Faces - How do you rate them?*

What do you think? Certainly one of the most exciting and rock'n'roll UK acts of the early 70's.

 

Great band. The players were top drawer.

 

Faces were awesome, screw anyone who says otherwise.

 

A great band in their own right. The 4 studio albums probably do not do them full justice but live or studio I always enjoy the music they made.

 

GREAT band!

 

Could have been one of the great bands of the 70ties if they had been more focused.

 

Poor Man’s Stones? Faces had a joy and melancholy that the Stones seemed to lack, along with being a beloved band, which the detached and cool Stones seemed to be above.
Faces also had fun, while the Stones seemed too serious to really enjoy themselves at times.

 

Great band in their own right.

 

The Stones have rarely ever seemed serious.

 

Great band.
And they sure knew how to party!

 

Great band in their own right. End of!

 

A poor man's Small Faces? (runs for cover)

 

"Poor man's Stones" ?, that's a little insulting Faces are/were a great band. A shame that their career was only four and a "half" albums. Love 'em, one of my favourite bands ever..

 

had they had more classic tracks like Stay With Me they'd be mentioned with Led Zep.
I bought Nod when it came out. Loved Stay With Me and a couple others but overall thought it a bit weak.
I still can't understand why Rod's solo albums during this era were so much better.
Tried again with Snakes and Ladders but just couldn't really warm up to it.
Overtures and Beginners (live album) was the most enjoyable of all to me.
I respect them, they were fun to watch live but overall I found the songwriting a bit wanting.

 

Never thought of them as the poor man's anything, let alone the Stones. There was a tighter camaraderie, devil-may-care, party atmosphere over the Faces. Very garage-y in some manners, actually. Had they not been successful musicians, even before kicking off this particular group, I could easily imagine them just being buddies, hanging in the basement and just drinking and laughing and playing kick ass music.

Can only imagine they had a huge influence on some of the things happening stateside in ensuing decades... Replacements, Guided by Voices etc.

 

Maybe they belong here
Bands that never reached their potential?

 

They were a great band in their own right. They had more of a soul/R&B thing going on than the Stones did at the time. They were much less serious and much less at pains to have a mystique. What you see is what you get. Stewart and Lane were such unique personalities that it'd be a crime to call them "poor man's" anything.

 

Better than the Stones, thank you.

 

I don't get the comparisons to be honest (other than Ronnie being in both).

 

^^^Bingo
If Jagger could sing like Rod it might have been a close call!

 

For what it’s worth I listen to “ooh la la” lots more frequently than any stones record... every song is a killer. Certainly not just a poor man’s Stones!

 

The World's Greatest Bar Band

Apparently that's your idea of a good thing

 

That's about the way it was for me to back in the day. The live album was the only one I came back to. The studio stuff had a couple good tunes but too much filler.

Did Rod Stewart save the best stuff for his solo albums?

 

They're two streams of the same river. It's not exactly apples and oranges.

 

I don't agree with that sentiment at all. I think we see Keith in modern time joking-about on stage much like he was doing in the early days (watch him wag his finger on the TAMI show during "Around and Around") but watch them in 1972. That band was SERIOUS and I appreciate that. I don't need a bunch of guys joking around on stage. Just play the songs brilliantly and mean them. That's why I like the Stones, actually.

The Faces were a good band. Most of me wants to use the term "serviceable" but many would see that as a knock on them. I mean, they were quite good, but legendary? Not really. History has revealed how most feel about them. They have a fabulous box set from 2004 and they're mostly forgotten about outside of these types of circles. That's fine. We know the score of what they did well and what they didn't achieve. Ron left. Rod left. It was what it was - a pretty good band.