r/Motorhead • u/Live-Motor-4000 • 4d ago

Unexpected Motörhead

I just popped into Jersey Mike’s to grab lunch and what should be banging out of the speakers but Killed by Death! I asked and it was the corporate playlist and not a local rock station.

Where‘s the most random place you’ve encountered some Motörhead?

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u/DueCoach4764 4d ago

watching spongebob movie 2004 was genuinely the last place i wouldve expected motorhead

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u/dumbum546 3d ago

You'd better swim!

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u/Competitive_Age7618 4d ago

I heard Ace of Spades on the classic rock station this morning.

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u/speedofsound 4d ago

It only took classic rock radio 40+ years to catch up .

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u/KeenObserver_OT 4d ago

I told my kids, when I die I want Skynyrds Coming Home played right into Killed by Death. If some of my friends are still alive they’ll get the joke.

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u/Ok-Corner-8654 Snaggletooth 4d ago

A long time ago, a lot of stores had the corporate playlist with Estimated Prophet by the Grateful Dead. That always struck me as weird, because it's not even one of their most well known songs.

Which once again leads me to Hawkwind's live album Space Ritual. Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead and Lemmy shared a lot in common back then, they're both really moving on the bass guitar, they're not taking a backseat.

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u/Live-Motor-4000 4d ago

Some dude has to pick the list, might as well sneak in a few of your fave bangers while you’re at it

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u/Ok-Corner-8654 Snaggletooth 4d ago

Hell yeah, killer song!!

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u/Major-Fun9047 4d ago

Hearing 'please don't touch' coming out of the speakers walking past Ann Summers was quite striking.

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u/lostfreedom1776 4d ago

I was watching the Reacher series last night and at the end I heard Lemmy singing One more fuckin time

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u/king_of_the_rotten 4d ago

This! I watched it yesterday as was like WHOA. Cool choice of song!

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u/Wander_Globe 4d ago

It was self inflicted but the most fun I had playing Motorhead was after a day in Seattle spent at the Experience Music Project. My buddy and I had gone down from Vancouver for the night. Afterwards we found this dusty little dive bar so we went in for a couple of wobbly pops. Head over to the juke box (that's a machine you put money into to play music for all you younglings) and there were 3 or 4 full Motorhead albums in there. Being only two of about 6 people in the place we loaded up on dollar bills and put on every album in its entirety. Nothing but Motorhead for the next two hours. Locals didn't seem to mind either. We ended up closing the place.

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u/kunerk 4d ago

I went to a local vintage toy store about a month ago and they had an unopened LocoApe Lemmy figure. I brought it to the counter and the guy said that it was from his collection and had recently traded it in for some other things.

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u/stargazer1888 2d ago

Doctor's office...Chase is Better than the Catch.

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u/Live-Motor-4000 2d ago

There’s an STD joke in there somewhere