Mott - MOTT THE HOOPLE****

All The Way From Memphis/Whizz Kid/Hymn For The Dudes/Honaloochie Boogie/Violence/Drivin' Sister/Ballad Of Mott The Hoople/I'm A Cadillac-El Camino Dolo Roso/I Wish I Was Your Mother

Mott was the follow up album after their commercial breakthrough delivered by David Bowie. It was their highest placed chart album and includes the major hits All The Way From Memphis and Honaloochie Boogie. (US:35 UK:7)

“By the time of Mott, the band had been reduced to a four-piece. While it’s certainly arguable that this is their best sounding album, it just may be their most accomplished in terms of songwriting and playing also.”

“One of their strongest albums with Hunter and company seldom having sounded as angry or driven. It also goes a long way to underscoring the fact they weren't a bunch of glam wannabes, but rather one of the era's tightest rock bands.”

“Mott, transcends the glam moves of the previous album by adopting a more tough rock ‘n' roll attitude, while still pilfering the conceptual aspects of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. All The Way To Memphis is a fantastic opener, and probably Mott The Hoople's greatest song.”

“A self-reverential work that's equally as much about Ian Hunter and the band as it is their audience. Or you can see it as an ode to rock ‘n' roll itself. There have been few records that ever framed their era quite as well as this, yet I think one can listen to it with fresh ears and still find new connections. From start to finish it makes the case for rock's communal aspirations along with a celebration of youth in all its splendour and pitfalls.”

“A near perfect, unselfconscious portrait of a band painted from the inside looking out. Covering everything from the vagaries of touring, to groupies and wives, to fans and the band’s own difficulty coping with its new found success, this is an overlooked masterpiece.”

“Melodic, wistful and rocking, Mott remains the sole album where this star-struck band was able to put it all together. It oozes disillusionment, testament to their one step forward, two steps back existence as they continually battled indifference and inter-personnel conflicts.”

“The album is unified, and purely Mott. Everything that Hunter and Co. had been trying to get straight for the previous five years finally paid off.”