On Parole Sessions

MOTÖRHEAD / / 3CD + Blu-ray (Japanese edition of the import, limited pressing, four discs) / Warner Music Japan

On Parole was meant to be Motörhead's first album: Lemmy, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummers Lucas Fox and Phil Taylor recorded it in 1975 and 1976, United Artists shelved it, and it only came out in 1979.

MOTÖRHEAD - On Parole Sessions album cover

CD Details

ArtistMOTÖRHEAD
TitleOn Parole Sessions
Release date
LabelWarner Music Japan
Format3CD + Blu-ray (Japanese edition of the import, limited pressing, four discs)
Catalog No.WPZR-31105/8
Tracks51

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Track List

  1. [Disc 1] Motorhead
  2. [Disc 1] On Parole
  3. [Disc 1] Vibrator
  4. [Disc 1] Iron Horse-Born to Lose
  5. [Disc 1] City Kids
  6. [Disc 1] Fools
  7. [Disc 1] The Watcher
  8. [Disc 1] Leaving Here
  9. [Disc 1] Lost Johnny
  10. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Instrumental Take 1)
  11. [Disc 2] Studio Dialogue 1
  12. [Disc 2] City Kids (Take 1)
  13. [Disc 2] City Kids (Instrumental Outtake 1)
  14. [Disc 2] City Kids (Instrumental Outtake 2)
  15. [Disc 2] Studio Dialogue 2
  16. [Disc 2] City Kids (Instrumental Outtake 3)
  17. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Album Take-without bike intro)
  18. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Album Take-backing track)
  19. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Album Take)
  20. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Instrumental Take 2)
  21. [Disc 2] Drum Solo
  22. [Disc 2] Studio Dialogue 3
  23. [Disc 2] Fools (Take 1-Demo Version)
  24. [Disc 2] City Kids (Album Take)
  25. [Disc 2] City Kids (Album Take-with piano)
  26. [Disc 2] Studio Dialogue 4
  27. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Take 5-backing track)
  28. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Take 5-without vocal overdubs)
  29. [Disc 2] Motorhead (Take 5)
  30. [Disc 2] Lost Johnny (Album Take)
  31. [Disc 2] Leaving Here (Instrumental Take 1)
  32. [Disc 2] Leaving Here (Album Take)
  33. [Disc 2] Studio Dialogue 5
  34. [Disc 2] On Parole (Instrumental Take 1)
  35. [Disc 2] On Parole (Instrumental Take 2 with false-start)
  36. [Disc 2] Iron Horse-Born To Lose (Album Take)
  37. [Disc 3] Jam / On Parole (Instrumental Jam)
  38. [Disc 3] Iron Horse-Born To Lose (Take 4-Vocal Take 2)
  39. [Disc 3] On Parole (Album Take-Extended Version)
  40. [Disc 3] Studio Dialogue 6
  41. [Disc 3] The Watcher (Album Take)
  42. [Disc 3] Vibrator (Album Take-without vibrator)
  43. [Disc 3] Vibrator (Album Take-with vibrator)
  44. [Disc 3] Iron Horse-Born To Lose (Instrumental Jam)
  45. [Disc 3] Studio Dialogue 7
  46. [Disc 3] Iron Horse-Born To Lose (Instrumental)
  47. [Disc 3] Studio Dialogue 8
  48. [Disc 3] Fools (Instrumental Jam)
  49. [Disc 3] Fools (Album Take-Extended Version)
  50. [Disc 3] Studio Dialogue 9
  51. [Disc 3] Motorhead (Instrumental Guitar Riff)
LINER NOTES
On Parole was meant to be Motörhead's first album: Lemmy, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummers Lucas Fox and Phil Taylor recorded it in 1975 and 1976, United Artists shelved it, and it only came out in 1979. Half a century after those sessions wrapped in early 1976, this four-disc set gathers them in full. Steven Wilson's 2025 remix of the nine-song album fills the first CD, and Richard Digby Smith's 2025 mixes of the session tapes, 42 tracks of outtakes, instrumental takes and studio chatter, fill the second and third. The Blu-ray holds Wilson's Atmos and stereo remixes, a 5.1 mix and a flat transfer of the original LP. Released worldwide on 17 April 2026, the set appeared in Japan the same day as a limited Warner Music Japan edition (WPZR-31105/8) with a booklet of more than 40 pages, Japanese notes, a translation of the liner notes, lyrics with translations and a poster.