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Is this the most feel-good song ever recorded?
Posted by Raymo on 16 April 2009 - 12:52pm.
I know it's not their best song, but has a band ever looked like it's having more fun than these lads? It cheers me up every time I watch it: the rapport between Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan's exaggerated twisting & Kenney Jones's endearing awkwardness. It's four talented young lads at the very top of their game having a great laugh. And, to cap it all, there's some of Stanely Unwin's inspired nonsense.
If there's a clip more guaranteed to put a smile on your face, I'd love to see it.
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Beatles Or Stones?
Whenever anybody asks me that I say neither: The Small Faces, everytime!
They sucked the marrow...
but yes, the answer is always the Small Faces.
Yes, they were great, weren't they?
I loved them as a kid, but had forgotten how good they were untilI bought a ludicrously underpriced 2cd collection recently, which got me searching Youtube for them.
For one thing, they looked absolutely fantastic, individually and as a group (where I think it helped that they were all about 5 foot six inches tall). Lane was a very under-rated musician, and Jones & McLagan created a wonderful Stax-like groove. And then of course there is Marriott's voice, which to my mind is one of the top three voices in British rock (the other two being Steve Winwood & Rod Stewart).
I'm not sure they're really greater than the Beatles or the Stones, especially in the song-writing department, but they deserve to be mentioned in the same breath, which is no mean achievement, & are too often overlooked.
I love Plonk, me.
Dad's are great. See also Ian Dury's My Old Man & Martin Simpson's Never Any Good With Money.
Love that song (Debris)
so much. Just one of those songs that makes me feel sad.
Love the BBC version on the Five Guys Walk into A Bar box by the Faces.
Billy Bragg and Mac play it now when they tour together.
Hard to believe that the pair of them are dead...
...Though that song makes me want to go and watch "Oliver!"
Bring on the Feist!
Whoever it was on The Word blog who first spotted this - I thangew...
I think it was The Hep himself.
Fantastic isn't it? Everything pop should be.
With bonus chickens.
Feist counting
It is indeed utterly wonderful.
I was gratified to catch my grand-daughter (nearly eleven now. God I feel old.) singing the song to herself yesterday - I showed her the video when it was on here last year.
and from the UK
I never thought they'd top their seminal '4' rap.
Even better
Makes me smile every time. I'll get me coat...