THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 10
MOTORHEAD – “We Are The Road Crew” (from the album All The Aces, and doubtless many others)
Brit-metal tends to either the fantastical or the brutally down-to-earth. Which side are Motorhead on, I wonder? “We Are The Road Crew” is a greasily empathic slog through the forgotten and hideous towns of England and Europe, a grind of jokes, drugs, women, but mostly just hard and boring work. It’s not their hardest rocking track by a country mile, but it’s possibly their most heartfelt.