Motörhead – The Löst Tapes - The Collection (Vol. 1-5) 8CD Box Set

Motörhead – The Löst Tapes - The Collection (Vol. 1-5) 

Cassette tapes. Remember those? Those things with the dual spools and loads of wide brown plastic recording string that’d occasionally unravel and hang out of the shell, requiring a pencil and firm wrist to spin back into place?

Yeah, well, once upon a time, old-school sound systems contained cassette decks for the express purpose of recording shows, and these “cassette” things were a standard part of every tour. Motörhead were certainly no exception, recording show after show. They contain gold, pure aural gold, and had for many years sat hundreds of feet underground in a small cave Lemmy owned, guarded by small, hairy centurions in Roman armour with small spears and bad attitudes.

Only the magic password would release them, and thankfully, Lem had scribbled it down and left it inside an old sketch book for us. There were loads of the dirty, dusty, greasy little buggers gathered, with the likes of Malmö, Madrid, Heilbronn and Norwich scrawled in biro on the tiny labels alongside a date…and thus we started to make available this unique collection of live gems via carefully digitized transfers, in a series of releases titled The Löst Tapes.

To date five concerts from these tape cassette documents of Motörhead’s ear splitting live performances from across the decades have been released digitally, with volumes 1 to 4 also receiving limited edition vinyl editions. Now, due to overwhelming demand the collection of volumes 1 to 5 will now be available as a CD box set collection from February 23rd, with the latest volume 5 also pressed on vinyl.

This 8CD box set brings together the five volumes of the Lost Tapes series - 97 tracks in all - and includes :

The Löst Tapes Vol 1: Live at Sala Aqualung, Madrid 1st June 1995 (2CD)
The Löst Tapes Vol 2: Live at University of East Anglia Norwich, 18th October 1998 (2CD)
The Löst Tapes Vol 3: Live at KB Hallen, Malmö 17th November 2000 (2CD)
The Löst Tapes Vol 4: Live at Sporthalle, Heilbronn, 29th December 1984 (1CD)
The Löst Tapes Vol 5: Live at Donington, Download Festival 13th June 2008 (1CD)

Also includes a limited edition sticker.

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Label: BMG
Released: 2024