Mott the Hoople - Mad Shadows [Bonus Tracks]

Mott The Hoople's second album exploded from a hard rock sound that had scarcely been hinted at over the course of its Dylan-ish predecessor, a blistering bombast that spiraled out of what had already established itself as the band's live statement of intent: the appropriately thunderous "Thunderbuck Ram." "[The album]'s very introspective," Ian Hunter said at the time, "not contrived, but that's how we all felt at the time. We were in this peculiar mood, and we went into the studio with the numbers, but no lyrics written. Read More