Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968) [3CD Deluxe Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 588 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 277 MB | Covers - 337 MB
Genre: Psychedelic/Garage Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sanctuary Records (276 523-5)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 588 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 277 MB | Covers - 337 MB
Genre: Psychedelic/Garage Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sanctuary Records (276 523-5)
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…