Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

I have never heard of this band before so I am excited to listen to this. The album is two hours long though so I will only be listening to the first disc. Track 1 has elements that remind me of electronica, along with some that remind me of prog rock. I think this will be an interesting album. After looking up the band, I see that this band later forms into the Faces, with Rod Stewart who's album I listened to earlier this month. I like track 2 a lot, it seems like a very romantic song. I like track 4 a lot, it sounds kind of similar to Oasis in the group sung melodies. Honestly, I am feeling a little bored with this album. The last four tracks are the least listened to on the album, so I am half convinced to not even bother listening to them. I think I have pretty much made up my mind about this being a two star album anyway.

What the hell did I just listen to? The first half was ok, but the weird spoken word bits on the second half totally ruined the vibe

It's a fun album. Gave me off-brand Beatles.

????? Why ????? What makes this an album I must listen to? If you like it fine, but this is far from a must listen. Another 2.

Favorite songs: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Afterglow (Of Your Love) Happiness Stan needs the spoken word interludes cut. The deluxe version of the album divides Happiness Stan into individual tracks, which makes it easier to skip the spoken parts.

No. 76 Silly at times but pretty catchy. Definitely not something I would have searched out on my own.

Didn't care for it. Sounds like a muppets song compilation

Not everyone has a concept album in them. I always heard that this was a great album and I like the Small Faces but this was far too music hall for me.

Homegrown British culture does not have a lot to recommend it.

I am so tired of british people

Just the band’s name and the album title alone … yep, this sucks.

The Album isn't for me. Songs are ok, but nothing special. And the spoken word bits are really annoying. Fav: Lazy Sunday

Starts off bad then continues to get worse.

I have listened to this album way more times than I should. Sometimes I think that maybe there's something in there for me to like or that can grow over time, but there isn't. This thing sounds like a way more British version of 'The Beatles' but with bad production and more generic. It still is psychedelic pop, so there are a handful of moments that I think were decent, but in general, there's nothing interesting. Also, the second half is supposed to be a concept composition, telling the story of a man searching for the moon, but there's one big problem. It has an incredibly obnoxious narrator telling the tale in a very quirky way, and it won't shut up... I begged him to do so like if it could work. So yes, this was quite bad.

This all got a bit strange and lost me along the way.

Is it possible to give a negative one-star for the second half of the album? The first couple of songs, which contain some really solid work, save this from dreaded one-star territory. But this album faded faster than an older Mike Tyson.

Pretty decent “60’s psychedelic rock but obnoxious elements like random bird sounds, songs that fade out then fade back in, and ultimately the ridiculous storytelling in “Happiness Stan” knock this down to 2-stars

I swear I've heard this exact sound from 5 other bands on this list, just this one has a narrator with an extremely thick accent. Really all I thought during the runtime of the album was "that guy has a funny voice" and "I'd really rather be listening to The Who right now." I would love to listen to a whole audiobook of the spoken word parts extended really far, though. The funny part is that I have absolutely no idea what he's saying half the time, his voice just sounds neat. That being said, the music itself is completely unnoteworthy. Sounds like every other psych rock band from the late 60s.

competent playing, but the vocals and songwriting arent all too inspiring

2.5

Sånn passe, litt for britisk

Not for me

😐

Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (as the title implies) is a flakey experience. Side A is silly mod rock with Lazy Sunday being the top song, followed by the title cut. Side B (the better of the two) is a strange combination of psychedelic rock and spoken word telling a weird story is Stan and a fly. Never heard any of these songs on the radio, so it was all new to me even though it’s from nearly 60 years ago. (2.2*s) Makes the 1001 Must Hear List for weirdness.

Few good tracks and a lot of nonsense

As a fan of progressive rock, I was hoping this would be my jam, but alas it was not. The music is wacky, verging very closely to the novelty album, which I am not sure I would include on a list like this. Not great, not bad. Just sort meh.

Decent songs but the interludes were not good...

nuda

Meh. This didn’t make an impact on me.

The beginning was ok, I guess. Then it just got goofy.

2.5

Decent 2,5

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

starter med nogle fede nok numre men bliver MEGET irriterende

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

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"

Psychedelic pop weirdness

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

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.

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

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

Kinda bad

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

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.

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.

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.

5/10

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

The story telling was cool. I enjoyed this one

Rock + Geschichtenerzähler, 1968 -> 2

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

Fine

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

Meh

NUT

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Queriam ser os Pink Floyd mas não correu bem

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

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.

Not good

It was okay I guess

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

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'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.

It’s ok I guess

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

'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

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)

What is this?

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.

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.

Nothing remarkable. Found voice annoying

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

"Layyyzy Sundaayy Arfternoon, I am a professional cockney". Yeah, very irritating indeed. I actually quite wanted to like this, based on them being a bit of a band from my childhood, and the fact that the album title is enjoyably crackers. But really, it's the worst of English music at this time in a way, very smug, and offering little by way of introspection, depth or any other hallmarks that the better bands were doing at this time.

Blah

Just a very strange album, not my taste at all!

Hard to describe, but I felt more annoyed than anything by the end of it.

Didn't hate it but in no rush to listen again.

Of all the amazing music that came out of this era this album is below par

Tastes and smells like not as good Beatles with what sounds like the audiobook for The Hobbit thrown in.

1.5/what is so special about this one dawg

Absolutely bonkers - proper old school english experimental madness. Love it in very small quantities.

Odd and never really got to good.

Ogden's Nuts is one of the albums where a song appears that's decent and catches your ears, so you perk em up, listen a bit more, go through 3 mid songs, forget about the album, only for another decent song to appear. Rinse and repeat. ⭐⭐1/2

Nice surprise to hear the opening song the same as the GTAV trailer but all else was not that great; generic late 60s psych rock which I'm not too particularly fond of. Somehow got worse as it went on. 4/10.

"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" by the Small Faces begins with an interesting jam-like instrumental introduction. Subsequently, the music and style of the band could have inspired the film Spinal Tap (and that is not a compliment). While the album features several intriguing hooks and shows competent musicianship, it ultimately lacks any memorable or spectacular moments. I give them credit for attempting to produce a concept album, even if it does not really hit the mark. This album will be added to the collection of ones I will not revisit.

Barely two stars. That second side is an abomination.

The first thing I noticed: The instruments' placement in the stereo mix is strange, to say the least. And it got worse from there. 2/5

☀︎j’aime pas Afterglow, Rene, Happiness Stan (ça sonne trop British), The Journey (me fait peur) ☀︎ça devait être bon pour les années 60, mais maintenant c’est rien de très spécial, et même un peu ennuyeux selon moi ☀︎j’aime pas comment ça sonne dans mes oreilles, genre que des fois y’a juste plus rien dans l’oreille gauche. non je pense pas que c’était un problème d’écouteurs ☀︎british </3 beurk

Strange, but not in a good way. 2/5

what a shame that this was their only concept album, they certainly had a very "interesting" take on the idea

Nope, not for me. It just sounds like old hippy rock, I don’t know why this is special.

The redeeming quality of this album is how whimsical and silly it gets in its second half. As memorable as the narrated sequences were, it’s still something of a gimmick that only took the record so far. “Rene” was an early peak into how goofy everything would eventually get. Shoutout to the drum full at 1:08 in “Rollin Over” I feel like I’ve heard that as a sample a lot of times. The closing “HappyDaysToyTown” is the best song on here, for how it goes for the full-on parlor chant anthem. Even though I had a lot of fun sitting with this project, I don’t think it deserves a spot on here, nothing about the music itself is unique or exceptional

Okay, boomer. Ain't nobody got time for this!

The Happiness Stan story on side 2 is unique and mildly intriguing, but doing a concept album on only the second half of the album is weird. And had I not read about it first, I’m not sure I would have understood what it was? These faces were small, but later they became full-sized (I assume?) Faces. Well, yeah, Rod Stewart has a pretty large face (sorry, Rod), so adding him to the lineup you’d have to drop the small bit.

Huh, that was weird. Kind of like when my youngest used to make up songs filled with nonsensical words. Maybe she was speaking “Unwinese”.

OK on the execution but my goodness the last song infuriated me several times because it sounded like it was over and then kept going and going and going and going and going and going and …

Nut Gone(a) listen to this one again

Day452 - i’m getting a bit worn out on all these weird sixties british rock albums. i like what came out of the small faces just not them together

I'm loathe to give it a middle of the road three. It doesn't deserve that. It deserves something either below or above - cos this is anything but run of the mill. I find it quite a confused attempt at a concept album - Marriott was gravitating to blues rock and the pull here is clear, but he's still trapped in psychedelia. It's crackers. Maybe one day the haphazard charm will dawn on me but for now, not. Except for the cockney knees up numbers which Marriott didn't really like, but are the easy standouts.

2.5 stars, it wasn’t bad, it was totally fine. But nothing memorable for me.

Kinda cool, pretty mid tho

This was weird, but somehow I recognized some songs?

This sounds like a parody of a 60’d Brit rock album.

Why, why. Half your album is the last talky song. Should not be on this list.

Talking can be useful in songs or an album but it wasn’t here

opening track was good & I felt optimistic about rest of album.... then the weird spoken word/story started....and continued through rest of album. shame since the music was ok

Annoying, neurotic, quirky, boring, unrelentingly British

60s rock and concept albums, man... Why? The band would go on a near 10 year hiatus after this so it doesn't really bode well, does it? So this led to 3/4 of the band joining Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood for some seriously dirty rock and roll via the Faces band, so not all bad.

I am forever changed.

The first half of this I thought was pretty good. The second half is such absolute shite that I can’t even consider giving this album above a 2. Concept albums aren’t for everyone guys and that’s ok. Favorites were Afterglow, Song Of A Baker, and Lazy Sunday.

As a big fan of psychedelic rock, I thought I'd be all over Ogden's Nut Gone Flake—but nah. This one just didn’t hit for me. The concept is weird in a not-fun way, and the whole thing felt more gimmicky than groovy. That spoken-word fairy tale stuff in the second half? Borderline unbearable. I get that the Small Faces were trying something different here, but it didn’t land. It has a few cool musical moments, but most of the time I felt like I was waiting for it to be over. One of the few psychedelic rock albums I don’t see myself revisiting.

Weird at times. Mediocre Brit rock at best.

The parts where they actually played music were ok.

++: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Rene, Lazy Sunday, Rollin' Over +: Afterglow, Long Agos and Worlds Apart, The Hungry Intruder, The Journey, Mad John, HappyDaysToyTown +-: Song of A Baker, Happiness Stan 6,0/10

Starts ok with some promise but soon runs out of steam

Nah not the bits of the 60’s I like 2/5

Well that sure was weird. Some interesting sounds here, but also some weird mixing decisions—I often felt like the melody was way too low in the mix. And then the last song was more tedious than anything. Best song: Lazy Sunday

Mediocre hippie stuff that doesn‘t belong on the list

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 Rating: ☆ ☆ Stand Out Songs: 6. Lazy Sunday Wasn't into this album at all.. like at all. The thought of listening to it actually annoyed me. Come to find out this album is kind of the grandfather to Park Life by Blur it makes sense because I was noooot into that album either. Maybe I have something major against British mild rock but I probably won't give this another listen.

Meh, i did not care for this album

There’s maybe one great psych rock song on here, followed by some not great psych rock songs, followed by an obnoxiously narrated fairytale supported by some more not great psych rock songs. Maybe play this for your kids if they’re having trouble sleeping.

Never heard of this band, never heard of this album, really gave it a chance because I love psychedelia... this one's not it. If I were to only listen to the A-side I would say it's decent, but the B-side just strangles all of the momentum the album had built up to that point. The album just decides to have a concept halfway and the concept is presented poorly; the spoken word parts made me cringe pretty hard and the music, while solid, is definitely not good enough for me to forgive them. This album tries to be way too quirky for its own good. Best: Afterglow (Of Your Love), Song Of A Baker, Lazy Sunday; Worst: B-side 2/5

2/5

Is it possible to be too British and too whimsical? Yes. Yes it is.

What a strange ride. The second half of the album reminded me of Monty Python but not in a humorous way - just offbeat. Very weird but I kind of like it. I’ll never listen to it again but I am glad I heard it.

I was all set to groove to Rod Stewart’s iconic raspy voice when I hit play on this album, but turns out I had The Faces and The Small Faces mixed up! The album is packed with guitar riffs and jams, which might be a bit much for those who prefer a bit more substance (in general, I do). However, “Lazy Sunday” was a delightful surprise, and it’s the only track I’d heard before. If you’re into guitar-heavy tunes, this might be your jam, but for me, it’s a one-time listen.

Maybe it's because the only version I could find was in Mono, but this really felt like a very bland album

Probably fun to listen to if you really listen, but I was too distracted for it to be a background thing.

Jumping back into this after a long time out. I don't see a place to rate this album...maybe that part of this has changed? This album is okay, but not something I'd come back to.

If it rocks out more, it would have been passable. But the interludes that were trying to be funny fall flat. Monty Python they are not.

what did you just call me

Uno de los LPs más decepcionantes que he escuchado de esta lista. Si bien Small Faces parte de buena forma este trabajo, con guitarras sumamente potentes y baterías energéticas, hacia poco menos de la mitad del trabajo, "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" se transforma en una obra de teatro radial con altas y bajos (más bajos que altos). Si bien el trabajo dura poco más de 40 minutos, se siente mucho más largo, algo que es inaceptable, ya que esto se traduce a que el disco es simplemente aburrido. No lo escuche, no sé por qué esto está en la lista.

Good, enjoyable, of the time. Nothing new to tell but fine for in the background. I guess I did like the monologue snippets

Wasn't particularly impressed.

Nja. Några okej låtar men för mycket trams och tönterier. I synnerhet andra halvan drog ned betyget.

Ok. Not great. Happy if I didn't hear this clown show again. Not worth the effort of a decent opinion. Two stars.

Typical late 60's Brit pop with an extra awful vocalist.

could i write poetry to this? n

Tried multiple listens, but couldn’t wrap my mind around this one. It probably would have had a higher rating on a different day.

I feel like I could have guessed the year of this release first-try. "Default" 60's prog record. Like everybody else here says, first half is good but there is no excuse for the second half. As an album in whole, this is the rating it deserves. Had it been only the first half it would have been a 3 no doubt.

Started strong then wandered away. Everybody during this time, especially British bands, were trying to do a Sgt. Pepper.

i actually don't hate this, and i find side b especially whimsical and fun as an experience, but the music doesn't really hold up and i feel no pull toward individual songs. it is also frankly too british

Bland

A rather strange one, I like the Happiness Stan storyline! 4/10

Meh

Excessive Interludes lost a star.

Ugh. Didn't like this one at all.

Fine, I guess

2.5

This brand of 60’s “happy little trip” psychedelic rock just doesn’t do anything for me. I think you had to be there, but I wasn’t born until 24 years after this release.

Cool and funky album cover art, and weird name. Had some potential for sure, but felt a bit too quirky in a similar way like Pink Floyd's first album - not that great. Didn't really find any song I liked, most of it just felt like background noise.

Started good then gradually got worse. Some nice tunes at the start but then it became just plain weird. Was not a fan of having stories intertwined with my music. Like a mix of "Pink floyd", "Jimmi Hendrix" and "The Bonzo Dog Band". Still it was interesting but not great. Giving it a strong 2.

Boring tbh

jahas ja toinen kerta kuin unohtui aikamääreessä kuunnella albumi jahas... no ehkä kerran vuodessa ei haittaa..... EI NÄIN!!! ja alusta alotetaan.... uusi projektin nimi: smith... ok mikä vittua on tuo url... 8 albumia ja ei kuunnellut yhtäkään.. average noista olisi noin 4.5 wtf... anyweiss... albumi haisee .. vittu käy suihkussa... britti haisee niin vitun pahalle... nimikkobiisin olen jo kuullut, se tuleekin ensimmäisenä vastaan. ensimmäinen puolisko onkin aika ilahduttavaa tavaraa.. ongelma on toisessa puolessa.. mitavittua tapahtui???? kaikissa biiseissä yhtäkkiä jotain vitun monologia puolet ajoajasta, kerran osataan niitä soittimia käyttää niin kirjottakaa sitä vitun musiikkia ei hyvä luoja.... ogdens nut flakes

Part of me likes what they are trying to do here with this “concept” album, but the rest of me has listened to over 1000 albums on this list and many have sounded just like this one.

huh

Points for uniqueness I guess. I’ve never heard a fairytale unfold song by song in an album before. Very British, really too British at times. Best track is def lazy Sunday. This one’s hard to rate, didn’t hate it but glad its over lol. 2 1/2 if that was possible.

There's some decent music buried on this album for sure, but the the goofiness just over whelms it. As far as being groundbreaking, it's very similar to The Who Sell Out, which was released the year before, buthas stronger songs. It hurts to give a Steve Marriott album such a low rating but here goes.

With some editing this could've been a good album. There's good stuff here. But there's a lot of bad, too. Probably wouldn't bother to listen to it again.

Bland.

A bit wobbly in the second half. High 2s I guess.

2.5

I liked the first half, which is a strong collection of 60s British rock. I wished the vocals were a little more prominent in the mix but the band sounds great. The second half lost me though. It’s some kind of storybook mini concept album with spoken word interludes but it didn’t grab my attention as much as the first half did.

Interesting album with a lot of interesting (and at times frustrating) panning/production ideas. I liked listening to it and felt like at times it droned on a bit, but I understand that is the jammy nature of this sort of sound. Not really really wow'd by anything in it though and for this reason I'm not totally sure it warrants a spot on this list. I think ultimately that is the true filter or test that I need to hear when I am listening to an album on this list; I need to stop and say "wow" at something. There exist many great albums that should be heard in your lifetime, but I think the 1001 best of the lot should each contain some kind of "wow" factor. Whether that's vocal performance, guitarring, drumming in a tight pocket, production or songwriting moments... it should have something. 2/5.

I have this one a few tries, but nope just didn’t seem to click and got progressively worse’s

Ok

Never heard of these guys. Omg right off the bat gives me early-Tame Impala vibes. Interesting. Very oldies. Not my style. Very psychedelic.

Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, Long Agos and Worlds Apart, Rene, Lazy Sunday, Afterglow of Your Love Too much talking..

not for me

Why is this album on this list?

2 stars. Some interesting early psychedelia moments, but mostly not that fun to listen to.

Disappointing. Small Faces were one of those bands I should love in theory but it hasn't jelled. This sounds like people playing at being psychedelic without actually being psychedelic.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's got moments that are pretty good, but sometimes it feels lost.

There's a difference between having goofy music and being annoying, this album is the latter. It has some redeeming qualities from the music. I mean I guess the music does match the style of the album cover. Being from the late 60s is very fitting though.

Completely new to me. Had some nice moments musically, especially in the first half. I’m definitely not afraid of some whimsy, but I think the second half with its narration took it too far and felt distracting to me rather than enchanting.

Subpar compared to the rest of the era and genre

Not really into this album. The first track is OK. Some other tracks reminded me of CCR, in a good way. But the album lost me with the talking tracks. I think I wasn't in the mood to listen to a story and didn't get into this concept.

Sort of hurts to give this a 2. The actual songs are a lot of interesting 60's Brit rock, with lots of fuzzy guitar, moogs and baroque flourishes... but the spoken word Cokney/jabberwocky words parts between all the songs just tank it. Remove those amd thos is at least a 3.

Thought this was just bog standard 1960s Brit rock (a little bit of a Beatles feel to the song-along sound of Rene). & then the story time started and I was a bit like - is this a music listening exercise or a spoken word exercise? No thank you.

Very of its time. Seems very quaint and nostalgic now.

An album I've always avoided. I want songs, not a soap opera. I approached this mainly as background listening, paying little attention to the narrative. It was all the better for this. Tell It Like It Is, etc. Plucky, with a certain amount of attitude. Gawd knows what it's all about. Stanley Unwin was a one.

The opener, Afterglow, and Song Of A Baker are fine, but I prefer Faces.

This was fine. Nothing really grabbed me. Just an album playing in the background on a long drive.

The songs aren't terrible but why on earth would they add a narrator?!? Especially one that sounds like an 18th century British officer. Almost gave one star on that basis alone.

A tale of two halves, the first side being a pretty good slice of 'beat group gone psychedelic' from 1968. The second side a pretty bad slice of 'psychedelic concept album from 1968'. The narration is super annoying, the story unintelligible. Did Pete Townsend listen to this and think 'No worries those waiting for a good concept album - I got this' First side 3, second side one.

Yikes, this one is pretty bad, (but so is the album cover so I am not surprised). A lot of people are defending side 1, but it is sooo cheesy, his singing just isn't good, and the production sounds really fuzzy. There is a good idea every now and again, but it is quickly followed by something cringy or annoying. The only positive I can say is that nothing overstays its welcome. low 2

It’s not horrible, but man, there’s a lot of 60’s psychedelic rock on this list - and this one doesn’t really stand out from the crowd. Maybe I’ve just had it front loaded, but at this point, I could do without any more for a while.

Barely skating by to a 2 rating on the strength of its first couple songs. Never have I seen an album absolutely crater so quickly. This dude can sing too! Shame he doesn’t do it after track 2!

not too bad

MEh I couldn’t get into this album

Didn't like this skits in this

Had its moments and I presume the interludes were nods to Sgt Peppers (as is the cover) but it kind of just drifted by, I didn't really connect with anything.

Fucking hell, more psychedelia, though it's of the British kind it doesn't make it any more interesting. God it's interminable. It's like you're stuck in a cockney pub where everyone has taken acid previously and is now telling you about their previous trips while having a good ol' singalong round the ol' Joanna. You're then shoved into a terrible story which is like a mini-rocj opera. Want to listen to Stanley Unwin talk nonsense at you? Thought not. It's the kind of stuff that people who think Carry On movies are funny would like. All this is proof of is that they must've had some top drawer drugs in the sixties if it could make this interesting. Best Tracks: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; Afterglow (Of Your Love); Lazy Sunday

2.5

Waaaay too many bits in this album. The music is fine. But holy hell there is a lot of filler.

Ehh

I wish I could watch a video of my face while listening to the entirety of the last song on this album.

This is what happens when you rent a studio and then drop too much acid on the bus ride there. Musically, it’s not their best work. The last track (Happiness Stan) sounds like their attempt to outdo Edward Lear. It fails

This isn't complete garbage, but man I'm really getting tired of all this late 60s psychedelic rock. At least this album spices it up a bit with the spoken word interludes, as much as I didn't enjoy them at least it was something different.

1.5 - I thought maybe I'd like it because it's psychedelic rock, but this was boring and annoying.

Some of the songwriting is decent but it’s all phased to shit and the ‘fairy tale’ that runs throughout the second half was absolute nonsense garbage

Love the album cover. Did not like the music at all. Aggressively British skits breaking up generic late 60s rock music and that was it. Cutesy at first but just got annoying honestly.

I’m confused. What is this?

60s psychedelic pop is fine by me but nothing exciting here

Pretty meh to me. I enjoyed the whimsy and there are some cool ideas, but basically, it just made me want to listen to The Kinks.

The music was good psychedelia, but man, that narrator was annoying.

This is not a Rod Stewart album, but it is the album of a band that would later reform with Rod Stewart. It isn't good, but it is better than anything Rod Stewart did.

Fuckin 60s brit rock. No.

The whole vibe of this album makes me feel like I’m watching a Monty python film. It’s enjoyable but a little strange.

Whoaaa, first 5 seconds was just straight Tame Impala. 1968! Hell yeah. Lol ok from there it got real hokey and dull real quick. The music at least. The bits of content/narration were magic. Extra star for absurdity.

The Willy Wonka band? Happiness Stan has to be a willy wonka song.

Like being held hostage by a bunch of wannabe teen musicians with no talent, who will just keep playing for you until you finally admit that you think they're talented and could really go somewhere. And I do not want to admit to anything! It’s over 2 hours of obscure and unrenowned psychedelic crap rock. Who caved and actually gave them a record deal?? They were trying way too hard to come off unique and quirky and steered straight into lame desperately contrived territory instead. Torturous listening.

The second half of this album feels like a dirty, stupid trick.

A couple of decent songs. Wasn’t too fussed on the cockney ramblings, but there a few tasty bass lines

Quite irritating but an interesting artefact and shows the influence of quirky British comedy on 60s pop music which influenced Lennon, Bowie and evidently the Small Faces.

This experiment worked out about as well as my Stoneham grown pumpkin lager. But my lager didn't earn me any money. It did give me a decent amount of enjoyment.... now speaking of making things. Song of a Baker is inadequately formed. He left out the yeast. And if there's a metaphor in there somewhere, it's stupid. The song that is streamed 85% of the time on this album is an instrumental.

I don't know didn't do much for me, maybe a second listen would have it make sense or is it not supposed to. They're like The Kinks but intentionally far weirder or something

Not as bad as most psychedelic rock.

2.5

'es split 'is noggin in twain, 'e 'as, 'e 'as. Blimey

I wish I could like this album more than I do, but the gibberish-sounding narration is really distracting for me, and not in a good way. Which is a shame, a number of the songs appeal to me quite a bit otherwise. Favorite track would be "Mad John" if it didn't have the narration.

the album art carried this to the top of the charts.

Interesting for sure. Loved "Afterglow." The adlib talking sections were too much for me. I'll continue to explore Small Faces but I don't think I'll play this album again anytime soon.

Nothing spectacular. Only really nice song is Lazy Sunday. The rest partly ok, partly quite funny but it simply isn't anything more.

Album kinda sucks fr.

This was pretty fun. I'm surprised I'd never heard of this album before. They fit right in with the 60s British prog rock along the lines of the moody blues, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, traffic, etc. Concept albums are definitely a relic of a bygone Era, and this feels dated, but worth the listen.

My rating kept dropping as the album progressed. Only the sheer audacity kept my floor at 2-stars.

Not for me, it has its moments of charm but was glad when this ended. 2/5

What a wild ride of feelings. Loved the opener - a winning combination of psych conventions with playful drumming and a hypnotic groove. And then everything kind of fell apart. Even the next track is decent albeit cheesy, but the more the album delved into the cockney spoken-word narrative quickly, any charm or cuteness really dissipated for me. Should have stayed with the instrumental jams. Two stars. Fave track: Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake

Good squishy psychedelia for the first half but woof that back half is no bueno

I can tell this band had fun recording the goofy storytelling songs and singing the LSD lyrics, but does anyone over the age of 20 actually enjoy hearing it?

Another album (and musical group) I had never heard of before this came up in the Generator. Sonically, some pleasing things are going on throughout this album. The instrumental title track kicks things off with a sweeping audio track that shifts between the left and right channels to disorient the listener a bit, and plays around with a wah-wah pedal connected to a piano. Volume crescendos are also featured at the end of Long Agos and Worlds Apart. Coincidentally, the Generator served this album up to me a day after sending me Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" -- another album that features a concept album on Side B. Like with Hounds of Love, I grew tired of the six-song "Happiness Stan" concept album content (especially with the odd spoken-word narration sprinkled throughout). I appreciated the first half more - particularly the poppy, jammy Song of a Baker. Learning that Small Faces split and created two more famous groups as a result--Marriott forming Humble Pie with Peter Frampton and the other members forming Faces with Rod Stewart--was a neat piece of musical history. Ultimately, I won't be revisiting "Ogden's Nut..." again. The vast majority of quirky, 60s-era Brit-rock albums just ain't my thing, man. Interesting Wikipedia factoids: *The opening title track is an instrumental re-working of "I've Got Mine," a failed single from 1965. This recording uses a piano treated with a wah-wah pedal and orchestral flourishes from a string section led by David McCallum Senior. *Side two of the LP is based on an original fairy tale concept about a boy called Happiness Stan, consisting of a musical suite of six songs interlinked with narration provided by comic monologuist and performer Stanley Unwin in his unique, nonsensical private language of "Unwinese." *The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin, inside which was a poster created with five connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and not successful as the tins tended to roll off of shelves and it was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover. *The title track was played during the debut trailer for the video game Grand Theft Auto V and was later featured on the in-game Los Santos Rock Radio station. *"The Song of a Baker" was inspired by both a book of Sufi wisdom given to Ronnie Lane by Pete Townshend of The Who that addressed "how hard you’ll work if you’re hungry," and also by Lane's visits to Ibiza where a neighbour used to bake bread in his traditional Balearic bread oven. *To promote the album, Immediate Records issued an advertisement that parodied the Lord's Prayer. This caused an uproar in the British press, and outraged readers wrote in to voice their anger. It read: Small Faces Which were in the studios Hallowed by thy name Thy music come Thy songs be sung On this album as they came from your heads We give you this day our daily bread Give us thy album in a round cover as we give thee 37/9d Lead us into the record stores And deliver us Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake For nice is the music The sleeve and the story For ever and ever, Immediate Regarding the advert, (Small Faces frontman) Steve Marriott said, "We didn't know a thing about the ad until we saw it in the music papers. And frankly we got the horrors at first. We realize that it could be taken as a serious knock against religion. But on thinking it over, we don't feel it is particularly good or bad. It's just another form of advertising. We're not all that concerned about it. We're more concerned in writing our music and producing our records." Standouts: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, Song of a Baker, Lazy Sunday

narrator gotta shut the fuck up

Only knew one song on the album. I can see where The Police got the idea for Be My Girl Sally, sounded like the same bloke too.

Never heard of this band or album. Typical hippie music of the time, nothing special.

Meh

Tale of two sides. The A side sounds like a fairly good psychedelic rock album. Excellent bass tone, drums sound like every other psychedelic drummer of the era. B side is striking if you’re not prepared for it. A long, bouncy ballad about a boy befriending a fly for 20 minutes… lost me. 2.5/5

That narration was starting to drive me crazy after a few songs.

Folkrock, 60s, male, mid, smiling faces, but did not catch me. Too much talking, not a lot that lasts for me.

Daté

The drums were groovy. I'll definitely check out their other stuff, but this album didn't move me in either direction.

eh. Starts off well, then fades

Starts off ok, the gets progressively worse track by track

The opening (and title) track is a glorious, psychy instrumental. I wish there was a bit more of that. Vocals are the issue for me here. More precisely, the tracks sung in full cock-er-neeeeee.

This sort of twee fake salt of the earth Britishness is already insufferable when done better by The Kinks and The Who…

BBC (Boring British Crap)

Way too British for me. What a ridiculous country.

What does this album want to be? Cute and comic? Psychedelic rock? It seems like it wanted to be both and it doesn't really work together. There's nothing here that made me want to listen beyond the first 1/2 to 1 minute of a song, I quickly grew bored with it and most of it was not that good. I don't usually listen too carefully to the lyrics on a first listen but some of the lyrics here were pretty hack-y. Pass.

just no

A perfectly sufficient piece of rock n roll. This was not something I think offers much in the way of replay-ability. I believe that’s from the lack of memorable songs on here. Outside of the opener there ain’t much here.

Nah not for me

Not a huge fan of 60's folk style rick

This album split the difference between psychedelic rock and audiobook, and I wasn't much interested in either. I'd leave the quaint and clever storytelling to Terry Pratchett. A 1.5.

Late 60's psychadelia. I was there and this was not the album we listened to when we were trippin'. But whoever put this on the list must have been.

Music was alright but didn't like the spoken parts by Stanley Unwin and his nonsensical language

I enjoyed the first couple of songs then they got weird and I was ready for the album to be over with.

Ok worse than i thought

This starts out nicely with the instrumental Ogden's nut gone flake which has a string section led by David McCallum Sr, the father of David McCallum Jr (from the Man from UNCLE) who wrote The Edge, which has been sampled and immortalized by Dr Dre's The Next Episode with Snoop Dog.... but I digress. Unfortunately it goes downhill from there and the rest of the album is very uneven and the narration was distracting. This albums doesn't feature itchycoo park either, boo.

Didn't really understand the point of this.

Kinda strange ngl

some alright music frequently ruined by goofs

Started off so strong with the monster opening track and then just straight up whimpered and died. Got my hopes up for a lush psychedelic rock LP and now find myself bitter those expectations couldn’t be realized.

"I know. Let's make a rock band, that walks in the stylistic footsteps of Wily Wonka's Oompa Loompa's" - Small Faces

Listened twice, wasn't bad, but wasn't my thing. Psychedelic story-telling rock songs is not my cup of tea.