perfidy

Their deep commitment to rocking your intellect as thoroughly and enthusiastically as your hole.

Dig:

There are 23 generally accepted canonical works, mostly studio but some live records too. If you take the first letter of every word in the album title and string them out, you get this, the Motorhead Power Word:

MOBAoSNStHIFAPDNMORnRNSAA1916MoDBSOSSBLELTEEWAMTBoMHLaBAI

If you record yourself saying the canonical Power Word, then play the recording backwards at 1/3 speed, you should hear, "LEMMY ROCKS YOUR HEAD AND HOLE LEMMY ROCKS YOUR HEAD AND HOLE" in a forgotten dialect of Aramaic indigenous only to a small band of Levantine pirates who, in the early 1st century, used a smallish slab of Lemmy-shaped coral as their sea lair.

But that's not the half of it.

Consider the mystical number 23. Add that to the 57 characters of the Power Word and what do you get? 80.

Next consider the album title 1916. Pretty odd that it's the only numerically-titled release, no? And why that number? Well think it through:

1+9+1+6=17.

Now add that to 80 and you get 97. 97.

Ninety-seven is Lemmy's height in inches, or a hair under 8'1.

I mean, it's stuff like that, the number games, the language games, the historical awareness...the deep and broad intellectualism that is at the core of Motorhead's music and message is what makes them unique, and allows them to kick your ass in all kinds of subtle, eye-opening ways.

All I can say is, thanks.