Small Faces

Not just a relic from the Summer of Love, the Small Faces' Ogden Nut Gone Flake was one of the very first rock concept albums, standing alongside the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's and the Who's Who Sell Out. Centered around the spacey single " Itchycoo Park ," this disc was one of the foundations of psychedelic rock, with its woozy organ fills, shimmering guitars, clever druggy lyrics and muscular playing, all of which works with the loopy fairy tale about a young man who befriends a fly and goes in search of the lost half of the moon.

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake ! ! ! ! ! (The one and only). It's wonderful, it's great, it's fabulous,
and it's real ! ! ! ! ! It's full of fairy takes and groovy afternoons, of giant kissable flies and
love, and mostly lots of happiness and joy. "Brightest Selection" the front cover says and so
it is, the brightest and craziest rock in too long of a time. But to begin, a few basic facts:
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is the name or a record manufactured by the Small Face... More >