Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake cover

Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake

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A 1968 concept album from one of the UK’s most idiosyncratic sixties rock outfits, The Small Faces. You get majestic psychedelic Hammond-rock instrumentals, raw, soul-rock ballads like ‘Afterglow’ and proto-heavy metal like ‘Song Of A Baker’. Then in complete contrast, they include tracks that rock writer Bob Stanely called ‘cosmic music-hall’, such as ‘Rene’, which begins as a Victorian music hall-style romp before morphing into a heavy rocking freakout, a trick repeated on their well known cockney anthem ‘Lazy Sunday’. A joyous, free and fascinating musical snapshot of late 60s UK rock music. 

Harold Heath

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