All The Young Dudes
Mott The Hoople
1972
Album Summary
WikipediaWell, I was prepared to hate this album but I didn't. It's... weird. The album starts off with a cover which is a bit of a turn off. But, after that weird start, the album takes off in its own direction. I read this described as "glam rock" but I think that's an incomplete descriptor. The songs here bounces wildly from Deep Purple to Rolling Stones to Velvet Underground and even sometimes hits some Dylanesque notes with all flavors of 60s and 70s poprock in between. It seems like it should feel disconnected and disjointed but, somehow, it doesn't. It ends up feeling like Mott the Hoople is just... doing its own thing. And I like that.
Glam rock sin nada que envidiar a T Rex. El tema Sweet Jane es una de esas canciones que deben estar en cualquier lista de grandes temas
All I knew about this band before today was that David Bowie liked them enough to write them a song so they wouldn't break up, and it became their most successful single. So, I was unprepared for how well-rounded this album was. It's actually really good; however, I listened to the version of the song with Bowie singing, and I wish he would have just kept it for himself. Best track: All the Young Dudes
Highlights: All The Young Dudes, Jerkin' Crocus, Soft Ground, Ready For Love/After Lights This album is a fun romp through a a band's near-breakup (saved by an intervention staged by David Bowie) and epitomizes glam-rock with a bright mixture of hard-rock and crunchy cocksure riffs throughout.
Surprisingly good. Got strong summer vibes, and does not fit what I think of as Glam Rock, but that may need reassessment after this album.
The title track is as good as it gets. The rest is in essential, harmless blues boogie from a band who would be largely forgotten if they didn't happen to know David Bowie.
Getting heavy Bowie vibes, turns out Bowie wrote the title track song.
Another one of those albums that are perfecrly fine but I'm not sure it needs to be on this list. The titular song js amazing but apart from that it's just a good rock album but not mich more.
This was pretty okay. Very Bowie-esque in parts, which makes sense since he produced it. I liked a few songs.
An all around solid album from a band I had no idea existed, just knew the main title track. Some great production and Bowie's work on the title track was phenomenal. Certainly a band that has been relatively lost in rock history
This album is uneven. Sweet Jane has none of the charm of the original. Momma’s Little Jewel is fascinatingly layered, and it never lets up—pushing through the stammering, sputtering vocals. All The Young Dudes sounds like a Bowie knock-off performed by a high school cover band, with none of Bowie’s humor or charisma. Sucker feels the exact opposite of All the Young Dudes: it’s humorous, the vocal performance is top notch, the percussion verges on the off-kilter without ever failing to propel the track forward. Ready for Love/After Lights is cliched rock at its worse. I like the album, but I can only listen to so many tracks on it more than a couple times. I am very partial to the closer, which I feel best showcases the sort of vocal talent that Ian Hunter had. That being said, having your album’s title track written by another, better musician can’t be anything but bad. 5.5/10
Notable more for Bowie's influence than anything else. Not a huge Bowie fan either, so this album didn't do much for me. Still good though, so 3 stars it will sit.
Bowie has his glittery, glam rock fingers all over this. Best Tracks: Sweet Jane, All The Young Dudes, Sucker
This is the first album I've gotten so far that I don't understand why it made this list. I understand that 1,001 albums is a lot and is going to include a lot of albums from every year, but I just don't get this one. Their cover of Sweet Jane is an abomination, and it certainly shouldn't have been used to lead off the album. All the Young Dudes is a notable high point on the album, but at the same time I understand why Bowie sold it to them instead of keeping it for himself. The mix on the album is muddy. Everything picks up toward the middle of the album, but by that point I was already pretty mad 2/5 3/5
It's unfortunate that the only song I had heard from this band, the title track, doesn't really sound like any of the other tracks. The other tracks are all better, or maybe I'm just sick of that one song. Either way, the rest of this album was a nice listen. It's very much of the 70s. It's a lot funkier than I would have guessed. I enjoyed it.
More of a 2.5 than a 2. Anyway, I appreciated that some of this reminded me of Bowie, which makes sense since he was a writer, producer, etc. of this album, but it also reminds me of some of his less interesting music. My favorite song was probably the album title track, though I realized I had already heard it from somewhere: it's a Bowie song (according to Wikipedia, it was "produced by Bowie, [and] he gave the song to the band after they rejected Bowie's "Suffragette City." That was a bad decision, wasn't it?)
Sounds like a poor man's version/inspiration for Tom Petty. Didn't really like even the most popular song, All the Young Dudes