The_Small_Faces-Odgens_Nut_Gone_Flake-3CD-(Deluxe_Edition)-2006-MTD

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The Small Faces - Odgen's Nut Gone Flake

ARTIST.....: The Small Faces
TITLE......: Odgen's Nut Gone Flake
LABEL......: Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
URL........: http://www.amazon.com/Ogdens-Gone-Flake-Small-Faces/dp/B0002HUXWQ

RIP DATE...: May-01-2007
STORE DATE.: Jun-01-2006
GENRE......: Psychedelic
QUALITY....: VBR  /  44.1Hz  /  Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 161,4 MB


Track Listing:

     cd1 - Mono

01 - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake                     02:39
02 - Afterglow                                  03:33
03 - Long Agos And Worlds Apart                 02:36
04 - Rene                                       04:06
05 - Song Of A Baker                            03:16
06 - Lazy Sunday                                03:11
07 - Happiness Stan                             03:38
08 - Rollin' Over                               02:14
09 - The Hungry Intruder                        02:15
10 - The Journey                                04:04
11 - Mad John                                   04:20
12 - Happy Days Toy Town                        03:03

     cd2 - Stereo

01 - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake                     02:27
02 - Afterglow                                  03:31
03 - Long Agos And Worlds Apart                 02:34
04 - Rene                                       04:29
05 - Song Of A Baker                            03:15
06 - Lazy Sunday                                03:09
07 - Happiness Stan                             03:34
08 - Rollin' Over                               01:53
09 - The Hungry Intruder                        02:15
10 - The Journey                                04:14
11 - Mad John                                   04:15
12 - Happy Days Toy Town                        02:52

     cd3 - Radio 1 Classic Albums Documentary

01 - Spoken Word/Lazy Sunday/Spoken             03:50
     Word/Whatcha Gonna Do About It
02 - Spoken Word/Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake/Spoken  04:08
     Word
03 - Afterglow/Spoken Word                      05:35
04 - Long Agos And Worlds Apart/Spoken Word     03:23
05 - Spoken Word/Rene                           02:51
06 - Rene/Song Of A Baker                       03:45
07 - Spoken Word/Lazy Sunday/Spoken Word        04:46
08 - Spoken Word                                02:35
09 - Spoken Word/Happiness Stan/Spoken Word     02:58
10 - Spoken Word/Rollin' Over/Spoken Word       04:33
11 - Spoken Word/The Hungry Intruder/Spoken     04:19
     Word
12 - Spoken Word/The Journey                    03:46
13 - Spoken Word/Mad John                       04:39
14 - Spoken Word                                00:52
15 - Spoken Word/Happydaystown                  02:58
16 - Spoken Word/The Universal                  04:11

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                                                cd1: 38:55 cd2: 38:28 cd3: 59:09
Release Notes:

There was no shortage of good psychedelic albums emerging from
England in 1967-1968, but Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is special even
within their ranks. The Small Faces had already shown a surprising
adaptability to psychedelia with the single "Itchycoo Park" and
much of their other 1967 output, but Ogden's Nut Gone Flake pretty
much ripped the envelope. British bands had an unusual approach to
psychedelia from the get-go, often preferring to assume different
musical "personae" on their albums, either feigning actual "roles"
in the context of a variety show (as on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band album), or simply as storytellers in the
manner of the Pretty Things on S.F. Sorrow, or actor/performers as
on the Who's Tommy. The Small Faces tried a little bit of all of
these approaches on Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, but they never
softened their sound. Side one's material, in particular, would
not have been out of place on any other Small Faces release --
"Afterglow (Of Your Love)" and "Rene" both have a pounding beat
from Kenny Jones, and Ian McLagan's surging organ drives the
former while his economical piano accompaniment embellishes the
latter; and Steve Marriott's crunching guitar highlights "Song of
a Baker." Marriott singing has him assuming two distinct "roles,"
neither unfamiliar -- the Cockney upstart on "Rene" and "Lazy
Sunday," and the diminutive soul shouter on "Afterglow (Of Your
Love)" and "Song of a Baker." Some of side two's production is
more elaborate, with overdubbed harps and light orchestration here
and there, and an array of more ambitious songs, all linked by a
narration by comic dialect expert Stanley Unwin, about a character
called "Happiness Stan." The core of the sound, however, is found
in the pounding "Rollin' Over," which became a highlight of the
group's stage act during its final days -- the song seems lean and
mean with a mix in which Ronnie Lane's bass is louder than the
overdubbed horns. Even "Mad John," which derives from folk
influences, has a refreshingly muscular sound on its acoustic
instruments. Overall, this was the ballsiest-sounding piece of
full-length psychedelia to come out of England, and it rode the
number one spot on the U.K. charts for six weeks in 1968, though
not without some controversy surrounding advertisements by
Immediate Records that parodied the Lord's Prayer. Still, Ogden's
was the group's crowning achievement -- it had even been
Marriott's hope to do a stage presentation of Ogden's Nut Gone
Flake, though a television special might've been more in order. As
with most Immediate Records releases, it has gone through multiple
reissue cycles on vinyl and CD; the original LP came in a circular
sleeve in keeping with the design of the cover, and was reissued
in a more convention jacket during the 1970s and early '80s. Most
of the CD versions until the 1990s were, in keeping with the poor
state of the Immediate Records tape library, substandard in sound,
but since 1994 or so there has been a succession of good-sounding
digital remasterings.

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