Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake cover

Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake

Released

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

Recommended by

Suggestions
Stone the Crows cover

Stone the Crows

Stone the Crows
Shady Grove cover

Shady Grove

Quicksilver Messenger Service
Groovin’ cover

Groovin’

The Young Rascals
The Twain Shall Meet cover

The Twain Shall Meet

Eric Burdon & The Animals
Tomorrow cover

Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Keith West
Everybody’s Here cover

Everybody’s Here

Lost And Found