MOTT THE HOOPLE mp3 guide

Most Mott The Hoople albums and individual tracks are available for digital download thesedays. Some digital albums have been available on CD for years but have been issued with different titles and artwork. Other titles are only made available in digital format, or offer bonus tracks not available on the CD edition.

This page deals with all those 'special edition' digital albums. Digital versions identical to the CD editions are not covered. Let me know if you can add other digital only titles!

Quick links: THE ATLANTIC STUDIO ALBUM COLLECTION: 1969-1971 | IN CONCERT | AN INTRODUCTION | PHILADELPHIA FEATURING DAVID BOWIE | STOCKHOLM | ALL THE YOUNG DUDES single | RHINO HI-FIVE | THE HOOPLE | READY FOR LOVE | MIDNIGHT LADY (LIVE)


THE ATLANTIC STUDIO ALBUM COLLECTION: 1969-1971 (2014)

Highslide JS Rhino Records released "Complete Atlantic Studio Albums", a limited and numbered edition Mott The Hoople box set on 180gram vinyl on 14 October 2014. The set includes the first four Mott The Hoople albums "Mott the Hoople", "Wildlife", "Mad Shadows" and "Brain Capers".

The box set is also available for download at iTunes with different cover art, entitled "The Atlantic Studio Album Collection: 1969-1971" (pictured left).

TRACK LISTING (Mott The Hoople): You Really Got Me / At the Crossroads / Laugh At Me / Backsliding Fearlessly (Single Version) / Rock and Roll Queen / Rabbit Foot and Toby Time / Half Moon Bay / Wrath and Wroll

TRACK LISTING (Mad Shadows): Thunderbuck Ram / No Wheels To Ride / You Are One of Us / Walkin' With a Mountain / I Can Feel / Threads of Iron / When My Mind's Gone

TRACK LISTING (Wildlife): Whisky Women / Angel of Eighth Avenue / Wrong Side of the River / Waterlow / Lay Down / It Must Be Love / Original Mixed-Up Kid / Home Is Where I Want To Be / Keep a Knockin' (Live)

TRACK LISTING (Brain Capers): Death May Be Your Santa Claus / Your Own Backyard / Darkness Darkness / The Journey / Sweet Angeline / Second Love / The Moon Upstairs / The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception


IN CONCERT (2010)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Thunderbuck Ram / The Original Mixed Up Kid / Laugh At Me / Keep A Knockin' / Angel Of 8th Avenue / Whiskey Women / Hymn For The Dudes / Sweet Jane / All The Young Dudes / Death May Be Your Santa Claus / The Ballad Of Billy Joe / Sea Diver / Sweet Angeline / American Pie / The Golden Age Of Rock N' Roll / Sucker / Rest In Peace / Born Late '58 / Marionette / All The Way From Memphis / If Your Heart Lay With The Rebel / It Would Be A Pleasure

This 2010 release in the 'Legit Bootleg Series' is infact the digital version of the "Concert Anthology" 2CD compilation released by Purple Pyramid in the States in 2005. This offered the best from the two Angel Air releases, "All The Way From Stockholm To Philadelphia - Live 71/72" and "Two Miles From Live Heaven".


AN INTRODUCTION (2010)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Thunderbuck Ram / Whiskey Women / The Original Mixed-Up Kid / Walkin' With a Mountain / Death May Be Your Santa Claus / One of the Boys / Ready For Love / Sweet Angeline / Hymn For The Dudes / Sucker / Roll Away The Stone / Sweet Jane / All The Way From Memphis / All The Young Dudes

Originally released as the 2006 CD "An Introduction To Mott The Hoople".

Now available as the second album in the 'Legit Bootleg Series', only available for digital download. Like the "In Concert" download album, the songs on this compilation are sourced from the two Angel Air UK releases, "All The Way From Stockholm To Philadelphia - Live 71/72" and "Two Miles From Live Heaven".


PHILADELPHIA FEATURING DAVID BOWIE (2010)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Introduction / Jupiter (from Holst's Planet Suite) / Jerkin' Crocus / Sucker / Hymn For The Dudes / Ready For Love / Sweet Jane / Sea Diver / Sweet Angeline / One Of The Boys / Midnight Lady / All The Young Dudes / Honky Tonk Women

This is another 2010 release only available as a digital download, but unlike the other albums in the 'Legit Bootleg Series' this indeed is a Legit Bootleg!

"Live With David Bowie" was one of the earliest Mott The Hoople bootleg LPs, issued back in 1973. The quality was poor FM, but it has since been released officially with much improved sound as disc 2 in Angel Air's excellent "All The Way From Stockholm To Philadelphia - Live 71/72" 2CD set, and it is this version which now is available for download.


STOCKHOLM (2010)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Long Red / The Original Mixed Up Kid / Walking With A Mountain / Laugh At Me / Thunderbuck Ram / Keep A Knockin'

The songs on the fourth and final 2010 release in the 'Legit Bootleg Series' have long been available as disc 1 in Angel Air's "All The Way From Stockholm To Philadelphia - Live 71/72" 2CD set. But they originally surfaced on the 1990 bootleg "Long Red" on the Oh Boy label (but in poorer quality).


ALL THE YOUNG DUDES single (2008)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: All The Young Dudes / All The Way From Memphis

Both tracks are live versions, culled from Angel Air's "Two Miles From Live Heaven" 2CD set. Is this the first ever Mott The Hoople mp3 single?

The cover is quite nice too (it was later reused for the 2010 download only album "In Concert").


RHINO HI-FIVE: MOTT THE HOOPLE (2006)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Death May Be Your Santa Claus / Whisky Women / Thunderbuck Ram / Walkin' With A Mountain / Rock And Roll Queen

This was the first 'proper' digitally only Mott The Hoople compilation album, issued sometime during 2006. All the tracks are regular album versions, so nothing special there. It has a really cool cover - the picture used is one of the best of the original line-up, I think!


THE HOOPLE (2006)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll / Marionette / Alice / Crash Street Kidds / Born Late '58 / Trudi's Song / Pearl 'n' Roy (England) / Through The Looking Glass / Roll Away The Stone / Where Do You All Come From? / Rest In Peace / Foxy Foxy / The Saturday Gigs? / Saturday Kids / Lounge Lizard / American Pie-Golden Age Of Rock N Roll

This 2006 version of "The Hoople" was initially issued for download only.

Sony USA released digitally remastered and expanded versions "The Hoople" and "Mott" in February 2006, but while "Mott" also got a CD edition, "The Hoople" was only made available as a digital download. This remastered version of "The Hoople" has since been released on CD in England, but it deserves a mention here anyway.


ROCK MASTERS: MIDNIGHT LADY LIVE (2005)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Laugh At Me / Thunderbuck Ram / Midnight Lady / Jerkin' Crocus / Walking With A Mountain / Original Mixed Up Kid / Angel Of Eighth Avenue / One Of The Boys

Another early compilation from 2005, using the same generic 'rock masters' cover as "Ready For Love" below. The "Midnight Lady (live)" collection is also licenced from Angel Air.


LIVE ROCK MASTERS: READY FOR LOVE (2005)

Highslide JS TRACK LISTING: Ready For Love / Hymn For The Dudes / Sweet Angeline / The Golden Age Of Rock'n'roll / Sucker / Medley (incl. Roll Away The Stone) / All The Way From Memphis / All The Young Dudes

"Ready For Love" was one of the earliest Mott The Hoople digital albums. It is a re-issue of Angel Air's "Hoopling - Best Of Live", but the first 4 cuts are missing. The same generic cover were used on many releases in this period.

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