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Mott the Hoople albums:
Brain Capers

Death May be your Santa Claus (Ian Hunter/Verden Allen)
Your Own Back Yard (Dimucci/Fasce)
Darkness Darkness (Jesse Colin Young)
The Journey (Ian Hunter)
Sweet Angeline (Ian Hunter)
Second Love (Allen)
The Moon Upstairs (Ian Hunter/Mick Ralphs)
The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception (Ian Hunter/Guy Stevens)

Bonus Tracks (on Angel Air re-release only)
Midnight Lady (Hunter/Ralphs)
The Journey (Hunter)

Recorded by Line-up 1

Trumpet on 'Second Love' - Jim Price
Recording engineer - Andy Johns
Produced by Guy Stevens

Sleeve - Bizarre Damage
Photo - Richard Polak

This album is dedicated to James Dean

Island Records ILPS 9178. Released in UK September 1971
Re-released in the UK October 2003 by Angel Air Records SJPCD160

SJPCD160 Available in all good record stores, or by mail order from Angel Air Records

Half Moon Bay says... Well, I just love 'Death May be your Santa Claus', and when I first heard 'Satelitte' by the Sex Pistols (b-side to 'God Save The Queen') I thought that they must have been listening to this record before making theirs.

'The Journey' is also a very strong track and 'Sweet Angeline' was always a live favourite. To hear it now it is hard to imagine that, by and large, it was all ignored by the record buying public and that the failure of this album to sell led to the bands 1972 demise.

The original LP included a mask similar to that on its cover and there is a picture of Hunter, strumming a guitar with said mask laying nearby, featured in 'Diary of a Rock n Roll Star'.

Now remastered (see notes for Wildlife about the excellent quality of the re-mastering), attractively repackaged (with sleeve notes from 'Two Miles from Heaven' Editor Keith Smith) with bonus tracks and re-released by Angel Air.