The album received generally positive reviews. Robert Christgau, who gave it a positive review, stated: "I admire metal's integrity, brutality, and obsessiveness, but I can't stand its delusions of grandeur--the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility. One thing I like about Lemmy is that he's proud to be a clod; common as muck and dogged in his will to make himself felt as just that. Add that rarest of metal virtues, a sense of humor, which definitely extends to the music's own conventions, as on the lead cut of his first album in three litigation-packed years: 'Deaf Forever,' a good enough joke right there (especially for Sabbath fans), it turns out to be a battlefield anthem--about a corpse. And then add Bill Laswell, who was born to make megalomania signify: where most metal production gravitates toward a dull thud that highlights the shriek of the singer and the comforting reverberation of the signature guitar, Laswell's fierce clarity cracks like a whip, inspiring Lemmy, never a slowpoke in this league, to bellow one called 'Built for Speed.' Result: work of art." In 1991, Chuck Eddy ranked Orgasmastron at number 72 in his book of the 500 best heavy metal albums. He notes that it "in no way caters" to speed metal, as evidenced by record's "explicitly disco-influenced backbeat", the slower songs with 'rapped' vocals that form its centrepiece, the excessive production from Laswell (who typically works with artists like Afrika Bambaataa or Herbie Hancock) and it appearing on "a label that usually works with Run-D.M.C.", as well as the Woody Allen reference of the title. Considering it to be simultaneously the most commercial and riskiest music Motörhead ever recorded, Eddy credits Laswell for accentuating the band's attack by placing the bottom end forward and writes: "Each side begins with a gargantuan syncopation-rock 'dance'-tune, breaks down to a couple familiarly rebellious rapid-fire detonations, then climaxes with a claustrophobic nightmare framed in no-wave white noise."

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References

  • Motörhead official website