"Mental Train devotes one disc apiece to each of the band's four Island albums, plus one live disc and another given over to alternate versions and work-in-progress rundowns of the early Mott's forthright, bloody, life-or-death ballads ... They rocked like satyrs, wore their hearts and viscera on their sleeves,and trailed their flares through streetdirt and stardust. That combination of elements may not come around again any day soon".