Mott the Hoople - Mott
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Artist: Mott the HoopleEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- 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'm A Cadillac\ El Camino Dolo Roso
- I Wish I Was Your Mother
- Rose
- Honaloochie Boogie
- Nightmare
- Drivin' Sister
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Music Review: Lionhearts
Rating: 5 Stars
This band was quite possibly the greatest UK hard-rock band of that country's hard-rock hayday,the post-Beatles, pre-punk epoch of '68 to '75. This is paradoxically because unlike contemporaries like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath,they did not have a "sound,"stylistically they were an ever-mutating wonder, but always with a consistent attitude,somewhere between a beery shout, a punky sneer, and a rueful laugh, all the while kicking up the most hellacious racket imaginable. This 1973 album,their last but one, is their artistic summit and testament, all cylinders firing.
Mott were the brainchild of mad producer Guy Stevens, who sought to fuse the sound of Blond on Blond era Bob Dylan with the attack of Beggars Banquet-era Rolling Stones; to this end, in 1969 he hooked up four mates from Hereford, guitarist Mick Ralphs, drummer Dale Griffen, bassist Overend Watts and organist Verden Allen with a 30 year old (which in 1969 made him Methusaleh as a frontman)weirdo named Ian Hunter, a corkscrew-curl-maned, never-without-his-Foster Grants pianist/singer songwriter who possessed a Dylan-esque sneering wheezy mewl without parallel, a proclivity for baiting audiences to acts of mayhem, and a fantastic gift for his own neo-beat lyrical coinages. In a few short months, they became, alongside the Faces, England's premier live band, with a fanatical following,whose gigs became legendary loci of riots, causing rock acts to be banned from places like Albert Hall, and town councils creating limits on decible levels.
None of this excitement translated to chart action; this is because their conduct in the studio, under the tutelage of the demented Stevens,was as chaotic as their live shows. Their first four albums were on Island.The eponymous debut unleashed the Blond on Blond/Beggars Banquet template nicely musically, but was lyrically lacking; only Mick Ralph's boogieing Rock and Roll Queen and Hunter's astounding assault on Sonny Bono's Laugh at Me (!) hinted at what they could do. Second Island album Mad Shadows was a descent into dark, caterwauling thrash,leavened only by Ian's fabulous metaphysical Chuck Berry rave-up "Walkin' With The Mountain;" the record was done live in the studio, and the band fired Stevens because a squeaky drum foot pedal is so audible throughout,it becomes all one can focus on.The record is an acquired taste, it sounds like Procul Harum after a stint in asylum, with Ian literally improvsing his doomy lyrics at the mike, a la John Cale in the same period. I love it. Wild Life was self-produced,and is a hippy acoustic idyll. Pleasing, but atypical,and it stiffed. On the verge of breaking up due to their inability to chart,they called Stevens back in and recorded their first 100% classic, album 4, Brain Capers. Many have argued that UK punk starts here, with the ferocious cackle that opens the first track,"Death May Be Your Santa Claus," wherein a band on the skids assaults its audience for having the temerity not to buy their records, and then crowing on "The Moon Upstairs" "...We're not feeding you/We're bleeding you/But your're too f*ing slow...And for all of you who always laughed/Let this be out epitaph!" Then they broke up.
Then a few months later, in late 1972,superfan David Bowie rescusitated them by gifting them with a song of his,"All The Young Dudes." Penned as a gay anthem, Mott seized the song and made it their own, a devastating hymn-like ode to a wasted generation stuck between the hippy era they didn't belong to, and an adulthood they cannot face. "The television man is crazy/says we're juvenile delinquent wrecks/I need TV but I got T. Rex..." The song charted magnificently, Bowie pruned their sound to a lean Stonesy roar for the subsequent album, and they rode the glam wave to a place in the sun. Then they collapsed AGAIN.
The relentless touring to support Dudes took a massive toll, as Ian was forced into the spotlight as a "leader," wrecking the ecology of the group dynamic, and organist Verden Allen quit. Finding the stardom they had hungered for so long may have been a devil's bargain, they found their subject and cut the record under review,their very best. "Mott" is half rave up rockers about the rock and roll life,and half introspective ballads about getting what you wanted, but losing what you had. It's the most poignant record about the odyssey of a band and its fans ever wrought, and it closes with Ian's most haunting ballad, "I Wish I Was Your Mother," delineating what its like to be locked in a mutually destructive relationship with a loved one: it is hard to tell whether its sexual,or about what was going on within Mott, or about Ian's attitude to the audience -- perhaps all three. After the recording of the LP, guitarist Ralphs quit. The band struggled on to record the arty-glammy "The Hoople," and with their final single,"Saturday Gigs" kissed their audience goodbye and called it quits in '74.
...then last week the original line-up, minus drummer Griffin,who is ill, reunited for the first time in 35 years at the scene of many past triumphs,the Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollo). Originally set for two nights, instant sell-outs expanded the run to five. I was lucky enough to be there for two of the five shows, along with Jimmy Page, Mick Jones of the Clash, Joe Elliot and numerous other luminaries and veterans of legendary Mott gigs reaching back to 1970. I expected the worst, but they were phenomenal. Ian said he wanted to do the shows to see if the magic was still there, and the beauty was, they sounded like a band. They raved up,hoed down,but best of all, the wistful ballads about their parlous career state, "Ballad of Mott," "Hymn for the Dudes," "Saturday Gigs," gained immense poignancy with the passage of four decades("I wish I hadn't wanted then what I want now twice as much..."). Ian at SEVENTY possessed a leonine roar and capered about the stage with the energy of a man half his age, Ralphs spat out those fat, trebly solos of yore effortlessly, Verden battled Mick's guitarwith his Hammond organ, and Overend was a giant ham, wading in among the audience and doing his best to upstage his mates, taking a great sneering laddish vocal on "Born Late '58," and basking in the applause when Ian sang the line from Ballad of Mott "...and Overend is just a rock 'n roll star..." This was a reunion with a reason for being. I found I was singing along with every lyric. On returning stateside, I bought their whole catalohg, my vinyl having disappeared in the '90's. Fresh listening confirmed "Mott" is their classic, but the great might-have-been loser band of the '70's,who made their defeat their subject matter, are worth exploring in depth.
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