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Small Faces Deluxe Editions...
Posted by jezk on 24 January 2012 - 2:33pm.
...Finally out in May.
"Small Faces (Decca, 1966), From The Beginning (Decca, 1967) and Small Faces (Immediate, 1967) will appear in two-disc format while their 1968 masterpiece, Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, has been expanded to three discs. Each album has been remastered and will contain both the mono and stereo versions of the original tracks alongside a clutch of previously unreleased bonus material."
Quite excited, me.
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Great. But....
Posted somewhere else about the proliferation of Small Faces compilations. Based on no evidence whatsoever always thought that the band were one of those 60s bands that get little or no money from these and the owners of the songs were exploiting the catalogue for all its worth. Own 3 Small Faces comps so if the above is true I'm feeding the greed.
Does anyone ever listen to mono versions? According to Reckless Eric autobiog the mono of sgt peppers is far superioe.
I like mono, me
The Beatles mono box is revelatory, especially Sgt Pepper.
Money
Didn't they finally sort out the royalty situation a few years back, there was a compilation called the Ultimate Small Faces, which had the selling point of being a collection where the money went in the right directions.
I love me some Small Faces. I'll take them and The Who over your Beatles and Stones everytime, All Or Nothing and Tin Soldier are two of the greatest singles ever made in my opinion.
*wanders off looking for a mirror to check his strides are hanging just so over his shoes*
Afterglow
Add Afterglow to All Or Nothing and Tin Soldier and you have three of the best singles ever.
Also, there may have been better British singers than Stevie Marriot but struggling to think of many at the moment.
Tin Soldier
recovers from a terrible first line to become one of my favourite singles of all time. Amazing. Probably my favourite drumming on record, other than 'Love Spreads'.
Stevie could be a bit theatrical for me at times though. I cringe when I hear 'Lazy Sunday' or the bit when he sings the between song banter on the Humble Pie live record.
It doesn't get much more exciting than this:
YES!
That's exactly what I've been looking for.
OK - where can I find more of *that* Small Faces. That's the sound I've been after for years and years.
Thanks so much for posting that, dude
Chimney
It was that clip that got me into a) The Small Faces b) the telecaster and c) red loons (not true)
I saw it when I was about twelve and it stayed with me ever since. I could watch it again and again.
If you like that then you'll love stuff like Collibosher, Don't Burst My Bubble and Eddie's Dreaming. I don't know about the politics of this recommendation but you won't go far wrong with The Darlings OF Wapping Launderette double CD. It's never too far from my MP3 player.
Graham Day
Anybody who likes Small Faces, especially the later stuff could do worse than check out The Prisoners and Graham Day's other stuff with The Solar Flares and The Gaolers.
Darlings of the Wapping Wharf Launderette
is an absolutely fantastic collection. Great sleevenotes too but being the Immediate Anthology misses some of the other great material If you pick that up cheap, also add the partner Humble Pie Immediate years collection to the basket too. Early Pie with Marriott and Frampton in top form. Sad Bag of Shakey Jake, Every Mothers Son, Natural Born Bugie etc etc. all present and correct. Was £4 in Fopp last time I looked.
Thanks Jimmy
I've got 'The Essential Collection' and there doesn't seem to be too much crossover with the CD you mention, so I picked it up on Amazon for £2 - result!
And......
.....if they'd put a live version of a Chuck Berry song on the B-side and held 'Understanding' back to be the follow up to 'All or Nothing' they'd have been a shoe-in for another NO. 1 single.
All or (more probably) Nothing
If the royalty situation was sorted out 'a few years back' then it wasn't much use to Steve Marriott or Ronnie Lane then!
Nope
Sadly.
hopefully...
... it will go to their children and grandchildren. They would be happy about that.
Pretty much agree with you
I am looking forward to these, although have them all on CD at least once (they've all been out in special editions before too.) I think that for once the two surviving members were involved with these new reissues though, and (way too late) the finances thing has been resolved. But where's The Autumn Stone...
Autumn Stone?
Is that the big double compilation? I've lost count of the amount of various versions I've got over the years just make sure I had things like Don't Burst My Bubble. It would be nice to have a definitive set.
Autumn Stone...
..is mostly a compilation but it does have some unreleased material from the proposed fourth LP (1862) and stands up as an album in its own right. Here's my favorite bit of Small Faces on TV (I'll have whatever PP has had...)
Oh yeah... I'm excited now
and the money will finally go to its proper home thanks to Mac's hard work. The Small Faces recorded legacy has been shabbily treated for decades, it's good to see definitive editions finally coming out