10 Overlooked Masterpiece Songs By Legendary Hard Rock Bands

England in the late '60s and early '70s was brimming over with notable hard rock acts.

Despite never achieving the levels of fame and fortune as many of the other bands on this list, London's Motorhead embodied the primal aesthetic of the hard rock genre. Loud and fast? Check. Wall of sound guitars? Present. Macho imagery? See the cover of 1980's Ace Of Spades, the album from which this entry derives.

Could there be a more fitting image for Motorhead's music than the sight of Lemmy and company posing as leather-clad, gun-slinging hombres against a desolate backdrop?

Any record containing a song as addictive and long-lived as the album's title-track, Ace Of Spades, is bound to contain overshadowed treasures and The Hammer certainly qualifies as such.

The song's parent record polled at a shockingly low 408 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, but listen to The Hammer for a taste of how uncompromising and affecting Motorhead are at their visceral best. This is hard rock going full pelt and not willing to put on the brakes for man nor beast.