Mott

I am so tired of these types of albums.

I didn't like it so much

This is the most average-sounding 70s glam rock I have ever heard.

The first song was so good they decided to play it nine more times! 2/10

Overall Rating - 3.72/5 (7.44/10). Sounds like a David Bowie album of the similar era. Much to my tastes.

Pretty good

Underrated and smart Brit-pop during a time of experimentation and a stretching of what rock and roll could be. Straightforward rock did, and always will, have a place.

Got some tunes on there

Meathead rock but enjoyable.

Feels like a mix of bowie and Elton John but without their charisma

God bless Big Dumb Rock. It's just for fun, nothing more, nothing less. And yes, it sounds a lot like Bowie, Lou Reed, and T.Rex. And you're saying that's a *bad* thing? Just enjoy the ride, kiddos.

knock-off david bowie

Ok

Some nice classic rock sounding music. A little bit of variety and good music that is upbeat. Would be a nice album to put into a classic rock mix that isn't overloaded with local rock radio station hits.

bit repetitive idk

Not sure who ripped off who but this is literally just 72-74 Bowie. He even wrote their biggest hit! Anyway, this is like Aladdin Sane without any of the bigger hits. Became quite tedious. Some parts were catchier. 2.5 but I can’t give it a 3 as that suggests I liked it more than I didn’t which wasn’t the case.

Meh... just a bit twee

This evidently was a bigger album in the UK than in the United States. At times that points to an act that probably should have gotten more attention here. (Madness and The Jam come to mind immediately. However, I don't feel that way about Mott the Hoople. To be clear, this is by no means a bad record. It is a fairly solid rock album with strong glam elements to it. Quite a bit of this owes a bit of a debt to Bowie, but there are other influences here, including more traditional hard rock, ballads, and even a bit of country on one song. Hunter can certainly write a decent hook and the band is solid. But if I'm going to be honest, I'm probably not going back to this. While its good, there are just other folks doing this better.

One song in, and I’m getting Randy Newman meets David Bowie vibes. The Bowie influence hangs around for the entire album, and reading about these boneheads makes it even funnier: they turned down “Suffragette City” after Bowie had already gifted them their biggest hit, “All the Young Dudes.” This whole album feels like a collection of mediocre Bowie tracks.

This is like the kind of rock that is created for a musical about rock. Yuck

An above-average Bowie cover and

It has some flair in the guitar playing in parts but this is mostly rock n roll cliches and the singer is bad

I'm just not into this, despite David Bowie's endorsement. Listenable, but not really memorable.

Said with a wink and then giving up on the joke half way through: They really Motted the Hoople if you know what I mean.

Not great, Bob.

Sound: Ziggy-era Bowie Lyrics: Road-weary Highs: "All the Way from Memphis," "I Wish I Was Your Mother" Lows: None

Pretty good.

I can’t believe I’m going to listen to this. Like in a spectrum where there are bands that you will for sure listen to and bands that there isn’t a rats chance in hell you’d knowingly listen to. They would be on the latter part. It’s just the band name man. Sheesh. So on to the album. It sounds like David Bowie singing in the style of Bob Dylan over top of Bowie music. Choice cut: Ballad of Mott the Hoople

rym 3.52 Glam Rock/Hard Rock 比较无趣的一张专辑，年代感十分强烈，个人来说没有什么想法。 pick: Honaloochie Boogie

I'm not sure why but this felt a little performative or disengenuous. It didn't stick for me because it lacked some "oomph". Favorite Tracks: All the Way from Memphis Honaloochie Boogie

Unremarkable. In both songwriting and especially production. Having a flatly produced glam rock album is absurd. All the songs feel 10 BPM too slow and there's nothing to grab onto. The sax in the first song is alright, but that's it. Also the original album cover is so much better. I feel like this isn't as bad as my other 1/5's, but I just get nothing from this :( 1.5/5, rounded down to 1. Favs: All the Way from Memphis Least Fav: The rest of it.

Temu David Bowie. 2.5

3.5

David Bowie in disguise

Not bad, some catchy riffs and ideas.

"Mum can we get David Bowie?" "No, we have David Bowie at home" This album is the David Bowie at home, just go listen to Ziggy Stardust or T Rex.

it wasn't bad, but I didn't feel anything

We have David Bowie at home

What the fuck is this. Like disco? No, it's glam rock, ok. So really, what is there here that isn't covered with Bowie and Lou Reed? It's a good album within glam rock but I lack the insight to understand the importance. Maybe there isn't any. 3.1/5

Love this band. Love this album. So inherently British, but without the silliness and pomposity that do many other glam rockers suffered from. These guys are really good rockers. You know you're onto something when Bowie comes calling.

I'd never Mott the Hoople but who am I to judge

Solid rock n roll. I love that their next album was called "The Hoople." 3.5.

Great music, poor name choice, imho…

Extremely banal British rock 'n' roll

Fun album and a band that should be talked about more. Songs are great and they're easy to listen to. Very fun and recommended.

Honestly, kind of disappointed with this one. First couple started out really strong, I thought I was a bigger glam fan than I was, and got through the rest. It’s fine, serviceable glam rock. 2 or 3 stars

Good old Glam rock. Nothing really spectacular here to be honest but it's not bad either. 3.

Mott The Hoople?

Not heard the band beyond obvious track. Expecting to come on here to defend after a listen. 70s Glam seeming to be so out of favour and a current whipping boy, expect for Bowie, I have quite enjoyed other entries like Slade recently. But unfortunately that's not the case here. Starts off with All the way to Memphis, a song I know I like. But seems I like cover versions not the original. This is all over the place, the production is horrible, everything is thrown at it in a Brian Eno way but without the skill and it's a car crash. And this is the highlight of the album unfortunately. What follows starts with a 3rd rate Ziggy act, with the odd Stooges and Roxy reference, its at it's best down the backend when it went to more generic rock. Though that last track, the Bob Dylan impression left me speechless. WtF, they seem to have no shame or any original ideas at all. I know the 70s apparently did a big thing in light entertainment of impressionists but this is taking the piss. This should be put back on the shelf where it deserves, relegate to the dusty annals of history. Not quite terrible and was a middling 2 star bad until the Dylan track out of nowever, shamless copies of other artists down to changing vocal styles is not must hear1 Star bad.

This was alright. Didn't love it. Some tracks were better than others, but for the most part, it felt like more David Bowie songs

Temu David Bowie

Yeah, that’s a no for me dog.

This was rather enjoyable. Kind of a rock opera/glam rock feel to this throughout. Very British, a lot of fun for the most part but tails off a little towards the end. 3.5/5.

It was decent, Bowie adjacent. All the young dudes is quality the rest is just ok.

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Pretty meh

Nott

Review - an ok glam album, but absolutely not essential. Score - 4.5/10 Need to listen? NO

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Album 321. Mott — Mott The Hoople (1973) The poor man's David Bowie. Bowie helped this band by producing the previous album All The Young Dudes and gave the hit song as well. But basically it didn't help. I like glam rock and it didn't help them either. It's shit and cheap glam rock Why sometimes I hear folk, country and other genres? It creates a mess in this case and feels overproduced. Not good in general 2/5 No liked songs

I was mad at this album but by the end I was less mad

Good ol glam fun. Need to pick this one up.

The Bowie comparisons are pretty spot on. Some of it reminded me of the Rolling Stones (ballad of mott the hoople). When I see a band I don't recognize, I'm always leery of them being on this list. I wasn't wrong, sounds mediocre and derivative. 2*

Just whatever man. They really liked Bob Dylan, but not his genre?

Not really memorable. It's fine, just not great.

Really excited by this discovery! It’s something I’d never heard of before and will continue to listen to.

Bowie learned everything from these guys.

Enjoyment: 6/10 Replayability: 5/10 Cohesion: 6/10 Flow/Pacing: 5/10 Artistic Merit: 5/10 Weighted Average: 5.5/10 Review: Another standard rock album. I've heard a couple songs from Mott The Hoople before, and this album aligns with what I already know of them: nothing bad, nothing exceptional. Liked Song(s): All the Way from Memphis, Hymn for the Dudes, Ballad of Mott The Hoople, I Wish I Was Your Mother Disliked Song(s): Violence Recommend? Yes Heard Before? No

big similarities to some of bowie's stuff which isn't super surprising given they knew each other? or maybe they just have a similar vocal sound overall is good, but nothing jumps out as amazing

Oh boy! This album sounds somewhat like a phase that one of the most famous recording artists of all time went through whose biggest album had a distinctive sound that I know from that album but don’t realize was also just generally the sound in this place and at this time because I’m an ignorant know-it-all chump, so I can just lazily compare this band unfavorably to that famous artist and don’t have to actually engage with the material or use my brain at all. Score! Oh wait, everyone else on this website has already done that. Darn. I am very glam rock skeptical, but this was a really solid album. It was fun and poppy and had hooks for days. “Violence” was not that great and the album dropped off towards the end when it started to sound like glam rock Dylan, but it had a lot of good songs and also flowed well as a whole, with high energy songs being followed by ballads to make for a nice variety. You can always spot a working band that has been toiling in obscurity for going on a decade because they know what the people want and are all too willing to try to give it to them. That can sometimes be a bad thing but it can also have a positive effect. All in all, this was a really good album by a band that I had only a passing familiarity with and I enjoyed listening to it and am glad to have heard it.

Bland. This left little to no impression on me.

It was ok. It sounds very dated, which it is, so no surprise there really. It just seemed to be a pastiche of a lot of music released around the same time. There was nothing amazing, at least to my ears. There was no utter dogshit either. I was never in danger of turning it off.

For fans of horrible music, this is a day for celebration. Exult in the glorious revelry of riverboat organ riffs, using words like "boogie" unironically alongside wacky, zany river names, and girls drivin' and lookin' good! If that sounds like a party to you, take your medication and listen to your nurse. The appeal of the 1970's is lost on me. Gone is the class consciousness, counterculture and justified political outrage of the 1960's, and here to stay is the over-indulgence in sex and drugs and the coma-like ignorance sold to the global west by sweaty dorks releasing bombastic, unappealing garbage music for twenty-somethings whos main concern was scoping out their latest girlfriends outside the local high school. These are the people who destroyed our world with predatory capitalism and now cling to their power with their aging talons. THIS is the music that is woven into each poisoned helix of their DNA. THIS is the music that was the soundtrack to the apathy that has destroyed our planet. Ground zero for sickening nostalgia that continues to represent the death of a mega-culture, and the slowest fall of an empire in the history of humankind. The sickly sweet stench of death in the next room, that gradually becomes apparent as the days grow warmer, earlier than ever. Still. Probably better than U2. 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Terminal Lucidity

Y’know, if Bowie’s not gonna sound like that anymore then someone else is certainly entitled to.

Toujours pas fan de rock, mais l'air de rien je commence à apprécier plus que les premiers albums j'ai l'impression ? J'écouterais toujours pas ça pour le plaisir mais... À voir après les 1001 albums haha.

It’s not that bad. It’s a watered down version of Bowie, but that’s better than most artists out there :D But it’s definitely not of the same quality as David Bowie at all.

This is a band doing their best Ziggy Stardust impression. It’s not very good. Lyrically meh, not musically inspiring. Don’t think it should be on the list.

We don't need to go out to have Bowie. We have Mott at home.

Yawn

Not bad

Glam garage band? It isn’t awful but it isn’t great.

blast for the past. Hits work, some clunkers and some gifts. I do not know what else to say... 981

It’s a bizarre mix between David Bowie wannabes and Lynard skynard douchebags. That’s being said, it’s really not all that bad. All the way from Memphis slaps, and there are some other good ones in there too. A lot of filler though, unfortunately.

Pretty good album, never really listened to more than a couple of songs by these guys but this was a decent one!

An overlooked rock band of the 70s, ethereal and Bowie-ish. Prominent pianos, violins, choirs, and guitar riffs modulated into an almost kazoo-like quality along with some shredding and wailing that seems to come out of nowhere at times. What a band.

Glam rock - the shittest of rock. This has all the hallmarks; sparkles, cutesy singing, unnecessary horns, boring guitar work. It has none of the sleaze. But the songs are decent enough and the singer sounding like a desperate cross between Bob Dylan and David Bowie provides some comedy value.

Probably was fun to be a fan at live shows back in the day.

Ts so average it lowk pissing me off

So glad Bowie kept this band from breaking up by giving them "All the Young Dudes", which he wrote in a half hour. Both albums (this and ATYD) are great.

Very budget Bowie. I am a fan of 70s rock and was eager to listen to something I really never listened to before, but I got bored. Sorry fellas.

i liked the ballads

Always liked Mott

All the way from memphis - 3 Whizz kid - 3 Hymn for the dudes - 3 Honaloochie boogie - 3 Violence - 3 Drivin' sister - 3 Ballad of mott the hoople - 3 I'm a cadillac / el camino dolo roso - 3 I wish i was your mother - 4

A nice discovery, just sadly fading into the background fairly quickly. They are one amongst others, not THE one.

3,5 stars

Enjoyable glam rock, but not great glam rock. Never heard of this band before, but they are a good time. Not quite sure why the last song is a Bob Dylan impersonation Favorite Songs: Violence, Drivin' Sister

Nothing bad here to be honest, its old glam rock that has a tendency to edge out into sampled sounds and experimental ideas on a lot of the tracks. I'm not sure what I'm missing here but this doesn't strike me as much different to a lot of other Bowie songs so its doing some interesting stuff that doesn't land for me very much. I'd save some songs to listen to again but beyond that I'll just acknowledge that I've heard of the band now.

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Als ik de '... at home' meme voorbij zie komen is het altijd nog maar zien hoe veel de betreffende act daadwerkelijk op het in te vullen vergelijkingsmateriaal lijkt. In dit geval: veel. Het is alsof Mott The Hoople (wat een bandnaam) nam het nog geen jaar oude Ziggy Stardust en maakte het een soort van na. Uiteraard is Mott The Hoople geen David Bowie, dus is er behalve de aesthetic weinig over van Bowie's meesterwerk. Wat overblijft is enigzins acceptabele glamrock, maar alleen als je het vergelijkt met andere glamrock, wat vaak uitdraait op onluisterbare troep.