Title: Not up to the level of Brain Capers or Mott
Product review: This album is full of great riffs, but it doesn't have the spirit of Brain Capers, which predated the Ramones by several years. Nor does it have the soulful resiliance of Mott, and the sound here is botched, to boot. Bowie gave the album a strange mix, but the big problem is that Ian Hunter has gotten a swelled head this time around: "I don't want to know you!"Hopefully Mott turned the tables on Hunter the next time around (he turned the tables on himself) and came up with the classic "Hymn for the Dudes" and "The Ballad of Mott the Hoople" This album is probably one of the first four albums by Mott the Hoople to get, along with Brain Capers, Mott, and The Hoople. But the two albums that frame it are better bargains.
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