Small Faces
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Immediate 1968
Tracks: 1. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake / 2. Afterglow / 3. Long Agos and Worlds Apart / 4. Rene / 5. Song of a Baker / 6. Lazy Sunday / 7. Happiness Stan / 8. Rollin' Over / 9. The Hungry Intruder / 10. The Journey / 11. Mad John / 12. Happydaystoytown / 13.* Here Come the Nice / 14. Talk to You* / 15. My Way of Giving* / 16. The Universal* / 17. Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass* / 18 Itchycoo Park* / 19. I'm Only Dreaming / 20. Have You Ever Seen Me* / 21. The Autumn Stone* / 22. Wham Bam Thank You Mam* / 23 Groovy* / 24. Don't Burst My Bubble* / 25 All Or Nothing - live* / 26 Tin Soldier - live*
Comments:
"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" was the album that really established Small Faces as a band that wished to and should be taken seriously. Sadly the band had split up within a year of the album's release. A lot can be (and has been) said about the round tobacco box, I'll stick to giving a few comments about the music.
The original two album sides were more or less two sections, where side one was a regular album, with outstandings songs like "Afterglow", "Song of a Baker" and "Lazy Sunday" - the three other tracks are just good.
Side two is the experimental and ambitious side where the songs are tied together with a strange narration by comedian Stan Unwin. It's a fairytale story about Happiness Stan who goes looking for the other half of the moon.
The songs are all great melodic tunes, with quite an impressive variation in style and instrumentation - several of them sung by bassist Ronnie Lane. The narration overlaps the music in several cases with is quite charming, but personally I would havev liked to hear the music of "Happiness Stan", "The Hungry Intruder" and "Mad John" without Unwin's narration - hopefully some day a version with just the music will be released.
This version contains no less than 14 bonus-tracks - most of them singles A's and B's. A few rarities have been included too, "Groovy" which the band recorded with P.P. Arnold and "Don't Burst my Bubble" from one their last studio-sessions. It seems the band was well half-ways into the recordings of a follow-up album, when Steve Marriott decided to leave and form "Humble Pie" with Peter Frampton".
Many of these recordings were released on the 1969 album "The Autum Stone", which also included a lot of previously released material.
Other post "ONGF" recordings here are "The Universal", "The Autumn Stone" and "Wham Bam Thank You Mam".
The last two tracks here are 1968 live-recordings.
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