This discography shows the country, title, date, label, and catalog number for all known releases and variations. It also serves as a want list. An asterisk (*) at the end means I have a copy, and a dash (-) means I need a copy.
Angel of Eighth Avenue; It'll Be Me; Walkin' With a Mountain; Whiskey Women; Darkness Darkness; No Wheels To Ride; Rock and Roll Queen; At The Crossroads; Keep a' Knockin'; Thunderbuck Ram; Laugh At Me; You Really Got Me [1970 live]; The Wreck of the Liberty Belle [1969 demo]
Mott The Hoople on their first US tour in 1970, recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in June 1970. The source is a cassette, so the sound is a bit uneven, but much better than the bootlegs that are floating around. The CD features a 24 page booklet with tons of rare photos and liner notes by Keith Smith. It also features one previously unreleased Mott The Hoople instrumental demo from 1970.
One Of The Boys; The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople; Darkness Darkness; Sweet Angeline; Thunderbuck Ram; Mr Bugle Player; Honky Tonk Woman; Till I'm Gone; The Moon Upstairs; Rock 'n' Roll Queen; Midnight Lady
A live gig recorded at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton UK on 6 April 1972. This was the infamous Rock and Roll Circus Tour, which also featured Ray Major's band Hackensack in support, as well as a collection of comedians, jugglers, and knife throwers. The source is a cassette, so the sound is a bit uneven, but this is mitigated somewhat by the eclectic track list featuring Mr Bugle Player, Honky Tonk Woman, Till I'm Gone, as well a rare early recording of The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople.
Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden 1971.02.16: Long Red; The Original Mixed Up Kid; Walkin' With A Mountain; Laugh At Me; Thunderbuck Ram; Keep A Knockin'
Tower Theatre, Philadelphia PA 1972.11.29: Introduction/Jupiter; Jerkin' Crocus; Sucker; Hymn For The Dudes; Ready For Love; Sweet Jane; Sea Diver; Sweet Angeline; One Of The Boys; Midnight Lady; All The Young Dudes; Honky Tonk Women
Two vintage live FM broadcasts compiled into a double CD set.
Whiskey Women; Darkness Darkness; The Moon Upstairs; The Original Mixed-Up Kid; Thunderbuck Ram; Your Own Backyard; Death May Be Your Santa Claus; Darkness Darkness; The Moon Upstairs; Whiskey Women; The Journey
A collection of the few surviving BBC sessions and concert performances by Mott The Hoople from 1970 and 1971. The liner notes are by Campbell Devine, and include a BBC sessionography and some nice color photos.
Original Album: You Really Got Me; Road to Birmingham; Thunderbuck Ram; Going Home; Little Christine; Keep a Knocking; Black Hills; Black Scorpio (Momma's Little Jewel); One of the Boys; Till I'm Gone; Growing Man Blues; Ride on the Sun; Surfin' UK; Ill Wind Blowing
Angel Air Bonus Tracks: Movin' On; The Debt; Downtown
A collection of previously-unreleased Mott The Hoople studio tracks from the Island era. This release was overseen by Dale Griffin in 1980, who cleaned up the tapes and in some cases overdubbed then using members of the British Lions (Dale Griffin, Pete Watts, Ray Majors, and Morgan Fisher). The Angel Air bonus track of Movin' On is a different take than the version of the All The Young Dudes Anthology.
Uris Theater, New York NY 1974.05.08: All The Way From Memphis; Sucker; Rest in Peace; All the Young Dudes; Walkin' With a Mountain
Uris Theater, 30th Anniversary Edition: Jupiter; American Pie / The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll; Sucker; Roll Away The Stone / Sweet Jane; Rest In Peace; All The Way From Memphis; Born Late 58; One Of The Boys; Hymn For The Dudes; Marionette; Drivin' Sister / Crash Street Kidds / Violence; All The Young Dudes; Walking With A Mountain
Hammersmith Odeon, London UK 1973.12.14: Sweet Angeline; Rose; Jerkin' Crocus; One of the Boys; Rock and Roll Queen; Get Back; Whole Lotta Shakin'; Violence
Hammersmith Odeon, 30th Anniversary Edition: Jupiter; Drivin' Sister; Sucker; Sweet Jane; Sweet Angeline; Rose; Roll Away The Stone; All The Young Dudes; Jerkin' Crocus / One Of The Boys / Rock 'n' Roll Queen / Get Back / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / Violence; Walking With A Mountain
This album originally featured material edited down from shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and the Uris Theater on Broadway in New York. The 30th Anniversary Edition was a double CD that greatly expanded the album, with over an hour of material from each show.
Original album tracks: The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll (Hunter); Marionette (Hunter); Alice (Hunter); Crash Street Kidds (Hunter); Born Late '58 (Watts); Trudi's Song (Hunter); Pearl n' Roy (England) (Hunter); Through The Looking Glass (Hunter); Roll Away The Stone (Hunter
)
2001 UK Bonus Tracks: Where Do You All Come From (Hunter/Ralphs/Watts/Griffin); Rest In Peace (Hunter); Foxy Foxy (Hunter
)
2006 UK Bonus Tracks: Where Do You All Come From; Rest In Peace; Foxy Foxy; Saturday Gigs; The Saturday Kids [demo]; Lounge Lizzard; American Pie/Golden Age of Rock n Roll [live]
Original Album: All The Way From Memphis (Hunter); Whizz Kid (Hunter); Hymn For The Dudes (Hunter/Allen); Honaloochie Boogie (Hunter); Violence (Hunter/Ralphs); Drivin' Sister; Ballad of Mott (March 26th 1972 Zurich) (Hunter/Watts/Ralphs/Allen/Buffin); I'm a Cadillac/El Camino Doloroso (Ralphs); I Wish I Was Your Mother (Hunter
)
Original Album: Sweet Jane (Reed); Momma's Little Jewel (Hunter/Watts); All The Young Dudes (Bowie); Sucker (Hunter/Ralphs/Watts); Jerkin' Crocus (Hunter); One of the Boys (Ralphs/Hunter); Soft Ground (Allen); Ready for Love/After Lights (Ralphs); Sea Diver (Hunter
)
2006 Legacy Bonus Tracks: One Of The Boys [demo]; Black Scorpio [demo]; Ride On The Sun [demo]; One Of The Boys [b-side]; All The Young Dudes [David Bowie vocal]; Sucker [live]; Sweet Jane [live]
Original album tracks: Death May be Your Santa Claus (Hunter/Allen); Your Own Backyard (Dimucci); Darkness Darkness (Young); The Journey (Hunter); Sweet Angeline (Hunter); Second Love (Allen); The Moon Upstairs (Hunter); The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception (Hunter/Stevens)
Angel Air bonus tracks: Midnight Lady (Hunter/Ralphs); The Journey (Hunter) [Alternate]
Original album tracks: Whiskey Women (Ralphs); Angel Of Eighth Avenue (Hunter); Wrong Side Of The River (Ralphs); Waterlow (Hunter); Lay Down (Safka); It Must Be Love (Ralphs); Original Mixed Up Kid (Hunter); Home Is Where I Want To Be (Ralphs); Keep a' Knockin' (Penniman
)
Angel Air bonus tracks: It'll Be Me (Clement); Long Red (West/Pappalardi/Ventura/Landsberg)
USA LP covers have two variations, listing different running times for Keep a Knockin'.
Original album tracks: Thunderbuck Ram (Ralphs); No Wheels to Ride (Hunter); You Are One of Us (Hunter); Walkin' With a Mountain (Hunter); I Can Feel (Hunter); Threads of Iron (Ralphs); When My Mind's Gone (Hunter
)
Angel Air bonus tracks: It Would Be a Pleasure (Ralphs); How Long? (Hunter/Allen) [Death May Be Your Santa Claus demo]
Recorded at Olympic Studios, Barnes from Feb-Apr 1970. Produced by Guy Stevens, engineered by Andy Johns. The working title was Sticky Fingers, later used by the Rolling Stones who were working at Olympic during the same time. Outtakes from the sessions include Moonbus; Chosen Road; Hunchback Fish; Going Home; It Would Be a Pleasure, Can You Sing The Song I Sing?; Liberty Belle; Ballad of Billy Joe; Coalminer's Dilemna; Enough Is Enough; Presence Of Your Mind.
Mad Shadows was issued in a gatefold cover in most countries. A small number of USA promo copies were pressed in mono, distinguished by matrix A-13447 and a red 'd/j monaural ' sticker on the cover.
The front cover is a Gabi Nasemann mirror-image photograph of a fire grate. (Nasemann's work can also be found on covers of science fiction magazine New Worlds, on Michael Moorcock books, and on Hawkwind album covers.) The inside cover reproduces William Strutt's painting Peace, and a little child shall lead them, representing the biblical prophesy in Isaiah 11:6-9 ('... and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.') The Baudelaire poem quoted on the back cover is a translated passage from Damned Women, taken fom from the preface to the 1959 novel Mad Shadows by French-Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blaise (who may have done the translation).
Original album tracks: You Really Got Me (Davies); At The Crossroads (Sahm); Laugh at Me (Bono); Backsliding Fearlessly (Hunter); Rock and Roll Queen (Ralphs); Rabbit Foot and Toby Time (Ralphs); Half Moon Bay (Hunter/Ralphs); Wrath and Roll (Stevens
)
Angel Air bonus tracks: Ohio (Young) [Live]; Find Your Way (Ralphs) [Instrumental]
There are mispressings of the UK Island LP on the pink label. Some A sides have Road To Birmingham in place of Backsliding Fearlessly, and some B sides have Backsliding Fearlessly in place of Rock and Roll Queen. The mispressed sides also include longer mixes of some songs. There are no known copies with two version of Backsliding Fearlessly, however.
