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Title: SHRILL & POINTLESS
Review: When Mott's lead singer & main songwriter Ian Hunter left the band following an alleged nervous breakdown, the remaining members recruited a new lead guitarist & a new lead vocalist. They really should have thought up a new name as well. This is not Mott the Hoople. Shortening the band's name to simply Mott, the new group was a group without a soul. Mindless boogie excursions were not the forte of Mott the Hoople; there was always more to their manic music than that. Here are a collection of mind-numbing, cliche-ridden numbers, written by Overend Watts primarily, and he's no Ian Hunter. The final track almost redeems this forgettable affair, a cover of The Easybeats' "Good Times". If there were more cover tunes like this, there might have been some hope. But as it is, one almost good track just ain't enough.
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