Would You Believe [IMPORT]

Billy Nicholls

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sequel Records UK
• ASIN: B00000J1ZY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #109,365 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Digitally remastered reissue of the guitarist's legendary 1968 album for the Immediate label featuring the Small Faces. The British answer to the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds', this is the first official issue of it on disc. Original copies of the LP fetch the equivalent of $2,000+ in England! Also features the original cover art, the original 12 tunes and two bonus tracks, mono single versions of 'Would You Believe?' & 'Daytime Girl'. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it actually IS that good, April 22, 2001

By	euphorik6 (camano island, WA) - See all my reviews

who would've thought? a "lost masterpiece" that actually lives up to the hyperbole? wow. this is one of the rarest occurences in the record-geek world, a genuine obscurity that's actually as good as everyone says it is. "pet sounds" comparisons are apt, as far as the gorgeously gooey overproduction goes, but this record lacks the introspective depth of "pet sounds" - this is "just" an album of pop songs. but what songs! buried in monolithic spectoresque echo, sweeping strings and soaring harmonies, this album is a distillation of a time - whatever made swinging london swing is captured in these tracks. from the happy-go-lucky pop of "would you believe" to the gorgeously aching pastoralism of "feeling easy," the pilled-up finger to the establishment in "london social degree," and the purple-hearted teeth-grinding savagery of steve marriott's guitar on "girl from new york," this is an amazing album, and every bit the "lost masterpiece" it's been trumpeted as. if you dig the beatles, the zombies, the left banke, or immediate-era small faces - this is for you. an absolutely essentual artifact of 60s britpop.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly A GREAT Lost Classic, December 31, 2004

By	Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I buy a LOT of 60s reissues, especially lost classics, and this one is by far the best. It doesn't really sound like Pet Sounds. It's more like great 66/67 UK Freakbeat and pop. It's Andrew Loog Oldham's finest production job. Great songs, singing, vocal arrangements, killer guitar playing and beautiful strings. If you like Love's Forever Changes and Revolver-era Beatles, you'll love this album.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Every song a bit of 60's pop heaven, May 2, 2000

By	matthew j morandi (staten island, new york) - See all my reviews

without a doubt a forgotten masterpiece of pop music, would you believe is the child of pet sounds and the mod backbeat of carnaby street(think zombies or the creation).Not only do the small faces play on it, but a young john paul jones of led zeppelin arranges and plays bass! What a line up! It sounds so good and fresh all your friends will think its a new recording. Listen as you hear strains of todays britpop- the charlatans uk and oasis wish they could sound like Billy Nicholls!