Mott The Hoople（モット・ザ・フープル）6CDボックス『Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71)』

モット・ザ・フープルがアイランド・レコード時代の音源をまとめたCD6枚組ボックス・セットをリリース。収録内容されたオリジナル・アルバム4作品は、すべてオリジナルテープからリマスタリングされ、貴重／未発表音源の他、BBCセッションやライヴ音源などボーナストラックを収録。

またディスク5は未発表音源集、ディスク6はライヴ音源集となっている。

【収録曲】
CD1 MOTT THE HOOPLE
1. You Really Got Me
2. At the Crossroads
3. Laugh at Me
4. Backsliding Fearlessly
5. Rock and Roll Queen
6. Rabbit Foot and Toby Time
7. Half Moon Bay
8. Wrath and Wroll
9. If Your Heart Lay with the Rebel (Would You Cheer the Underdog?) (Instrumental Take 2)
10. Rock and Roll Queen (Single A side)
11. Road to Birmingham (Single B side)
12. Road to Birmingham (Guy Steven’s Mix)
13. You Really Got Me (Complete take)
14. You Really Got Me (Vocal mix)
15. Rock and Roll Queen (Guy Steven’s Mono Mix)
16. Rock and Roll Queen (Kitchen Sink Instrumental)
17. Little Christine (2 Miles)

CD2 MAD SHADOWS
1. Thunderbuck Ram
2. No Wheels to Ride
3. You Are One of Us
4. Walking with a Mountain
5. I Can Feel
6. Threads of Iron
7. When My Mind’s Gone
8. Bonus Tracks
9. Thunderbuck Ram (BBC Session)
10. Thunderbuck Ram (Original Take with Organ)
11. No Wheels to Ride (Demo)
12. Moonbus (Baby’s Got a Down on Me)
13. The Hunchback Fish (Vocal Rehearsal)
14. You Are One of Us (Take 9)
15. Going Home (2 Miles)
16. Keep A-Knockin’ (Studio version)

CD3 WILDLIFE
1. Whiskey Women
2. Angel of Eighth Avenue
3. Wrong Side of the River
4. Waterlow
5. Lay Down
6. It Must Be Love
7. The Original Mixed Up Kid
8. Home Is Where I Want to Be
9. Keep A-Knockin’ (Live)
10. Midnight Lady (Single A side)
11. The Debt (Single B side)
12. Downtown (Single A side)
13. Brain Haulage (Whiskey Woman)
14. Growing Man Blues (Take 10)
15. Long Red (Demo)
16. The Ballad of Billy Joe
17. Lay Down (Take 8)

CD4 BRAIN CAPERS
1. Death May Be Your Santa Claus
2. Your Own Backyard
3. Darkness, Darkness
4. The Journey
5. Sweet Angeline
6. Second Love
7. The Moon Upstairs
8. The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception
9. Mental Train (The Moon Upstairs)
10. How Long? (Death May Your Santa Claus)
11. Darkness, Darkness
12. Your Own Backyard (Complete Take)
13. Where Do You All Come From (Backing Track)
14. One of the Boys (Take 2)
15. Movin’ On (2 Miles)
16. Black Scorpio (Mommas Little Jewel)

CD5 The Ballads of Mott The Hoople
1. Like a Rolling Stone (Fragment)
2. No Wheels to Ride (1st House)
3. Angel Of 8th Avenue (Tape 816)
4. The Journey
5. Blue Broken Tears (Tape 816)
6. Black Hills (Full Ralph’s Version)
7. Can You Sing the Song That I Sing (Full Take)
8. Till I’m Gone (2 Miles)
9. The Original Mixed Up Kid (BBC Session)
10. Ill Wind Blowing (2 Miles)
11. I’m A River (Vocal Rehearsal)
12. Ride on The Sun (Sea Diver) (2 Miles)

CD6 It’s Live And Live Only
1. Rock and Roll Queen
2. Ohio
3. No Wheels to Ride / Hey Jude
4. Thunderbuck Ram
5. Keep A-Knockin’
6. You Really Got Me
7. The Moon Upstairs
8. Whiskey Women
9. Your Own Backyard
10. Darkness, Darkness 10
11. The Journey
12. Death May Be Your Santa Claus