All the Young Dudes [Box set, Import]

Mott the Hoople | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Sbme Import
• ASIN: B00000G6C4
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,091 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Like a Rolling Stone [Impromptu Jam]

2. Rock & Roll Queen [45 RPM Version]

3. You Really Got Me [Vocal Version]

4. Wrath and Wroll [1998 Mix]

5. Find Your Way [Backtrack/Demo]

6. Moonbus (Baby's Got a Down) [Live/Demo/1998 Mix][Live]

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. All the Young Dudes

2. One of the Boys [UK Single Version]

3. Sweet Jane

4. Ready for Love

5. Honaloochie Boogie

6. Ballad of Mott the Hoople (26th March 1972, Zürich)

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. All the Young Dudes

2. It's Goodbye

3. Just Can't Go to Sleep

4. Transparent Day [Demo Version]

5. Shakin' All Over [Demo Version]

6. Please Don't Touch [Demo Version]

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great remastered sound and unusual track selection, April 11, 1999

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This review is from: All the Young Dudes (Audio CD)

Mott The Hopple was slapped together from the clay of The Silence, Ian Hunter and manager Guy Stevens' imagination (and love of Willard McManus). They created a handful of classic albums during their brief tenure in the 1970's. This terrific box set captures the band's key album and single tracks along with rarities and unreleased demos to present a fairly comprehesive picture for first time buyers and fans alike.

The first disc is devoted to their years on Island Records with key singles and demos. Producers Dale Griffin (the drummer from the band) and Ray Staff have lovingly remastered the sound. Additionally, they didn't always go for the obivious choices in track selection. For example, Griffin uses the previously unreleased self produced tracks for Mott's version of what would become Brain Capers. He and Staff also went back and remixed some of their best tracks. This actually improves the overall sound and brings a new dimension to the songs.

The second disc focuses on the Columbia years. Here Griffin and Staff again remix key tracks and present some of the band's key single and b side tracks. Since this is the band's most well known phase, Griffin and Staff go for the hard to find single releases of album tracks. In some cases this is the fist time these tracks are available on CD. This is the band in their prime.

The third disc is a collection of rarities, demos and unreleased live tracks recorded with the band's original line up. Additionally, the third disc also features tracks from The Doc Thomas Group (where Mick Ralphs got his start), The Silence(Mott without Ian Hunter) and singles from the post-Hunter line up. The only improvement here would have been the addition of tracks from Hunter's pre-Mott The Hopple band, as well as, some of the sessions he played on as a musician for hire. Reportedly, Ian Hunter is working on his own box set for his solo career and will include some of this material on it.

The enclosed booklet provides a great overview of the band's career by biographer Campbell Devine. Additionally, there is a comphrensive (and accurate) discography of everything Mott The Hopple, Mott and British Lions ever released on vinyl albums, singles and CD. Everyone involved with Mott (with the exception of the late Guy Stevens) provides comments throughout the booklet.

Altogether, this is a fine compilation and supercedes the Columbia box set Ballad Of Mott The Hopple (1993). Fans may want to still purchase Ballad (or hold on to it) as this compilation is missing Henry and the H Bomb. While the Anthology is missing some key album tracks from the band's Island and Columbia years this is because it was designed to supplement the previously released albums and CD's. This collection easily surpasses the more conservative Balld Of Mott The Hopple issued by Columbia in 1993.

5.0 out of 5 stars Boy am I glad I bought this when it first came out......., November 20, 2007

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This review is from: All the Young Dudes (Audio CD)

This box will only get rarer and rarer. The mystique of Mott's magical music is presented in all it's glory here. The rarities are amazing , worth the price of the set alone ! Go ahead , take the plunge ! You will love every second of this amazing compilation from one of the most underrated , under-appreciated bands in history.