Ace of Spades was released by Motörhead in 1980 as the title track of their fourth album, with Lemmy Kilmister on vocals and bass. The song became the band's signature anthem, built around gambling imagery, and its final warning about the joker stuck with listeners long after the chorus. Short clips of that line later circulated on soundboards and in gaming and meme edits, where the phrase works as shorthand for an unexpected twist. It remains popular because the lyric is short, quotable and instantly tied to rock attitude.