Flake

Product Description
This holiday album by Four Shadow includes a bit of beautiful traditional Christmas music, an original tune, and a bit of all-around flakiness, all in the signature "All Vocals All The Time" a cappella style of Four Shadow. Makes a great stocking stuffer!

Flake,Four Shadow

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

Tracks:

1. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
2. Afterglow (Of Your Love)
3. Long Agos and Worlds Apart
4. Rene
5. Song of a Baker
6. Lazy Sunday
7. Happiness Stan
8. Rollin' Over
9. Hungry Intruder
10. Journey
11. Mad John
12. Happy Days Toy Town
13. Tin Soldier [Live][*]

Album Description

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

Album Details

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

Average customer rating: Flake Music "Returns" Something Is Wrong On This Listing the shins first album Cool collection of high-speed racing tunes!

When You Land Here It's Time to Return Flake Music Manufacturer: Omnibus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Fighting in a Sack Phantom Limb We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank The Crane Wife Ancient Melodies of the Future ASIN: B000006O4G Release Date: 2002-04-16

Customer Reviews:

Flake Music "Returns".......2004-04-14

Ever heard of Flake Music? Well, how about the Shins? Hit indiepop band the Shins had a former incarnation as the band Flake Music, before becoming huge with "Oh Inverted World." Flake Music's "When You Land Here It's Time To Return" is a bit rough and exploratory, but still catchy fuzzy pop.

There's a bit of everything in here: some college-rocky stuff (the warm, thoughtful "Spanway Hits," fast-strumming "Mieke," the slow-burning rocker "Blast Valve") and cool and sweet pop music (the delicate "Roziere," eerie "Vantage," the pleasant "Shins" -- yes, their later name originates from a song title). A handful of untitled tracks (a little rough around the edges) round it off.

"Early work" can be embarrassing or enlightening. With Flake Music, it's the latter. The early stuff isn't bad by any stretch, but it's still fumbling for the right niche to settle into. At times you can detect the influences (such as Built To Spill), usually indie-rock/pop of the 1990s. But it's so earnest that it's lovable, especially given what it morphed into a few years later. Even taken on its own, it's fun.

The swirly sound of the Shins is forming nicely in "When You Land...", with plenty of guitar both jangly and smooth. Some acoustic, some bass, a spattering of other little musical touches add up to a sort of delicately psychedelic-lite sound. That sound suffers, however, from some lo-fi sound quality that doesn't suit the music. Since it was recorded in a living room that isn't surprising, but the music deserves better.

The lyrics are nice work, charmingly bright and fun (except for a brief deviation into emo). In fact, the songwriting is polished and smart. James Mercer's high voice is a bit distant at times (such as in "The Shins"), but is flexible enough. He can be grounded and solid (as in "Mieke") or soar almost to a falsetto (as in the soft "Vantage," where he sounds like he's floating away).

The quartet from Albuquerque were still finding their way back when they were Flake Music, but their youthful fumblings are a pleasant, earnest sort of listen in the reissued "When You Land Here It's Time To Return." Well worth having for fans of indiepop.

Something Is Wrong On This Listing.......2002-01-05

Flake Music is a great indie-rock band (later to be known as the equally wonderful, though far more mellow "Shins"), but the track listing here refers to something altogether different (some sort of oldies collection or something)! As far as the actual album is concerned, you can order it on vinyl fairly easily through The Shins' label; the CD is quite difficult to come across, though.

the shins first album.......2001-10-15

this is the shins first album under a different name. to me it does not surpass that of "oh inverted world." if you love the sub pop release of the shins you would most definately want to own this album although it is somewhat hard to find. if you can find it i definately reccommend spending the extra cash to get it.

Cool collection of high-speed racing tunes!.......1999-09-16

From Davie Allen's "The Savage Four" to The Original Sins' "Under My Wheels" this is one of the most consistently entertaining comp CDs I've run across. Highlights for me include The Space Cossacks doing the best rendition I've heard of "Squad Car" and my #1 fave Boss Martians song, "Sleeper", a sweet love song about a broken-down-looking race car that's faster than it appears. As far as I know, unlike some comp albums, none of the songs here are available anywhere else! Get it if you can find it!

Average customer rating: Great Comeback! Soulful & Smokin' Great long awaited return Great album - better the more you listen. One of the Best of 2007

Kiss the Crystal Flake Mother Hips Manufacturer: Camera ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sky Blue Sky Because of the Times Green Hills of Earth Easy Tiger Part Timer Goes Full ASIN: B000NOKBT8 Release Date: 2007-04-03

Tracks:

1. Mission in Vain
2. Wicked Tree
3. Time We Had
4. No-Name Darrell
5. Let Somebody
6. Confirmation of Love
7. TGIM
8. White Hills
9. Not So Independent
10. White Headphones
11. Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear
12. In This Bliss

Album Description

Featuring 12 new songs 'Kiss The Crystal Flake' reintroduces the world to The Mother Hips' own brand of California rock, blending a natural psychedelia with their own 21st century musicianship and songwriting

Customer Reviews:

Great Comeback!.......2007-06-13

The Hips are back! After a hiatus in the real world (yuck) the Mother Hips are back with another interesting, toe-tapping, soulfoul, head boppin' album. Long time Hip fans will recognize "Time Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear", always a live staple. Tim and Greg's harmonies have never sounded richer, or better. This is an album that actually GETS BETTER with repeated listening. O.K you fans of the Mother Hips...it's time to pony up and support the Hips they deserve it...and god knows the music world is much more interesting with them in it!!

Soulful & Smokin'.......2007-06-01

Stellar showing by the hips. Stands up to repeated listens. I'm looking forward to the vinyl pressing. Don't hesitate to pick this album up.

Great long awaited return.......2007-05-18

The Hips are the best unknown band in the world with a small, loyal following. Kiss the Crystal Flake may be the second best hips album, behind Great Green Fields. This album shows that the Hips songwriting has matured while they have returned at the same time to their rock roots. There are fewer time changes in the songs on the album but the songs are still mostly solid. "White Headphones" is a great example of their bluesy/rock style and is a song that I could listen to over and over again and never get sick of. The album has a number of other great songs that will get stuck in your head like "Confirmation of Love," "Time Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear" and "Mission in Vain." There are a few misses but the album is mostly very solid. And the songs are even better live. While all Mother Hips should have this album I would recommend this album to anyone who enjoys rock with a blues edge.

Great album - better the more you listen........2007-04-08

Great album - good mix of fast/slow... if you like Wilco's - yankee hotel... you will like this one.

One of the Best of 2007.......2007-04-06

After a six-year hiatus, the Mother Hips are back with their finest disc to date. Taken as a whole the Hips catalog (some sadly out of print) has been a continuos progression to this point; a perfect distillation of everything that makes them a great studio band. Amazingly enough, they/re even better live. Start here and then work your way back through Green Hills of Earth, Later Days, Shootout, Part-Time and Back to the Grotto. You'll wonder where they've been all your life.

Average customer rating: A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion One of the most extraordinary works ever written Music to Amaze Your Ears

Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rued Langaard: Antikrist [Hybrid SACD] Per Nørgård: Symphony No. 3; Concerto in due tempi Nørgård: Symphony 6: At the End of the Day / Terrains Vague Orchestral Works Per Nørgard: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 ASIN: B000000B0N Release Date: 1997-04-22

Tracks:

1. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Sunbeams On A Coffin Decorated With Sweet Smelling Flowers -
2. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinklying Of Stars In The Blue Sky At Sunset -
3. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Light And The Depths
4. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Refraction Of Sunbeams In The Waves
5. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinkling Of A Pearl Of Dew In The Sun On A Beautiful Summer's Morning
6. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Longing - Despair - Ecstasy
7. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Soul Of The World - Abyss - All Soul's Day
8. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): I Wish...!
9. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Chaos - Ruin - Far And Near -
10. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Flowers Wither
11. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Glimpse Of The Sun Through Tears -
12. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Bells Pealing: Look Here He Comes!
13. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The Gospel Of Flowers - From The Far Distance -
14. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The New Day -
15. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The End: Antichrist - Christ
16. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): I. Like Words For A Summer's Day Saga
17. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): II. A Scent Of Mull And Mud
18. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): III. A Golden Flake Hovers Above
19. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): IV. The Flowering Summer Was Linked To The Harvest

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Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was the odd duck of Danish music. He remained doggedly Romantic at a time when Romanticism was out, and he had his own funny little experiments with music that noboby particularly liked. We owe a debt to Chandos and Danacord for keeping Langgaard's music current. Music of the Spheres (1916-18) predates Gyorgy Ligeti by 50 years with its bright, pointillistic assertions and groups of ideas that evolve to their own inner logic. As demonstrated in Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures), Langgaard's music has an openness that allows his tone clusters to expand, contract, or simply repeat (as Ligeti would do much later). Discover Langgaard. --Paul Cook

Customer Reviews:

A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion.......2006-12-11

This Chandos disc containing two pieces by Danish composer Rued Langgaard is one of the most pleasant surprises this fan of modern-classical music has come across. Langgaard (1893-1952) was an outsider and eccentric in Danish music life, a virtuoso organist who succeeded only in his late forties at getting a position, and a composer of wild tales of the Antichrist coming into the world who found it almost impossible to get his music played. In the late 1960s, his music was rediscovered by scholars and his importance in Danish musical history is now certain, but he is still little-known in the modern-classical scene. We should be grateful to the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir and Gennady Rozhdestvensky for their performance and to Chandos for releasing the recording.

"Music of the Spheres" for soprano, chorus, orchestra, and distant orchestra (1916-1918) is stunning. The innovations here are considerable: exploiting the performance space in the use of two orchestras, writing for an "open" piano where glissandi are produced directly on the strings, and of course the clusters and polyphonic webs, massive and seemingly motionless blocks of sound reminiscent of Gyorgy Ligeti. Indeed, the Hungarian composer exclaimed that he was a Langaard imitator when Per Norgard showed him a copy of the score in 1968. But the purity of the string writing reminds me of Alexander Knaifel, and the massive proportions of the orchestral writing at its loudest is somewhat like Sandstroem's "The High Mass".

But, as is often said, it wouldn't matter how much Langgaard were ahead of his time in "Music of the Spheres" if the music wasn't great. And it is, one of the most moving half-hours of orchestral music I'm acquainted with. Langgaard was a Romantic in a time when Romanticism was out of fashion, and the proportions of what the listener may recognize as struggle, momentary defeat, and victory are just as powerful as in Mahler.

"Music of the Spheres" is an exceptional piece in Langgaard's total output. The "Four Tone Pictures" for soprano and orchestra are somewhat more typical of his art. Written on poems by J. Blicher-Clausen, Ivan Turgeniev, and Holger Drachmann, they are fairly tame lieder. These suggest that the modern-classical fan can pass on most of Langgaard's music, but "Music of the Spheres" is so good that at least this disc should be in your collection.

One of the most extraordinary works ever written.......2003-11-21

Music of the Spheres, by the eccentric Danish composer Rued Langgaard, really is the work that has everything. Written between 1916 and 1918, it uses a multitude of techniques that would not be rediscovered until after the wars. Multifarious tone clusters, floating micropolyphony, a piano played directly on the strings, an entire offstage orchestra, blurred choral singing, prefigurations of minimalism: you name it, this work has it. Yet it also has Scriabinesque ecstasy, Straussian opulence and a wacked-out religious subtext in which Christ and Antichrist clash in the violent climax to the whole work.

None of this would matter, though, if the music weren't any good. But it is good--probably the best thing Langgaard ever wrote (so far I've heard about 30 of his works, and none of them matches this one). The various short episodes flow one into another with perfect clarity and logic, the orchestration is superlative, and the dramatic writing at the climax is sonically overwhelming. Fortunately, Chandos match this work with a tremendous performance by the Danish National Radio Symphony and Choir, conducted by that indefatigable servant of underperformed music, Gennady Rozhdestvensky. This recording should be considered the best currently available, and it outstrips the rivals with ease.

Any other work isn't likely to fare so well in comparison to this, but the Four Tone Pictures are by no means eclipsed. Opulent songs in a Straussian harmonic language--though lacking the German composer's gift for melody--they are the perfect way to come down from the musical high of Music of the Spheres.

Music to Amaze Your Ears.......2003-07-23

Rued Langgaard was the man that time forgot. Completely neglected in his native Denmark because he did not fall within the prevailing neo-classic aesthetic set by Nielsen, Langgaard was rediscovered in the 60s when Per Norgard gave a score of Music of the Spheres to Gyorg Ligeti at a competition and after a minute Ligeti announced, "it seems as though I am a Langgaard imitator." Though Langgaard was essentially a conservative late romantic composer, he was capable of some real moments of innovation. He not only presaged Ligeti's color style, but also elements of minimalism, most especially in his string quartets.

Music of the Spheres is Langgaard at his most original. This work is a stunning series of small tone pictures. From the very beginning of the work, with the shimmering cluster of string harmonies over ominous timpani, through out the work, experiment reigns. Langgaard is always tonal, but in this work shows a fascination with orchestral sound and tonal clusters that was probably about 50 years ahead of the times. And yet, in the middle of the work there are sections that could come directly from Schonberg's early Gurrelieder or even the symphonies of Gade. It is a truly astonishing aural sound feast and should be a staple of the repertoire.

The accompanying Tone Pictures, four tone poems on nature themes, are also quite beautiful, though much more conventional as music. Here is Langgaard the Romantic and he is quite a good Romantic actually. The orchestrations are lush, the harmony sensuous and there is just enough oddness to mark the work as Langgaard's and no one else's.

This Chandos disc is exemplary in sound and the performance by Rozhdestvensky is definitive I think. Even if you are afraid of unusual or experimental work, this is a disc that you can take to your heart. It is stunning and beautiful and has my highest recommendation.

Average customer rating: One of My Favorite SongWriters She's Looking Out A Window Weh! mid 90's sleeper indeed A mid-90s sleeper

Gilt-Flake Brad Jones Manufacturer: Ginger Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things What If It Works ASIN: B000005F4X Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

1. The Blunderbuss
2. Never To Come Again
3. Ophelia Floats Away
4. Miss July
5. Mary's Moving Day
6. Goodbye
7. The Staten Island Line
8. Miles and Miles To Go
9. Dig Down Deep
10. Nicole's Been Strange
11. My Messed Up Friend
12. I Tried
13. She's Looking Out A Window

Customer Reviews:

One of My Favorite SongWriters.......2007-01-17

Brad is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. He's so clever. I love this album and have been listening to it since I received an advance copy from a friend who played keyboards on it. I liked him in his band, the Dig Mandrakes, too. I wish he had more stuff out. He's a great musician and just all around SHARP lyricist.

She's Looking Out A Window.......2005-06-01

If anything buy the cd for the last song, "She Looking Out A Window." I don't know how to put this into words, but this has got to be one of the best songs written in the last 15 years, and sadly enough it sits in obscurity. The rest of the album which consists of demos, is very listenable. But the prize in the ceral box is "She's Looking Out A Window." A song that encapsulates longing and regret so well it should be used as the definition in any dictionary in any language. Who hasn't looked back at old photographs when a relationship seemed invincible, only to have it crumble before their eyes? You have that moment forever, frozen in time, but you can't touch it, you can't feel it, you can only remember the smell of their hair, they way they looked when they slept next to you, the way they laughed, and how they cried. This song hits on all those emotions. Truly an amazing piece of music.

Weh!.......2005-04-15

It is not the best album that i've ever heard in my life. In fact, i picked it up from goodwill on half off day. it caught my eye because of how the album looked. this is by no means an awful album, but neither is it one that makes someone want to wet their pants in joy. especially someone like me. if you like repetition, this is an album for you. if not, steal it from someone and listen to the tracks you like.

mid 90's sleeper indeed.......2003-02-07

Say what you will about this record, it has two of the greatest songs ever written on it: "Ophelia Float Away" and "She's looking through a window". I like all the other songs to varying degrees - "Mary's Moving Day" is a great one. Some of the rest is hit-and-miss with me. Don't expect Brad's genius production on this CD, this is mostly 4-track demos from before he was a bigshot producer. But honestly, the songs are great. Just depends on what you like.

A mid-90s sleeper.......2002-07-13

I initially pegged this album as second-tier--a worthy Rundgren/Chilton/Badfinger type of effort without quite the chops or the gravity to really endure with me; but endure with me it has, and I'm now starting to think of it as one of the classics of the 90s.

The aspects of greatness sneak up on you. Typically an artist this poppy fixates lyrically on teenage concerns for a lifetime, so attempts at grand social statement fall flat, and the rewards lie exclusively in the little sentimental details. With Brad, it's strangely the opposite. Where the album is weak--which isn't much of it--it's due to creations of intimate moods which feel formulaic, such as in "The Staten Island Line." Where the album dares to chance something like poetic or moral pronouncement, it's surprisingly resonant and inventively deployed. The line "If a leaf should turn, it's a major box office draw/If a tree should burn, it's of no concern to the law" is a cryptic and nervy way to start a little pop tune, but ponder it and it keeps giving.

You don't really buy this album for the vocals, but he does have his sweet spot--the song "Dig Down Deep" being a prime example. That song also shows the production meatiness he can dish up when he wants to.

The masterpiece, though, is the mysterious opener, "The Blunderbuss." It's hard to say exactly what I love so much about this song, but I find myself wanting to play it again and again. A seemingly amateurish politically-correct bashing of U.S. pioneers' encroachment on Native Americans, it's so lyrically out-of-control that it keeps hitting upon unearthly, oddly pithy little turns of phrase: "God's children, the exiles," "Thanksgiving passes slow on the reservation (it's a shame they don't live in town)," "beyond the 13th parallel, they start to fight among themselves, young and scared and lost and hungry." There's one high note on the word "hot" near the end that
is hit so heroically that it serves as a melodic climax in itself.

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Flake Sugarplum Fairies Manufacturer: Harvest Media Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Pop | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Introspective Raincoat Student Music country international records Lilywhite My Crime Ladyland ASIN: B00000IAB4 Release Date: 1999-02-02

Tracks:

1. Cupcake
2. : Fade Away
3. : Sandy Says
4. : Starships and Candykings
5. : Corduroy Love
6. : 10 Cents Philosophies
7. : Mercy Street
8. : Lulu's Alibi
9. : Something Someday
10. : Fifteen Minutes
11. : Flake

Album Description

"Flake" has an atmospheric, almost psychedelic quality, suggesting a darkness that is abstract, yet ever present. The album is laced with surreal images and haunting metaphors that take a detached look at human imperfection. Leadsinger Silvia Ryder's breathy, hypnotic vocals - which evoke comparisons to the late chanteuse Nico of The Velvet Underground - is the complex instrument that weaves textures of classical cello with the more alternative sound of vintage guitars.

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

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

Tracks:

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

Customer Reviews:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Average customer rating:

Dollar Original Soundtrack , Ray Ray , G.A.N. & The Dayton Family , DJ Kizzy Rock & DJ Smurf , MC Breed , Jake The Flake , Mr. No Love , Freaknasty , Hard Boyz & Spice 1 , and Faizon Love Manufacturer: Power ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000I6N0 Release Date: 1999-03-09

Tracks:

1. Nails Did - Ray Ray
2. Outsiders - G.A.N. & The Dayton Family
3. Oh!, Oh!, Oh! - DJ Kizzy Rock
4. Gangsta Shit - MC Breed
5. Drug Dealer - Jake The Flake
6. Only Time Will Tell - Mr. No Love
7. Do What You Feel (Remix) - Freaknasty
8. Ain't No future In Yo Frontin - MC Breed
9. Trapped In The Game - Hard Boyz
10. Me Mike! - Faizon Love
11. Conclusion - MC Breed
12. This Is Not 4 Free - Black Dave
13. Carolina Bounce - South Click
14. Scrilla - Family Deep
15. (Five Minutes) - D.G.C.
16. Just tell Me - Cherrelle
17. Roll Wit Us - The Union And Munnie & Misfit

Average customer rating: Brilliant!!!!

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

Tracks:

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

Album Description

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

Album Details

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

Customer Reviews:

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

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

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

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces Manufacturer: Sunspots ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: S.F. Sorrow The United States of America The Small Faces ASIN: B00006K08J Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

1. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
2. Afterglow (Of Your Love)
3. Long Agos and Worlds Apart
4. Rene
5. Song of a Baker
6. Lazy Sunday
7. Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass [*]
8. Happiness Stan
9. Rollin' Over
10. Hungry Intruder
11. Journey
12. Mad John
13. Happy Days Toy Town
14. Every Little Bit Hurts [*]

Album Description

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

Customer Reviews:

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

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

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

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

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