Garbage Days Revisited #77: Mott The Hoople - "Wildlife" (1971)
"I have so much to say but so little time to stay..." - Mott The Hoople - Angel Of Eighth Avenue Well, it's official, we have a new winner. For over a year now, the Dictators' Go Girl Crazy! has held the record of being the oldest album to feature in Garbage Days Revisited but today we're heading even further back than those hazy days of proto-punk to what I guess you could call proto-glam. Of course, everybody knows Mott the Hoople for their glam rock years from 1972-74 when the band had their biggest run of success with the likes of All The Young Dudes , Honaloochie Boogie , All The Way From Memphis , Roll Away The Stone , Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll etc but what a lot of people don't know is that by the time the first of those songs became a hit, the group had already put out four albums, split up and hastily reformed again. So today, we're going to look at Wildlife , the best of the albums from that era as well as a quick peek at some of ...