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Mott The Hoople CD: "All The Young Dudes (2CD)"

Sleeve and track listing

BB 2226. (1.5 stars!)

Disc 1:

  1. Long Red (West/Papparlardi/Ventura/Landsberg) (4:04)
  2. The Original Mixed-Up Kid (Hunter) (3:47)
  3. Walkin' With A Mountain (Hunter) (6:48)
  4. Laugh At Me (Bono) (5:22)
  5. Thunderbuck Ram (Ralphs) (4:37)
  6. Jerkin' Crocus (Hunter) (3:55)
  7. Sucker (Hunter/Ralphs/Watts) (6:51)
  8. Hymn For The Dudes (Hunter/Allen) (5:29)
  9. Ready For Love (Ralphs) (12:21)
  10. All The Young Dudes (Bowie) (4:12)

Disc 2:

  1. One Of The Boys (Hunter/Ralphs) (6:23)
  2. Sweet Angeline (Hunter) (5:57)
  3. The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll (Hunter) (3:24)
  4. Roll Away The Stone (Hunter)/Sweet Jane (Reed) (4:05)
  5. All The Way From Memphis (Hunter) (6:10)
  6. No Wheels To Ride (Hunter) (5:50)
  7. Whiskey Women (Ralphs) (3:40)
  8. It'll Be Me (Valentine) (4:21)
  9. Born Late '58 (Watts) (4:38)

Review

Hear that? It's the sound of me screaming at the prospect of reviewing yet another compilation of previously-issued live material. It's not as if there have been half a dozen compilations of this material already. To confuse matters further, All The Young Dudes was the name of Mott's 1972 breakthrough album. To add insult to injury there is also a single-CD compilation, also called All The Young Dudes, that duplicates disc 1!

Here we get a second disc of material, so we get two 2-CD sets (ie four discs) compiled onto two CDs. I can't help feeling a single CD compilation would have been better as a "sampler".

It gets worse. The cover is the same as for the single-CD compilation (although here it is in black-and-white). But the hapless purchaser doesn't even get a booklet, so there's no information on who Mott were or where the individual tracks were recorded.

I cannot recommend this set at all. There are better compilations around. Save your money and avoid this set.