Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette

Product Description
50 of their most crucial recordings for the Immediate labelin 1967-68 remastered, plus a secret instrumental on disc two. Includes 'Itchycoo Park' & 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'. The full title is 'Darlings Of Wapping Wharf Launderette'. 51 tracks in all. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

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Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette

Average customer rating: A great buy Great Set, But... One of the best ever! Small Faces, Huge Talent Three awesome remastered albums for the price of one!

Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette The Small Faces Manufacturer: Sequel Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Small Faces Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes Tomorrow The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep S.F. Sorrow ASIN: B00000IWQV Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

1. I Can't Make It
2. Just Passing
3. Here Coes The Nice
4. Talk To You
5. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me
6. Something I Want To Tell You
7. Feeling Lonely
8. Happy Boys Happy
9. Things Are Going To Get Better
10. My Way Of Giving
11. Green Circles
12. Become Like You
13. Get Yourself Together
14. All Of Our Yesterdays
15. Show Me The Way
16. Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire
17. Eddie's Dreaming
18. Itchycoo Park
19. I'm Only Dreaming
20. Tin Soldier
21. I Feel Much Better
22. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
23. Afterglow (Of Your Love)
24. Long Agos And Worlds Apart
25. Rene
26. Song Of A Baker
27. Lazy Sunday

Tracks:

1. Happiness Stan
2. Rollin' Over
3. The Hungry Intruder
4. The Journey
5. Mad John
6. Happy Days Toy Town
7. The Universal
8. Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass
9. Wham Bam, Thank You Man
10. The Autumn Stone
11. Collibosher
12. Red Balloon
13. Call It Something Nice
14. Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall
15. Don't Burst My Bubble
16. Every Little Bit Hurts (Studio Version)
17. Picaninny
18. The Pig Trotters
19. The War Of The Worlds
20. Take My Time
21. Mad John (US Single Version With Extra Verse)
22. (If You Think You're) Groovy (As P.P. Arnold & Small Faces)
23. Wham Bam, Thank You Man (Alternate Stereo Mix)

Album Description

50 of their most crucial recordings for the Immediate labelin 1967-68 remastered, plus a secret instrumental on disc two. Includes 'Itchycoo Park' & 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'. The full title is 'Darlings Of Wapping Wharf Launderette'. 51 tracks in all. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Album Details

The Small Faces were One of the Greatest English Bands of the '60s. Starting as a Tough Mod R&B Group, They Evolved Into an Inventive, Psychedelic-tinged Rock Band Before Splitting Up in 1968 When Singer Steve Marriott Left to Form Humble Pie. "The Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette", the First Collection Authorised by the Surviving Members of the Group, is a Long Overdue, Definitive 50-track Anthology of the Small Faces' 1966-1968 Stint with the Legendary Immediate Records Label. Comprised of Rare Singles, Alternate Takes, and the Two Albums the Band Recorded for Immediate (Including the Entire Ogden's Nut Gone Flake), "The Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette" is Packed with Prime Tracks that Range from the Hazy Flower Power of "Here Comes the Nice", "Itchycoo Park", and "Lazy Sunday" to the Lesser-known but No Less Sublime Psych-pop of "Green Circles", and the Gritty R&B of "my Way of Giving".

Customer Reviews:

A great buy.......2006-03-20

Even more of a bargain than it appears since as well as plenty of A and B sides, including The Universal/Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass (whose chart failure initiated the band's demise) and the rather wonderful non-PC non-album B-side of Afterglow (Of Your Love), Wham Bam, Thank You Mam, this compilation includes in their entirety their two UK albums for the Immediate label, The Small Faces and Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, plus all the new studio recordings from the Autumn Stone double-album collection that appeared after they had broken up, all in excellent remastered sound.
A similar collection of the UK Decca label period would be equally welcome.

Great Set, But..........2006-02-01

I agree with everything that has been said. Small Faces were truly a great band, great songwriters, and an awesome vocalist.
This is a very good set.

Just be aware that 7 songs on the 2nd disc are instrumentals, no vocals, no Steve Marriot.

You might just as well served by a single set of their immediate period. Or unless the price is really good on this double.

One of the best ever!.......2004-06-06

This is THE Small Faces CD to have, despite what "MurrayTheCat" says. Who cares if the songs are not in the EXACT running order they were in on the original LPs? It's all here and then some. This set covers everything the Small Faces recorded during their two years on the Immediate label, where they were given the artistic freedom that resulted in a blaze of creative energy and these great recordings. Unfortunately, these songs were released during a window of time when the best the UK had to offer (The Who Sell Out, Something Else by The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society) was being ignored in the U.S. As a result, most people here have never heard but a couple of these songs. A few years ago, I bought and played this set for my nephew, who was in his mid-20's at the time and listening to Guided By Voices, Mercury Rev, Ween, etc. He was totally blown away by song after song. All he could do was shake his head and wonder aloud why he'd never heard this stuff before. He still listens to it frequently, as do I. I never get tired of it. There's so much here and it's such a diverse group of songs and productions, from psychedelic to pure pop to front porch blues to power chord ravers and everything in between. The quality is amazing throughout - you won't be skipping through half of the songs like you do on other compilations - and it's still so fresh, not dated. You'll be amazed.

Small Faces, Huge Talent.......2003-01-08

I heard the Small Faces name checked by the likes of Paul Weller and Supergrass. I bought this just out of curiousity and the music and quality of the song writing just blew me away. A typical song is two minutes, very melodic and totally unpredictable. They'll go from mellow folk pattern one minute to an all out motown rave up the next. Sheer genius. They squeeze so much into a song, get the message across and then before you have a chance to catch your breath it's onto the next one. Very appropriate for the band who wrote "Wham Bam Thank you man". They hold the mod ethos in spades. Steve Marriot has the most amazing voice. He can really belt it out when the need arises and he's up there with Little Richard in my opinion. Pink Floyd fans who should listen to this and realize that a decent song doesnt have to take up half an hour of your time.
I'm not so fond of the second disk however. It has lots of tracks from an ill advised concept album and theres almost as much spoken dialogue on the first ten songs as there is actual music. Still an interesting time piece I suppose.
Very highly extremely recommended. For more great sixties sounds check out the recently released Rolled Gold by the underated The Action. Another groovy mod band who'll kick some real life in to yer living room!

Three awesome remastered albums for the price of one!.......2002-02-05

This is the anthology Small Faces fans have been waiting for--
a two-disc remastered set of every studio track (plus outtakes)
the band cut for Immediate in 1967-68. The sound quality, taken
from long-lost master tapes only just found in 1999, is among
the finest I've ever heard for any release EVER, past or present.
It is so stunning that the songs sound like you're hearing them for the first time; the phasing on the title track to "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" alone is worth the price of the whole set.

Of course, the Immediate period is the era The Small Faces truly
took flight; although they had released some very good
mod/R&B singles for Decca ("Watcha Gonna Do About It", "All Or
Nothing") as well as a few early experimental gems ("E To D",
"My Mind's Eye", "That Man"), it wasn't until they made the
switch to Immediate in the spring of '67 that they were given
the kind of creative freedom and unlimited studio time they
wanted. The results were, well, "immediate": classic singles like "Here Come The Nice", "Itchycoo Park" and "Tin Soldier" were
accompanied by a fine self-titled album which contained favorites
like "Tell Me (Have You Ever Seen Me)", "My Way Of Giving" and
"Show Me The Way", that were heavy on organ, harpsichord and
mellotron stylings (the remastering on "Green Circles" must
also be mentioned--dig the new clarity during the psychedelic fadeout!). If some of the tracks on "Small Faces" seemed a tad short (half of them clocking in at under two minutes), this
was rectified by the next project, the epic "Ogden's Nut Gone
Flake", whose perfect amalgam of hard rock, psych and tongue-in-cheek humor framed an attempt at "Pepper"-style concept splendor.
"Ogden's" is one of the true album classics of the 60s, with every song an absolute must, although personal faves include
the title track, "Afterglow", "Song Of A Baker" and "The Journey".

The album the group were in the process of recording before
their untimely breakup at the start of '69 was eventually released later that year along with their past hits and some
live material as the compilation "Autumn Stone"; based on the
aural evidence, this might have been their finest yet. Hard, intense rockers like "Wham Bam Thank You Mam" (note the riff
which predates The Stones' "Brown Sugar" by several years!),
gorgeous psych ballads such as "The Autumn Stone" and amazing
vocal performances on covers of "Red Balloon" and "Every Little
Bit Hurts" all hint at a final stage of maturity which might
have finally broken them Stateside (we had to wait a few more
years and a new lineup change before The Faces finally took root
over here, of course). There are also three instrumental outtakes from this last period I had never heard before, including the atmospheric "Pig Trotters", a clear blueprint for
the b-side of Humble Pie's first single "Wrist Job".

If there's anything which sticks out the most when hearing
"The Darlings Of Wapping Wharf Launderette", it's that these
songs, which sound so much a part of their era, could easily
find a place in contemporary UK pop: the group's look, attitude
and sonic influence became the template for bands like Oasis,
Suede and Blur nearly three decades later. Marriott's iconic
voice, MacLagan's swinging organ work, Ronnie Lane's pop songwriting prowess and Kenny Jones' dynamic drumming (considered so good he was later Keith Moon's replacement in The Who) all combined to create a sum that was part Beatles, Kinks,
Stones, Who and Animals, and at its best the equal of any of
those legends. Just put on this suprisingly inexpensive compilation and hear a picture-perfect encapsulation of 60s UK
Britpop at its finest...so what are you waiting for?

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