I have three Small Faces best-ofs albums in my collection. Every time they put one out back in the day there would be a different song list on it. I bought them because they were cheap and I was trying to get all the Small Faces stuff I could. I've also got a bunch of records all with different names but some of them are basically the same record.
I love the Small Faces. We covered All or Nothing in Little Murders and it was always one of my favourite songs to play. When I was first getting into the whole Mod thing firstly we looked at The Who but as you delved more into their stories you realised that the Small faces were the real Mod band. They really did look like a band of Small Faces, a face in Mod lingo being the cool one.
This one is from 1985. It still carries the distinctive smell of an album that spent many a night in clubs. Particularly the Rubber Soul.
I loved Ogden's Nut Gone Flake but really I played the hell out of these best-ofs.
Last year during the lockdown I still managed to track down a Small FDaces EP that just had their instrumentals on it. They were just a great band. Actually, I haven't got a copy of Autumn Stone despite having nearly all the tracks on it on various albums so that might have to be my next purchase.
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