Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Good songs but NMS these days

Orchestra meets Beatles and jam band

Pretty fun but didn't strike me as very novel. Pretty standard 1960s psychedelic rock. Reminded me of 1960s era David Bowie.

I really like a lot of the music on this album, but I didn't love the interludes by the narrator which became quite pervasive.

The fact that I listened to this album 5+ times but never heard it says it all

Very quirky album, but it was good. I enjoyed the little whimsical skits

Classic 'Lazy Sunday.' Full of charm from a different era in the UK. Very good to have listened to this

This album had me a bit at the beginning, and then came the talking parts. I actually like "Song of a Baker", but anything higher than 2 stars would be a travesty

Not a fan of the narration

Great

Diminishing returns after track 4-5.

Really like this 👍

starter med nogle fede nok numre men bliver MEGET irriterende

Ekstremt britisk plade! Fed nok!

Jolly good, sir!

A good album, not an excellent album. Nothing to highlight

I've heard of Small Faces but not super familiar and have never heard this album. Let's dive in shall we? A few songs in, this is exactly what I would imagine an album from 1968 with this cover would sound like. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing but I like it so far. Pretty solid 60s rock. The second half kind of turns into storybook time. Remember back in the day you'd get those little books that told a story of Winnie the Pooh or Snow White or Cinderella that came with a 45 record you would play along while reading? That's basically what side two of this record is. It's pretty weird and not in a good way. It sort of ruined the album for me. 3/5

Favorite Track: Rollin' Over

Joo no tämähän oli ihan jees. Toimistolla todettiin että tällästä brittipopin esiastetta. 3/5

Alkupuoli ihan pätevää brittirockia, loppupuolen satukonseptointi ei ihan yhtä toimivaa. 2.5/5

Energetic and fun

1/2

very interesting psychedelic rock album, has a weird storyline

Wow, this was a lot. It's honestly hard to believe I've never even heard of Small Faces. This is really impressive work!

This was fine, not amazing but nothing terrible (hence why the rating distribution makes a lot of sense to me). I kept thinking this sounded so familiar until I realized I know their song ‘Itchycoo Park’ relatively well. Overall 3/5

I did not like the story aspect of this album. I felt like they just wanted to fill time. This music wasn't bad, but definitely not my favorite. Actual rating...2.5. Liked Songs: "Afterglow" , "Rene" , "Song of a Baker" , "Lazy Sunday" , "Rollin' Over"

liked song: Afterglow Not bad 3

Psychedelic pop weirdness

unfortunately the best snippet of music is the 40 seconds from the GTA trailer. still some good shit in there, i think Afterglow is my favorite actual song. audiobook narrator is fun but not good for jamming out. closing argument: she nut on my flake till im gone

Psychedelic pop? Idk really, but its pretty funky. the hobbit-ass narration that starts halfway through was wild that dude was talking nonsense, mono mixing also whack why is there piano and words in one ear and just bass in the other. Drunk high british dudes in the 60's made some weird shit, just listen to Sgt. Pepper probably. unique name though for sure. 4/10

Rating: 6/10 Never actually heard of Small Faces or this album before but it’s just some pretty solid brits late 60’s psych, and the songs still make for some good pop. The mono mix actually makes for a nice fuzzy sound. Interestingly the back half of the album introduces a narrator who starts to tell a strange story that I don’t really remember, across the tracks with some experimental and diverse sounds.

steely dan meets mr. tumnus 6.8 turkish delights out of 10

It's like a King Gizzard album but from the 60s. Has all the key points of a Peter "Giz" album: spoken word, a fantastical story, psychedelic jam session vibes. Truly a shame I just don't like it. I give it 4 gizzards out of 10 lizard wizards

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

Not a fan really

I didn’t care for this one.

The skits are so fucking stupid. Take them out & it's an easy 5. Like they are seriously annoying. I was desperately looking for a version without the narration cause I genuinely enjoy the music.

Decent tunes probably most famous for GTAV 3/5

Truly pathetic

4/10 - another typical 60s album, nothing to write home about, the short skits in between some of the songs are interesting though

who up flakin they nuts 👀👀👀👀

British okay blues

When I feel sad about the state of culture in 2025, it's helpful to remember that the '60s also had annoying junk that got popular

Definite late-60's rock sound without a strong hook. "Lazy Sunday" is a bit whimsical but doesn't have a lot of repeat play draw for me.

I liked this, and I thought it was good. But the carnival circus stuff didn't do it for me. 3.1

Okay but add it to the other albums that I don't understand why they are on this list

Decent enough in places, but the vocal delivery is irksome. As for Happiness Stan, this is like listening to CBEEBIES, in the bin you go... Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ nope, not a chance Annoying ★★★☆☆ (5/10)

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.

Kinda bad

Very different, not good different though

This is a great document of that post Beatles yardbirds stones movement. Steve Marriott was a great singer. 5 stars.

I’m such a fan of the Small Faces I struggle to be objective. I don’t like the Happiness Stan “theme” do I separate the songs themselves from that stuff. Ronnie and Stevie had hit it in terms of songwriting, the band were at peak form and Stevie just howled. It’s Lazy Sunday that kills the whole thing, wonderfully silly song, which I love, but which drove Stevie nuts and ended the whole thing. Such be a shame, but what a way to go. There were but four Small Faces, enjoy deadbeats.

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.

6/10

Bizarro

This was ok until the narration stuff started on side 2. I saw a few reviews that mention this is like a Monty Python parody of psychedelic rock, and it’s hard to disagree. The only reason I’d come back here is to share the absurdity with someone who’s never heard it… so, in that way, I guess it makes sense that it’s on the list of albums you must hear before you die.

2.8

#742. There is entirely too much exposition happening on this album. 3/5: fine.

The only really memorable bits are the nonsense spoken word sections. Which annoyed me enough to sour my perception of this album

This one’s pretty weird, honestly not a fan. I feel like they tried to do a interesting concept album, I think it just turned out creepy. Two stars.

nice safe travks. Stanley Baldwin is at his best.

I thought I was in for a good listen with that first album. I got tricked. That first track is the only reason this isn’t one star.

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.

Enjoyed this for what it was but Wong be revisiting

Quirky, interesting sound

Not the biggest fan, bit too whacky for me

Cool concept, cheesy at times but solid foundation on British blues, rounding down from a 2.5 due to lack reslistenability.

bom, muito legalzinho

5/10

Never thought I’d say it, but too silly for me

Always found them a bit and miss and although there are some great songs on here, I find the "ditties" in the later half of the album annoying. Reminds me of The Who Sell Out in that regard.

An album with a reputation. Supposed to be fabulous, a real groundbreaking. It was ok, nothing particularly outstanding but worth a 3. But this is a game of two halves, or rather an album of two sides. Now, I'm sorry, but there is no way I can give anyone who is brave (or stupid) enough to devote one side of their album to Professor Stanley Unwin telling a story in gibberish. Punctuated by some brilliant songs. Anything less than a fully warranted 5. Side one was good, side two was stratospheric.

Just plain weird

'Goin' with a stoker from the coast of Kuala Lumpa!' I love this album, it was boight for me as a burthday present by a friend back in 1991, he said knowing you, you'll love it. He wasn't wrong. The first side is the most accessible where all the big songs are; but i love the humoir running through the album, starting with the raucious 'Rene' and onto the 2nd side with Stanley Unwin's peculiar monologues. There is not a bad track and one of my favourte albums from the 1960's.

Very catchy and nice

They have very catchy songs and a good beat

first time hearing this band, and I think I like them!

Nice experience, didn't know before

The story telling was cool. I enjoyed this one

Very fun. Eccentric. Ahead of its time. I think you need a dose of psychedelics to unlock the true potential of this record. I would like to sit down and read the full manuscript of lyrics and spoken word. After listening to it all the way through, I have this strange hard to explain feeling that I enjoyed it more than I should have? 3.4 outta 5

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.

cool and weird and silly at times. then generally tame and almost boring at others. one of the top 1000 albums??? i’m not so sure

Rock + Geschichtenerzähler, 1968 -> 2

Bruh this just ain't it

Great psych tracks on the first side and some kind of loose concept on side 2 that I like very much despite of its narrator. Not mindblowing but really enjoyable

Good ol' psychedelia that never gets insane, but stays equally good all the way.

The Small Faces are a nice band that, without getting incredibly overwhelming, are always delivering good songs and sounds!

Great music, weird interludes

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

I've gathered that the general consensus is that the album starts quite good but gets worse as it goes on and I am very much inclined to go with this. It just got so annoying, especially with the random noises the vocalists were making and that Cockney fucker speaking at the start of songs. I wasn't a fan of the production of it either, but it was 1968 so I'll let it slide. The first couple of tracks were quite good, and that one about the prostitute was some silly fun. After that it just went shite

Forgeten legends of the 60s with great outputs.

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!

Fine

A few songs on here are real gems. Almost wall-of-sound like. There are a ton of real duds, though.

Pretty fun

Loved the psychedelic 60s/70s rock sound. Felt like the narrative elements thrown in were distracting and even annoying. Had it stuck to just the music I'd really have enjoyed it more.

Fun and quirky British band with a child-friendly fun story behind it. Music is 6/10

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

AMAZING!

Pretty experimental stuff from the small faces here

It's... Interesting. 60s British psychedelic rock. Like other reviews, not sure how it landed at the top of the charts. Some of the tracks have some pretty awful mixes. Just wildly unbalanced. The music isn't bad, but it's not something I'll probably go back to . Weak 3.

60/70s jam band. Interesting story telling and some fun, era appropriate licks.

Quite British. Started out sounding ahead of its time and ended up like a rougher Kinks record. Respectable performances and songwriting, and there are some fun ideas, but it didn’t rock my world. The heavier rock songs work for me better than the novelty ones.

Meh

Some decent tunes, but not my cuppa tea. Fav track - Rolling Over

Ogden's Nut tasted a bit fucking weird. I'd rather listen to static, only enjoyable to those who have large red noses, ghostly pale and have size 24 feet

NUT

Terrible mixing, lazy sunday is the most disgusting song made in this country. I refuse to listen to any more

enjoyed this, i cant place where ive heard the opening track before.

You put your left arm in, your left arm out In, out, in, out, you shake it all about You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around That's what it's all about. Whoa-o the Hokey Cokey (x3)

Some decent sections but with the spoken word sections and general sound of the second half it was definitely leaning into aren't we all so quirky pythonesque version of prog/psychedelia. First song was good though and musically when it was a bit more rocky than bouncy I did enjoy it, so another 2.5.

Didn't care for the spoken word sections, but largely enjoyed the rest. Afterglow and Rene were the standouts. Largely inoffensive. Nice and nippy.

Didn't mind the last small faces album we had here, not sure about this one though. Felt a bit twee. The weird speaking throughout was just annoying rather than weird or random or whatever they were going for. I've subsequently realised that small faces became faces, with Rod Stewart, after this album... So we had not actually had a small faces album before, but a faces album. All very confusing. Anyway, my initial review still stands and it actually gives old Rod some credit, as the faces album was way better than this. Lazy Sunday is the highlight but won't be rushing back. 2

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.

meh.. The cover art is more enjoyable than the music.

I'm not massively into prog, at least the era of floaty fantasy prog, but the second half of this album is MUCH better than the first half. I was about ready to give up on it, then the B side comes on and it's much more interesting to listen to. I mean, it's still not great and isn't going to trouble my playlists, but it was a damn sight more pleasant to listen to.

Weird but oddly entertaining.

This feels like a fever dream.

Pretty enjoyable album here. Right up my alley in terms of genre/timeframe and I think I've heard a couple of the songs before. As others have stated, a big difference between the first and second halves of the album. A little too wacky. 6/10 (3/5)

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

Not for me

More of a 2.5/5. First half was fine but second half really droped off. I don't necessarily hate narration as a concept, Terry Allen does it very well, but it really sucks here.

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.

better and less 60's ish' than expected

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

I couldn’t get past the story intros. If they could re record this album without the lead single (Lazy Sunday), delete the story intros and just let the tracks bleed into one another. Then this is would score much higher Gonna have to give this 2/5 though. I can’t abide the silliness

A lot of nonsense with a few flashes of genius

Some of this is very good, but they are trying their hand a few different things and in the back of your head your directly comparing it to bands of the era who are committing to individual elements with more focus and clarity. Do you want a psych album? Music hall? Toytown music? You'll get a little bit of all of that here but not enough of any of it. The narrative structure in the second half sounds like a band who are trying how to make a side B which feels "complete" but it just serves to distract and make the album a little stop start. There's good tracks on here, but its a flawed album.

You know what, this album didn’t annoy me at all, it was perfect for a strange nap, going solid 3 and will return sometime in case it’s weirdly my thing

Fun listen - 4 stars

Okay. I'll be biased this time. Rock opera part is a bit cheesy, but A) standalone songs inlude some of my favourite songs ever, After Glow, Song of a Backer and Lazy Sunday. B) It's the only record on this list which includes Steve Marriott, one of my favourite singer and frontman ever Albums that also should be on the list: HUMBLE PIE - "Perfomance: Rocking The Filmore" and "Rock On" R.I.P. Steve Marriott

Afterglow //

bis uf de allerersti track wo mer sit em erste GTA 5 Trailer i mim Nostalgie-Hirn ihbrännt isch, sind all andere lieder ganz schnell ah mir verbii grasslet und han schlussendlich au gar kei lust gha mich nomal ih das Album inezgeh. Zwei ganz chlini Gsichtsmaske für die ganz chline Gesichter

Isch das 1870 in Irland produziert wurde? Passt grad zu de serie guiness woni am gügsle bin. Ba lustig aber scho keis highlight und oft zu abfucked. Die stimm wo e story verzellt isch aber sick, erinneret mi an wes anderson films

Decent album

Interesting, very Beatles vibes on acid, liked it, didn’t love it. The talking story moments between songs was different.

Couldn't get into this one. "Afterglow" was ok, but nothing else grabbed my attention.

Queriam ser os Pink Floyd mas não correu bem

Classic album. Certainly one that deserves to be on the list. Some great tunes on here and the side two concept narrated by Stanley Unwin was s priceless

Surprisingly fresh old psychedelic album.

La première moitié est pas trop mal mais à partir de Happiness Stan: That's gonna be a no from me.

Niet echt mijn cup of tea. Ook best wel oud. Maar zeker niet slecht..

OK I get why critics love this. And people who lived through the 60s and may still be having acid flashbacks.. But boy is it hard to listen to now. I didn't hate it, but I also won't be putting it on again.

Interesting little concept album from a band I never heard of. Very English with the radio bits. I wouldn't consider it very memorable though, especially compared to something like the Who Sell Out which is pretty similar.

Surprising 4.

This record starts off real strong, then it kinda wobbles a bit, like a child learning to ride a bicycle. A little research and I get what's happening, this was created with vinyl technology in mind, so when you think a concept record as a concept from start to finish, well this one has its fairytale on the B side, and the A side is a regular spin with tracks that display the band's influences and talent. On a CD or digital format, we're hearing a sudden rock opera childrens' story after half the album, and it promises to play until the project finishes. It's hard to swallow the spoken parts on that second half, I think being a UK native might've helped, and maybe it makes sense when you figure it's a literal fairytale. Doesn't aid replay value for me. I'm also not very impressed with the art. Yes, it's the stuff the people into this sound, at that time, consumed, and so it's an odd and playful detail for the original physical copy to come in a tin, but it has jack-shit to do with anything going on in the record. A few decades later, it's only confusing. Conceptually it feels like there's information missing. There's a few cool songs though. Nothing I'm rushing to add to a playlist. 2.6/5

# 556 : Ogdens Nut Gone Flake Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake – Psychedelic Nonsense in a Tin Can This album kicks off with a decent instrumental and follows up with “Afterglow (Of Your Love),” which is actually great. The rest? Silly, catchy, and occasionally charming—but not something you’d rush to add to your regular rotation. It’s like a psychedelic carnival ride that’s fun for a few minutes, then starts to feel like a headache in paisley. The singer’s pretty good, and “Lazy Sunday” is the standout track—quirky, memorable, and the closest thing to a reason this album made the list. But overall, it’s more nut than flake. Verdict: Three stars for effort, but still not essential. File under “fun once, forgettable forever.” If you have to listen to this, look out for: Lazy Sunday Listened: 28/08/2025

Better by reputation than example by a group that proves it is more of a singles band.

This has that flavor of late 60's experimentalism that I come to expect from rock groups especially on this list. It's not bad, and I didn't mind the spoken interludes as much as I usually do, but this is more interesting as a history of the network of artists in the UK scene that this group would work with, like Rod Stewart, the Who, Humble Pie, and Foreigner. It is interesting seeing the number of musicians that move between multiple bands in that era. It seems like there's occasional modest success recently, like the Postal Service, Boygenius, Angels and Airwaves, and, probably most successfully, the Foo Fighters, but it's rare for a group to end and the members move on to different projects that are successful in their own right.

6/10

Not good

It was okay I guess

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.

Really pleasant surprise. I am not into psychedelic / prog typically but I think this was an early effort and I can totally get behind the vocal storytelling piece towards the end.

This was a fun album. I see how they could have been a rising rival to the Beatles/Stones in England.

Another fine album. Nothing special.

It's more like a story being told. Literally.

Den kan jeg rigtigt godt lide!

pass

Song 2 is quit beautiful. The mix here is kind of crazy. 3 is nice as well 4 not very clear to me. Not silly enough to be funny and not interesting enough to be musicly good. Sorry. 5 better. A nice rock song. I liked Lazy Sunday a lot! A very effective little weird one. The happiness sun suite has many beautiful moments in my opinion. It's a weird thing because I wasn't mad while it was on but I'm a bit happy that it's over. I wanted to like this one more But i can't give it more than a

I believe I have a fairly high tolerance for zaniness in music but this one challenged me. When I'm listening to Unwin on the "Happiness Stan" side I feel like I've had a stroke. Highlight: Before things get out of hand there's "Afterglow," which is a total banger.

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.

I felt like I was meandering along with a totally fine but forgettable to me album when Happiness Stan came along and opened up a whole new portal of fun!

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

Oh, what a delight this album is. The Small Faces— often unsung, when the great British rock acts of the 60s are mentioned. In "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" the Small Faces created an album that is unmistakably a product of its era. This is both its greatest asset and, perhaps, its slight flaw. Frequently hailed as a “psychedelic tour de force,” the record, in my view, is just as deeply rooted in the whimsical humour of British music halls and theatrical variety—a tradition that later found a home on BBC Radio and influenced the Small Faces and many of the other British acts of the time. In every sense, this is a wonderfully and unapologetically British collection of songs. The album’s first side demonstrates the Small Faces’ considerable abilities as songwriters and arrangers, revealing their pop and rock sensibilities, the peak of which is probably "Lazy Sunday". The second side of the album embarks on a more adventurous path, built around the fanciful tale of Happiness Stan. Here, narrative and theatrical flair take centre stage, the story stitched together by the surreal narration of Stanley Unwin. "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" radiates a charm, showcasing the exceptional talents of Steve Marriott, Ian McLagan, Kenny Jones, and Ronnie Lane. Marriott has two distinct voices on this album, - the Cockney on "Rene" and "Lazy Sunday," and the soul singer on "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" and "Song of a Baker". Notably, "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" stands as their final album before the band dissolved, soon to be reborn as "The Faces" with Steve Marriott forming Humble Pie with Peter Frampton. What a way to go out! This is an album meant to be listened to with care, picking out the intricate arrangements and stellar production. It is, quite simply, a milestone in British rock—nearly flawless in its execution. For me, it easily earns five stars. Note: From side two, starting with track seven, the songs are introduced and interspersed with snippets by Professor Stanley Unwin, a British comic actor of the 1960s who invented the nonsensical language “Unwinese.” The effect is eccentrically British and very surreal. Look him up on YouTube. Would I listen to this album again? Yes! I played it again straight after listening to it... twice more 😊. Would I buy this album again? Yes, I did. The deluxe CD version has the original Mono mix. It's interesting to compare the mono mix with the stereo mix. Side one 1- "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" - A fabulous instrumental introduction. The throbbing bass line and excellent drum fills really shine. - 5.00 2- "Afterglow" - A soaring vocal from Steve Marriott, “Afterglow (Of Your Love)” . This shows its British R&B roots. - 5.00 3- "Long Agos and Worlds Apart" - A whimsical transition, highlighting Ian McLagan’s keyboards. - 5.00 4- "Rene" - Oh this is just wonderful. “Rene” introduces the album’s famed concept—the story of Happiness Stan, beginning with a slice of London life set in a music hall atmosphere. Marriott is singing in two other voices to previous tracks. Very much London accents. - 5.00 5- "Song of a Baker" - What a great song. “Song of a Baker” is a bluesy, hard-edged song, set against muscular guitar riffs and pounding drums. Kenney Jones’s percussion is particularly ferocious, driving the song forward with a great energy. - 5.00 6- "Lazy Sunday" This is how songs should be written. Probably, the most famous song on the record, “Lazy Sunday” is a cockney knees-up. Joyous. An irreverent celebration of everyday life. Marriott’s exaggerated vocal inflections and the band’s singalong choruses evoke a pub full of boozed up revellers. The production is brilliant containing birdsong, laughter, and odd sound effects that mesh with the rhythm and piano. It's a classic. - 5.00 Side two (titled "Happiness Stan") 1- "Happiness Stan" - Ah the introduction of Professor Stanley Unwin. - 5.00 2- "Rollin' Over" - One of the album’s rockier numbers. - 5.00 3- "The Hungry Intruder" - A gentle tune that introduces a cast of fantastical characters encountered by Stan. It’s a moment of respite, with acoustic guitar and delicate harmonies painting a scene of rural tranquility. It's a song that is whimsical and childlike, yet tinged with a subtle melancholy. - 5.00 4- "The Journey" - 3.00 5- "Mad John" - 4.00 6- "HappyDaysToyTown" - A romp that wraps up Stan’s journey in exuberant fashion. Absurdly wonderful. - 5.00 Total - 57.00 Average - 4.75

Someone said this was like the Beatles x Monty Python. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It was fine. More interesting than a lot of the albums on here.

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

Wird Psychedelic Rock with lots of narration and some okaish instrumental parts.

I'm not sure why this album is in this list, because apart from their hit single, "Lazy Sunday", this album doesn't seem to have much to commend it. The whole of side two of the original vinyl album was taken up with a fairy tale concept entitled "Happiness Stan" comprising a suite of six songs interlinked with narration provided by comic Stanley Unwin, but it's nothing special in my view.

Solid rock. Easy listening, but you can listen to it forever.

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 😀

It’s ok I guess

Not too shabby

Helluva album name

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?

A strange mixture of trippy and attempts at comedy. Large sections like an unfunny Monty Python sketch put to music. Odd without being interesting.

Odens nuts was briefed as being crazy. Not sure whats wrong with me but aside from a few suspect British accents I found it quite "normal" Rene - Guitair work was brilliant. Went on for ages at the end to my advantage. Lazy sunday afternoon is a well known song and to me the worst actually though I dont mind it. More pop intervention with the added sillyness that I dont need. The sillyness does indeed continue for odd bursts but if you ignore that quite a lot to like for me. Without Lazy Sunday Afternoon and the stupid voice overs I would happily give this a 4.

This album felt like doing drugs and then watching children's television. Although there were some pretty cool sixties psychedelic rock elements when it got going, musically I didn't bring anything that I hadn't heard before. The USP of this album seems to be in it's weird, whimsical concept which at points I found quite cringeworthy and annoying.

Take off Stanley Unwin and the stupid cockney accents and this could be a four, but it's just OK

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

This was surprisingly good, I expected it to be of the same calibre of a lot of the other 60s psyche slop that this generator likes to serve up every so often. There's some great songs here though, mainly in the first half, and it's well produced. The second side gets a bit weird though. I found the nonsensical voiceover funny at first, but was sick of it by the end.

Excelente disco de una banda que desconocía por completo.

Great sound

I have to agree with the other reviewers who say that this is an annoying album. The spoken-word fairytale of the second half and the psychadelic imagery of the story and also the later lyrics remind me of Gong, who I hate. This kind of inspired-while-high music is often incoherent and impossible to follow. If it wernty toldlio in this annoy-noy stylee it would-o be much much more more bettererer. If you have to be high to get much out of it, then it's probably not worth listening to. I would rather be listening to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band or early Pink Floyd than this again. Three stars for the A-side, zero stars for the B-side.

Ugh. The first half was okay, but the fairy tale on side B was just too much.

Lejos de los grandes; Beatles, Rolling, Who, Kinks..

Pretty silly. Ambitious with some nice moments but doesn’t totally work. Pretty fun rock/family tree on the wiki. Probably 2 but going 3 because they were trying something and for the few highlights.

1968 craziness. The beginning of this album (album title track) sounds like it could’ve been the child of more modern rock group like Tame Impala (minus the extra strings). The rest of the album follows the late 60s brit rock scene. Nothing wrong with that. Its made more interesting with the somewhat cohesive stories.

Pretty fun at times - enjoyed the front half of this album. Back half of the album was just a little too silly and not super listenable.

Pretty good.

1.5 favs: - song of a baker

Terrible

Wholesome and strange. Great musicians. A little bit “old-timey” but I think that’s the bit. Enjoyable psychedelic pop. Small Faces are always a favorite so a bit of bias for the Mods

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.

This is the 183rd album I’m rating. I have absolutely no idea what either of these names are. Adding to my Playlist - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Afterglow, Long Agos and Worlds Apart, Rene, Song of a Baker, Lazy Sunday, Happiness Stan, Rollin' Over, The Hungry Intruder, The Journey, Mad John, and HappyDaysToyTown. Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Mad John - That transition will be kinda funny when I add it to my playlist. All in all I liked 12/12 songs. Generic British psychedelia but I love it. Psychedelia just sounds too good.

They have the makings of a good album.

A mediocre version of all the better music that was out at that time. Moments that were good, but easily overlooked.

Storytelling interludes between jam band-y psychedelia.

Bastante correcto. Otro álbum psicodélico más durante el fin de la década de los 60. Lo Interesante aquí es la mezcla de ese sonido con elementos del blues británico, que lo hace bastante diferente. Además, pierde algo de fuelle hacia el final. 3'5/5

Ça y est. J’étais naïf de penser que les dieux du générateur m’offraient un cadeau en me générant sept albums 5 étoiles en un mois. Non, maintenant je vois clair en leur jeu… C’ÉTAIT UN TEST! Évidemment qu’ils savent; j’ai déjà révélé à Cyril qu’Ogens’ Nut Gone Flake était possiblement mon album préféré. Je dis «possiblement» parce que je n’ai pas réécouté l’album en son ensemble depuis que j’ai commencé cette aventure. Bien qu’on aille eu beaucoup de marde auditive, il y a eu aussi beaucoup de poids lourds dernièrement, et mes goûts musicaux ont (j’espère) un peu évolués et maturés. Ça me stress de lancer l’écoute, de peur que ça ne soit pas aussi bon que dans le temps! Bon, c’est assez de préambule, lance le disque, Morris! [🎵Montage d’écoute en accéléré avec moi qui jouis fort et sans retenu🎶] Ok, c’est encore d’la bombe, les gars. J’ai été replongé en 2021 dès les première notes de la title tracks. Chaque tounes est impeccables; tous de la bonne longueur, les riff de guit sont accrocheur, les basslines sont simples mais GROOVY et le drummeur hésite pas à péter la gueule à son drum lors des fills. Il y a aussi pas mal d’experimentation en studio sous forme de montage sonore, harmonie a cappella et des bons passages de proto synthétiseur, qui viennent enrichir énormément des tounes plutôt pop. Et ont est même pas rendu au bon bout! Vraiment, Sgt Pepper peut aller se rhabiller! Effectivement, même si le side A offre du lourd niveau accrocheur (title track, Song of a Baker, Afterglow…) la magie opère lors du flip de vinyle (que je peux pas faire, j’ai ni le vinyle, ni table tournante). L’album se transforme alors en conte de fée totalement lunaire (get it?) avec un narrateur avec trois fois trop d’accent british, donnant une vibe Monty Pythonnesque à une fable musicale où la frontière entre fantasy et trip de LSD est très, très mince. On pourrait s’attendre à ce que le switch artistique dérange ou que cet étrange medley n’aille pas sa place sur cet album, mais c’est bien tout l’inverse; t’as vraiment l’impression que tout le side A converge vers le side B, à moins que tout soit dans ma tête. Btw, j’ai été surpris de constater que j’ai garder en mémoire tout, des paroles aux effets sonores, en passant par le petit artéfacts dans la voix du narrateur au début de The Journey. Cet album est engravé dans mon cerveau, depuis le début JE suis le vinyle! (Autre btw, écouter la version stereo remastered 2018, le mix slap.) Donc, je pense qu’Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake est pas le meilleur album de tout les temps, mais il est certainement mon préféré. Tant de joie et de frivolité encapsulé en un petit 38 minutes! C’est vraiment mon petit monde à moi, rempli de confort et de nostalgie d’un monde qui n’existe pas. C’est trop précieux pour choisir un autre album, en plus j’ai l’air d’un vrai hipster prétentieux quand on me demande quel est mon album préféré! Ok, c’est assez de paragraphe de même, voici les sages mots de la fin: Ogdeez Nuts!

слишком много разговоров, а в промежутке что-то обычное и поэтому не отложилось

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

It bored me a lot. There are many more albums on this list sounding like this.

I must've just been in the wrong place but I couldn't latch onto this at all. Very well could've been me today but I can't remember a thing after I finished listening.

Seems like very standard 1960s sound. A very British 1960s sound. I like something about Lazy Sunday. Not so sure that this needs to be on the list.

It started off reasonably well. Not great, but not bad either. It started going off the rails with Rene. I have no idea what was going on with side 2. Side 1 - 2.5 Side 2 - 1.25

I guess it’s 60s week. Weird second half!

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

'Meh - and I hate albums on which people talk. If you're doing radio theater, I'll pass.

Stan and his fly, WTF? Good first half of psychedelia, not sure the second half attempt at a concept landed

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.

What in the Bri-ish? I have no clue what happened on the second side of this record but I'll give this one points for ambition. What I realize about the psychedelic era of rock and roll was that some bands did it right and others tried but couldn't quite catch a lucky Sgt Pepper. A few songs catch my ear but the listen goes by with a small "hmm, ok". Quite the adventurous record that I don't plan to return to. Glad I heard it though. (5/10, 3/5 on this scale) (Update: It's a 2 now since I don't think a rather amusing yet confusing British story concept thing should raise up the music so high. The songs aren't so impressive months later)

Mérite certainement une écoute pour l'effort... mais ça serait pas trop grave que ça tombe dans l'oubli. Dans l'genre n'importe quoi, ça excelle. Ça sonne crotté rare.

I didn't not enjoy this album. It's very odd and tonally all over the place. I don't think I liked enough to return to it, but it was a fun listen.

I wasn't expecting to like this album when I saw that it was the selection for today. It seemed like I was going to be wrong once I heard that first song. Nope. I wasn't. Too many parts remind me of bands I don’t like. Too many annoying taliking intro/outros.

Weird vibes, but not the worst concept album on here. Mostly faded to the background.

Completely meh

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

Psykedelisk, lekent og godt fremført (og proto-progy). What's not to like?

a wacky kooky quirky psychedelic british band? from the 60s? revolutionary

What is this?

The deliberately contrived cheeky Cockney vocal stylings grate a little bit (“…lazy Sunday afternoon-ah…”), especially when compared to the more grandiose style elsewhere. Musically and creatively, it’s really interesting but it gets at least a point knocked off for the Stanley Unwin interludes and the aforementioned London-boy vocals.

Geinig

I genuinely believe the world would be a better place if “The Hungry Intruder” didn’t exist.

A fun band, just not for me. Sounded like a Beatles cover band trying to throw in their own tunes and thinking you wouldn’t notice.

A weird little record. Seems like a Psychedelic Concept album. Was fun and I could see myself going back for a listen and getting more into it. Some of the surrounding hoopla probably earned this record its place here.

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

2.3 First half was about a 3*, second half was 1.5*. First half was just another generic psychadelic pop 60s album. Second was some absolute nonsensical shite. Don't need a children's novel-esque read over thank you.

The opening track, the title track.. is an epic instrumental... and it kicks off this psychedelic masterpiece quite well... "Afterglow" shows Steve Marriott at his vocal best... "Long Ago and Worlds Apart" is great one, featuring the keys man, Ian McLagan... the rest of side one is just as strong, and "Lazy Sunday" is bad ass... Side Two is a six song cycle about "Happiness Stan"... Narrated by Professor Stanley Unwin... about recovering the "lost half of the moon"... um... talk about psychedelic lol... "Rollin' Over" is a RnR bad ass workout... "The Journey" really shows off Ronnie Lane's playing... this is just a great record... and a great example of a concept album with great playing, singing, writing, etc... if you are British... this is Five stars... if you are from anywhere else... Four strong ones... I'm not British but, Five for me... xoxo

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

5/5. I love this record, it's been a favorite of mine since I found out about it in high school. The second side is silly and dumb but that's exactly why I love it. The first side is full of excellent songs, some still silly, and the instrumentation throughout is peak, with excellent drums at the forefront. I honestly don't understand how you cannot find this album no fun, it's wholesome and silly and just really dumb while still having some killer tracks on the first half and throughout the story on the second side. This is the definition of boys will be boys and just having a good time. Best Song: Happiness Stan (the whole suite if that counts), (if not) Rollin' Over, Afterglow, Rene

The album starts off with some really enjoyable psychedelic rock. Midway through, it shifts into a more experimental, story-driven direction that doesn’t quite land for me.

“Lazy Sunday” is a banger, album incorporates a lot of story telling aswell which is cool but not as much my style. 2.5/5

Too much talking for me :/

Nothing remarkable. Found voice annoying

tarinamies pitkässä epiikissä en tykkää!

It's quite an adventurous and typical late sixties album, full of quirky, stoned humour. The songs are catchy knees up mother acid, often done for affect in a singalong cockney style with great vocals by Steve Marriott (one of the great white soul singers of the era) and groovy instrumental work from the band. The actual songs are sometimes frustratingly short, with large chunks of lengthy instrumental passages. On side two the narration (by Stanley Unwin) is nice on the first listen, but rather irksome on repeated plays - there is a nagging feeling that you just want the band to get on with playing the tunes. It's not perfect, but it is a great artefact from the era and taken on its own terms a bit of a classic. And the round tobacco tin cover is inspired.

This was a weird journey through, well I’m not quite sure. There were some interesting bits, some strange bits, silly bits, cockneys and Lazy Sunday. Don’t think I’ll listen again but glad to have listened through this time

Cockneys on acid whats not to enjoy!

Well that was interesting, but not in a good way. The contrived weirdness just got progressively more annoying.ans completely overshadowed the musical content

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.

The first half is pretty cool; late ‘60’s psychadelia… but then it gets weird. The songs are okay, but the Bri’ish vignettes in between the songs are a bit strange. I can see why they didn’t hit in America, but TOTALLY see why they did well in the UK.

Just a lame album. Poor production, overshadowed musicianship by like everyone else in this era, and nothing really memorable over its quick 19 minute A side. The B side is a concept long track that I was over before it even started. Afterglow (Of Your Love) is an ok somg, even if it starts poorly, so it's going on my playlist from this album.

Great stuff boys!

J - 2/5 Best Track - "Lazy Sunday" F - DNL

First half enjoyable psychedelia; second half narration kills the momentum but the zaniness kept me listening.

this is odd but I don't hate it

Some really good heavy psychedelic riffs here with strange skits interspersed. Reminds me of gangsta rap skits but British haha. I don’t mind it and not am in the mood for more psychedelic music.

I feel let down by this album. I liked the music on the first side. It was fun 60s psychedila. I'd definitely listen to these songs again. However, the second half of the album is riddled with stupid little spoken word parts, even more annoyingly, they're part of the songs, not seperate tracks so you can't skip them. They really put me off listening to this album again, so I can't give it more than a three, without them it would have been a solid four.

This is a solid album, with the most obvious flaw being the English-accent gibberish bookending some of the tracks. Spoken interludes are bad enough in albums as it is, but having them be unintelligible and meaningless just makes the band come across as unprofessional. The singing isn't particularly good either, though to be fair it outshines most punk and Britpop on the list. I have to imagine this only hit #1 in the UK album charts because of the post-Summer of Love haze and the subsequent adoration for anything that was both British and weird. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother is another UK chart-topper (released in 1970) that takes a similar approach, but with less gibberish and more of a prog-rock talent showcase. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is just... odd. But a good kind of odd. When you get to the actual music, it's pretty great – especially if you tune out the vocals. (Because of the oversampling of punk music in this list, I've gotten pretty good at that.) Distorted guitars playing great riffs, good drums and drum fills, a solid bass part, and a host of strong 2-minute compositions. Lazy Sunday should've been the opening track, but the instrumental title track is also perfectly fine. Rollin' Over has one of those great riffs and grooves I'm talking about. There isn't a single "bad" track (though some come close!). 3/5 Key tracks: Afterglow (Of Your Love), Lazy Sunday, Rollin' Over

Forgettable late 60s guitar music. Maybe if I liked concept albums, this would be good, but I’m not convinced.

I enjoyed this charming slice of concept psychedelia. It’s very polite and it’s very English but it’s got some catchy tunes that don’t intimidate the listener.

Really didn’t appreciate this. Not cool. 2/5

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

Populode of the Musicolly

Oh dearie-me, what a confusilode of the earflap, this Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake. Pop the roundy-tin and what spill-forth? First, a jumble-bumble of songy-wongs, all cockney-doodle and organ-wobble, but the senses soon go wibble-wobble, for the tunes, they twist and turn like a lost tram in Clapham. Then, oh calamity, side two! Enter Unwin—yes, yours truly, but even my Unwinese can’t save this fairy-tale fumble. “Happiness Stan” sets off on a moon-missing quest, but the story’s all higgledy-piggledy, and my narratold interludicals? More crimp than crisp, more muddle than mirth. The band’s jubbly playing gets lost in the gobbledegook, and the whole concept collapses in a heap of “What the what?” befuddlement. In summatotal: two stars, for the roundy-tin and the brave attempt, but this is a nutty-flake best left in the biscuit barrel, not on the turntable. Deep sigh, not deep joy.

Front half of the album is a fine pseudo psych album, but back half is a fine almost prog rock album. All in all, it's a fine record

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

Love this record

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.

4 or 5. I was a fan of the second half of the album / side 2. The strange fable worked for me

Twee BS

I should love this. The players are great. The sound is great. The songs aren't bad. I love a B-team British rock band that never invaded the US. Great cover! But the record has never adhered to me. This is one of those rambly albums that was probably a more fun to make than listen to.

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.

I don't think Small Faces are particularly well-known here in the US. But in the 90s I had fallen in with Mod revivalists, and those kids LOVED this band. I can see how Ogden's is the more interesting record, but their self-titled LP is more fun to me.

I understand this band is associated with Rod Stewart. That is not enough to elevate this ho-hum 1960s pop record. I'm deducting more points for the interminable spoken intros on side 2. Should not be on the list.

Another bonus star for having great album cover art. I love the opening track. Psychedelic fuzz. And I think that's the pattern for the rest of the album for me. I really like the electric/psych tracks. The more folky/corny tracks, not so much.

Being a Humble Pie fan I always felt that I could get into the Small Faces if I'd just devote the time to checking them out. Something tells me that this wouldn't be the album to start with. I could go for a couple of the tracks but by and large this one is just too weird for me.

A blend of psychedelia that has a little more variety to it than a lot of its contemporaries. This one was pretty interesting.

The Venn Diagram of American popular music and British popular music certainly crosses over expansively. But not in this case. Signed, a very confused American how this band ever was so popular across the pond.

I wish I had heard this when it came out. Definitely an album of its era. Not sure it’s stood the test of time as well as some others from this period but an amusing listen nonetheless.

Obsolete...

A lot of weird talking and musical choices. Reminded me more of a Monty Python album than a real band. Not sure if I believe Spotify when they say this band rivalled the Stones and the Who.

Some neat songs and lot of potential to be a regular good 60s album but so so much weird shit going on

Was ok until they started talking at the end of every track. If this list is going to feed me crappy music, please at least let it be music I can zone out with while I do something else. Can’t do that with the talking

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!

Falls in line with 60's brit rock. Some sort of concept album which has ole boy telling a story throughout the album, as in just speaking, not with music. So you get to hear a lot of a british accent talking which to me sounds like nails on a chalk board. Unremarkable album.

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.

This whole album sounds like I was listening to it, underwater after taking a bunch of acid and I like it. Some cool grooves throughout.

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.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

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.

Meh. We British are odd. First half ok then becomes a simpsons britain sketch

Not the worst of the warehouse worth of wacky sixties shit I’ve heard on this list.

It's fine, not amazing, not terrible.

This wasn't objectively bad, but I can't say I enjoyed listening to it. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today, but this did nothing for me. 2.1

Brit rock? I hardly even know her!

Ни хорошо, ни плохо, иногда странно