Mott the Hoople (album)

Mott the Hoople (album)
Mott the Hoople
Studio album by Mott the Hoople
Released November 1969 UK, 1970 US
Recorded May-June 1969, Morgan Studios, Willesden, London
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length 38:26
46:22 (2003 reissue)
Label (UK) Island Records ILPS 9108
(US) Atlantic Records SD 8258
Producer Guy Stevens
Mott the Hoople chronology
Mott the Hoople
(1969)
Mad Shadows
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]

Mott the Hoople is the debut album by the band of the same name. It was produced by Guy Stevens and released in 1969 by Island Records in the UK, and in 1970 by Atlantic Records in the US.

Stevens, the group's initial mentor and guide, wanted to create an album that would suggest Bob Dylan singing with the Rolling Stones. This was partially achieved, with the album including several Dylanesque cover versions along with aggressive rock originals. Years later, vocalist Ian Hunter - who had only just joined the band prior to Mott the Hoople's recording and had yet to play live with them - would insinuate, in a 1980 Trouser Press magazine interview, that the Stones' 1971 track "Bitch" bore more than a passing resemblance to this album's "Rock and Roll Queen." (Both songs are in the key of Am, and use the pentatonic scale.)

An instrumental version of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" introduces the album, though a vocal version was recorded and is available on Mott's compilation release Two Miles From Heaven. Doug Sahm's "At the Crossroads" (originally recorded by Sahm's Sir Douglas Quintet in 1968) and Sonny Bono's "Laugh at Me" (originally issued by Sonny & Cher on their second full-length album in 1966, but without vocals from Cher) are suitably reminiscent of Bob Dylan, as is Hunter's "Backsliding Fearlessly." Initial copies of the album were wrongly pressed with "The Road to Birmingham," the flip side of their debut single, replacing "Rock and Roll Queen."

The album's cover is a colourised reproduction of M. C. Escher's lithograph "Reptiles." In an interesting coincidence considering Guy Stevens' desire for Mott to sound like the Rolling Stones, in early 1969 Mick Jagger had approached Escher wanting to commission a painting for the cover of the Stones' upcoming album Let It Bleed; Escher declined the request.[2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies) 2.55
  2. "At the Crossroads" (Doug Sahm) 5.33
  3. "Laugh At Me" (Sonny Bono) 6.32
  4. "Backsliding Fearlessly" (Ian Hunter) 3.47
  5. "Rock and Roll Queen" (Mick Ralphs) 5.10
  6. "Rabbit Foot and Toby Time" (Mick Ralphs) 2.04
  7. "Half Moon Bay" (Mick Ralphs, Ian Hunter) 10.38
  8. "Wrath and Wroll" (Guy Stevens) 1.49

2003 CD bonus tracks

  1. "Ohio" (Neil Young) 4.26
  2. "Find Your Way" (Mick Ralphs) 3.30

Personnel

Charts

Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1970 Pop Albums 185

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Wyman, Bill and Ray Coleman (1990). Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock 'n' Roll Band, Penguin/Signet, ISBN 0-451-17055-5, pp. 617-618.



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