Overkilling your ears with happiness!
I knew Motorhead Rocked, but this second effort shows them jelling into a classic band. All the big tunes, "Stay Clean", "Metropolis", and "Louie, Louie" Are solid. The ones I haven't heard "Pay Your Price", "Tear Ya Down", and "Limb By Limb" were great surprises too. If you're a Motorhead fan or are new to the band This ones a must have!

DRINK THIS SH** OUT THE BOTTLE!!!
If you think you know what they mean when they say "Heavy Metal" and you have never heard this album... than you are lying to yourself. Lemmy of Motorhead had been noodling around with a few sounds, and a few line-ups since about '74, trying to create a bar band that was as true to the term "Kick A&&" as he was. The peices slowly fell together a year or so earlier when he got the trio together to make up the first real line-up to Motorhead. While the debut album was a frenzy of hard rockin sound that literally bounced off your walls and into your brain stem, it was here with OVERKILL that the band took it past the limits and created the most balls out heavy metal experience around.
Overkill is the album that really shows how epic metal can be, without all of the extended jams or the drawn out solos. In fact, every song is pretty basic, and under five minutes. But it packs the punch. This album is best coupled with Bomber, the bands next release... however the latter album mellows out just a tad (it'll still make your mommas head explode though)... Overkill is pretty much the pinnacle, of nasty, bad ace rock,roll and metal. Arrrrrrgggggg....lets slug some whiskey and jump on things!

Great Early Motörhead
One of Motörhead's best, ... offers their usual mix of groove infused speed metal with some atmosphere ("Capricorn") and punk inspired hark rock ("Tear Ya Down"). A very strong album, with no weak tracks!

How Can You Give This Less Than Five Stars?
Some musical purists may turn up their noses, but I don't see how anyone who enjoys 30-40 minutes of straight-ahead, no-BS rock could dislike Motorhead.

"Overkill" is a 100-percenter of an album, meaning every cut here is a complete classic, and I never have to hit the "skip" button once. Furthermore, I'm going to need to create a new designation for future albums I review, called CVR.

CVR stands for Certified Volume Raiser, and it goes to any album that involuntarily causes me to reach for the control marked "Volume" and adjust so as to make the music louder. "Overkill" is one of those albums.

Anyway, rock albums that clock in at under 40 minutes with zero cheesy power ballads rule the earth. (Not that cheesy power ballads are always a bad thing.) "Overkill" fits that bill to a T, and you could make the argument that at times this record is almost punkish in its intensity. Alternatively, songs such as "Capricorn" and "Metropolis", nicely slow the pace down to that of a chugging runaway train, and kick tail THAT way.

The best song on this album is "Limb From Limb", which starts out as a Hendrix-like tune before opening up the throttle and going all-out toward its roaring conclusion. A classic. "Stay Clean" is another finalist for Best Song, because when you first hear it, it doesn't sound like anything special, but as with the best songs it gets better and better with every listen.

Everyone says Motorhead and this album in particular influenced speed metal. While that may be true, for me it's just good solid hard rock-type JAMS. A true CVR, indeed. 10 out of 10.

Awesome noise....Metallica deservers thanks for introducing me to this band...almost makes up for St. Anger....
I decided to buy this album because my good friends Metallica told me they really liked this band. They covered four songs of theirs on their garage, inc. album, so I thought they couldn't be that bad. And Motorhead are awesome! This is wonderful noise, especially the title track (which feels like it can go on forever, which is OK by me), and Stay Clean, which has a great bass solo in it. Lemmy can't really sing, but that's OK, I still dig the crazy vibe this album has. It's also hard to believe this guy are only a trio, as they sound larger than that. Overkill is a perfect introduction to the genius (?) of Motorhead.