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  Cover Ace of Spades (song)jpg
  Artist Motörhead
  From Album Ace Of Spades
  B-side Dirty Love
  Released October 27 1980
  Format 7" <br> 12"
  Recorded 4 August – 15 September 1980 <br>Jackson's Studios, Rickmansworth , UK
  Genre Heavy Metal
  Length 2:49
  Label Bronze Records
  Writer Eddie Clarke <br> Lemmy <br> Phil Taylor
  Producer Vic Maile
  Chart Position #15 <small>( UK Singles )
  Last Single " Bomber "<br>( 1979 )
  This Single "'''Ace of Spades'''" <br>( 1980 )
  Next Single " Motorhead (live) "<br>( 1981 )
  Misc {{Extra album cover 2
  Upper Caption Alternate cover
  Type Single
  Cover AoS Christmasjpg
  Lower Caption Christmas picture sleeve edition





"Ace of Spades" is a song by the Heavy Metal band Motörhead .

Initially released as a 7" vinyl Single on October 27 , 1980 as a preview to the album '' Ace Of Spades '' and autumn tour, Bronze Records also released a 12" vinyl pressing in special 'Christmas' picture sleeves, limited to 50,000 copies. The picture of the band in Santa outfits used on the cover was taken while the band were on tour at the Aylesbury Fair. In November the song reached #15 in the UK Singles Chart .1 The song is considered to be the definitive Motörhead anthem,2 and "put a choke on the English music charts and proved to all that a band could succeed without sacrificing its blunt power and speed".3It is considered to be a metal masterpiece.

Bronze also issued German and Spanish 7" vinyl versions which had a different sleeves, as well as a Japanese import, with a colour picture insert with song lyrics in English and Japanese. One sided test pressings (not mis-presses, used in the trade) escaped the pressing plant and are on the market.4

For the lyrics, Lemmy said he "used gambling metaphors, mostly cards and dice - when it comes to that sort of thing, I'm more into the One-arm Bandits actually, but you can't really sing about spinning fruit, and the wheels coming down".Kilmister, Lemmy & Garza, Janiss ''White Line Fever'' Published: 2002, Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
ISBN 0-684-85868-1

On September 6 , 1980 Lemmy was interviewed by Graham Neil on BBC Radio 1 's ''Rock On Saturday'' show, " Bomber ", "Ace of Spades" and "Love Me Like a Reptile" were played. The following month, on October 6 and October 20 , the band played the song on BBC TV show '' Top Of The Pops ''.Burridge, Alan ''Illustrated Collector's Guide to Motörhead'' Published: 1995, Collector's Guide Publishing
ISBN 0-9695736-2-6

In 1988 another recording of the song was released - Ace Of Spades (live) - and later withdrawn.

In September 1993 WGAF Records re-released the original 1980s track on CD-single, cassette single, 12" vinyl picture sleeve and picture disc versions, the song was covered with " Louie Louie ", "Dirty Love", and "Ace of Spades (The CCN Remix)", and although the band were not too pleased with the CCN Remix version, this single reached #23 in the UK charts.

The song ranked in at #10 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs.''"VH1 40 Greatest Metal Songs"'', 1-4 May 2006, ''VH1'' Channel, reported by VH1.com ; last accessed September 10 , 2006 . In March 2005, ''Q'' Magazine placed it at #27 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.


SINGLE TRACK LISTING


7" & 12"

# "Ace of Spades" ( Lemmy , Eddie Clarke , Phil Taylor ) - 2:49
# "Dirty Love" (Lemmy, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:57


IN POPULAR CULTURE

  • This was the first song that Phil Campbell and Wurzel played with the band - on the Bambi episode of '' The Young Ones ''. The line up is particularly rare until 1987: Lemmy, Campbell, Wurzel and Taylor. Taylor had already left the band by the time the filming started, but kept to his promise of making the performance.

  • The song is used in the 1998 Golden Wonder Pot Noodle , the 2000 IKEA furniture, the 2003 Clark's Marathon Boy, and the 2005 Walkers Crisps television advertisements.

  • The song was used in an episode of BBC's motoring show, ''.

  • The song was used in the movie '' Grosse Pointe Blank '', during a gunfight in a convenience store between hitman Martin Blank ( John Cusack ) and another hitman sent after him, a teenager is playing an arcade game to the sound of ''Ace of Spades'' at maximum volume in his headphones and escapes unharmed, completely oblivious to the destruction unfolding around him. During the opening credits of '' Zombie Nightmare '', a movie that would later be used for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 , the song is played and the characters of the show make comments about the lyrics. The song is used in the introductory scene for The Tremors in the movie '' Smokin' Aces ''.

  • The song is used in the Video Game s '' Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 '', as the main song of the game, and in '' Guitar Hero ''; when song packs from the original game were released for Guitar Hero II on Xbox 360 , this song was included in one of the packs. The is featured on the soundtrack of the baseball game '' The Bigs '' as well as in the television commercial for it.

  • A retrospective review of the song by music magazine Q once memorably stated: ''"This song has an intro which wouldn't be out of place ushering in the end of the world."''

  • Between 8pm and 2am on November 9 , 2005 at The Boat nightclub in Toronto, the song was played 128 times consecutively.5

  • After a 15 year career with the network, DJ Simon Mayo played the song to end his final show on BBC Radio 1 in 2001. The comedian, Noel Fielding , described the song as the sound of his childhood, as his parents would play it constantly.

  • The song also appears in the 2007 Judd Apatow comedy Superbad starring Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill .



CREDITS

  • Guitars, vocals - Fast Eddie Clarke

  • Drums - Philthy Animal Taylor

  • Bass, lead vocals - Lemmy



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