Ogden's Nut Gone Flake [Deluxe Edition] [Import]

Product Description
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, has been remastered and expanded to a 3 CD set to include Mono and Stereo versions plus the previously unreleased BBC documentary disc. Both disc 1 and 2 feature 12 tracks including 'Song Of A Baker', 'Happiness Stan', 'Mad John', 'Rollin Over', 'Happy Days Toy Town' and more. The 3rd disc is a BBC documentary broadcast from 1989. The story of the making of the album told by the band and people associated with them at the time. Comes packaged in a special metal Tobacco Tin echoing the original artwork. Castle. 2005.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake,Small Faces,Castle,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Ogden's Nut Gone Flake [Deluxe Edition] [Import]

Average customer rating:

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: ABKCO ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | 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 Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Small Faces S.F. Sorrow 35th Anniversary A Nod is As Good As a Wink to a Blind Horse Tomorrow ASIN: B0009WFDR4 Release Date: 2005-08-01

Tracks:

1. Ogden's 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. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happy Days Toy Town
13. Tin Soldier [Live][*]

Album Description

Remastered 1997 reissue, repackaged with new liner notes byauthor Paolo Hewitt (Oasis, Jam), of their second album.A #1 album in the U.K. when first released in 1968, itfeatures a circular CD booklet (replicating the original LP)& is pressed on a full color picture CD. Contains 12 tracks,including 'Lazy Sunday', 'Long Ago And Worlds Apart' and'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'. A Castle release.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Small Faces' UK Chart-topping Masterpiece from 1968. Its Mix of Soulful Rock on the First Side and More Psychedelic Material on Side Two (Intertwined with Stanley Unwin's Nonsensical Story-telling!) Made Superstars of Messrs Marriott, Lane, Mclagan and Jones - and also Broke them in the States. It Included the Hits 'lazy Sunday' and 'afterglow' and Now Ranks as One of the Greatest Rock Albums of all Time. In Packaging/Aesthetic Terms, Ogden's was Pure Marketing Genius. Instead of a Standard Record Cover, the Album was Housed in a Circular, Multiple Foldout Cover Using Images Based around the Tobacco Theme of the Title.

Average customer rating: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake One of the Best Albums of All Time

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: ABKCO ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004W9H2 Release Date: 2001-01-08

Tracks:

1. Ogden's 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. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happy Days Toy Town
13. Tin Soldier [Live][*]

Album Description

French reissue of the 1968 album. Packaged in a standard jewel case housed in a special digibox. 2000 release.

Album Details

The Series 'the Originals' Brings Together Original Artists and their Albums in a Special Package with Cardboard Boxes.

Customer Reviews:

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.......2002-09-18

The title of this album "ogden's nut gone flake" is a play on words and the original packaging of the 1968 vinyl release was circular depicting a pipe tobacco tin of the era. Perhaps a reference to whacky Tabacky after all it was 1968 at the height of Hippy Power. The narrative by the commedian Stanley Unwin who saddly passed away in January 2000 is a classic. Stanley Unwin invented a language called Unwinese and got bit parts in films such as Chitty Chitty bang bang in 1968 and a carry on movie. The narrative between the tracks on side two is hillarious and in keeping with the nut gone theme as Stanley appears to be completely off his nut. Stanley Unwin tells the story of our hero who on discovering half the moon is missing goes off in search of it. The songs tell the story quite well. Sgt Peppers was a movie that made the tracks on that album appear to be a story but they were really unconnected. This album appears to be more of a rock opera like Tommy as the theme continues. As for the music on the Album there are some classics like Lazy Sunday afternoon which obviously influenced bands like Blur to produce Park Life. Well worth the money.

One of the Best Albums of All Time.......2002-07-25

I know that my meager descriptions couldn't possibly do this album justice. Critics have often compared "Ogden" with "Sgt. Pepper," and the comparison is apt. But "Ogden" is at once more whimsical and more satisfying musically. The second half is slightly marred by a narrated story between the songs, but the accent is so thick that it just sounds like English background noise. The rest is the Small Faces' great British mod/R&B taken to musical territory that most bands only dreamed of. Only the Beatles, Traffic, and Procol Harum have made albums in the same league.

"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" is, quite simply, the greatest rock masterpiece that no one has ever heard of. If you like psychedelia, 60's rock, the British Invasion, progressive rock, etc., please - PLEASE - buy this album.

Average customer rating: Wonderful issue of wonderful LP; short on some extras

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Castle Music UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | 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 Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: 35th Anniversary More of the Monkees There Is A Season Monkees The Studio Albums 1967-1968 ASIN: B0002HUXWQ Release Date: 2006-06-05

Tracks:

1. Ogden's 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. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happy Days Toy Town
13. Tin Soldier

Album Description

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, has been remastered and expanded to a 3 CD set to include Mono and Stereo versions plus the previously unreleased BBC documentary disc. Both disc 1 and 2 feature 12 tracks including 'Song Of A Baker', 'Happiness Stan', 'Mad John', 'Rollin Over', 'Happy Days Toy Town' and more. The 3rd disc is a BBC documentary broadcast from 1989. The story of the making of the album told by the band and people associated with them at the time. Comes packaged in a special metal Tobacco Tin echoing the original artwork. Castle. 2005.

Album Details

The Band's Legendary Psychedelic Masterpiece, Expanded to Include Mono and Stereo Versions of the Album, plus the Previously Unreleased Documentary 'classic Albums', all Housed in a Special Tin.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful issue of wonderful LP; short on some extras.......2006-07-25

One of the very great sixties LPs, the best LP of the Small Faces and perhaps the best psychelic album of all. Something of a cross between the Who and The Incredible String Band. Except that both should be jealous of the result. The LP is a five plus.

The issue includes a mono version of the lp, which unlike the Beatles LPs from "Rubber Soul" on and the Stones "Satanic" is not a revelation (the mono versions of those LPs are vastly superior to the stereo mixes and should be issued, in large part because the creators abandoned the stereo versions to their producers to finish). But it's very good. The 'punk' element is pronounced on the mono mix. Have a bash.

The stereo is superior - heaven in fact, and so good you can skip the drugs, the music will take you there by itself.

The documentary is fun, like being in a pub with the band as they play cuts and try to remember where the songs came from (mostly from a druggy trip down the Thames). When Rod Stewart tried to replace Steve Marriott in the band (for years) it was this quality they tried to recreate and did, though never as well as this LP.

Now the caveat and loss of a star: there were two songs cut for the LP dropped, "If You Think You're Groovy" and "Be My Baby". Considering that the lps are short, it's unconscionable that these cuts are not included as bonuses. Also several cuts have wonderful gibberish dialogue over them at points; so including the cuts without it as bonuses would seem to be obvious. And lastly the Small Faces performed the entire second side of the LP live on the BBC television program "Colour Me Pop" and this could have been included as an audio or DVD bonus track. If you're going to do a three CD set of a single short LP, it should be comprehensive.

The model for this should have been the truly comprehensive three CD set of the Kinks "Village Green", which left no kink unturned.

If you are a Small Faces novice, get the "Darlings" double CD, a budget issue that has this entire LP (split between the two disks) and almost every else the Small Faces did for Immediate. If you love them, you'll need this.

Average customer rating: Great Album If You Are On Drugs The Original LP is best! 60s Rock Classic expanded & issued in US A British psychedelic classic

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | 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 Similar Items: 35th Anniversary The Small Faces S.F. Sorrow The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Tomorrow ASIN: B00008J2LE Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

1. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
2. Afterglow
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
13. Rollin' Over (Live)
14. If I Were A Carpenter (Live)
15. Every Little Bit Hurts (Live)
16. All Or Nothing (Live)
17. Tin Soldier (Live)
18. The Autumn Stone

Album Description

The first official American release in over 30 years, including rare sides & 5 live tracks. The only authorized Small Faces collection for North America. 18 digitally remastered tracks from original tapes. Fuel Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Great Album If You Are On Drugs.......2006-07-22

OK, I'm a geezer, and loved this album in the 1960's and picked up this CD, and must disagree with the rest of the reviewers here.

The Small Faces set themselves up as the Psychedelic Rock Band of the 1960's. Indeed, their 1st single and the biggest hit was Itchycoo Park, a song about taking LSD in a Park. Great song, by the way. But I digress.

This particular CD was their Sgt. Pepper, and side two of the vinyl had a confused druggy story about a lad who took a "trip" to find the other side of moon, and meets a friendly fly and other characters. The songs are interrupted by a narrative in broken English, that made sense when I was high on acid, but doesn't make sense now.

Well, not having heard the CD in 20 years, I'm afraid, I've changed.

It might have been really good (as far as I can remember was) on LSD, but the material is dated, and the little acid story made no sense then and makes no sense now. It is, quite frankly, irritating.

The bonus tracks are lifted from "Autum Stone" double vinyl album, which I might add has some terrific songs.

I'd pass on this CD and pick up Autum Stone if you can find it. Or, find your local drug dealer, buy some LSD and experience the music the way it supposed to be heard. But if you're now clean and sober like me, I'd pass.

The Original LP is best!.......2006-01-30

A truly spectacular 60s masterpiece! For best sonic quality stick to the original record on the hot pink Immediate label. As an added bonus this is a ROUND record cover with some really strange art. Taken as a whole the original mixes and the original package were superb and best! The bonus tracks and whatever on the new cd make me feel I'm listening to a different album; a bit what the major studios did to the Who's Live at Leeds.

60s Rock Classic expanded & issued in US.......2004-07-09

Small Faces (1965 - 1969), were one of the great British groups of the 1960s, right up there with the Kinks, Who, and just a notch below the Stones and Beatles. "Ogden's," the group's fourth studio set and a # 1 album in Britain in 1968, has been available as an import for several years, and is finally now out in a reasonably priced package in the U.S.-- with an alternate mix of the late-period, meditative "The Autumn Stone" (from the band's unfinished final album of the same name, portions of which appeared alongside earlier material in 1969) and the five live tracks from November, 1968, appended. This edition clearly is superior in sound and packaging to the early '90s Sony (US) CD. For my money, however, the mastering on Santuary's 2003 "The Ultimate Collection" is superior, in terms of overall impact and especially in the reproduction of Ronnie Lane's bass and Kenny Jones' drum kit. There is altogether too little low-end here. Unfortunately, Santuary has not issued the entire album as part of its 50-track set. In any event, from the production/engineering team of Glyn Johns and George Chkiantz at Olympic Studios (part of the team behind the Stones' "Beggars Banquet"--also recorded at Olymic)to the inspired playing and superb songwriting of the entire band, this is an accomplished recording by a group at the peak of its powers--sexy and soulful("Afterglow"), psychedelic (in the best sense, the way Hendrix's "Axis:Bold As Love" is), witty ("Rene"), self-deprecating, and even, on Ronnie Lanes's crucial "Son Of A Baker," with its near perfect lyric of spiritual need, breathtakingly beautiful. Hear it in its entirety, then be pleasently surprised when you hear parts of it again on "The Ultimate Collection."

A British psychedelic classic.......2003-08-01

Released in 1968, this was the magnum opus of Small Faces, a group highly popular in their native U.K. but nearly ignored in the U.S. The first half (or side, on the LP) in particular is as good as anything from the period, with the hits 'Afterglow' and 'Lazy Sunday' as well as other hard-rocking cuts as 'Song of a Baker' and the title track. Uncanny material. The second half is a story suite narrated by Stanley Unwin, the late master of English gobbledygook. Some listeners, myself included, find the narration a little tiresome at times, but the musical sections in between are solid and more experimental than those on the first side. Taken as a whole, the album is a defining piece of British rock history. This reissue includes five live bonus tracks - inspired performances from November 1968 somewhat obscured by the constant screaming of the female audience - and a studio version of 'The Autumn Stone', a calm, pastoral counterpoint to the raucous live stuff.

Average customer rating: A classic everyone should own One of the Best Albums of All Time

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000051T8J Release Date: 2000-11-14

Tracks:

1. Ogden's 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. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happy Days Toy Town
13. Tin Soldier [Live][*]

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Featuring An LP Style Slipcase Cover. 20Bit Digitally Remastered.

Customer Reviews:

A classic everyone should own.......2003-10-24

Fronm the opening track this is one amazing album so much talent,Late 60's British rock at it's best. I feel the best period in rock music was from 1967 to 1975 and this album is a fine example of what was great about that period, groups willing to try new things and not all sound the same and they all seem to enjoy doing it. The best tracks for me on the album are Long ago and worlds apart, rollin over, song of a baker. The addition of the live tracks is great as there is not many small faces live stuff available. I really recomend this to all lovers of rock music, and to the young generation listen to this as this is how you got the music of today. OH also go and buy The Face great albums A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse, and Long Player

One of the Best Albums of All Time.......2002-07-25

I know that my meager descriptions couldn't possibly do this album justice. Critics have often compared "Ogden" with "Sgt. Pepper," and the comparison is apt. But "Ogden" is at once more whimsical and more satisfying musically. The second half is slightly marred by a narrated story between the songs, but the accent is so thick that it just sounds like English background noise. The rest is the Small Faces' great British mod/R&B taken to musical territory that most bands only dreamed of. Only the Beatles, Traffic, and Procol Harum have made albums in the same league.

"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" is, quite simply, the greatest rock masterpiece that no one has ever heard of. If you like psychedelia, 60's rock, the British Invasion, progressive rock, etc., please - PLEASE - buy this album.

Average customer rating:

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 ASIN: B000008KU5 Release Date: 1991-05-21

Tracks:

1. Ogden's 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. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happy Days Toy Town
13. Tin Soldier [Live][*]

Average customer rating: Brilliant!!!!

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BX4CXW Release Date: 2006-02-14

Tracks:

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

Album Description

Limited edition Japanese pressing has been recorded in high difinition and comes in a miniature LP sleeve. Immediate. 2006.

Album Details

Special 24bit K2 Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant!!!!.......2007-02-08

This is everything british 60's music was about. Spontaneous, funny, layers of ideas the list goes on. I cannot reccomend this album enough. This version is the one to buy. The mix is clear strong and original (far as i can tell) Steve Marriott was such a great and sometimes wrongly underrated singer & on Ogdens he gets to sing a lotta styles. Just Buy it!!

Average customer rating: Stanley Unwin Great 60's gemm British to a fault An excellent album: Ultimate sixties cockney mod rock statement

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Castle Music UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop Rock | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Pop Rock | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | British Invasion | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | British Invasion | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000040MF Release Date: 1992-06-30

Tracks:

1. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
2. Afterglow
3. Long Agos and Worlds Apart
4. Rene
5. Song of a Baker
6. Lazy Sunday
7. Happiness Stan
8. Rollin' Over
9. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happydaystoytown
13. Tin Soldier

Customer Reviews:

Stanley Unwin.......2006-05-28

One of the reviews on this site refers to Stanley Holloway being the narrator on Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake . In fact it was Stanley UNWIN who recorded the spoken interludes. He created his own quirky language that would confuse both the ear and the senses in the most delightful way. One thing to consider about the music of that time was that for many years hugely popular music hall variety acts toured theatres comprising singers/dancers/comedians. These were an essential part of British entertainment culture...finally dying out in the 1960's. A similar form of that variety tradition lived on in shows such as Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

This tradition set a backdrop for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
and albums such as Ogden's Nut Gone Flake which took a similarly eccentric route. The title came from Unwin's play upon a real pipe tobacco called Ogden's Nut-brown Flake. Another album to check out if you want to explore English whimsy coupled with surreal word play is The Madcap Laughs by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett.

I leave you with the words of the late great Stanley Unwin:

"Goodly Byeload loyal peeploaders, now all gatherymost to amuse it and have a tilty elbow or a nice cuffle - oteedee. Oh yes."

Great 60's gemm.......2005-06-20

This sounds to me , at times, like the group Family with it's roughness and it's unique english-60s-sound. Get it if you like rock n roll as it is meant to be: bouncy and hum-able yet challenging and full of ideas.

British to a fault.......2005-04-15

'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake' possesses a wide variety of quite unique pop/psychedelic/rock songs. In fact, it's unlikely that most Americans would have heard much of anything like 'Ogden's...'. While this 1968 disc is widely touted as the Small Faces finest album, it also exists as their swan song, with Steve Marriott exiting the band in the middle of a concert on New Years Day in 1969. The album includes two songs that charted well in England, but not in the US. 'Lazy Sunday' rose to number two, eclipsed only by Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World', and 'Afterglow' reached number 36. The bonus track, a live version of 'Tin Soldier' was a #9 hit in England, and served as the b-side to the band's only US hit, 'Itchycoo Park'. It's fitting that the bonus track, more than any other song on the disc, sounds more like the band Marriott would go on to lead (with Peter Frampton as his lead guitarist) and have his greatest success with, Humble Pie.

The Small Faces and 'Ogden's...' were never America's cup o' tea. It's a bit hard to say why, but some art simply doesn't translate from one culture to another. While most British work shares enough of America's sensibility to be integrated here, every once in a while the Atlantic gulf between us surfaces. Such is the case, for instance, with the British comedy, 'Coronation Street', and the same is true for the Small Faces and 'Ogden's...'. That being said, it isn't difficult to perceive from this production what gave Marriott and lead guitarist Ronnie Lane success in their homeland. There are many sweet tunes on 'Ogden's...', beginning with the vibrant instrumental opener bearing the album's title. 'Afterglow' follows, opening with curious sounds and the melody delivered in a whistle, while the chorus is almost inaudibly spoken, "I'm happy just to be with you, and loving you the way I do". It possesses a thoughtful feel which permeates nearly every song that follows.

Being the psychedelic '60's, 'Ogdens...' frequently meanders into experimental use of echo, alternating channels, and other techniques that work at times, and at other times sound stilted and dated. Several songs, such as 'Long Agos and Worlds Apart' and 'Mad John' develop into engaging, loping rock numbers that fade away all too soon. On the original vinyl, the first six songs formed side one, and this is the strongest collection of tracks, with the fourth entry, 'Rene', being the stand-out. The thick British accents make the lyrics a bit hard to understand, but the codo runs long and features some nice lead guitar, a pounding bass, and rap/scat-like vocal sounds. 'Song of a Baker' features more tomfoolery in the control booth, but a sweet electric guitar.

Side two on the original vinyl represented half a concept album, telling the difficult to understand tale of Happiness Stan. Actor Stanley Holloway, who passed away in 1982, provides the Cockney-laden between songs narration. You pick up a few words here-and-there, but grasping an entire sentence requires a bit of close listening and plenty of interpretation. There are more sweet tunes, including the hard-rocking, drum and vocal driven 'Rollin' Over'. 'The Hungry Intruder' features a nice sounding chorus, and 'Mad John' possesses a complelling chant as a coda. The closer, 'Happydaystoytown' is a feel-good march, prodding the listeners to get up, lock elbows, and "everyone sing together now!". I'm not sure what it's all about, and while it is entertaining, it's also easy to see why it never caught on in the states.

The album times out at about 42 minutes, with the shortest song ('The Hungry Intruder') timing out at 2:15, and the longest ('Rene') clocking in at 4:30. The time listings for the final 6 songs are a bit misleading, however, as they include Holloway's narration, which runs over a minute in several instances.

If you visit ebay and feed "nut gone" and "cd" into the search engine you'll turn up perhaps 10 hits. Nearly every version (and there are numerous versions of this disc available... mine doesn't even appear among the 11 reissues offered here at Amazon) being offered is accompanied by a price listed in British pounds. I think you had to be there, literally, to truly "get it", and that's still pretty much true today.

An excellent album:.......2005-02-04

This seems to me like an album that's occasionally being overlooked, any rock fan should own this in my opinion. From start to finish though the Small Faces reel off a list of impressive and memorable psychedelic rock songs. Even the title-track which is really just an intro to the album sounds great. There's just a happy feeling to the whole thing that makes it something you'd want to listen to again and again. A lot of the songs on here might be familiar to some people without them really knowing it, such as Lazy Sunday or Afterglow. Sing them to someone and they'd say "Oh I've heard that!" but they may not be able to pinpoint the band and song.

The bass and keyboards are the instruments that really drive it, there are some great basslines in some of the songs and the keyboard is used to great effect as well. Another great aspect though is the vocals, which fit with everything else to give it that "English" feel, and it's great! The album is really split into two parts, such that you'd think you were listening to two separate albums at times. The first six tracks are all great and up until then it's a flawless album with some great songs like Song of a Baker, Lazy Sunday and Rene. Then we're greeted with a spoken word intro to Happiness Stan, and this is where it changes into a concept album halfway through. I can honestly say I've never heard a CD change into a concept album halfway through, it's an interesting experiment. It's hard to judge the second half story telling against the first half, but I do prefer the songs of the first half.

So who should get this then? Anyone, if you like any bands like The Who or The Beatles and you don't own this, you're missing out, and the two totally different halves to it mean that you need to listen to it all the way through, and appreciate the brilliant songwriting, musicianship and story-telling involved. Five stars.

Ultimate sixties cockney mod rock statement.......2005-01-26

It's so good to see most reviewers getting the point of this album. The Small Faces were never meant to be compared with other bands. They were simply there, in their own inimitable cockney idiom. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was a statement for the time, full of bouncy English humour, good musicianship, and meant to be enjoyed by an audience who had been through the Carnaby Street thing with them , or had fought on the beach at Brighton on the bank holiday, and who lived in a grey depressing terraced-house suburbia.

The trick is not to apply excessive analysis, but to accept the LP for what it actually is, a piece of late-sixties pop culture beautifully executed by guys who were living the whole experience at the time; ..........'nuff said!

Average customer rating: Original or fake? Ogden's Nut Done Good!

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Sunspots ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 Similar Items: S.F. Sorrow The United States of America The Small Faces Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton ASIN: B00006K08J Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

1. Ogden's 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. Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass [*]
8. Happiness Stan
9. Rollin' Over
10. Hungry Intruder
11. Journey
12. Mad John
13. Happy Days Toy Town
14. Every Little Bit Hurts [*]

Album Description

Limited edition (1500 copies) 24 bit remastered, paper sleeve reissue of 1968 album. Includes 2 bonus tracks 'Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass' & 'Every Little Bit Hurts.' Sunspots. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Original or fake?.......2005-08-15

A previous reviewer has described this as "quite simly the greatest concept album of all time"...and I agree. Unfortunately this is not that album it is simply a compilation of some of the tracks off the original album. Imagine my disappointment to discover Stanley Unwin's opening lines "Are you all sitting comftebole two square on your botties?" wiped from the album's opening ....given that this was a concept album this seems to me to be the ultimate in arrogance...as is placing an extra track (which is extremely mediocre) in the middle of the album. The original narrative weaves the songs together to provide a complete work of art so I don't think this album should be sold under the title of the original. This kind of artistic vandalism is akin to overpainting the Monalisa's smile!

Ogden's Nut Done Good!.......2005-07-09

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake produced in 1967 is quite simply the best concept album of all time. Harder, meatier and grittier than Sergeant Pepper's, it was also more coherent with a subtle yet definitive storyline (involving the moon and a boy). All songs are well composed over several levels of musical sophistication, making the experience of listening to the album deeply satisfying. The inclusion of Stanley Unwin in the production of the album was a feat of musical genius. Stan brings to it a more meaningful and believable psychodelic element than most other concept albums have. With its mix of melodic rock tunes with their long 'jamming session' endings, ballards and psychodelic interludes Ogden's can be listened to over and over again in pure enjoyment.

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