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Mott the Hoople albums:
Friends and Relatives

CD1

Sweet Jane (Live) Mott the Hoople
Sucker (Live) Mott the Hoople
Collision Course (Live) Mott
By Tonight (Live) Mott
One More Chance to Run (Demo) British Lions
Hypnotised Verdan Allen
All Across the Nile Mick Ralphs
The Sleeper Wakes Morgan
Only the Roses John Fiddler
Treat Yourself Right Steve Hyams
Harlem Shuffle Doc Thomas Group
We'll Silence You The Silence
The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone and the Rats from Hull The Rats

CD2

Ready for Love (Live) Mott the Hoople
Hymn for the Dudes (Live) Mott the Hoople
Born Late '58 (Live) Mott
Storm (Live) Mott
Wild in the Streets (Demo) British Lions
A New Way Verdan Allen
Take This Mick Ralphs
Barefootin' The Doc Thomas Group
See You Tomorrow The Silence
Walk the Line Ray Majors
Early in Spring The Rats
Caribbean Hate Song Overend Watts
One of the Boys (Live) Mott the Hoople

Eagle Records. EDG CD 104

All tracks licensed from Angel Air Records for the world, excluding Japan.
All tracks mastered by NIck Watson at SRT, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK, ecept CD1 track 9 and CD2 track 10 and 12 mastered by John Burns at Hatch Farm Studios, Chertsey, Surrey, UK.
Co-ordinated by Nick Smith.

Mott the Hoople tracks recorded by Line-up 1

Half Moon Bay says... I will evetually get round to cross referencing and linking everything here to the relevant Angel Air releases represented. Which is most of them as these are taken from current or near-future Angel Air releases, and as such, this proves to be a more than adequate taster for those CDs.

Its nicely arranged in chronological order (pre-Mott bands excepted) on both CDs and has some tasters of future products. The John Fiddler track has me desperate for more of that (note that the track provided here didn't appear on the then forthcoming 'The Big Buffalo'). And as far as I can see, no-one has been missed out: Steve Hyams is here, Morgan, Doc Thomas Group, Ronsons Rats, Ray Majors and so on. There is even a track from Overend Watts, a taster from what will surely be an eagerly awaited addition to many Mott fans collections.

There's no Ian Hunter solo stuff here, but the critieria here for inclusion is Angel Air product. And we Mott fans really do owe Peter Purnell and his label a big debt of gratitude. We have had so many records to choose from over the past year or so. Who would have thought there would have been so much Mott related product coming onto the market a mere five years ago?

Buff supplies excellent sleeve notes once again. And if I had the money, I would try to tempt him to write his definitive Mott the Hoople biography.

The Classic Rock magazine review feels that these notes are the highlight of the package and add that they have been written by "...Mott the Hooples original drummer" . I am currently drafting the letter that reminds them he was, in fact, their only drummer.

For a taster, a good buy, nicely presented and tracks well ordered. However, in most cases, the full CDs are well worth the cash if you can afford it.

Terry Burgess. Dec 1999.

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