- Brain Capers
Infobox Album
Name = Brain Capers
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist =Mott the Hoople
Released = 1971
Recorded =Island Studios ,London November - December 1970
Genre = Rock
Length = 38.03
Label = (UK)Island Records
Producer =Guy Stevens
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9frxqw5ldae link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=mott+the+hoople link]
* "Rolling Stone " (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mottthehoople/albums/album/201263/review/6211558/brain_capers_rhino link]
Last album = "Wildlife"
(1971)
This album = "Brain Capers
(1971)
Next album = "All the Young Dudes "
(1972)"Brain Capers" is the fourth album by the band
Mott the Hoople .It was originally released in November 1971 in the UK by
Island Records under catalogue number ILPS 9178 and was reissued in 2003 0nAngel Air SJPCD160. Despite its return to the harder, heavier style of "Mad Shadows " (and being recorded almost live in the studio) the album was not a commercial success. In fact, it is the only Mott the Hoople album that failed to chart in either the UK or US.Its working title was "AC/DC" though this was abandoned in favour of either "Brain Damage" or "Bizarre Capers" before a compromise was settled on. Earlier sessions, self-produced by the band, were also abandoned when svengali
Guy Stevens was called in to rescue the album but a number of these recordings have resurfaced on and as bonus material on Angel Air's re-issues of Mott the Hoople albums."Brain Capers" has often been ignored by professional critics but was listed at #98 in [http://www.blastitude.com/11/pg14.htm Joe S. Harrington's Top 100 Albums] in 2001-2003. "The Moon Upstairs" was later covered by the Dictators).
Track listing
# "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" (Ian Hunter, Verdun Allen) 4.55
# "Your Own Back Yard" (Dion Dimucci ) 4.13
# "Darkness, Darkness " (Jesse Colin Young) 4.33
# "The Journey" (Hunter) 9.15
# "Sweet Angeline" (Hunter) 4.53
# "Second Love" (Allen) 3.46
# "The Moon Upstairs" (Hunter, Mick Ralphs) 5.07
# "The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception" (Hunter/Stevens) 1.21
# "Midnight Lady" (Hunter, Ralphs - 2003 re-issue bonus) 3.33
# "The Journey" (Hunter - 2003 re-issue bonus) 9.47Trivia
* "Darkness, Darkness" is actually sang by guitarist Mick Ralphs instead of Ian Hunter.
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