Arguably my favorite of all bands, one of a handful anyway. Tremendous maturation and honestly one of the best and hardest rocking albums of the mid-70's.not only do you get titles such as 'The Wheel of Quivering Meat Conception', and of course 'Death May Be Your Santa Claus', but great numbers such as 'Darkness Darkness', 'The Journey', 'Sweet Angeline', and one of the greatest hard-rock songs of them ALL, 'The Moon Upstairs'.one of the first songs to use the word 'fuck' in a non-shocking context ('We ain't bleeding you, we're feeding you, but you're too fucking SLOW!' (another great lyric: 'For those of you who always laugh, let this be your epitaph', among others, this is one GREAT song on one spectacular hard rock album. However, not even the best Mott the Hoople album of the 1970's, because these guys their stride with the classic 'Mott'.nearly every track here is a wonder.leading off with the classic 'All the Way From Memphis' ('It's a mighty long way down rock n roll, and your name gets hot so your heart grows cold') (some lame ass hair band covered it in the late 80's or so, chnging the lyric 'Some spade' to 'some guy' or something, Good Lord).'
Whizz Kid' is a fine one, 'Hymn for the Dudes' is majestic ('you ain't the Nazz.you're just a buzz.some kinda TEMPORARY').' Be well, LOTTS of MOTT to come this week, I am excited, if you are a fan, I hope you are too. Tomorrow: LOTTS of COMPS crammed with rare stuff!' Some spade said rock n rollers, yer all the same. Man, that's yer instrument, I felt.
Mott The Hoople Album
Wow, what a cool, cool bunch of stuff! Mott is one of my favorites. That said, I must have been 14 or so when Wildlife came out. I got it from a Columbia Records 14 albums for 1.99. I got it with a bunch of lame ass schlock like 4 Way Street, James Taylor Mud Slide Sludge so, as you could well imagine Wildlife stood out. I already had the first album and loved it, by the way, so I was aware that this one was quite different.
Angel is a great tune but Home is great as is Whiskey Women. I'm only commenting here to highlight the similarities between Generation X's second album 'Valley of the Dolls'. Think about the Ballad of Kenny Silvers next to the Original Mixed Up Kid. There are many other parallels too but I won't prattle on about them.
The Gen-X album probably rocks a little harder but there is a consistency of overall feel between the two albums that is palpable. I should research and see if they have the same engineers or producers. Whatever I think the boys in Gen-X listened to it quite a bit. Great post, great blog. Thanks for all the hard work.
I know it IS a lot of work and a bit of a thankless task. All the Way to Memphis, bro.