What's Words Worth 2007 issue

[Juggernaut]

Got the WWW re-issue... Same crappy type of "cover" as the Overkill 7"... Just a printed paper as front and nothing as a back. Sure the record itself is the most important, but I can do a better cover if you give me a few hours with Photoshop.
There's a sheet with the tracks as well and it is in at least two different colors. The #17 & #18 has a purple sheet and #25 has a pink sheet...
I also got a pin-badge and a patch with each record. The badge seems to be of at least decent quality, the patch is a simple printed patch that's not even cut straight in the fabric.
If the record doesn't have beautiful sound, I'd say it's the rip-off of the year. Compared with the Devils jukebox re-issue of the holy grail I'd say this is crap...
So if you don't collect vinyls, stay away!

Can't believe that they ship stuff like this in the year of 2007...

[Legion]

(of course, gadget monkey Riccardo's interest is soon turning to the badge)

[El Matarife]

Ho hum, where to start. This reissue is quite a quiet master, it plays signigficantly quiter than the original (Big Beat NED 2). There is some noise in there and the overall sound is thin. Lemmy's bass is far less obvious than on the original and the drums and cymbals are particularly thin. This makes the guitar and vox seem more prominent.

With the bass and high trebble frequencies being less distinct, it gives the impression of having a lower dynamic range than the original. The crowd sounds are also fake and have been superimposed over the original audience (which were MUCH quieter). Furthermore these new crowd sounds are just the same whoops and hollers looped over and over in between each track.

Also there are GAPS in between in each track...on a live album...on vinyl. Say no more. If this is an official reissue then I'm a monkey's uncle.

NED 2 has a much deeper and far more three dimensional sound. So if this "Roundhouse" bootleg is representative of what the other Whats Words Worth bootlegs are like I can understand why it the album has gotten such a bad name over the years. I always wondered why people thought I was weird when I told them WWW was one of my favourite Motorhead live recordings. The original Big Beat vinyl sounds SO much better than this.

In it's defence the vinyl is relatively weighty, doesn't flex and is a very nice purple colour. The record labels are very smart too. Packaging is (as Juggernaut said) crappy, although the printed "front cover" insert is on nicer quality paper than the Overkill 7" had. The other insert looks like a photocopy on regular coloured paper. The patch is white paint, screened onto material the thickness of a valueweight t-shirt. The pin badge is fine and dandy, but no nicer than the one I got given free by some street team kids outside Brixton the other year.

[Juggernaut]

I'll quote you on that on another board...
And basically that means that you are completely fucked!

[El Matarife]

Yes sir!

As you said, this record is indeed the ripoff of the year!

How disappointing.

[Juggernaut]

Very...
It could have been very good but hey blew it. I wonder how many that would have bought it if they saw it for real first? I know I would have got one...

[Juggernaut]

According to LAFM it's really a legitimate license pressing.
He agrees that it's not very nice looking but that's not his fault. Devils Jukebox is a label that has nothing to do with the WWW re-release. His webstore LAFM sells both Devils Jukebox stuff but he also distributes Cleopatra stuff.
Devils jukebox has some more Motörhead stuff coming and it'll be the same quality as the graal release... That's something to look forward to...

Guess you are a monkey's uncle El Matarife... Sorry!