarities
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| Compilation album by Motörhead | ||||
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7 May 2002 (Tear Ya Down: The Rarities) 29 October 2002 (Speed Not Comfort) |
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| Recorded | 1977–1980 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length |
1:22:02 (Tear Ya Down: The Rarities) 1:37:06 (Speed Not Comfort) |
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| Label |
Metal-Is (Tear Ya Down: The Rarities) Eagle Records (Speed Not Comfort) |
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7 May 2002 (Tear Ya Down: The Rarities)
1:22:02 (Tear Ya Down: The Rarities)
Metal-Is (Tear Ya Down: The Rarities)
Tear Ya Down: The Rarities (also released as Speed Not Comfort) is a 2-CD compilation album by the band Motörhead, released in 2002 on the Metal-Is label.
Tear Ya Down: The Rarities features many alternative recordings and rare tracks throughout Motörhead's early history from 1977 to 1980.
The compilation was also released a second time in 2002 under the title Speed Not Comfort through the Label Eagle Records with a shuffled track listing and three live tracks from Blitzkrieg on Birmingham '77 as a bonus.
Speed Not Comfort features the same tracks as Tear Ya Down: The Rarities but on this compilation the tracks are shuffled and not in the same order as on the original semi-official releases Dirty Love and Stone Dead Forever. This compilation also added three live tracks from the semi-official live album Blitzkrieg on Birmingham '77. Another difference is that Speed Not Comfort includes a longer version of the song "Dirty Love", which consists of the short outtake and the so-called "Full version" (look at the track listing of Tear Ya Down: The Rarities), although the "Full version" itself (without the outtake) is included as well. On this compilation the song "Like a Nightmare" is called "Nightmare", like on the original release Stone Dead Forever. While the booklet of Tear Ya Down: The Rarities includes descriptions about the songs of this compilation, Speed Not Comfort contains liner notes by Roy Davies.
All the alternative versions of these songs were later included on the 2005 released deluxe editions of the albums Overkill, Bomber and Ace of Spades.
All three live versions were recorded at the Town Hall in Birmingham on June 3, 1977 and were originally released on the semi-official live album Blitzkrieg on Birmingham '77 in 1989. The tracks are also included in the 2002 released live compilation Keep Us on the Road – Live 1977, which contains both semi official-live albums Blitzkrieg on Birmingham '77 and Lock up Your Daughters.
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