Recommend more music like the Faces?

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I’ve been listening to the Faces’ box set Five Guys Walk Into a Bar. I love their loose tinny combination of acoustic and electric guitars, piano, and organ. It feels very warm and cozy and like guys in a comfortable coffee shop or bar.

What else can I get that feel from? I’ve tried some automated recommendations, but I just get very obvious matches like the Rolling Stones, the Who, Van Morrison … mostly stuff based on the era and the broad genre. Nothing with that particular sound or instrumental combination. And all that is stuff I’m already very well acquainted with.

Any ideas?

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Great question, I’d like to know the answer myself.

You might try Ronnie Lane’s solo stuff, for a start…

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The Len Price 3 and The Standard Lamps are two current british bands who have a similar vibe. Both on Spotify here in the UK.

MiM

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Can’t tell from this whether you have or like Rods solo LPs. The first 5 have this kind of music basically, and sometimes it’s famously better.

You know the Sex Pistols sound had a lot of faces inspiration in it. What about those london bands who were around before punk like Cockney Rebel and that?

Have you tried Dave Edmunds and Rockpile?

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Sounds like Wreckless Eric.

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Try Elf, particularly the self-titled first album. Ronnie James Dio on lead vocals, but he wasn’t doing the dungeons & dragons lyrics yet.

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I love that collection. It’s where I first heard their song 3-Button Hand Me Down which I absolutely love.

I am amazed at how Ronnie Wood sounds like a somewhat-more-lead oriented Keith Richards on Faces tracks. Him joining the Stones has always felt like a waste to me because it’s two Keith’s!!!

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Any specific tracks or albums that are your favorites?

I will look for them.

I am well acquainted with Every Picture Tells a Story and some of the singles, but I’ll check out the rest.

Do they actually sound like the or do they sound like the Sex Pistols? I don’t want this playlist to have Sex Pistols-type stuff in it.

Any particular album or track I should start with?

Any particular album or track I should start with?

I’ll check it out. Thanks!

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I’m going to second the Dave Edmunds recommendation:

In particular:

Get it
Tracks on Wax 4
Repeat When Necessary
mmm

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Thanks!

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Ronnie Lane songs you might like: How Come, Annie, Don’t Try’n Change My Mind, One For The Road, One Step… etc…

Re Wreckless Eric, I meant that I thought the Len Price 3 sounded like him. But you could check out his Big Smash record.

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The Rolling Stones, obviously.

Primal Scream - Rocks

The Black Crowes - Remedy

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Broken link fixed.

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I’ll note that I mentioned the Rolling Srines in my OP as one of the common suggestions that doesn’t have what I like about the Faces. So I’m specifically not looking for a Stones sound.

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Supergrass?

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Ronnie Lane’s a good choice, try his first solo album Anymore for Anymore, which has some of the songs mentioned above onit.
Or for the pub rock feel, some early Dr. Feelgood maybe. Great clip from 1975 with 4 live songs here

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I tried Len Price 3. Definitely has none of the warmth and coziness that makes me love the Faces. Totally stressed me out.

There’s something about the Faces that makes it seem less loud and in-your-face than Supergrass. I recall reading something about how modern records are recorded at a uniform top level, or something like that. Maybe that’s something that stresses me out in newer recordings.

(I wonder whether that feeling can be reproduced without that specific instrumentation: guitars, piano, and organ, all together, with the occasional harmonica.)

I listened to bits of the Dr. Feelgood concert. That feels a bit closer. Any album recommendations?

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Dave Edmunds didn’t have what I was looking for either. It felt like super amped-up rockabilly and blues, cold with sharp edges, not warm and soft-focus like the Faces. That’s also my complaint about the Rolling Stones. They’re sharp, not soft.

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You are in for a treat in the Rod Stewart catalog.

The first two LPs have a ton of classics, including gasoline alley, but are restrained.

Never a dull moment is superb. Smliler is where the formula got old. Then he became whatever we think of him now.

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Ooooohhhh!

I got the perfect candidate that sums up this quest of yours. I don’t know how you’re going to feel about my answer, whether you have heard it already, or it will be new to you, but it’s The Replacements: They were huge faces and Rod fans and they are just the greatest US band since…ever. Ever… No jive.

(There is a golden period for the 'mats that is legend: 1984 - 1987, Let it be, Tim. and Pleased to meet me.)