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Small Faces - Small Faces (1966)

Track listing:
  1. Shake 2:55
  2. Come On Children 4:22
  3. You Better Believe It 2:20
  4. It's Too Late 2:38
  5. One Night Stand 1:51
  6. What'cha Gonna Do About It 2:00
  7. Sorry She's Mine 2:50
  8. Own Up Time 1:48
  9. You Need Loving 4:00
  10. Don't Stop What You Are Doing 1:56
  11. E Too D 3:03
  12. Sha La La La Lee 3:02
  13. What's A Matter Baby [Bonus] 2:55
  14. I've Got Mine [Bonus] 2:55
  15. Grow Your Own [Bonus] 2:20
  16. Almost Grown [Bonus] 3:04
  17. What'cha Gonna Do About It [Bonus] 2:12
  18. What's A Matter Baby [Bonus] 2:56
  19. Shake [Bonus] 2:55
  20. Come On Children [Bonus] 3:31
  21. You Better Believe It [Bonus] 2:52
  22. Own Up Time [Bonus] 2:30
  23. E Too D [Bonus] 3:18
  24. Don't Stop What You Are Doing [Bonus] 2:05
  25. Come On Children [Bonus] 3:23

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Size: 145 MB
Bitrate: 256
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Ripped by: ChrisGoesRock
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Source: Japan SHM-CD Remaster

Small Faces is the debut album of the Small Faces, released in 1966. It includes the hit singles "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" and "Sha-La-La-La-Lee". The album was well received by music critics and fans alike and rose to number three in the UK album chart remaining at the top for several weeks.

This CD and the accompanying 1996 reissue of From the Beginning make collecting the Small Faces' Decca sides complicated, containing as it does many tracks that are not on the anthology double disc. The new remastering has turned this into a must-own disc for anyone who enjoys the early Rolling Stones or, especially, the early Who, and wants to hear a British Invasion band as good as they were that never quite made it in the U.S., and which could have crossed swords with any garage band you care to name and carried the day. In those days, Steve Marriott had an even more soulful voice than Mick Jagger or Roger Daltrey; the main influences on the group were Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, and he was pretty formidable on guitar as well.

The songs all have that really cool crunchy sound on the early Who records, except the sound is a little fuller and the tempos are better conceived, and there's even a pretty impressive bit of feedback throughout. The French EP tracks that comprise this disc's bonus songs are all distinctly different from the standard cuts, generally much rawer — like real American-style garage band stuff — including a feedback-laden opening to a completely different take of "What'cha Gonna Do About It" and totally different versions of "Shake" and "E Too D." The sound on these cuts isn't quite up to the original album's 12 established tracks, as master tapes were impossible to find, but they — and the improved sound of the rest — make this a must-own CD, even more than The Decca Anthology.

01."Shake" (Sam Cooke) 2:55
02."Come on Children" (Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott, Jimmy Winston) 4:20
03."You'd Better Believe It" (Kenny Lynch, Jerry Ragovoy) 2:19
04."It's Too Late" (Jones, Lane, Marriott, Winston) 2:37
05."One Night Stand" (Lane, Marriott) 1:50
06."Whatcha Gonna Do About It" (Lane, Marriot) 1:59
07."Sorry She's Mine" (Kenny Lynch) 2:48
08."Own Up Time" (Jones, Lane, Marriott, Ian McLagan) 1:47
09."You Need Loving" (Lane, Marriott) 3:59
10."Don't Stop What You're Doing" (Jones, Lane, Marriott, McLagan) 1:55
11."E Too D" (Lane, Marriott) 3:02
12."Sha-La-La-La-Lee" (Kenny Lynch, Mort Shuman) 2:56

Bonus:
13. What's a Matter Baby
14. I've Got Mine
15. Grown Your Own
16. Almost Grown
17. Hey Girl
18. What'cha Gonna Do About It - (French EP Version)
19. Come on Children - (French EP Version)
20. Shake - (French EP Version)
21. Own up Time - (Extended Version)
22. E Too D - (French EP Version)
23. Hey Girl