The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - IMMACULATE MINT 1975 UK Pressing LP

	£		41
	$		54

Artist & Title: Small Faces ?– Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

Scarce IMMACULATE MINT 1975 UK PRESSING 12-track vinyl LP on the white Immediate label in the original MINT fold-out circular cover that has only been opened twice since new. Both the record and cover (which have been kept in a sealed plastic sleeve since bought) are in as-new Flawless Mint condition and the sound is as wonderful as ever. See pics. A superb collector’s copy of the Small Faces’ breakthrough album.
Highly desirable for its immaculate Mint condition, and increasingly difficult to find in ANY kind of condition. This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Immediate ?– IML 1001

Release date: 1975

Overall Grade: Mint/Mint (LP/Cover)

Matrix (Runout): Side 1: IM#L•1001•A1    Side 2: IM#L•1001•B1

Notes:
On label: ? 1968 Immediate
An Original Immediate Recording
Marketed By NEMS Records

This amazing LP from the Small Faces is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“The concept album mixes heavy rock, psychedelia, soul, and sheer cheekiness into a mélange that is truly addictive. Stanley Unwin’s narration, is without question a triumph of boldness, surrealism and musical bravura.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine flawless MINT CONDITION 1975 UK pressing. The record and cover are both in immaculate mint condition. All items are free from any major defects. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1975, not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original 1975 UK stereo LP, which was only played once or twice on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“This album is a masterpiece. That cannot be denied. The first half is salt of the earth sixties Mod RnB. This is the type of stuff that the Small Faces cut their teeth on. If you don't own this piece of rock history you should be ashamed”

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake was a successful concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968 the LP became a number one hit in the UK Album Charts on 29 June where it remained for a total of six weeks.
The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogdens' Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco which was produced in Liverpool from 1899.
Side One is a mix of early heavy rock with "Song of a Baker"; psychedelic cockney knees-up songs "Lazy Sunday" and "Rene", the opening instrumental title track (which resembles their second single "I've Got Mine", which was a flop in 1965), and the soul influenced ballad "Afterglow", as it is called on the LP, but is titled "Afterglow of Your Love" on the subsequent single and some compilations.
Side Two is based on an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, narrated in his unique ‘Unwinese’ gobbledegook by Stanley Unwin, who picked up modern slang from the band and incorporated it into the surreal narrative.

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of music history in this condition.

 “From the opening track this is one amazing album - so much talent. Late 60s British rock at its best.”

There was no shortage of good psychedelic albums emerging from England in 1967-1968, but Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is special even within their ranks. The Small Faces had already shown a surprising adaptability to psychedelia with the single "Itchycoo Park" and much of their other 1967 output, but Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake pretty much ripped the envelope. British bands had an unusual approach to psychedelia from the get-go, often preferring to assume different musical "personae" on their albums, either feigning actual "roles" in the context of a variety show (as on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album), or simply as storytellers in the manner of the Pretty Things on S.F. Sorrow, or actor/performers as on the Who's Tommy. The Small Faces tried a little bit of all of these approaches on Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, but they never softened their sound. Side one's material, in particular, would not have been out of place on any other Small Faces release -- "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" and "Rene" both have a pounding beat from Kenny Jones, and Ian McLagan's surging organ drives the former while his economical piano accompaniment embellishes the latter; and Steve Marriott's crunching guitar highlights "Song of a Baker." Marriott singing has him assuming two distinct "roles," neither unfamiliar -- the Cockney upstart on "Rene" and "Lazy Sunday," and the diminutive soul shouter on "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" and "Song of a Baker." Some of side two's production is more elaborate, with overdubbed harps and light orchestration here and there, and an array of more ambitious songs, all linked by a narration by comic dialect expert Stanley Unwin, about a character called "Happiness Stan." The core of the sound, however, is found in the pounding "Rollin' Over," which became a highlight of the group's stage act during its final days -- the song seems lean and mean with a mix in which Ronnie Lane's bass is louder than the overdubbed horns. Even "Mad John," which derives from folk influences, has a refreshingly muscular sound on its acoustic instruments. Overall, this was the ballsiest-sounding piece of full-length psychedelia to come out of England, and it rode the number one spot on the UK charts for six weeks in 1968, though not without some controversy surrounding advertisements by Immediate Records that parodied the Lord's Prayer. Still, Ogdens' was the group's crowning achievement -- it had even been Marriott's hope to do a stage presentation of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, though a television special might've been more in order.

“Overall, this was the ballsiest-sounding piece of full-length psychedelia to come out of England, and it rode the number one spot on the UK charts for six weeks in 1968.”

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album and the Small faces all over the web.

I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

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£4 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the Rest of the World.

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