Label: Angel Air Records (UK), SJPCD157
Style: Glam Rock, Hard Rock
Country: Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Time: 46:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 343 Mb
Charts: UK #66, US #185.
Stevens
(produced by Guy 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 an August 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 A,
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 UK album
were wrongly pressed with the song "The Road to Birmingham," (the B-side
of their debut single in the UK) at the end of side one, with
"Backsliding Fearlessly" replacing "Rock and Roll Queen" at the start of
side two.
The album's cover is a colorized 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.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_the_Hoople_(album))
01. You Really Got Me (02:55)
02. At The Crossroads (05:33)
03. Laugh At Me (06:32)
04. Backsliding Fearlessly (03:46)
05. Rock And Roll Queen (05:10)
06. Rabbit Foot And Toby Time (02:04)
07. Half Moon Bay (10:38)
08. Wrath And Wroll (01:48)
09. Ohio (Live) (04:25)
10. Find Your Way (Instrumental) (03:32)
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