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Corrected Genre

Without Wikipedia's stupid permission or whatever Motorhead was a part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and their music contained all metal riffs. Undisputed fact.

Early Timeline

The early timeline as written was incorrect - Eddie Clarke began playing with Motörhead in November 1975 and not March 1976. I'll add refs to support shortly, I personally bumped into Lemmy/Clarke at Sound Management in early November 1975. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indieshack (talk • contribs) 18:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

- Sigh** I see it's been reverted back to the incorrect timeline - I'll revert it back to my version once I collate refs.

Indieshack (talk) 18:51, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Personal knowledge is not verifiable and therefore not acceptable. Do not revert it back until this discussion is finished - FlightTime (open channel) 18:52, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where did I suggest using "personal knowledge" as a ref? Indieshack (talk) 18:58, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Indieshack: You didn't say you'd use it as a ref, but you did say I personally bumped into Lemmy/Clarke at Sound Management in early November 1975 which does imply the same. - FlightTime (open channel) 19:00, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Biker metal

Apparently, all of these sources call Motörhead biker metal.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Please vote with a oppose or support vote. ~SML • TP 14:53, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone? ~SML • TP 02:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone? ~SML • TP 15:35, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging could help. @Sabbatino: ~SML • TP 20:46, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose since that is not a subgenre. You can call your bands genre whatever you like, but we use what the majority sources say. – Sabbatino (talk) 07:30, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, it is a genre. And there are six references, it can just be in the infobox. ~SML • TP 10:33, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - I stated my opinion whether you like it or not. You will have to wait for more users to give their opinion in this vote (if it can even be called that). – Sabbatino (talk) 10:49, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - I wasn’t trying to convince you, your opinion alone has no value, people by numbers matter more. “And this vote”, no, people don’t always agree with you, especially with that type reasoning. And it is a vote.. obviously. ~SML • TP 10:53, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Prato, Greg. "Motorhead". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 September 2018. But still, there's no denying how important and influential this biker metal band has been
^ McIver, Joel. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
^ EPSTEIN, DAN. "Motorhead's Lemmy: 20 Essential Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 September 2018. A herald of the laid-back biker metal of the band's latter years, "Born to Raise Hell" is a Motörhead classic lacking any pretense.
^ Reynolds, Simon. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Serpent's Tail. p. 107.
^ WIEDERHORN, JON (24 March 2017). "39 YEARS AGO: MOTORHEAD PAVED THE WAY FOR THRASH WITH SECOND ALBUM 'OVERKILL'". Loudwire. Retrieved 23 September 2018. With their 1977 self-titled debut, Motörhead opened the floodgates for a new style of bluesy, bombastic biker metal, but two years later, on March 24, 1979, they rewrote the rule book altogether with the more urgent, combustive Overkill.
^ Armitage, Ian. Motorhead - Uncensored On the Record.

One hit wonder

Motorhead only had one hit song, in 1982. (86.148.226.32 (talk) 21:52, 18 October 2018 (UTC))[reply]

1)That’s extremely incorrect, they had so many other hits. 2)That doesn’t matter if they were. Your comment doesn’t matter here. ~SML • TP 21:54, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Ace of Spades" was their only hit. This should be mentioned in the article. (86.148.226.32 (talk) 21:58, 18 October 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Far from it. If you cared to look... (No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith). ~SML • TP 22:01, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It all depends on what you mean by "hit" I guess. Is there something useful you want to contribute, 86.148.226.32? JezGrove (talk) 22:05, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

According to www.officialcharts.com/artist/17135/motorhead/, Ace of Spades wasnt even their highest charting single, Golden Years and St Valentines Day Massacre both charted higher in UK. Issan Sumisu (talk) 06:17, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Prato, Greg. "Motorhead". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 September 2018. But still, there's no denying how important and influential this biker metal band has been

[Sabbath_Bloody_Sabbath-2] McIver, Joel. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

[3] EPSTEIN, DAN. "Motorhead's Lemmy: 20 Essential Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 September 2018. A herald of the laid-back biker metal of the band's latter years, "Born to Raise Hell" is a Motörhead classic lacking any pretense.

[4] Reynolds, Simon. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Serpent's Tail. p. 107.

[Loudwire-5] WIEDERHORN, JON (24 March 2017). "39 YEARS AGO: MOTORHEAD PAVED THE WAY FOR THRASH WITH SECOND ALBUM 'OVERKILL'". Loudwire. Retrieved 23 September 2018. With their 1977 self-titled debut, Motörhead opened the floodgates for a new style of bluesy, bombastic biker metal, but two years later, on March 24, 1979, they rewrote the rule book altogether with the more urgent, combustive Overkill.

[6] Armitage, Ian. Motorhead - Uncensored On the Record.

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