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1971 studio album by Mott the Hoople
Brain Capers
Studio album by
Mott the Hoople
Released
19 November 1971 (1971-11-19) (UK/Canada) January 1972 (US)
Recorded
August–September 1971
Studio
Island (London)
Genre
Hard rock
Length
37:55
Label
Island (UK/Canada), Atlantic (US)
Producer
Guy Stevens
Mott the Hoople chronology
Wildlife (1971)
Brain Capers (1971)
All the Young Dudes (1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic
[1]
Christgau's Record Guide
B[2]
Rolling Stone
favourable[3]
Brain Capers is the fourth album by the band Mott the Hoople.
It was originally released in November 1971 in the UK by Island Records (catalogue number ILPS 9178) and on Island Records in Canada (cat. no. SW-9178), and was reissued in 2003 (on CD) by Angel Air (cat. no. SJPCD160). It was released January 1972 in the US on Atlantic Records (cat. no. SD 8304).
The release was not initially a commercial success, and was the only Mott the Hoople album that failed to chart in either the UK[4] or US.
The initial working title of AC/DC would be abandoned in favour of a combination of alternate choices Brain Damage and Bizarre Capers. Ultimately, the album was titled Brain Capers as a compromise between the latter two.[5] Earlier sessions, self-produced by the band, were also abandoned when Guy Stevens was called in to rescue the recording but a number of these tracks have resurfaced on All the Young Dudes: The Anthology and as bonus material on Angel Air's re-issues of Mott the Hoople albums.
The covers of the original UK and Canadian LPs do not feature the mask seen on the US version (and some later re-releases). There was an actual mask packaged inside with the UK version of the album, but not with the Canadian LP. The band name and line under it are in the centre of the cover where the mask would be and the title shifted upwards. The US and Canadian LPs do not have the inner sleeve picturing fighter planes that the original UK album had.
The album is dedicated to James Dean, as stated below the band photo on the back cover.
^Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Brain Capers". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
^Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 8 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^Ed Leimbacher (2 March 1972). "Brain Capers". Rolling Stone.
^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 381. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
^This is referenced by an oblique credit on the back cover that reads "Sleeve - Bizarre Damage." (Original Atlantic Records pressing, cat. no. SD 8304.)
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