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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The legend of Lemmy lives on as Motorhead releases their 20th album on the year of their 35th anniversary, continuing their hard rock, heavy metal roller-coaster ride.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Mojo
    Apr 20, 2011
    80
    Their 21st studio album. Not so dissimilar to the other 20. [Feb. 2011, p. 108]
  2. Jan 27, 2011
    80
    There are a couple of lesser chug-alongs, but mostly it's as good as anything in the Motörhead canon.
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 3, 2011
    80
    The World Is Yours is the usual drill: fast, frenetic and very, very loud, with Lemmy belching his messages of defiance and rock'n'roll redemption like a raging, fire and brimstone preacher. Who would want it any other way? [Feb. 2011, p. 124]
  4. Jan 27, 2011
    70
    The World Is Yours won't set the world alight with insightful lyrics or experimentation, but that isn't what we've signed up for. This is an LP that just does not let up from the get go.
  5. Jan 27, 2011
    70
    Nothing Earth-shattering, but enough solid riffs and spiffy one-liners that won't seem too out-of-place during a headlining set.
  6. Feb 23, 2011
    60
    It's a curtain call, a salute to the masters by the master himself, and frankly, as moderate as The World Is Ours might be, one cannot deny that what Lemmy says, goes.
  7. Jan 27, 2011
    50
    Nary a tippy toe strays from the well-trodden path; it's as if Lemmy and the boys spent every couple of years locked in a studio with their own discography and no outside noises that might besmirch the purity of their brand. There are occasional hints of self-awareness.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Apr 18, 2011
    8
    This album was a revelation as I thought it would just be another Motorhead album, but bugger me I think they are getting better! Added toThis album was a revelation as I thought it would just be another Motorhead album, but bugger me I think they are getting better! Added to that the production and sound is great. Long live Lemmy! Expand