Ascenray:
Listen to this and tell me is this the epitome of your sound or not?
Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend My Baby Gives It Away
BTW what about the Who?
BTW: Aren’t the Kinks better at this stuff than the OP anyway?
I think he wants keyboards.
I love the Kinks, but they don’t sound like the Faces.
So far I’m liking the Rod Stewart stuff. It fits perfectly.
I love the Who, but it’s not the same sound. I’m well acquainted with Rough Mix. It sounds more like a Who album to me.
I’m adding the Replacements to the playlist.
Has to be Stupidity. It’s a live album of them at their peak, and was the first live album to reach #1 in the charts in the UK.
I saw them live at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in September 1976, after it had been recorded but before it was released, and they were incredible. One of the best gigs I’ve been to.
There’s also a fun documentary about them called Oil City Confidential (trailer)
Okay, Grease Band and Feelgood going on the list.
Does something like “Berkeley Mews” come close at all?
I like the Kinks, but to me they’re very polished and precise and cerebral, as opposed to loose and emotional, which is what I hear in the Faces.
Elf is sounding pretty good so far.
I just heard “30 Days in the Hole” by Humble Pie. This sounds promising.
I assume you’ve listened to some Small Faces stuff - Marriott left them and formed Humble Pie and the others morphed into the Faces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood joining them from the Jeff Beck Group… ( in the US they still used the name Small Faces initially)
Anyway, here’s Itchycoo Park, probably their best known song.
Try Somebody Get Me a Doctor.
Or maybe even I Don’t Need No Doctor
My fave is “I went to the Dr but it turned out I was OK. Phew”
Dammit. :smack: Thank you.
Note to self: Steve Marriott was not in Van Halen.
Think Steve Marriott: Small Faces > Humble Pie.
Dr Feelgood is also a good shout. A cope of decent pieces by Brinsley Schwarz/Nick Lowe, Ian Dury/Blockheads when they were Kilburn and the High Roads - a lot of early Stiff records is worth a punt. Perhaps bits of Graham Parker and the Rumour …
What about early Slade? In the end, the Faces were a blues-based English pub-band. Slade would be a bit harder edged - and more glamily dressed - but if there was ever a pub band that punched above their weight it would be Slade.
Try the LP Old, New, Borrowed and Blue from 1974.
Steve Marriott here >> - YouTube
Proper east London working class punchup, sorry gig.
Just discovered Bombay Beach Revival — null - YouTube — wow!
They’re a little harder edged than the Faces classic stuff but definitely have that loose bluesy bar band feel with occasional organ.
Love it!
This thread!
You might like to try Heads, Hands and Feet, from the early 70s. This is their UK hit.
The bass player went on to be one half (Chas) of extremely London rooted pup rockers Chas & Dave.