Small Faces top 10 tracks

E to D
Patterns
My Mind's Eye
All Or Nothing
It's Too late
Itchycoo Park
Here Comes The Nice
Hey Girl
Song Of A Baker
Lazy Sunday
And many more

 

No doubt about it.

 

I really like Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire and My Way Of Giving

 

Tin Soldier
Talk to You
Don't Burst my Bubble
Get Yourself Together
I'm Only Dreaming
Things Are Gonna Get Better
Here Comes The Nice
I Feel Much Better
Hey Girl!
Up the Wooden Hills to Bedforshire

 

No pic sleeves ?

 

1.Tin Soldier
2.All Or Nothing
3.Up the Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire
4.Wham Bam Thank You Mam
5.Afterglow Of Your Love
6.I Feel Much Better
7.Itchycoo Park
8.(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?
9.I'm Only Dreaming
10.Show Me The Way

 

..just had throw this out there ...got to love P.P. Anderson's bust out vocals.

It's going to take me a bit to sort out my top 10 .

 

Tin Soldier is indeed a marvellous piece of music. But it's PP Arnold and I'm not sure that "bust out" is quite appropriate in this context. Perhaps it was the association with P Anderson that sent your mind in a certain direction?

 

I would go for:

Itchycoo Park
Tin Soldier
The Universal
Here Come The Nice
Lazy Sunday
My Mind's Eye
Afterglow Of Your Love
Watcha Gonna Do About It?
Sha La La La Lee
All Or Nothing

 

Tin Soldier
Afterglow (Of Your Love)
All or Nothing
Here Come the Nice
Itchycoo Park
Lazy Sunday
Song of A Baker
Rollin' Over
Talk To You
What'cha Gonna Do About It

 

Yes! My all-time favourite!

 

I've always loved it.

 

There are times I am convinced that Tin Soldier is the best 3:24 of rock music ever recorded. It was gratifying reading Mac’s memoir where he commented that every time he heard that track, he’d get the slightest tear in his eye. I was like, so I’m in good company!

 

1. I Can't Make It
2. Afterglow
3. Tin Soldier
4. Green Circles
5. Here Comes The Nice
6. Happiness Stan
7. Red Balloon
8. The Universal
9. All or Nothing
10. Itchycoo Park

Marriott was amazing (Lane too but Marriott was truly one of the best!)

 

In no partícular order:

Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am/Me You And Us Too [pick one!]
Own Up Time
My Way Of Giving
All Or Nothing
Tin Soldier
Song Of A Baker
Almost Grown
Runaway
Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire
Afterglow

 

This is tough.

Tin Soldier
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
The Universal
I Feel Much Better
Green Circles [Ronnie vocal]
Wide-Eyed Girl On The Wall
All Our Yesterdays
Afterglow [single mix]
Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass [box set mix]
Red Balloon [box mix]

Bubbling under:

Song Of A Baker
The groovy fuzz-instrumental take of I Can't Make It
Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am [box remix]

...and about 65 others.

 

Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass

It's such an underrated track, so full of joy. The extended mix on the Immediate box is just sublime.

 

The 'finished' version that Marriott recorded with Humble Pie [appallingly titled 'Wrist Job'] is just gloriously soulful. If only the Small Faces had stayed together long enough to finish their version. Well, if only they'd stayed together, period.

 

If only "1862" had been finished.............and released.

 

Is it me or does there seem to be (at present) a preference for the Immediate years?

 

At least it's reassuring to see all the love for "Tin Soldier". It only made it to #73 in the Billboard chart after "Itchycoo Park" got to #16. Wikipedia says this about "Tin Soldier" - "In 1997, some 30 years after the song's original release, Mojo magazine voted "Tin Soldier" the tenth best single of all time, in a readers' poll. The poll placed it ahead of anything by The Who or The Rolling Stones."

 

I'm surprised E to D only gets the one mention so far, for me it's freakbeat par bloody excellence. Their version of Willie Dixon's You Need Love isn't too shabby either, as Robert Plant thought as well...

 

or Tin Soldier
or Afterglow
or Autumn stone.
or All or Nothing
0r...........

 

Real Crazy Apartment

 

If we'd had the option of picking 10 Immediate tracks and 10 Decca tracks, E To D would have easily made my Decca list.