{"id":2349,"date":"2010-08-28T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2018-08-05T23:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T03:32:42","slug":"mott-the-hooples-all-the-young-dudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Mott the Hoople\u2019s \u201cAll the Young&nbsp;Dudes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">This is one of my favourite albums from the glam rock era of the ear\u00adly sev\u00aden\u00adties.&nbsp;Mott the Hoople was an ill-starred band from Here\u00adford\u00adshire that was saved from obscu\u00adri\u00adty by the time\u00adly gift of a song, \u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d by David Bowie, who also pro\u00adduced the album.&nbsp;It\u2019s a sol\u00adid play, through and through. As well as the fine title song, it has one of the three best ver\u00adsions of \u201cSweet Jane,\u201d the band\u2019s own \u201cOne of the Boys,\u201d \u201cSea Dri\u00adver,\u201d and \u201cReady for Love,\u201d all sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading songs.&nbsp;At heart, the band was a low-key R<span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>B com\u00adbo that did not fit com\u00adfort\u00adably into the heav\u00adi\u00adly arranged glam style.&nbsp;I don\u2019t know if this album has any sta\u00adtus as an offi\u00adcial rock \u201cclas\u00adsic\u201d, but it has always remained in my plea\u00adsure play\u00ading reper\u00adtoire.&nbsp;I\u2019ve just acquired the 2006 remas\u00adtered reis\u00adsue, with sev\u00aden bonus tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favourite albums from the glam rock era of the ear\u00adly sev\u00aden\u00adties.&nbsp;Mott the Hoople was an ill-starred band from Here\u00adford\u00adshire that was saved from obscu\u00adri\u00adty by the time\u00adly gift of a song, \u201cAll the Young&nbsp;Dudes\u201d&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2349\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cq-listening-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}