Mott The Hoople (Vinyl LP) discogimp

Mott The Hoople (Vinyl LP) discogimpMott 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. Their combination of Stonesy swagger, Kinks ian crunch, and Dylanesque cynicism is one of the great blueprints for hard rock, and its potential is apparent the moment their monumental instrumental You Really Got Me kicks off the record. This is followed by two covers, Doug Sahm's At the Crossroads and

folk and jazz territories to cultivate a sound that now seems decades ahead of its time

and Dylanesque cynicism is one of the great blueprints for hard rock

Outer space

a desperate effort to cash in on the library of tapes of the Small Faces

Formed in 1969 by Daevid Allen

but not as good as the fans would have loved to be able to hear

while other original compositions such as the slow and spooky "Pale Shades Of Gray

the fuzztone sneer of a thousand teenage garage bands

a previously unreleased version of Was I Right or Wrong and the first reissue of the single version of Don't Ask Me No Questions

Dwyer's moving to LA (fear not

Bolstered by the production prowess of Dave Hassinger (Stones

rootsy power with trendy emulations of the Beatles