Talk:Ace of Spades (Motörhead album)/Archive 1

Restructure and some new details
Rejigged the article and changed some content: Drwhawkfan (talk) 12:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * removed "In a Cingular commercial, "The Ace of Spades" is sung by a guy in bar who has no signal for his cellphone." – if this is significant, I guess it should be on the "Ace of Spades (song)" article.
 * removed "The date of the song is actually queeried between the year 1980 and the year 1981." – This statement is vague (which song?), but I'm certain that what it is trying to say is incorrect – the album was released in 1980.
 * changed "one of the best metal albums by any band, ever, period" – removed the "period" from the end, there's no need to spell out punctuation, and in England a period is known as a full stop.

Genre
Allmusic review of album puts this as "Pop/Rock" in their "genre" with Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal as the "style". Christgau says "Punks have never bought his leather jacket and indie connections because Lemmy Kilmister's grizzled-biker-born-to-rock is metal without the heavy--no preening solos or blow-dried bullshit." Metal without the heavy and connected to punk, not easy to sum up in the info box. Any discussion of the genre should be first in the body of the article and then summarised in the infobox, I have reset it to Pop/Rock as the overall summary, based on the allmusic source.--Alf melmac 08:30, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have reverted the article based on the reasoning above. I would point out that the main Motorhead article refers to the band as a rock band in the first sentence. In this article the band is identified as a heavy metal band in the first sentence. For consistency shouldn't all the Motorhead album pages match the main band article? Aussie Ausborn (talk) 13:08, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

For god's sake everyone, Motörhead is and has always been heavy metal! This record included! Can't anyone hear that on it?! (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:45, 9 May 2009 (UTC).
 * While I wouldn't disagree that 'they are heavy metal' - what sources say this record is heavy metal - the sources used in the article give genre as Pop/Rock per the first comment in this thread. Can you provide a reliable cite to say otherwise.--Alf melmac 12:57, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 14:08, 1 May 2016 (UTC)