After a relatively calm and contemplative 16 bar piano intro, Mott's last of their 4 pre-glam albums kicks off with"Thunderbuck Ram" shift into high gear as Mick Ralphs guitar and vocal work strain to envision the future Bad Company. Come back and hear this track when MOG gets the mp3 functionality sobbered up.In the meantime, here's some great sounds from the early 70's, and a nice little film...
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Mott The Hoople's box set was released in September of 1998. Three years in the making, it covers Mott's entire career, from early incarnations as The Buddies (1964), Doc Thomas Group (1966) and The Shakedown Sound (1968), through the Island years, the CBS years, right through to the end as Mott and British Lions (1978). More than just a collection of their hits, this lavish 3-CD set includes...
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Don't forget. Mott the Hoople represented the very best of the working man's side of the glam movement. Where did all the 96 decible freaks go? Who are the loud bands nowadays?? God, I miss dancing. And fighting for a place in the front row (until it became too easy...) The smash sensations are so watered down or melodramatic lately. Not naming names. It's all in your mind. The golden age of ro...
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...that no one has posted this cover on MOG at some point. As a young man of 16, I was searching for my musical identity. That is - my rock n' roll identity. My friends were heavily into the Beatles and the Stones - but, for me, The Beatles were inaccesible, the Stones were sloppy and darkly non-understandable. This was '72, The Beatles weren't even a band, and the Stones were so darkly drug in...
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If someone posed the rather juvenile query "what's you're favorite rock band of all time?", no doubt I would answer Mott. I mean, even after stellar strummer Mick Ralphs left the band to be replaced by ex-Spooky Tooth Luther Grosvener (who changed his name to "Ariel Bender" just for this band??) - and - they let bassist Overend Watts step to the mike(on this cut); they still left an impression ...
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So, what's going on with the big picture?? Is Wall Street in big crash mode?? Can/Should the government continue the bailouts?? What's that gonna cost the common man if they do/if they don't?? I don't have these answers. If my bank fails, what becomes of my mortgage if my bank goes belly up? Do I get kicked out? If I can still make payments...whose interest would that be in? I can't answer the...
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Are any of us really free? Societal expectaions so often dictate what can and can't be. The American "dream"? pfftt It's over, if it was ever really there. Ya wanna be an astronaut Johnny? Stick a firecracker up your rear. President? Join the circus. Oh that's right, the sideshows have all been merged with Wall Street. Of course, sufferance is the price you pay for refusing to play. Most can't...
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You can't beat old Mott The Hoople for some kick-ass rock grooves. As the story goes, the recording sessions for the Bowie produced savior effort "All The Young Dudes" took place in the same time and place where the Stones were laying down the tracks for "Sticky Fingers". Richards and Ralphs listened to what each other were coming up with across the hall, each trying to compose the groove-maste...
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Temptation never led to any actual transactions with the world's oldest profession. All that sex, drugs and rock 'n roll never did lead to enough sex.Some fine honky-tonk piano highlights this glimpse inside Hunter's fence-eve view, respect, fear reverence and sagely advice for the NYC working girl of the title...
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Kwinnton down below said it's a long time since he heard Mott The Hoople. Here you go.Who needs TV when I've got T-Rex?
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I've been listening to this album a lot lately. The laid-back countryfried sound seems to fit a lot of the time. And this particular cover, IMHO, gets it right.
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1. Tanya Tucker, "Delta Dawn." She first heard the song when Bette Midler sang it on the Tonight Show. After her own version was a hit, Helen Reddy took the song to #1. Tucker was 13 years old when she cut her record.2. The O'Jays, "Back Stabbers." 1972 was one of the greatest years for popular soul and R&B, as one after another catchy track with socially-conscious lyrics rose up the charts. Ha...
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What I am thankful for this New Year (maybe I am mixing up holidays) is that I finally GOT Mott The Hoople.
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I'm new to this and as there seems to be no way to embed my music here - this is the link to my page:http://www.northbands.co.uk/artists/bands/2/ or http://www.myspace.com/dreamrocksAye 'smoking crack with the scorfields in the shipyards' as they say though really Dream Rocks Fli is just an absurd anagram of my name. Thanks for the comment (and advice) , i had a quick listen to your sad xmas so...
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the naz! and his 20 decimal freaks-include me!
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