Mott (album)
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| Studio album by Mott the Hoople | ||||
| Released | 20 July 1973 21 February 2006 (reissue) |
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| Recorded | February–April 1973 except track 1, 22 December 1972 at Air Studios and Abbey Road Studios, London |
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| Genre | Glam rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 43:00 | |||
| Label | CBS (UK), Columbia (US) | |||
| Producer | Mott the Hoople | |||
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U.S. album cover
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Pitchfork | 7.4/10 |
| PopMatters | favourable |
| Rolling Stone | very favourable |
Mott is a 1973 album by British band Mott the Hoople. It peaked at No. 7 in the UK Albums Chart.
"All the Way from Memphis", an edited version of which was released as a single, received considerable airplay on U.S. radio and captured the band overseas fans, as well as reaching the UK Singles Chart.
The album featured different covers in the U.K. and U.S., as well as remastered tracks on some editions. The U.S. cover featured a photo of the four band members with the word "MOTT" on it, with "Mott The Hoople" written in the O. The U.K. front cover featured an illustration based on the bust of a Roman emperor, the band's name written in a typeface simultaneously evocative of a 1920s Art Deco font and the "Future Shock" font inspired by computer-readable punch cards. Initial copies had a gatefold sleeve with the emperor image printed on a transparent plastic sheet. The emperor would appear again on the inner sleeve of The Hoople, the band's next and final album in both the United States and the United Kingdom. A remastered and expanded version was released by Sony's Columbia/Legacy imprint in the United States in 2006.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 366 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
All songs written by Ian Hunter, except where indicated
LP track times from 1973 UK release (CBS 69038). Published track times for the US release (Columbia 32425) differ slightly.
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