1637 - Motörhead Bomber 1979

Motörhead's first war cry is one of their greatest salvos. "Bomber" sounds like the deadly airplane it celebrates: a megaton blast of gritty distortion, squelching yowls and loose shrapnel riffage. "We shoot to kill, and you know we always will," Lemmy sings like a threat and a brag at the same time. The group anted up the war imagery on tour by bringing a 30-foot wide lighting rig that resembled a World War II plane with them. "I was reading Len Deighton's book Bomber at the time I wrote it," Lemmy told Rolling Stone this year. "It's about a bombing raid on Germany when the British hit the wrong town, and it's what goes on the floor in the air from both sides. It's a really good book."