First Step [Import, Original recording remastered]

Faces | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Wea/'east/West
• ASIN: B000OYC1IQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,684,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2007 digitally remastered and expanded edition of the 1970 debut album from the British quintet fronted by Rod Stewart and featuring former members of The Small Faces and The Jeff Beck Group. Includes first single 'Flying', live favorite 'Three Button Hand Me Down' plus four rare and previously unreleased songs: 'Behind The Sun' (Outtake), 'The Mona' (Outtake), 'Shake Shudder Shiver' (BBC John Peel Session) and 'Flying' (Alternate Take). Rhino UK.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's fun and you can dance to it..., January 13, 2001

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David Kinney (San Francisco, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Step (Audio CD)

I had real high hopes for this band when I was a 15 year old in 1970.Being a devoted Small Faces and Jeff Beck Group fan I truly believed the musical marriage of McLagen,Lane and Jones with Mr. Stewart and Mr. Wood would result in a "supergroup" that was actually both super and a group.I guess what I ended up with was more like a minor league Stones without all the drama and baggage those guys were totin' around at the time. But it's okay because, just as attending a minor league baseball game can be a more intimate and enjoyable experience than watching the big leagues sometimes,The Faces are just out to entertain you here.No serious messages(not even the Meher Baba inspired "Stone" should be taken too seriously).They're just four very talented journeyman musicians and one soon -to- be- superstar peacock havin' some laughs and lager. Listening to the CD these days makes me very nostalgic for those innocent first days of this band ,and truth be told, nostalgia probably made me add a star to the rating. But I can wholeheartedly recommend the following cuts on the record ;"Wicked Messenger","Three Button Hand Me Down" "The Monkey and the Pineapple"(as close to Booker T. as any limey band ever got), and the aforementioned Ronnie Lane ditty "Stone".The rest of the album is merely good early seventies British rock which means it is better than 90% of the stuff coming off of of that island these days...so Faces fans, Stewart fans(this is when he was good ya'll)...buy this record and take that first step with me.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Step, August 6, 2004

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MaxGomez - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Step (Audio CD)

Around the Plynth alone makes this disc worth the purchase price. Suggested companion disc: Rod Stewart's Gasoline Alley.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sound That Launched the 70's, February 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: First Step (Audio CD)

When Rod Stewart joined the Small Faces on this album, who would have guessed what was to come. This is the mixed birth of Honky Tonk, Blues, early Funk and a smidgen of Folk music. There are heavy riffs, honky tonk piano's and a gravely blues voice that would become as big a part of rock music as any has so far.

Anyone who loves to shimmy and shake across the floor to later Rod Stewart " Hot Legs" or Ronnie Wood and the Stones needs to score this CD and see where it originated. A must have.