Mental Train – The Island Years 1969–71

Compilation by Mott the Hoople

Released 3 October 2018

glam rock rock

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
You Really Got Me
2:54
2
At the Crossroads
5:33
3
Laugh at Me
6:32
4
Backsliding Fearlessly
3:46
5
Rock and Roll Queen
5:09
4.0 ★
6
Rabbit Foot & Toby Time
2:03
7
Half Moon Bay
10:38
8
Wrath and Wroll
1:46
9
If Your Heart Lay With the Rebel (Would You Cheer the Underdog?)
3:50
10
Rock and Roll Queen (single edit)
3:19
11
Road to Birmingham (single version)
3:30
12
Road to Birmingham (Guy Stevens mix)
3:53
13
You Really Got Me (full take)
11:16
14
You Really Got Me (Guy Stevens vocal mix)
2:54
15
Rock and Roll Queen (Guy Stevens mono mix)
3:24
16
Rock and Roll Queen (Kitchen Sink instrumental)
5:24
17
Little Christine
3:10
Digital Media 2
1
Thunderbuck Ram
4:48
3.0 ★
2
No Wheels to Ride
5:49
3
You Are One of Us
2:25
4
Walkin’ With a Mountain
3:49
5
I Can Feel
7:12
6
Threads of Iron
5:11
7
When My Mind’s Gone
6:31
8
Thunderbuck Ram (BBC live session)
3:42
9
Thunderbuck Ram (organ solo version)
4:53
10
No Wheels to Ride (demo)
6:33
11
Moonbus (Baby’s Got a Down on Me)
5:28
12
The Hunchback Fish (vocal Rehearsal)
6:04
13
You Are One of Us (take 9)
5:15
14
Going Home
3:05
15
Keep A‐Knockin’ (take 2)
2:28
Digital Media 3
1
Whiskey Women
3:39
2
Angel of Eighth Avenue (edit)
4:32
3
Wrong Side of the River
5:17
4
Waterlow
3:02
5
Lay Down
4:12
6
It Must Be Love
2:21
7
Original Mixed Up Kid
3:40
8
Home Is Where I Want to Be
4:11
9
Keep‐A‐Knockin’ (live at Fairfield Halls)
10:10
10
Midnight Lady (single version)
4:32
11
The Debt
4:22
12
Downtown
3:02
13
Brain Haulage
3:57
14
Growing Man Blues (take 10)
3:42
15
Long Red (demo)
3:54
16
The Ballad of Billy Joe
3:41
17
Lay Down (take 8)
5:05
Digital Media 4
1
Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception
1:19
2
Death May Be Your Santa Claus
4:54
3
Your Own Backyard
4:13
4
Darkness, Darkness
4:32
5
Journey
9:15
6
Sweet Angeline
4:53
7
Second Love
3:46
8
The Moon Upstairs
5:01
4.0 ★
9
Mental Train (The Moon Upstairs)
5:18
10
How Long (Death May Be…)
4:12
11
Darkness, Darkness (edit)
3:05
12
Your Own Backyard (complete take)
4:13
13
Where Do All Come From (backing Track)
3:17
14
One of the Boys (take 2)
4:23
15
Movin’ On
2:47
16
Black Scorpio (Momma’s Little Jewel)
3:39
Digital Media 5
1
Like a Rolling Stone
1:31
2
No Wheels to Ride (first house take)
7:53
3
Angel of Eighth Avenue
5:23
4
The Journey
10:26
5
Blue Broken Tears
3:15
6
Black Hills
4:09
7
Can You Sing the Song That I Sing?
15:55
8
Until I’m Gone
3:19
9
The Original Mixed Up Kid (BBC live session)
2:54
10
Ill Wind Blowing
4:00
11
I’m a River
10:43
12
Ride on the Sun (Sea Diver)
3:42
Digital Media 6
1
Rock and Roll Queen (live at Fairfield Hall)
4:31
2
Ohio (live at Fairfield Hall)
4:32
3
No Wheels to Ride / Hey Jude (live at Fairfield Hall)
8:13
4
Thunderbuck Ram (live at Fairfield Hall)
5:46
5
Keep A‐Knockin’ (live at Fairfield Hall)
7:59
6
You Really Got Me (live at Fairfield Hall)
9:53
7
The Moon Upstairs (BBC Radio 1 In Concert)
6:03
8
Whiskey Women (BBC Radio 1 In Concert)
4:40
9
Your Own Backyard (BBC Radio 1 In Concert)
4:59
10
Darkness, Darkness (BBC Radio 1 In Concert)
7:36
11
The Journey (BBC Radio 1 In Concert)
8:53
12
Death May Be Your Santa Claus (BBC Radio 1 In Concert)
5:04

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Release credits

Andy Johns
engineer [1.1-8, 2.1-7], recording [1-8]
Dale Griffin
drums (drum set) [5.12, 4.1-8, 2.1-7, 1.1-8], remixer [12]
Guy Stevens
producer [2.1-7, 1.1-8, 3.3, 3.5, 4.1-8]
Ian Hunter
lead vocals [5.12, 4.1-8, 1.2-8, 2.2-5, 2.7], piano [1.1-8, 5.12]
Jim Price
trumpet [7]
Martin Colley
remixer [12]
Mick Ralphs
guitar [5.12, 1.1-8, 2.1-7, 4.1-8], lead vocals [1, 6-7]
Morgan Fisher
mellotron [12], organ [12]
Mott the Hoople
producer [3.5, 5.12]
Overend Watts
bass [2.1-7, 4.1-8], bass guitar [5.12, 1.1-8], guitar [12]
Verden Allen
organ [4.1-8, 1.1-8, 2.1-7, 5.12]

Issues

M
Mental Train – The Island Years 1969–71
6x CD (limited edition)
3 October 2018
M
Mental Train – The Island Years 1969–71
6x Digital Media
2 November 2018