Mott The Hoople-Mott (1973)


 

Artist: Mott The Hoople

Title: Mott

Label: CBS

Format: LP

Catalog Number: 69038

Year of Release: 1973

Country and Year of Edition: UK 1973

Sell Price: $9.27

Sell Date: 9/18/24

Condition: VG+/VG with lyric inner sleeve, bottom cover unglued

Discogs Last Sold  7/23/24 VG+/VG $11.17

Low: $0.00 G+/G  3/12/24

Median: $14.03

Average: $14.87

High: $30.00 7/9/24 NM/NM

Current low price: $5.00 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 70

Have/Want: 1384/180

Where Sold:  Brooklyn, NY

Time It Took To Sell:  12 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester That's Entertainment used early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

"Now It's a mighty long way down Rock 'n Roll/Through the Bradford cities and the orioles..."-one of the "All The Way From Memphis" chorus lyrics...

First, let's get it out of the way that "All The Way From Memphis" is one of my favorite songs of all time. One that I NEVER tire of hearing.   Yet, all these years since I've heard it first in the late 70's or possibly early 80's I never knew the lyrics.  I always thought them to be "Now somebody's gonna play that Rock 'n Roll!...from the blah umla blah to the oreo" or something like that.  The actual lyrics are far more poetic and meaningful, but I like my dumb interpretation just fine.  At the end of the day it really doesn't matter and maybe the beauty is that it's a great barroom anthem with partially indecipherable lyrics.  That's Rock 'n Roll, man!

My copy was an import made in Holland printed in England that I picked up used sometime in the early 80's. It actually had a lyric printed inner sleeve in it.   However "All The Way From Memphis" was something I knew from the radio long before I got my copy of Mott.  It might have even taken me a little time to find out who did that song.   I have another copy of the US version with the band on the cover laying around.  I don't know if that has a lyric sheet or not.

For me the next best track on here is "The Ballad of Mott The Hoople" recorded live in Zurich.  We are reminded that although they are elder contemporaries of the New York Dolls, glitter rock  had pop aspirations.  How else could the circus come to town?

What can a poor boy do, except to sing for a Rock 'n Roll band?

"Don't do it for the working-classes.  Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracys on our own/And kick our heels like jolly escaped asses."-D. H. Lawrence as quoted on the back of Mott

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