Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (1968)

[Album 677/1001]

Added to my if-only-disposable-income-were-infinite wish-list: an original copy of Small Faces’ Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake.

The reason? I gather the packaging was designed to look like a tobacco tin, and thus, was both round & metal.

Which was, regrettably, an impractical design for record packaging.

As circular objects tend to roll, I understand these LPs were prone to rolling off the shelves. And in this case, not in a desirable, selling quickly / flying off the shelves idiom kind of way!

So they were replaced with regular (and less likely to roll) quadrilateral packaging on subsequent printings.

But how great would it be to have that original packaging in the collection!

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I get a real Abbey Road vibe when listening to Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake.

Or I suppose, vice versa, given the release dates.

The running orders are consistent, with 6 tracks on side 1 and a marathon medley on side 2.

This side 1 features a couple of upbeat ditties, Rene & Lazy Sunday. I imagine if someone was looking to complain about something, those would likely be the offending tracks (though they likely aren’t quite as polarizing as Maxwell’s Silver Hammer & Octopus’s Garden).

If you ask me however, I’ve always loved Maxwell & Octopus, so Rene & Lazy Sunday were the side 1 standouts for me!

Side 2’s medley is a neat journey as well, even if I don’t have the foggiest idea what the narrator is saying between the tracks.

Now is it as good as Abbey Road?

It’s probably too early in my Small Faces education for it to be a fair comparison.

But considering that Abbey Road is in my All-time Top 15, hopefully Small Faces would interpret being repeatedly mentioned in the same sentences as high praise!

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Verbalize the Positive

Happy Thanksgiving Monday to all!