Mott the Hoople "Mott the Hoople" original 1969 vinyl LP Island ILPS 9108
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Mott the Hoople "Mott the Hoople" original 1969 vinyl LP Island ILPS 9108, early 1970's pressing with gatefold sleeve. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class. Both the vinyl and the sleeve are in excellent condition. Purchased from Downtown Records, Basildon in the early 1970's, this is probably a 4th pressing of the original as it has the Island palm tree logo.
Mott the Hoople is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. It was produced by Guy Stevens and released in 1969 by Island Records in the UK (cat. no. ILPS 9108).
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 Am, and use the pentatonic scale.)
An instrumental version of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" introduces the album. Initial copies of the album were wrongly pressed with the song "The Road to Birmingham," the B-side of their debut single at the end of side one, with "Backsliding Fearlessly" replacing "Rock and Roll Queen" at the start of side two. N.B. This is not one of these.
The album's cover is a colorised 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.
Track listing
Side one
- "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies) – 2.55
- "At the Crossroads" (Doug Sahm) – 5.33
- "Laugh At Me" (Sonny Bono) – 6.32
- "Backsliding Fearlessly" (Ian Hunter) – 3.47
Side two
- "Rock and Roll Queen" (Mick Ralphs) – 5.10
- "Rabbit Foot and Toby Time" (Ralphs) – 2.04
- "Half Moon Bay" (Ralphs, Hunter) – 10.38
- "Wrath and Wroll" (Guy Stevens) – 1.49
Mott the Hoople
- Ian Hunter – lead vocals (all but 9), piano, rhythm guitar
- Mick Ralphs – lead guitar, backing and lead (9) vocals
- Verden Allen – organ, backing vocals
- Pete "Overend" Watts – bass, backing vocals
- Dale "Buffin" Griffin – drums, backing vocals
Additional personnel
- Guy Stevens – piano
Info courtesy of Wikipaedia
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