All The Young Dudes: Anthology, The

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Personnel: Ian Hunter (vocals, rap vocals, guitar, piano); Mick Ralphs (vocals, guitar, organ); Pete "Overend" Watts (vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar); Morgan Fisher (vocals, piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Dale "Buffin" Griffin (vocals, drums); David Bowie, Stan Tippins, John Fiddler, Nigel Benjamin, Thunderthighs (vocals); Dave Tedstone, Ray Major, Mick Ronson, Ariel Bender (guitar); Paul Buckmaster (cello); Andy Mackay , Howie Casey (saxophone); Fender Rhodes (piano); Verden Allen (electric piano, keyboards); Bobbye Hall, Paul Stratton (drums); Steve Marriott (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Geoff Emerick; John Leckie; Alan Harris; Bill Price . Liner Note Authors: Campbell Devine; Dale "Buffin" Griffin; Pete "Overend" Watts; Stan Tippins; Guy Stevens; Ian Hunter; Luther Grosvenor; Mick Ralphs. Recording information: Abbey Road 2;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Advision;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Air 1 and 2;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); CBS Whitfield St.;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Future Sounds;Monmouth (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Hollick & Taylor;Birmingham (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Island 2;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Island Basing Street No.2 and (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Milan, Italy (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Morgan 2;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Olympic 1 and No.2;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Pye;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio;Clearwell Castle;Gloucester (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); The Manor;Oxfordshire (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Trident;Soho;London, England (09/??/1969-12/30/1970); Ultra Sonic;Hempstead;Long Island;NY (09/??/1969-12/30/1970). Author: Martin Colley. Photographer: Mick Rock . For a group whose living legacy stretched to just seven albums (and one live set), anthologizing Mott the Hoople has proven extraordinarily problematic. Few bands, after all, have meant so many things to so many people, while two very separate career trajectories -- a bluesy Dylanesque bar band on one hand, glammy post-Bowie storm troopers on the other -- ensure that even devoted acolytes will never agree on what constitutes the band's very best. Single disc retrospectives are ten-a-penny and satisfy nobody; a two CD collection left too many gaps; All The Young Dudes tries to fit everything onto three, and still comes out short. What the devil is going on? No complaints about the actual contents on the set, though. Documenting the 1969-1971 (Island/Atlantic) and 1972-1974 (CBS/Columbia) periods in best-ever sound, the first two discs take a more or less unimpeachable stroll through the regular catalog, tweaking a few rough spots with unobtrusive remixes, plugging some holes with demos and rarities, and going beyond the basic catalog with well-chosen excerpts from the early-1980s Two Miles From Heaven outtakes collection. Allied with the Walking With a Mountain collection, these two discs do indeed tell the Mott story in all of its glory. More problematic is disc three. The need for an all-encompassing latter-day Mott rarities collection grows stronger all the time -- spread across maybe half a dozen different CDs, the past decade has seen at least one full album's worth of previously unissued material surface, ranging from the live "Here Comes the Queen" which closes guitarist Luther Grovesnor/Ariel Bender's Floodgates Anthology, to the handful of outtakes scattered across the Ballad of Mott collection. Add the Bowie-produced version of "Sweet Jane" featuring Lou Reed's original guide vocal, live recordings from the band's Mick Ronson-fired dog days, and the unreleased remainder of the 1974 Live album, and, clearly, you'd have a killer collection. The box set, however, eschews almost everything the demanding obsessive could ask for, in favor of nine tracks which aren't even Mott the Hoople. The forerunning Buddies, Shakedown Sound, and Doc Thomas Group, and th