Another Perfect Day [Deluxe Edition]

Artist	Motörhead
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Sanctuary
Producer	Tony Platt
Release Date	2006 03 28
Song List	1: Back at the Funny Farm (4:13) 2: Shine (3:11) 3: Dancing on Your Grave (4:29) 4: Rock It (3:55) 5: One Track Mind (5:54) 6: Another Perfect Day (5:30) 7: Marching off to War (4:10) 8: I Got Mine (5:24) 9: Tales of Glory (2:55) 10: Die You Bastard! (4:24) 11: Turn You Round Again [Single B-Side][*] (3:55) 12: Back at the Funny Farm [Live][*] (4:06) 13: Tales of Glory [Live][*] (3:40) 14: Heart of Stone [Live][*] (3:11) 15: Shoot You in the Back [Live][*] (2:43) 16: Marching off to War [Live][*] (4:48) 17: Iron Horse [Live][*] (3:45) 18: Another Perfect Day [Live][*] (5:38) 19: (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Live][*] (6:39) 20: (Don't Need) Religion [Live][*] (2:43) 21: One Track Mind [Live][*] (6:12) 22: Go to Hell [Live][*] (2:59) 23: America [Live][*] (4:25) 24: Shine [Live][*] (3:08) 25: Dancing on Your Grave [Live][*] (5:42) 26: Rock It [Live][*] (4:38) 27: I Got Mine [Live][*] (5:36) 28: Bite the Bullet [Live][*] (1:34) 29: The Chase Is Better Than the Catch [Live][*] (5:42)
Style.Categories	New Wave of British Heavy Metal, British Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

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To this day, Another Perfect Day remains one of the most unique (albeit misunderstood) albums in the entire Motörhead catalog. The band's first effort sans legendary axe-meister "Fast" Eddie Clarke (following six albums, of which at least three are still considered timeless classics), Another Perfect Day would be the band's only outing with onetime Thin Lizzy axeman Brian "Robbo" Robertson. Clearly a nervous musical marriage from the start, the album captures Motörhead mainstays Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister and "Philthy Animal" Taylor struggling to adapt their raw power and unparalleled distortion to Robertson's more mainstream hard rock instincts and melodic tendencies. Thanks in part to Tony Platt's excellent production, Another Perfect Day ranks among the band's best-sounding records ever, but tinkering with a legendary formula is always fraught with danger (is that a boogie-woogie piano on "Rock It"?), and as one might expect, the results here are alternately exhilarating and sometimes frustrating. On the one hand, the glorious arpeggiated melodies that characterize singles "Dancing on Your Grave" and "Shine" (Robertson's most obvious contributions here) were a total shock to the system by classic Motörhead standards, but their popularity and ultimate longevity as band highlights is a testament to their excellence. Furthermore, other drawn-out blues exercises like "One Track Mind" (which wouldn't sound out of place on any number of early Ted Nugent albums) and "I Got Mine" simply took the intensity and power of previously delivered sub-three-minute blasts and diluted it into four to five minutes, which had some fans impatiently glancing at their clocks. The title track barely escapes this predicament, and tighter, punchier numbers like "Back at the Funny Farm" and "Die You Bastard" manage to revisit the classic bile and fury of years past, but Robertson's unwillingness to be a team player (refusing to play standards like "Bomber" live, never mind his ridiculous fashion sense) virtually guaranteed his eventual sacking. By extension, Another Perfect Day is doomed to be considered a curiosity to this very day. [Sanctuary Records reissued the early Motörhead albums in 2005/2006 as remastered double-disc deluxe editions. The Another Perfect Day volume includes a B-side ("Turn You Round Again") and a 18-song live recording from June 10, 1983 at the Manchester Apollo. There are also liner notes and excellent packaging, including booklet photos.] ~ Ed Rivadavia & John Franck, All Music Guide