To anticipate, who came in the 70s to Mott The Hoople, who will rejoice in the discs. Who the (harder, more on rhythm and blues oriented) material from 1969 - preferably 71 (Sweet Angeline etc.), will be disappointed. In slipcase are "All The Young Dudes" (72), "Mott" (73), "The Hoople" (74) and the two appeared actually under the band name Mott "Drive On" (75) and "Shouting and Pointing" (76) - was then eh conclusion. Who owns the Retrospective double CD The Ballad of Mott, already has the most songs, but: Who Mott The Hoople likes and a CD-fan, that is, has rather CDs on the shelf as mp3s on the plate, hitting here : 5 CDs in top quality sound for just under 18 euros! Basically missing "only" yet the 4 "pre-All-The-Young Dudes" slithers and the live album (preferably the hammer moderate Mott The Hoople Live-Thirtieth Anniversary Edition), to have the complete works. But now to what constitutes the 5 star, although the presentation is very spartan. The cardboard cover correspond to the original albums - including the title information. The hammer is shown on the slip (and on the CDs of course): The three Mott The Hoople CDs are packed with bonus tracks (if 'explained' even barely or not at all, what it is.) It is therefore the same policy driven as with the Japanese "Vinyl Replica (see Led Zep), which cover the old, the CDs are souped up, content and technology for me as Bowie lovers of firecrackers. a version of" All The Young Dudes "with Bowie and Hunter as a singer, in the Mott-version of the song! One finds in the bonus list tracks that were to be found on the above-mentioned double-Best Of already (Rose, Where do you all come from, Saturday Gigs , Lounge Lizard, etc.), this also another, eg "American Pie" is not strangled, but with what follows on the LiveCD without transition "The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll", to "Nightmare", " Blue Scorpio "," The Saturday Kids "or" Ride On The Sun ". Overall, a jewel in the cardboard box. Who does not know Mott The Hoople so in the truest sense of the word, which should also be accessed because it is the cradle of find punk rock and Britpop.
