Mott The Hoople

1969 · Hard Rock · Island Records

UK · ILPS 9108

Credits

Producer: Guy Stevens
Written by: Ray Davies, Doug Sahm, Sonny Bono, Ian Hunter, Mick Ralphs, Guy Stevens
Engineer: Andy Johns

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.