Ogden's Nut Gone Flake [Import]

The Small Faces | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Castle Music UK
• ASIN: B0000040MF
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #622,121 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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. Hungry Intruder

10. Journey

11. Mad John

12. Happydaystoytown

13. Tin Soldier

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small Faces Concept Album -- Their Best Effort, November 6, 1999

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Steve T. ([e-mail]) (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (Audio CD)

During the 60's it was the norm for British groups to present their best attepmt at interpreting black American R&B -- The early Beatles, Who, Stones, Pretty Things, Animals, etc. fit this description, and the Small Faces led by Steve Marriot were no exception. This album, which was the group's last cohesive effort before splitting up, took a different approach. It's as if the band was saying, we're a happy bunch of English blokes and we want the world to know. So there's a lot less of the compelling soul-stirring Marriot vocals that defined the band's early sound here, and more direct Cockney influence. Still, it's a musically diverse album. There's some good hard rock in songs like "Rollin' Over" and "Afterglow", mixed with the silliness of "Lazy Sunday" and "Happy Days Toystown". Instrumentally the band steps up to the plate and hits a home run. Marriot's guitar playing is more assertive than ever and he cranks out some killer soloes. Check out "Song of A Baker". Ronnie Lane's singing is superb on a few numbers, the best possibly being the aforementioned song and "The Journey". Drummer Kenny Jones' playing is solid throughout -- his powerhouse drumming was the group's secret weapon. And Ian McLagan shines on keyboards throughout. He was really the groups "lead" instrumentalist and this album was no exception. His composition and vocal on "Long Agos And World's Apart" fit in perfectly, as does Marriot's phased guitar solo. Side two is very British indeed, with the warped Cockney narrative between tunes tying the storyline of "Happiness Stan" together. Not really a rock opera, more like a Mother Goose fable. The concept here seems to be that the English can truly rock out, and on their own terms not just America's. It's a shame that the band broke up following the peak of their creativity. Marriot's Humble Pie and the Rod Stewart-led Faces never came close to matching the originality and fine line between "innocence and naughtiness" that typified the music of the Small Faces.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate sixties cockney mod rock statement, January 26, 2005

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John Ashford (Albany Western Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (Audio CD)

It's so good to see most reviewers getting the point of this album. The Small Faces were never meant to be compared with other bands. They were simply there, in their own inimitable cockney idiom. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was a statement for the time, full of bouncy English humour, good musicianship, and meant to be enjoyed by an audience who had been through the Carnaby Street thing with them , or had fought on the beach at Brighton on the bank holiday, and who lived in a grey depressing terraced-house suburbia.

The trick is not to apply excessive analysis, but to accept the LP for what it actually is, a piece of late-sixties pop culture beautifully executed by guys who were living the whole experience at the time; ..........'nuff said!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great 60's gemm, June 20, 2005

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Speedy (Fl, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (Audio CD)

This sounds to me , at times, like the group Family with it's roughness and it's unique english-60s-sound. Get it if you like rock n roll as it is meant to be: bouncy and hum-able yet challenging and full of ideas.