Right from their very first releases, The Small Faces always included one or two great r'n'b instrumentals on their records, and they weren't just filler, but really sounded like the band were having a great time recording them. I've collected them all together for this album, and added in a few backing tracks which actually sound like completed instrumental recordings, as well as a couple of run-throughs which the band never got around to adding lyrics to at a later date. The cover is based on the December 1966 issue of 'Beat Instrumental' magazine.
Track listing
01 Own Up Time (1966)02 Grow Your Own (1966)03 Plum Nellie (1967)04 Almost Grown (1967)05 Talk To You (1967)06 I Can't Make It (1967)07 All Our Yesterdays (1967)08 Happy Boys Happy (1967)09 Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968)10 The Fly (1968)11 Kamikhazi (1968)12 The Hungry Intruder (1968)13 War Of The Worlds (1969)14 Collibosher (1969)15 The Pig's Trotters (1969)16 Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall (1969)
These songs were recorded by The Small Faces in 1968 ready for their fourth album release. However, before it could be finalised the band split, with half of them joining Rod Stewart to form The Faces, and Steve Marriott joining Humble Pie. '1862' therefore became the stuff of legend, with various songs slipping out over the following years, either as singles, or as tracks on the 'Autumn Stone' compilation. The album would have been a fine epitaph for the band if it had been released just after they split, but instead it’s been hidden away for 50 years, so now is the time for a re-evaluation.
Track listing
01 Don't Burst My Bubble02 The Universal03 Every Little Bit Hurts04 Collibosher05 Call It Something Nice06 The War Of The Worlds07 The Autumn Stone08 Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall09 Red Balloon10 Wham Bam, Thank You Mam11 Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass
I've edited the tracks at the suggestion of the person who compiled the tracklisting, so that some segue nicely into each other, and to my ears it sounds pretty good.
