M- 1969 UK SMALL FACES "AUTUMN STONE" EDGY SWINGING LONDON MOD PSYCH ROCK
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109
$ 109
Sold For
Apr 28, 2024
Sold Date
Apr 21, 2024
Start Date
29
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USA
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- BRITISH 1969 ORIGINAL
- (RARE) PINK IMMEDIATE FIRST PRESS ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
- = The SMALL FACES =
- THE AUTUMN STONE
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- "MADE IN ENGLAND" - (PINK) IMMEDIATE
- This is a BEAUTY!
- ORIGINAL 1969 THIRD LP on famed UK (PINK) "IMMEDIATE RECORDS"
- Superior in every way best artifact pressing known!
FINAL COLLECTION COPY !
MINT-CLEAN ALL OVER ....TOP DOUBLE VINYL's .... in gatefold delicate BRITISH manufactured sleeve on the famous (Pink) IMMEDIATE RECORDS label... - ~ Behind the kings of rock and roll stand the workers who make up the still life, the fervor and humbug of pop. They are usually dwarfed by it all, and looking back to the the 60's, it is surprising how much enjoyable music the SMALL FACES have given us.
The Small Faces were of the 60's paisley underground Swinging London crowd...they broke up in 1969 just after recording this album and after three years of English hits and the most indifferent sort of success in America—and "Autumn Stone" is a final English release and very enjoyable indeed.
The Small Faces started as a controllable Who, a hasty group of four mods emerging from the mod movement of 1965. They looked set for a brief, derivative career under an exploitive manager in the time-honored British pop tradition—but they were real mods. They had their own ideas and the song-writing and instrumental abilities to pursue them. They remained derivative, they jumped on every bandwagon, they never did anything startlingly original, but the style of their imitations wasn't show - biz - there's - money - to - be - made - in - this, but London - mod - hey - man - that's - cool. They had a naive eagerness to try everything without understanding anything, and the results had their own appeal.
Their drug song, "Itchycoo Park," is ridiculously coy, but it does capture the joy of getting high. Their folk-rock song. "Just Passing," has wretched words but it is nicely innocent; and even their most arty song, "The Autumn Stone," is saved by its corniness. Whatever they tried to do, in the end their real strength came through. Their songs are all high-powered memorable tunes straight from the mod discotheques.
This is a very English record. The Small Faces didn't look very far for their influences. Steve Marriot, their lead singer, has a very powerful voice (one of the great sights of English rock and roll used to be tiny, neat Steve Marriot opening his mouth slightly and screaming like a dervish) but he had no idea what to do with it and so turned to Steve Winwood for inspiration. It's obvious as well that the band never gave up trying to catch the Who. In the end, one can pick out all the elements of the British pop scene 1965 1968.
The SMALL FACES never really made it, but oh, they "made it." . They lacked an evil genius like Rolling Stones 60's manager Andrew Loog Oldham to discipline and mold their obvious talent (the beautiful, soaring chorus of "Afterglow of Your Love" makes one wish a Phil Spector had got hold of Marriot's voice and given it real power). By themselves the only place the Small Faces could decide to go was after everyone else and they never caught up. But their pursuit was always innocent and enthusiastic, very happy and defiantly infectious—the essence of good rock and roll.
"Autumn Stone" released later in the year of 1969, included the major Immediate recordings, a rare live concert performance, and a number of previously unreleased tracks, including the classic Swinging Sixties groover "Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall" and "Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass", co-written by Ian McLagan. The final single, "Afterglow (Of Your Love)", was released in 1969 after the band had ceased to exist. Since there was no one to promote it, it only reached the UK Singles Chart Top 40. -
- Here then, The Small Faces "Autumn Stone" Immediate Records first pressing,
Never released in the USA
The Autumn Stone
Collibosher
All or Nothing
Red Balloon
Lazy Sunday
Call It Something Nice
I Can't Make It
Afterglow (Of Your Love)
Sha-La-La-La-Lee
The Universal
Rollin' Over
If I Were a Carpenter
Every Little Bit Hurts
My Mind's Eye
Tin Soldier
Just Passing
Itchycoo Park
Hey Girl
Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall
What'cha Gonna Do About It?
Wham Bam Thank You Mam
Donkey rides, penny a glass
All or nothing (live)
Tin soldier (live)
- CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: nice all solid M- top copy fragile BRITISH GATEFOLD. Best '69 BRITISH "Pink" Immediate seen!
- FINAL COLLECTION COPY from 55 years ago !!! Great condition there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
- The vinyl: Rated: M- top copy beauty from 55 years ago,
- So clean ...ALL FOUR U.K. (pink) Immedite 1969 labels are perfect ...
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