Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

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Loved it!!!

Listened to the mono versions, 2018 remaster at work. I actually like this. Pretty standard, British invasion, ever so slightly psychedelic. Songs that stood out: Lazy Sunday

One of the best Psych album of all Time , with a mix of heavy guitare, orchestrations and distorsion, always love IT a lot,

Really unique psychedelic sound. I really felt like I was in a field with a bunch of hippies.

Loved the bass on this one

Never heard of these guys before, but this album is right up my alley. In terms of folky, British psychedelic rock this is at the top of the game. It doesn't suffer from the common psychedelic music issue of jarring dissonance and comes with a whimsy all it's own. The narration on the second half is a gem in itself. A true shame the lyrics to this album aren't available on Spotify.

Rip Bert, released from his lumbago at last.

Weirdest thing I think I’ve ever heard in this genre. Loved the weird guy telling stories between songs. Felt like listening to Lydia telling a story or a Spag Cool guitar fx and riffage Giving 5 cos my mind is melted Recognised the neighbours song

Enjoyed Awesome

What a fun album! Interesting music and an early stab at a concept album.

wildddd I love it. Sounds like an acid trip

I thought this would be more dusty 60s rock that is only relevant as a step in the development of the genre, but the album actually holds up very well. To me, it illustrates the transition between stuff like the Beatles and 70s hard rock with its more involved guitar melodies. And "Lazy Sunday" is one of the absolute classics from the era.

Just a lot of fun honestly, every song on this album was a great listen. Not to be all, "I was born in the wrong generation," but could you imagine an album like this being released today, with just people talking nonsense over half the songs? I couldn't

A classic record from the Small Faces and I'm glad I own a vinyl copy. Apart from the narrator cutting in and out of the music, the music is excellent and though there are only a couple minor hits on it, it's consistently solid with strong songs. I must hear or at least, must see, as the album jacket is very cool!

How has this album almost been lost in musical history, but so many of its peers are still revered. This is absolutely amazing and should be a standard of the style of the time. Before listening to this album I honestly only knew the single, and that's by far the worst song on the album.

A great album of storytelling that uses many musical elements.

How the hell do I not know about this band? This is great. I was going to go on about how the band, and the drummer in particular, had some influence by The Who (and in a good way), then I read that the drummer is Kenney Jones, who replaced Keith Moon after he died (they were apparently at the same party that Moon died after). But, what a wild ride. Love the music, playing, singing, hilarious interstitials. I'm going to dig into this band. Somehow they missed the boat of the British Invasion. Too bad. This is good stuff.

Are you all sitting comftybold two square on your botty? Then I'll begin... God bless Stanley Unwin. I had a strong free association urge to go listen to Nilsson's The Point after this finished. So I did.

This is very much my shit and I don't know why I hadn't heard it before (beyond a couple of well-known tracks).

What a fun album The poetry was a trip, the music vintage Small Faces

When I’d listened to this before I’d thought it was unbearably twee but it’s actually pretty rough around the edges Works brilliantly as a cohesive body and was fantastic start to finish

A brilliantly innovative album.

holy shit, every song is a 10/10 honestly, this album is too good for this 5 star scale, jesus christ, I love this

One of the best albums ever. One of the best intros ever and Stanley Unwin's narration makes the whole second half a joy. Every track is a summery classic, and Steve Marriott is an amazing frontman - I love singing in a natural accent. I loved it before, and listening today I love it even more.

So good, could've been released yesterday and I wouldn't have known the difference (except for the wild stereo mix which I love to hear in albums of this time). Heaps of comedic writing, doesn't take it's self too seriously and the loose concept is engaging.

Never listened to this in its entirety before. I should have done. It's brilliant.

I cannot believe this band has existed for 50 years and I never heard them. This belongs up there with any of the baroque pop that was being produced in the 60s.

Never heard this 60’s psychedelic album, I was missing out.

An all time classic. Still as good as it used to be.

Unlike Britpop that came 15 years later, this is excellent British music. Where else can you hear a Jimi Hendrix intro, heavily Britished rapping, and a Kinks inspired song about British suburbia? In this album. All clouded in a haze of psychedelia and whimsy.

Oh my this was amazing! I loved the whimsical psychedelic story telling. Some people have mentioned it’s a bit Monty Python and it is a bit bonkers but that just adds to the charm. Will definitely be listening again.

This was some good fun.

Liked this album a lot. Especially the second half.

Weird as hell but the first half is great.

More of a singles band I think but this is a fun listen. Afterglow and Lazy Sunday are the standout stonkers. Definitely a game of two halves - side one has a more conventional structure, while the flipside descends into some pretty far out conceptual shenanigans. I like it but I can see why the overall grades might suffer.

El funk y psicodélico me llaman mucho la atención. Es un álbum muy interesante. Las preferidas: Afterglow (Of Your Love), Long Agos and Worlds Apart, Rene, Happiness Stan y Mad John.

this platform never seems to run out of psychedelia. this is the third and final release by the small faces, and i guess it's their most popular! the title of the album is about tobacco. let's see, what can i say about this one... it's very british psychedelia, from the singing style to the absurdist nature and storytelling. yes, i'm meaning it when i say storytelling, because the entire second side of this record is an odd little story about a bloke named happiness stan, who trots across the land and searches for the other half of the moon. it's creative but i feel like sometimes it gets a little too... too weird and whimsical at times, with some of the lyrics and ESPECIALLY the narration too... i'm a druggie, i love absurd nonsense but i lose interest juuuuust a bit whenever i hear the accented narrator go like "oh well stanny wanny shmannie wibbly dibbly wobbled over to the totherdy-other side of the mountain, twas a big mountain he happened to see, oh-ho-ho, yes, twas big!" and he giggles at his wordplay and makes sounds into the microphone.

I was half asleep listening to this which made it even better lol. the most fun i had listening to a psychedelic album. 4.5\5

I like this quite a bit. It rocks. What in the 18+ minute epic "Happiness Stan" happened at the end. It was straight up psych rock at it's storytelling finest. I would play this song on a jukebox if it had it.

Nice

Je préfère en conformation différente l'album suivant: First Step (avec Rod Stewart et Ronnie Wood - pas dans la famille de China...).

Les tites faces. Nice dans Afterglow, vers la fin il y a un riff quasiment identique au Medley de Abbey Road (celui de Carry that Weight qui se fond dans The End). D'ailleurs le style me fait quand même penser à Sgt Pepper/Abbey Road, surtout au niveau du drum, impressionnant! Faut croire que j'aime beaucoup Glyn Johns au mixing (Let it Be Naked... incroyable). Les bouts parlés sont un peu tannants. Je sais pas c'est quoi l'histoire qu'ils essayent de nous conter, mais je suis pas ben ben fan de l'opéra rock récemment. Et mon intérêt décroît plus l'album avance...

On a deja entendu cet album au moins 5 fois, non?

Very Sgt Pepper — enjoyable and quirky

Love the title track which led the first GTAV trailer, Lazy Sunday and Afterglow also top tier. Narration in the second half stops it from being a 5

What a strange album name. But absolutely a hidden gem. There’s so much about this album that I like. I thought the riffs and melodies were incredible, very creative, fun. I really liked them. There are some lows though in here as well. But I feel like the highs completely outweigh the lows.

Not sure what I just listened to but it jibes with my love of early Pink Floyd and Kinks (Village Green). Story guitar rock that makes you sway with your arms around the people next to you. A lost art.

Lowkey phantasmagoric.

Movano, Gerstetten - Heidenheim, Deutschland. Gute Platte!

Concept albums often leave me cold, and concept albums with weird narration definitely leave me cold…. But this album overcomes all those issues for me… yes even the silly voices on Sunday afternoon. Why? Because everything is just high quality. The psychedelia is actually psychedelic and the songs carry their weirdness well… and of course stevie Marriott is one of the great British soul voices

Delightfully odd

Are you all sitty comftybold two-square on your botty? Then I’ll begin this little brain spout of the musicy-most… It’s not my first time sampling the delights of ONGF. I imagine if it is for you, it’s going to pretty hard to digest.

Wanted to hate this, but unfortunately I like stupid shit.

The music is great and I actually thought the narration in the second half was kinda funny and not annoying so somehow I’m giving this a 4

Yeah this is fun! Incredibly British, very whimsical.

This album encompasses the music of the late 60s british era perfectly. Where as there are more commercial british albums of this time (Sgt Pepper, Are You Experienced etc), none sound as english as this. You have a lot of different styles, Hard Rock, Soul, R&B, Music Hall and it is all wrapped together in a Psychedelic haze. Their aren't any stand out hits (should have included the kickass "Tin Soldier"), but the songs are all solid and work well with each other. This is especially considering how the 2nd side is a weird british fairytale about a man finding the moon. high 4/5

Listened While making Dinner. The music itself was pretty interesting but not super amazing. 1960s England is an interesting time to think back to and this album charting number 1 for weeks in England when it came out helped me imagine what it might’ve been like. Over all pretty cool I enjoy weird story telling crud every once in a while. Good album favorite song was probably Track 4: Rene.

Tô curtindo, ta sendo gostoso, me lembra beatles mais despojado. Cara de fato, até o vocal parece mto um beatles da vida, e várias das músicas de guardiões da galaxia com rem do paul mcartney e da linda. Gostei bastante, bastante guitarra com efeito e instrumental de violão. GOSTEI PRA KRL. Aliás, voltei no album anterior e continuo achando uma bosta.

Great beginning to the album with an instrumental song.

A fun and quirky Britishism that's kind of like dollar store The Who in that way.

4.5/5

Memories...memories...

This was fun. A little silly. I think some of the negative reviewers need a little whimsy in their lives because they sound like they have gigantic sticks up their asses.

Better than Coldplay

8/10 Best songs: Rene, Song of a Baker, Rollin' Over, Mad John If there's one thing I've learned since I started this project, it's that I have a serious soft spot for '60s psychedelic rock. Side one of this album is an excellent, rather emblematic example of the genre. It's 60s down to its bones, with glorious guitar solos, quirky lyrics and vocals, and all-around enjoyable vibes. Side two embraces the batshit crazy, aiming for somewhere between twee and too-high-to-function. The songs themselves work for me, but the ongoing narration by Stanley Unwin, while interesting, slows onward progression tremendously. That being said, I do like this side as well - the songs are no worse than those of the first side. I'm left wondering: does the narrative framing ruin the album or not? I'm not sure.

I am not sure what this album is. A concept album in the middle of something else? I listened to it twice. I think I like it?

Très très bon album. Pour 1968, je trouve que l'album a une patte vraiment excellente, selon moi bien empreinte aux grands disques sortis peu de temps avant comme Sergent Pepper et peut être Velvet Underground And Nico, mais l'album parvient aussi à se former un réel bagage de sonorités psychédélique rock dans la première partie du projet vraiment intéressant. La seconde partie qui se concentre sur le coté "album à thème" avec les descriptions de Happiness Stan est franchement incroyable ! Tout y était super, que ce soit les guitares parfois extrêmement puissantes et saturées, les ambiances méditatives, l'ending beaucoup plus festif, les choeurs entrainants, franchement tout y était super j'ai beaucoup apprécié.

It’s a very British album. Fun if you’re open to the humor.

Listened to this twice. Really enjoyed the jams and wanted to pay more attention the second time around. Fun and different. I am guessing most will not like it, but it hits all the areas I like.

Delightful. Folk revival flavours, witty and strange, good psych tracks. Will listen again.

Du psyché correct typique des années 60.

Pretty cool! Never heard this before

Groovy baby...

Interesting, trippy, not something I would normally listen to but I enjoyed it.

4 stars

Outside of the spoken word this really kicks ass

What a surprise, feels like the progenitor to a lot of 70s prog that I really adore.

Really fun and quirky without being too weird. I do like a bit of psychedelic rock and this was a great example of that. I'd never heard of these guys but I went and listened to some of their other songs after this.

Psychedelic british rock from the 60s, clearly influenced by the Beatles, but with its own turns and quirks. The B side turns into a small prog rock story that tastes of Peter Gabriel's Genesis. I found it joyous.

The first half of ‘Ogden's Nut Gone Flake’ is about as good as ’60s psychedelic pop/rock gets. The second half, featuring Stanley Unwin’s surreal spoken-word interludes, feels disruptive at first but ultimately proves more charming than jarring. Overall, the album is a playful, inventive, quintessentially British record and one of the better psychedelic rock albums of the ’60s.

Yes, I like this band and of course, I have this album.

This is a flawed gem. I love it. It has a working class sneering quality to it. The Small Faces do all the cool rock things: leslie speakers, dramatic organ parts, big guitar chords. Their secret weapon is of course Steve Marriott’s voice. As a kid I daydreamed about singing like that. Not all of the songs hold up but I enjoy listening to them.

Light, playful, and full of charm—an easy album to enjoy. Added to my Tidal album list. Nice start.

Yeah it got weird at times, but man these guys smoked when they were playing. Couldn’t make much sense of the fairy tale, but it was kinda neat to hear a rock Peter and the Wolf

What a surprising album! This was not only excellent, but I was not expecting the second half to be a mini concept album complete with narration. This was so far ahead of its time.

Noen ganger blir det åpenbart kor mye kontekst du mangle for å eventuelt sette pris på nokka, og det her e et sånt tilfelle. Ikke vet æ ka greia va, men det e sikkert gøy for dem som like det?

Weird but at least not boring.

I've been putting this album off for a long time just because of album cover. It was such a bad chouce. But it really surprised me. I enjoyed it I loved that talking story like element and yeah another summer album in winter but I hope I'll come back to this one when the right time comes.

I wasn't aware that there was as band that out britished the Kinks, but here we are. I dug this!

A 60's psychedelic banger. Love the classic panning you hear on those kinds of albums. Something I love that records do are fun and connected transitions, which this album subtly nails on some of the tracks. Some songs on it are so British that it's almost Australian however. The monologues are fun, but can go on for a while. Few filler very good.

Cool stuff

Total late 60’s psychedelic pop mod! Some really great music to be found. Definitely of it’s time but really inventive and great fun to listen to. 4

Приятный, расслабляющий, но не стал для меня чем-то особенным. Можно послушать в охотку

Interesting classic rock, with a bit of a twist. Some strange lyrics but good and groovy background music

Pretty creative and fun. I like the organs and classic rock sound.

This was really weird. I like the psych and blues elements. I didn't really care of the concept album. I am biased towards this style of music, it definitely draws me in, so I definitely enjoyed this. But it was kind of weird and probably not something I'd ever revisit.

Really excellent album. Starts out like a Creedence-inspired Southern Rock instrumental but quickly turns into the most Brittish, Beatles-esque, it's mod rock. Really cool listen! The album builds as you go, so "Msd John" and "HappyDaysToyTown" ended up being my favorite.

They're a good band. There's a few songs here that are a little too English music hall sounds that are pretty annoying. I didn't care for the narration. It was too precious and detracted from good songs like Son of a Baker

Have not listened to them much but most of the band are rock legends. Good stuff

Insanely ahead of it's time. Sounds like it could be from the 70s/80s easily. Some heaters in here but probably won't revisit. just a neat historical thing.

No tame impala without this

So good! Fun. Inventive.

I think this was good enough for me to want to revisit it in the future. I knew Lazy Sunday already, but there's a few other songs I liked as well.

This was a fun British psychedelic album, filled with early analog studio effects and soulful music hall influences. Other than that, not much else to say.

This may be the most late 60s album I think I've ever heard. It's a fair bit kooky as these concept albums can be, but I rather enjoyed it.

Low bar coming in since so many people were shitting on it. I found it a nice classic rock album

Not bad. A bit weird, but decently put together.

from an album fronted by rod stewart to the previous incarnation of a band he would go on to front...conceptual continuity!!!! the main thing this delightful record makes me think about is that where american psychedelia tended to be darker and more transgressive and more Adult, for lack of a better word, british psychedelia is very backwards-looking and infused with childhood. ig its a little funny to think ab given the tobacco case packaging, but this is one of the more potent examples ive come across. a skill honed here is Songs You Feel Like You Remember, Sort Of. cute and good, and p creative too, even including a big heavy rocker that totally swerves around kitschiness and is just rly convincing somehow.

"Why did I moved here? I guess it was the weather..."

The leader in the clubhouse for most outstanding album title, this is a psychedelic rock concept album. At times weird, at times rockin’, and at times technically brilliant, I had a good time listening to this album. The title track is a great instrumental song, but ‘Afterglow’ and ‘Rollin’ Over’ were also favorites. I could have done without the spoken word intros on each song on the back half of the album, but it’s only a minor inconvenience. I’d love to give this a 3.5, but I can’t so it’s gonna get bumped up to a low 4/5.

Phantastischer Fiebertraum. Viele Ideen. Aber kommt irgendwie zusammen. Dubdidubamdei... 🪇🪗

Really enjoyed the bizarreness of what is essentially psychedelic cockney knees-up music, which is something I've never heard before and probably never will again. Deserves to be on the list for its uniqueness alone. I thought the spoken word actually fit the music well, but I totally get being annoyed by it. 4.0/5.0: Great

Favorite track(s): Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Rene, Song of a Baker

It was a cool album, i like the dude talking in a weird way. 3.6/5

Bouncy, fun, and psychedelic. Also I seem to be the only one who remembers that the title track was used in the trailer for GTA 5. A really dumb way to discover music, but here we are I guess

Album review 021 Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces (1968) Rating 4/5 It must be at least 20 years since I last took time to listen to Ogdens’ Nut gone Flake and, sitting down to give it a whirl, I expected some dated 60’s whimsy with annoying interludes and had a 3/5 rating ready to go. Thankfully, my pre-conceptions were only half-right; certainly it’s late-60’s Brit whimsy and may be an acquired taste, but there is some really good stuff here. Side one is a pretty straightforward set, whereas side two is built around the non-sensical story of Happiness Stan going on a quest to find out where half of the moon has disappeared to and is assisted on his journey by a hungry little fly. With the partial exception of the first half of Rene and HappyDaysToyTown, Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake is a delight, thoroughly enjoyed it and certainly won’t be waiting another two decades to listen again.

I hadn't heard the Small Faces before - it was an enjoyable album and I'd listen to it again. Don't love quite enough to buy a vinyl copy of the album...yet.

Groovy! Det är det här jag hade viljat höra från The Beatles!

Great

Really like this 👍

The first half of this album is pretty forgettable, but by the end it's almost as if Led Zep wrote a Lord of the Rings esque musical based in East London. It might not be very good but it's a lot of fun. Id love to have a pint with Mad John, fella sounds like proper craíc

Didn't expect it to be so good

kan inte låta bli att gilla detta. rollin' over är en jävla go låt. känns som riktig tidig hårdrock och man slipper sitar. monologerna hade jag kunnat vara utan dock.

I haven't listened to this album in many years. I bought it in my late teens, during a psychedelic phase. At the time, I preferred side 2, with its interstitial tale of Happiness Stan and more whimsical songs. Listening to it now, I prefer the tougher side 1, which is (I think) a more transitional piece between the Small Faces and the bands to follow (Faces and Humble Pie). The opening title track is a banger, and Lazy Sunday is a really fun single. Many of the late 60s English psychedelic bands border on being insufferably twee and anaemic, but I like the Small Faces muscular soul-based sound. They aren't afraid to play loud, and they can swing. I also dig Glyn John's reliably crunchy and unfussy recording. This will definitely be getting more play from me.

Probably a 3, but I’m pump in it up cuz I like the personality of this band more than the music. Again, I’m more of a Monkees man.

bom, muito legalzinho

Very catchy and nice

They have very catchy songs and a good beat

This was a fun classic brit rock album. I could do without a lot of the spoken word parts & intros, as I don't think those have aged as well as the music, but I think this is a solid album still worthy of time and attention.

i love this, im not sure how to describe it. Very psychedelic rock themed at the start but the end is just joyful songs

Lazy Sunday. Beatlesque

This fits so well between Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine. I'm sorry I never knew of this before. Loved the music from side A, loved the Cockney narrated journey on side B. This was a great discovery!

Pretty fun

Really groovy, and light album. A lot of fun.

AMAZING!

Fun!

Very weird, but weirder still is the fact that this album got to number one in the charts in the UK. Even more extraordinary this was back in the days where it actually took some effort to have a number one album, as it was based on physical sales. I enjoyed the first half a little more than the second. Stanley Unwin's Unwinese grates a little, but it's maybe a little more restrained than normal here, and slips into the background after the first listen. Four stars for keeping me entertained.

Pleasant. Kind of reminds me of the Grateful Dead. I like it.

Loved it from the first flanged guitar sound

It’s pretty interesting, and overall a solid listen. The heavy effects and psychedelia are pretty interesting. I was a little cooler on the back half, “concept” song cycle and narration, but overall I think it all held together.

To hear Stanley Unwin narrating the fairy tale of Happiness Stan made this worthy of the score

Fun listen - 4 stars

Surprisingly fresh old psychedelic album.

Surprising 4.

I love early psychedelic music in all its unrestrained creativity. Small Faces embrace the weirdness, and I'm applauding them for it some fifty years later. The first half of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is a solid collection of psychedelic rock, offering a good variety in its delivery. Instrumental solos sound good, vocals sound good. Can't say I'm particularly enamored with any of them, but overall it's nice to listen to. The second half is a fairytale narration with corresponding songs. Well, why not? It's fun.

Very good.listen to afterglow

Me gustó bastante! Muy buen disco de folk, pero también muy buen disco de psicodélico, y la mezcla resultante funciona como no me imaginaba que lo haría. Muy buen rato, y curioso que entre tracks vayan contando una historia que va siendo musicalizada por las canciones.

This was actually really great, I didn’t expect that!

Fun and quirky. Love the psychedelic rock aspect of it. The lyrics themselves didn’t make a huge impression on me. The spoken word story during the last half of the album was kind of weird. Why half the album and not the whole thing? Not sure if I see myself revisiting it or not. Though the music itself is rocking. I just realized I probably listened to more than just the base album. I notice the regular one only has 7 tracks and I think I listened to 12? So the base one doesn’t have as much of the talking and storytelling, which might be better for a re-listen.

Первая композиция прямо настроила. Архаичность звука наоборот идёт и как-то добавляет интереса.

i have no idea how to rate or review this one really but it was fun

The A side is a solid 5 … but tainted by the “concept” B side which I can’t give more than 3 for … so let’s go 4 😀

Very cockney The concept part strikes me as a piss take but that might be my retrospective view. Narrator is familiar... Was he on round the horn?

Their third album. Rock /:Psychedelic Rock. A concept album. Whimsy and British eccentricity abound on this one. Rene, I liked this track and I don't know why exactly. Song Of A Baker is good one too. Lazy Sunday is classic track. I really like Steve Marriott's vocals throughout the album. Stanley Unwin's narration on the second half of the album is delightful and reminds me of A Clockwork Orange. The entire second half is gloriously bonkers !

This album was a fun time. I really enjoyed the first half but the real magic is in the second half, an excellent multi part epic with parts of spoken narration. It’s really cool. I enjoyed it lots

Loved it

Excelente disco de una banda que desconocía por completo.

Pretty good.

How have I never heard about these guys ? Great psychedelic vibe with a touch of The Who and a pinch of British Invasion. The singer has a very distinctive voice. A few super weird moments that almost sound like very early Pink Floyd. Loved it ! Makes you wonder how many great bands slipped through the web of fame and were unjustly forgotten... I have to check their other albums.

Fun, not too serious, with some interesting sounds. I liked it, definitely some unc shit, but nothing wrong with that. 7/10

Very solid 60s rock though a bit too British for me at points. I really liked the funkiness of “song of a baker”.

Heavier than The Who, more soulful than The Kinks, conceptual but not yet progressive, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is an essential 60s record, a psychedelic romp, a spree of ingenuity. 'Love is like a voice in my head / Keeps turning 'round the things that we said.' Energized by vaudeville, Delta blues, and Britishisms (but not too many), it succeeds on multiple levels. If it lacks anything, it's precision and an iota of substance, but mainly it's a Shakespearean comedy + rock-n-roll. Real rock-n-roll, that is.

I like this. The quirkiness adds to its character, even the Stanley Unwin bits grew on me over two listens and are strangely endearing. Steve Marriott had a good voice. I imagine they had fun making this, and I can hear how influential it has been. 4 stars

Geinig

I think it’s three star, but it’s perfectly in my wheelhouse, so l’ll up it one.

3.6 Stars - Not bad - Wasn't keen on the story sections

Cockneys on acid whats not to enjoy!

I think Lazy Sunday and everything with Stanley Unwin made this album for me. It's not something I'm going to reach for again, but I'm glad it exists. I would love to have heard the Spike Milligan version of it had ever been made. There was lots of gentle, post rock n roll British music. And the drumming was amazing.

Definitely an album of two halves. First half progressively climbs up to the zenith that is Lazy Sunday! Second half is all a bit odd, but in an interesting way.

Great stuff boys!

Bell'album. Merita sicuramente un secondo ascolto per capire al meglio gli intramezzi e la storia dietro. 4 stella per la fiducia.

A pretty good album, I liked Rene and Lazy Sunday.

The first half of this album delivers richly psychedelic tracks full of Mellotron swirls, bold stereo tricks, and soulful British swagger. The second half veers into something like a musical fairy tale told by Monty Python on acid — surreal, absurd, and oddly charming. No, Rod Stewart is not on this record — he joined the Faces later, not the 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 Faces. This is all pure 1968: whimsical, inventive, and totally unrepeatable.

This is a brilliant artifact of LSD-soaked counterculture, a mess in the best possible way. Songs like “Afterglow of Your Love” and “Rollin’ Over” ride on heavy rhythmic churns, “Song of a Baker” presages 70s hard rock and “Mad John” is a brilliant folk tune. Drummer Kenney Jones’ playing is phenomenal. It all sounds like a hell of a good time. Glad I had the opportunity to listen to it.

for nice is the music

I hadn't heard this album, only really aware of the artist because of the confusion over their name. I did like it quite a bit, though. It was clearly very much of its time, folky, a bit strange, psychedelic in places. I'll have to give it additional listens!

Thought this would suck but it was all right

i may prefer them later as good-time party boys over the shambling psychedelic village green outfit here (i’ve got the kinks, after all), but pre-rod and still-small faces still kick. and you can hear the party in there thrashing around, ripping it apart at the seams from the inside, especially on the first half. but when it bursts out, it’s more humble pie than “nod to a blind horse.” still good though innit. side two furthers the great old british tradition of psychedelia via full blown fairy tale and/or rock opera. it’s charming and fun, but it’ll keep you from letting side two rip at any social gatherings anytime soon. good, weird, fun record. enter a randy, howling rod stewart.

Yes please and thank you lazy Sunday afternoon has had my heart for a long while. If you can deal with the heavy British accent you get blessed with some cookin riffs, a hammering Hammond organ and some catchy lyrics. This is what I think of when I hear British mainstream psychedelic pop music. It’s silly, irreverent and effortless fun. I also like Bowies laughing gnome so there’s that. The narrator is a bit much. Also I listened in mono if you cared.

Wrote all of the below and realised I hadn't actually said anything about the album overall. I really enjoyed it, I like being able to hear the work going into using the instruments, very characteristic of older music. I was expecting a more novelty experienced like with We're Only In It For The Money based on the title / blurb on here. I wasn't far off, the second half is firmly in that vein. The first half was fantastic, very diverse set of tracks that feel like they're from completely different genres, yet unified. Very fun, too, especially Lazy Sunday. The second half is... interesting. Not bad, but the sort of thing you put and sit down to listen to intentionally, like a movie, not something you put on for passive sound. Unless you're into that. The weird switch to only one channel about halfway through Happiness Stan makes it completely unlistenable to me, even in the version without the frustratingly demi-comprehensible nursery rhyme/poem in the coda. It makes me physically ill and is unbearable, otherwise I would've added that one to my likes too. A lot of weird channel stuff going on too - weird drum flourishes in the title track that sound like they're coming from another room, the very tail end of Afterglow. Said poem continues right through the second half of the album, it's definitely... interesting. A fun little story, albeit weird, but as I said it's annoying as it's understandable but also not? Somewhere between English and one of those "what English sounds like to non-English speakers". Almost gives Prisencolinensinainciusol vibes. Reading the wiki, it seems that's the point and this is that guy's whole schtick. But I enjoyed Stan searching for half the moon regardless. Very absurd and unique. It’s actually quite strange that the main version of album available for me in Australia (2019 Revolver Records, with the dark blue background) completely omits nearly a minute of the end of Happiness Stan, I don’t recall if any other tracks are truncated or not but… why? Isn’t the point of that track the story? Weird. Unfortunately it makes it hard to just casually listen to, I don't think i'd enjoy any of side B rocking up in my Daily Mixes or shuffle. And even in the omitted version, the channel shift is still there and that's so much worse. I flipped between said main Australian / Revolver Records version, which appears to be remastered or something (doesn’t state in song titles like yet another version does) and the version linked through here (2011 Sanctuary Records, white background). Definitely a noticeable difference in quality, cleaner and boosted in the 2011 version. The Revolver Records version is quite noisy and quiet, but weirdly that version of Lazy Sunday is kinda better, the rest are not. Reading through their Spotify bio, it seems their catalog had some issues with languishing and mismanagement and subpar releases, I wonder if that’s an artefact of that. Weirdly, when I try to play tracks from the 2011 version using the Spotify web player, it plays from the 2018 50th Anniversary / Remaster by Charly Records, spotted the titles of what was currently playing being inconsistent across places. Super strange! Would be interested to see the difference with the other versions on Spotify, specifically the odd channel mixing moments, but I think that with every band old enough to have multiple versions of albums, the chaos discomforts me. Anyway, I loved it. Probably won't listen to side B too often or at all, but side A is incredible and the more I listen, the more I love every track. Plays: 4 - only 2 from everything after Happiness Stan, but much more random / unordered plays in the week between listening and posting. Most: Lazy Sunday - loved the very sudden screaming and rioting and the weird little frog voice in the background, with Afterglow in close second. Title track is marvelous too. Least: Long Ago and Worlds Apart - if excluding side B, otherwise probably just Happiness Stan for that horrendous and unbearable channel drop at roughly the halfway mark. Rating: 4 - I think it’s a fun little project that’s very unique and creative, including side B, but side A is what really gets this score. Would be a 5 without that, easy.

bat shit crazy and brilliant

Earth is fleeeetinnggg. Below the stormmmm (clap clap)

I had no clue who they were, Rod Stewart is somehow related. But what a nice surprise in between funny talks! The music is quite exciting, it makes me think of a mix of the Toy Dolls and The Who, a few tracks really hit hard for that time. Without major hits, it still really puts the whole British scene of that era into perspective again. Loved it.

Man. It has been a weirdly long time since my last 60s psychedelic rock album. There was a time where I felt like I was getting one of these things every other day, but now I'm kind of surprised to get one! The last album I got that's definitively 60s psychedelia was the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, which was nearly 2 months ago at this point! Wow! Sorry to all the Small Faces fans out there, but this album is not nearly as great as that one. It's still quite good though! I enjoyed this album. It's pretty interesting. Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is actually a bit of a concept album, largely in the second half, so that's cool. The first half is better though. Side A is a fairly standard psych rock affair. It's a really good psych rock affair, but it's nothing revolutionary. Still, songs like "Afterglow" and "Lazy Sunday" are quite enjoyable, with solid instrumentation, fun vocals, and good writing to back them up. The second half is the more interesting, albeit somewhat weaker half. It's a bit of a fairy tale, complete with narration from a guy named Stanley Unwin. It's unique, I'll give it that. The musical contents here are still quite good, particularly in the instrumentation. I think the narration is kind of goofy, but I think that's the point. It's kind of Monty Python-esque in a way, which is not something I'm complaining about. Overall, this is a neat album right here. It's not my favorite 60s psych rock concept album. I do prefer albums like The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society and (if it counts) Sgt. Pepper, but I would still call this album good by just about every stretch of the word. Light 4/5.

What a fantastic, quirky album. I must admit that I only really knew a couple of Small Faces tracks before this, and I'm a bit surprised that I'd not delved deeper previously as I have a lot of Faces in my collection and there are very well-known, strong links between the two bands.

drei bis vier Lazy Sunday

(I uh, like them more than the Beetles. By like, a lot.)

Great album. I didn't listen to it back then and I don't know why. Probably because it wasn’t given much airplay in the U.S. I was too lazy back then. What a shame.

Peter Quill would love this album.

Can't believe i never heard of this

The Beatles vibes. Soulful, psychedelic sound. This would be cool to listen to while high. Fun and energetic. Quirky, odd storytelling. Typically British, which I love.

The lows are LOW the highs are fantastic.

Interesting album. Personally, I really liked it. The production was masterful and the narration between the songs really hit it home. Shame the band/album wasn't more successful.

I had no idea what to expect on this one, and I have to say I really liked it. Great listen, and the concept story was certainly something different.

I liked the music, not sure the concept on side 2 really worked though.

huh, ok these boys swung for the fences. Lot a respect and a fair amount of enjoyment. Love the experiments and the jabberwocky ass made up language fairy tail b-side. This one will likely need a bit more exploration before it clicks much, but I'm glad I heard it.

You know what these fellas ain't too bad

Pretty good for a lazy Sunday afternon

Actually really enjoyed this!

Surprisingly enjoyable. 7/10

Good, liked it.

eu AMO descobrir música boa. que álbum legal!!!! a primeira parte mais focada em diversos gêneros tem uma vibe muito boa e a segunda parte, com a narração intercalada com as músicas, é EXCEPCIONAL!!! É psicodélico, é divertido e é até meio Beatles na fase pós-rubber soul (pode ser a razão pelo qual eu gostei tanto desse aqui) eu adoro álbuns conceituais e esse não seria a exceção. Eu vou dar 4, mas é na intenção de dar 4,5!!!!!

As I quite like psychedelic rock, I liked this album quite a bit. It was quite the adventure and was certainly unique. Sure the 19 minute song is an odyssey, but it was a fun and unique story. Loved the instruments and the way they played. There was one small part in the “Happiness Stan” song where the dude singing sounded like John Fogerty which I thought was funky.

Nice one, maybe not super-essential, but nice.

Never heard of this band or album (or even the product the title is referencing) until now, but I'm glad it's in the 1001 albums list/project so I could experience it. I like the songs, the spoken word parts amused me, and my lack of expectations benefitted it. It's clearly a late 1960s record, and I mean that in a complimentary way. I'll be listening to it again, and will likely dig into their other albums soon.

Solid psychedelia. I enjoyed Lazy Sunday the most

A classic rock band Quality musicianship And soaring vocals

There are some great tracks on this album, several of which, in my view, place it ahead of its time. Unfortunately the Leywin Unstan nonfasticle storyloring ruined it for me, otherwise it may well have been a five-stardangly additional in my libricle Tidalyprick.

Enjoyable 60s nonsense

Ok I’m alittle biased because I adore psychedelic rock/metal, those are probably my favorite genres. And while this is a very early psychedelic rock album, it genuinely holds up today. It is not very heavy or dark, but it’s whimsical and free sounding. Obviously with psychedelic rock you get a healthy dose of crazy good instrumentation and that is no different here. Overall I thought the album was a great hidden gem that I had never heard of before and now I have a brand new artist for myself to look into. Idk if there were enough like “hits” on this album to give it a perfect 5 but this is definitely an above average 4.

Great blend of different 60 rock styles. Quite adventurous for the time. Really started a trend of "concept albums" (no sgt pepper does not count as a concept album). Ambitious and executed quite well, especially considering their previous output was a bit more unspectacular.

Peak 60s British psychedlic rock. Slightly mad but an enjoyable listen

One thing this project has done is made me appreciate clean and clear lyrics. I dug the music but couldn’t understand a word. And the narration was no help at all.

This is not my favorite era of rock, but I really liked it. The band and their music is quite charismatic.

Probably between the walnut and the peanut in the hierarchy of nuts

You have to embrace unreasonable amounts of Britishness to make it through this record. Luckily for me I accepted it right away and rode with it. I guess you either find it hilarious and brilliant or incredibly stupid.

Okay album, pretty relaxing and fun music. Few nice guitar solos, interesting themes, overall good record.

First half of pretty standard 60s rock n roll tunes, then the second half turns into a psychadelia story-tale with The Secret Service man. Still pretty good though.

60s psych rock done right. The organ in the title track is INCREDIBLE, and it perfectly sets the stage for the show to come. There are some psychedelic jams here that fly up and away, but unlike, say, Pink Floyd's debut, there's seems to be more of a deep grounding in pop. This defines the first half. Now, when I first listened through the second half of the album, I found it a bit irritating. But listening to it again, I embraced the whimsy and the jabberwocky, and I actually found the narration stops juuuust before the line of being excessive. Excellent, and something I'll listen to again. Fav tracks: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Afterglow, Long Agos and Worlds Apart

This was fun, but a little one-note for me and I was a little tired of the vibe by the end. Four stars.

I always thought I'd been familiar with this but apparently I've just heard *of* it .... because I'd have remembered. This is some weird shit. Someone here before me said this is like Monty Python meets early Pink Floyd which is brilliant and I don't disagree but ... I kind of like it...? That's probably more descriptive of the 2nd side/half which is the "conceptual" part - the first half is a bit more straightforward (at least up until "Lazy Sunday) if late-60s almost-psychedelic but a bit more rock-oriented. But that 2nd part becomes almost meta-1960s British whimsical rock. Cockney narration...a bit more Kinks and Beatles-lite with a dash of mod-Who without the violence. Thinking halfway between 3 and 4 but it kinda made me happy this morning so giving it the generous 4 bc why not - I could listen to this again. 7/10 4 stars.

This was a bit weird, but I liked the music, and bonus points for seeming like they had a great time making this album. Great album name.

There is a weird nonsensical story in the back half of the album that I found annoying at first. But it kind of grew on me and brought this up from a middling 3 star to a low 4 star for me.

So sure, the narrative as well as the "over the top Britishness" of the whole thing are a black mark of course. But musically, and lyrically, this is as good as 60s British psych gets

The first half is a pretty solid psych rock / pop album, and the second half is an absurd fairy tale concept album with narrated sections full of nonsense words. I love a bit of dumb fun and really enjoyed this, although I don't think I will listen to it again.

How could they ruin that brilliant first half of swaggering late-60s psych rock with the frankly ridiculous story concept on the second half?! I kept coming back though, as the music itself is so good. Thankfully Spotify has a massive deluxe version with a superb stereo mix and some alternative takes, so you can virtually piece together everything that is awesome about this record without the nonsense mockney narration. On the one hand, what a shame they didn't just make that, take their 5⭐s and move on. But on the other hand, they clearly had this quirky idea, took a load of drugs and made something a bit different. Is it mad genius? Maybe. I have to take off a star as it's just so hard to enjoy side 2 in its original form. I'm really glad to have discovered it though; the title track, Afterglow and the single versions of The Journey and Mad John are all damn fine songs.

i like it. it's a bit weird and fun and fresh.

Would have given it 5 starts if it didnt have all that weird story telling in between songs.

Great album.

4.4

A dream pop, psychedelic classic! I love this album, not everyone will but I implore people to really dive into it! Absolutely tremendous!

Good music. Especially for the time. I don't love concept albums or rock operas or whatever usually. Just seemed unnecessary

I listened to this album when I was a teenager, it was nice to revisit as an adult. I appreciated both the music and the poetry more this time around, afterglow’ is a great track, although there are other albums of theirs with better songs

Honestly wasn’t sure I wasn’t going to like this album but I’ve been pleasantly surprised and like it a lot - good 60’s almost 70’s vibe to it - would revisit it

a good concept

Very close to 4 stars. Would easily be at least that without all the side 2 narration. The actual music is awesome. 3.5/5

Not what I expected. Pretty interesting different 60s sound. Somewhat progressive and very british

60's psychadelic rock similar to The Who or Sgt Pepper era Beatles. Interestingly, after Steve Marriott left Small Faces, the 3 remaining members brought in Ron Wood on guitar, and Rod Stewart on vocals, and became the band Faces. Favourite songs: Rene, Afterglow (Of Your Love), Lazy Sunday, Happy Days Toy Town, Rollin' Over Least favourite songs: The Journey 4/5

Kinda like a Monty python episode Goes kinda hard Reminds me of the Beatles Very different than Eminem’s stan

The title song to start was a great psychedelia beginning. That was a trip. The narrating that lead into the songs on the back half of the album was lunching me out. The music to go along with it was perfect as well. All around great psych album.

Stereo version is a must!

Weird but fun. Did know Lazy Sunday but not any of the other traxks.

A bit strange and very British but fun. 4

Heard of Small Faces before, but never heard them. Thoroughly enjoyed this quirky little album, made all the better by Stanley Unwin's excellent contribution. Favourite tracks: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, Lazy Sunday, Happiness Stan.

Classic

Spielerisch und interessant.

In my mind I was listening to a theater show. First act...Our protagonist comes to big city in the psychedelic 60's. Cue beginning songs: singing and big production sound. Second act: protagonist goes to a party and drops acid; ends up talking to a mushroom that narrates the rest of the album songs. Very different but I liked it.

This album is as extravagant as its title. Every time I get to listen to these psychedelic 60's albums, I fantasize I am second in line in front of the record store, money in hand, to buy it on its release date. Then, I go home and drop the needle, sit on the fluffy '60s couch in my "clockwork orangy" living room, and relax, thinking about how avant-garde the present we live in is. Then, I flip the record, listen to the side b, and laugh.

It’s no captain beefheart, but it’s close

3.5

Psychedelic rock, pretty fun

Everything you need, a story and good music.

weird and fun

There were more songs I liked on this album, than songs I didnt like! 4/5

Never heard of this band or any of their songs before so it was a good surprise! The talking bits took me out sometimes, it felt like an audiobook put to music.

The spoken word stuff is good once but the songs slap!

This is one I am familiar with as it’s among my father in law’s favourites. Very interesting concept album for the time. Some classic Small Faces tunes.

Surprisingly fun and fresh album

Some good tracks on here, but I'm not sure the narration has survived the test of time.

A hippy trippy ride.

How have I never heard of this before, Kevin Parker eat your heart out

Fun little thing. I'll need to listen more closely sometimes.

Rock psicodélico sesentero. En algunas canciones recuerda a los Beatles. Un 4.

Lazy Sunday is so fun and peppy, again better than rolling stones... The first track was such a banger.. I liked this one a lot

Really good. Steve Marriott has a fantastic voice and the interludes from 'Professor' Stanley Unwin were a special treat from the past.

Listened on a hot Wednesday morning and it fits perfectly. Had some fun showing my friends videos of the mods and rockers fights too. I'm glad I got to hear this, had never heard of them before

I was expecting to hear Rod Stewart's voice, but I guess he wasn't in this band. This sounded sort of like the Guess Who and the Kinks. I don't know if any one track stood out, well except for the 19 minute one of course, but that was really several tunes with narration in between, but I kinda liked the whole thing (I could take or leave the narration parts). Good, fun drumming too. I'll definitely give it another listen in the future.

Starting great, towards the end all the little stories at the beginning of every song started to annoy me

Really strong opener and reasonably fun afterwards

Side one... This a very good album, interesting stuff going on here. But personally I'm not really loving much except the title track and Song of a Baker. Side two... This is an album I needed to hear before I die. Fantastic psychedelic tracks. The narrator is an awesome element, but fuck if I could follow what he's talking about (I'm American 🤷‍♂️). But I love it all dearly. I don't understand the divide of the two sides of this album at this point. I'll need to revisit this one some more to get a better understanding. Thank you for the introduction to this band!

Favorite Tracks: Song of a Baker Afterglow Happiness Stan Suite

Pretty interesting album documenting a turning point for British "pop-rock" music. Many psychedelic flourishes on the first side, and a proto-prog rock "conceptual" atmosphere on the second side. Not every song was exactly memorable in terms of the music played on them, though. Few people remember it now, but there was a huge promotional machine behind this LP (plus that whole thing about the off-kilter "package" in which the record was distributed). Hence why said LP might still be a little overrated today... 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential albums", rounded up to 4. Which translates to a 8.5/10 grade for more general purposes. Number of albums left to review: 252 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 326 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 187 (including this one) Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 240

this is SO beatles, so that endeared me to it no end. loved the jaunty wee numbers, v melodic and cohesive. good shit

this is an album i have grown to love over the years. i didn't like it at first - it's one of those albums that people rave about but i think the goofy second half really gets to people, me included. i'm still not a fan of the narrator, but if you can get past him, it truly is a great psychedelic rock album that has some really killer songs and sounds great to this day. high energy, great riffs, just an all around great album. not to mention, the title track into 'afterglow' is a truly killer one-two punch to open an album. the small faces really fit my musical sensibility so this one is definitely up there for me.

Bjarak

ganz cool

3.5/5. Good. This was new to me. Very similar to other brit pop/rock from the time. This has a little psych aspect as well.

Should have listened to this on a Lazy Sunday instead, but that was Long Ago and Worlds Apart.

The first side is amazing. 5 without a doubt. The B side gets grating really fast with the nonsensical narration. All in all a 4.

Coming from an American, this album is the most British psychedelic album I’ve listened to ever since I listened to Rubber Soul. I hadn’t really heard of Small Faces before this, but I did hear that someone made a Broadway show based on their legacy. The songs on this album are a treat from my past listening (mostly had 2000s albums for a couple of days). The thing is that this band seems like an oddity. Not in a Captain Beefheart way, but in a way of their own. Also, it’s kind of weird to have a 19 minute closer. I’m not in the mood for long songs. 4.3/5 Fav: “Afterglow (Of Your Love)” Least Fav: “Happiness Stan”

Wtf man. Cute. British. Alice in Wonderland on drugs. Feels like a record that I will find on some beach with no sign of origin. Weird.

Interesting. Not quite sure what to make of it, but I like it!

Das hat was... Und "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" ist ja recht bekannt!

Folkiest psych rock I've ever heard and it's fun.

"Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" is the third and final studio album by English rock band Small Faces. The music covers a variety of styles including hard rock, pyschedeia, soul-influenced, ballads and music hall. The second side is a concept album involving a fairy tale involving Happiness Stan who goes on a quest to find the other half of the moon. The narration is done by comic performer Stanley Unwin. Believe me, more on this later. Small Faces are Steve Marriott (vocals, guitars, piano, bass), Ronnie Lane (vocals, bass, guitars), Ian McLagan (organ, piano, harpiscord) and Kenney Jones (drums). The album title and packaging design parody the tobacco tinned product, Ogdens' Nut Gone Brown. Commercially, the album hit #1 in the UK. The self-titled instrumental "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" opens the album. A wah-wah piano pedal start. The drums and bass and a pychedelic vibe. A string section comes in. "Afterglow" is a soul-influenced power ballad and a great one at that. Whistling, hand clapping and a more full rock sound. Great vocals by Marriot. This was very Beatles "White Album" and the Who-sounding. They get the rock groove going on "Song of a Baker." Great, massive drumming by Jones. The first single "Lazy Sunday" adds a Cockney accent. A rollicking song that goes in a music hall direction. And we head to side two to meet Happiness Sam in "Happiness Sam." Music begins the song with harpiscord and heavy organ. Folk. The drums are added. The music stops and we are introduced to Happy Sam who wonders why half the moon is missing. So begins his quest. Over the next three songs, musically, we get more rock, the flute, acoustic guitar and pyschedelia. Stan meets a fly who takes him to a person who can answer his his question. Stan used a lot of words and confusion to get us to this point. But, he gets his answer, I think, in meeting Mad John in the song "Mad John." The song is slow rock and was released as a single. From what I could tell, Mad John told Stan that the sun will eventually become whole. The album ends with the stomping rock of "HappyDaysToyTown." The band rocks and jams and goes pyschedelic. A good way to end things. The randomizer was again not so random as I just did a sync listen to this album on Sunday. This is really a album of two sides. The first side was great giving us variety with a big sound. Pyschedelia, hard rock, music hall, a power ballad. And then we have to deal with Stan on the second side. The music was still great similar to side one. Stan can be very annoying. I had trouble following the story even after I knew the story. It is kind of comical, I guess. Overall, the music is terrific which outweighs whatever you may think of Stan.

8/10. This was some pretty charming psychedelia, I can definitely see why these guys never got popular in the US, though.

Cooler alter Rock

High 7. Low 8. The actual music is great. Too much narration idc about in the second half. Great psychedelic rock.

Really picks up starting at Lazy Sunday. Good psychedelic rock.

Brilliant psychedelic rock album. I’ve loved the title track of this album for years but never took the time to listen to the whole record, I was blown away by how good this is. The first half has some great psychedelic rock tracks that feel a little more radio friendly, the second half delves into the theatrical with a lot of monologue, it reminded me of the ‘nadsat’ language in Clockwork Orange. It was fun and full of quirky Britishness, overall a great experience and one I’ll certainly return too.

I'll never complain about some more late 60's psychedelia. I like the dichotomy of the two sides - the first half is lots of rocking psych songs, but then it gets super weird and trippy on the back half with the spoken word bits and wild imagery. Really neat.

It's like Wanna Be Beatles, but they're actually really good. I really liked the story-telling bit, and will probably re-listen to the whole album again.

A weird album for sure. I enjoyed the 60's psychedelia. Everytime the narrator started talking I thought I was listening to Headspace. An enjoyable listen, but not an album I'll revisit.

This was pretty cool. I wasn’t in love with the engineering of the recording but it was conceptually interesting and did a lot that I wasn’t expecting.

Always just assumed this was the GTA V theme and composed originally. So it’s hard to escape those vibes from the start. But that says a lot about the timeless flexibility of music in cinema and entertainment. I wish the recording quality was crisper, though I understand that’s a lot to ask of something recorded 55 years ago. It’s great, otherwise.

All time favorite

4.0

What started out as an interesting surprise, became a solid enjoyable evening with this album.

Amazing psychedelic album, felt like early phase Pink Floyd but different. Would listen again. 4/5