126. Small Faces | Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968)

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Wikipedia Entry

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Tracks

1. Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
2. Afterglow (Of Your Love)
3. Long Agos and Worlds Apart
4. Rene
5. Song of a Baker
6. Lazy Sunday
7. Happiness Stan
8. Rollin' Over
9. The Hungry Intruder
10. The Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happydaystoytown

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Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is an unusual album. The first half of the album is a collection of hard rock and psychedelic rock songs. The second half is a fairy tale about a boy named Happiness Stan. The songs are a mix of psychedelic rock and progressive rock.

The music is good when it's not silly and unfortunately that silliness becomes a distraction. The narrator who narrates the Happiness Stan fairy tale is another distraction. It's never been clearer to me that English is no longer spoken by the English. Either that or the narrator using slang from the 1960s that didn't survive to the present day.

As the album stands, it's quite good, but I think if it had more focus, it would have been a lot better. Steve Marriott has a great voice, and should have been used to better effect on this album. The stand out songs are Afterglow (Of Your Love), Song of a Baker, Lazy Sunday, Happiness Stan and The Hungry Intruder.

★★★★★★★★☆☆