Some of you might think that you've never heard these guys before, but when the title track comes on, you'll realize that you've listened to them at least 20 times in a row whilst trying to destroy "All the Young Dudes" on expert in Guitar Hero. You may hate them for it. Or at least I did. Anyways, aside from all that, this album was produced by David Bowie in 1972. Actually, David Bowie is most of the reason that Mott the Hoople became successful at all. He is the one that wrote "All the Young Dudes", and he is also the one that transformed the bands image into that of glam rockstars, or so allmusic leads us to believe. On kind of a crazy note, though, David Bowie had originally given Mott the Hoople "Sufragette City", but they rejected it, and then Bowie had to go and make it a hit.
But "All the Young Dudes" shouldn't be the entire focus of the album. The rest of the songs are also pretty good. For example, there is a sweet cover of Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane". And "Momma's Little Jewel" and "Jerkin' Crocus" are rockin'.
Oh yeah, Bowie plays sax on this album, too.
Track Listing:
Side One
1. Sweet Jane
2. Momma's Little Jewel
3. All the Young Dudes
4. Sucker
5. Jerkin' Crocus
Side Two
6. One of the Boys
7. Soft Ground
8. Ready for Love/After Lights
9. Sea Diver
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