Would You Believe [Import, Original recording remastered]

Billy Nicholls | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Immediate
• ASIN: B00005MMNY
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Would You Believe?

2. Come Again

3. Life Is Short

4. Feeling Easy

5. Daytime Girl

6. Daytime Girl (Coda)

7. London Social Degree

8. Portobello Road

9. Question Mark

10. Being Happy

11. Girl from New York

12. It Brings Me Down

13. Would You Believe? [Mono Single Version]

14. Daytime Girl [Mono Single Version][*]

Editorial Reviews

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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

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

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euphorik6 (snohomish, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Would You Believe (Audio CD)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Would You Believe (Audio CD)

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

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

This review is from: Would You Believe (Audio CD)

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!