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Product Description ------------------- 2003 compilation featuring 50 remastered tracks on two discs, 'The Decca Sessions' & 'The Immediate Sessions'. All their hits including 'All Or Nothing', 'Lazy Sunday', 'Sha-La-La-Lee', 'Itchycoo Park', 'Here Comes the Nice', 'Tin Soldier', & many more. Slipcase. Sanctuary. .co.uk ------ The Ultimate Collection is the first comprehensive retrospective of the Small Faces' recorded legacy. Crucially, this stunning 50-track, double-CD set is the first to feature both Decca (disc one) and Immediate (disc two) material and it's also the first to be fully sanctioned by the surviving members of the band. All 14 of the Small Faces UK singles are here, along with 12 B-sides and an astute selection of album tracks. The Decca disc, 1965–67, finds the sartorially sharp quartet majoring in amphetamine-fuelled R&B ed directly at mod dance floors. Especially ace are the debut 45 "What'cha Gonna Do About It", its pivotal riff cheekily pilfered from the Solomon Burke ( /exec/obidos/artist-search/Solomon%20Burke/${0} ) soul shouter "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", and the organ-propelled instrumental, "Grow Your Own", which melds sonic savagery to a Booker T & The MGs ( /exec/obidos/artist-search/Booker%20T/${0} ) groove. Disc two, 1967–69, highlights the band's unique brand of Cockney music-hall psych, best exemplified by proto Brit-pop anthem "Lazy Sunday" and various cuts culled from their brilliantly bonkers concept album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000076LM/${0} ). This is undoubtedly the ultimate Small Faces collection. --Chris King P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review ------ Together from 1965 to 1969, the Small Faces were the embodiment of Sixties London: four plucky, diminutive rascals from the East End, as wide as the Thames and as deep as the kitchen sink, rich in humour, impudence and high-octane energy. Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Ian 'Mac' McLagan and Kenney Jones were pop's Bash Street Kids: naughty boys climbing the school railings and thumbing their noses at the establishment. They helped invent what we now think of as the Swinging Sixties, and this double CD tells their story. Crucially, this is the first compilation to draw on the entire Small Faces back catalogue. It's all here, from the raw power of their early R'n'B releases, such as ''Watcha Gonna Do About It?'' and ''Sha-la-la-la-lee'' to their unique brand of late-Sixties Cockney psychedelia, typified by the sing-a-longa hits ''Itchicoo Park'' and ''Lazy Sunday''. All fourteen singles are included, along with most of their B-sides, plus a stash of tracks from their albums From the Beginning (1966), Small Faces (1967), the classic Ogdens Nut Gone Flake (1968) and the posthumous round up of hits and misses, The Autumn Stone. The first CD, spanning the Decca years, emphasises what great songwriters Marriott and Lane were so early in their career. ''One Night Stand'' and ''I Can't Dance With You'' are superior versions of the blue-eyed R'n'B that so many beat groups of the period were producing. The influence of the Small Faces on the pop to come is clear: ''E too D'' has Steve Marriott rasping the blues like a young Robert . The band's releases on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label make up the second CD. Here are the classic late-Sixties singles, ''Here Comes the Nice'', ''Tin Soldier'', ''Itchycoo Park'' and ''Lazy Sunday'' (how ''The Universal'' ever made it to seven-inch, though, is a mystery). The epic ''Afterglow (of Your Love)'' is, perhaps, Marriott's strongest vocal performance and ''The Autumn Stone'' one of his most tender moments. His tongue is firmly in cheek on the music-hall knees-up ''Happydaystoytown''. Mustn't grumble, though. ''Green Circles'' and ''Up the Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire'', from Small Faces, are classic British psychedelia. ''Get Yourself Together'' and ''Talk To You'', the flip to ''Here Comes the Nice'', are sound rockers with terrific hooks. If all you know is ''Itchycoo Park'', bunk off school with this collection. It's all too beautiful... --Rob Webb Find more music at the BBC ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/syn//albumreviews/-/music/ ) This link will take you off in a new window See more ( javascript:void(0) )