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Artist: The Small Faces
Album: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Genre: British Psychedelia
Source : CD
Method : WAMINU

**Dit is een DTS CD, alleen afspeelbaar op apparatuur die DTS ondersteunt**
**Bij afspelen op stereo-apparatuur zul je alleen ruis horen**
**Ik post alleen meerkanaals surround, geen MP3 of Lossless**

Als je last hebt van teksten die sommige figuren in mijn spots plaatsen, download
dan Spotnet Improver Local. Hiermee kun je op je eigen harde schijf een blacklist
maken, waardoor je de teksten van mensen op die blacklist, niet meer te zien krijgt.
Heb ik ook gedaan en maakt alles wel leuker zo !

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dit aan het feit dat de NZB niet goed over gekomen is in Spotnet. Elke post wordt door
mij gecontroleerd op compleetheid op Usenet, voordat ie op Spotnet geplaatst wordt.
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(freeware) om de files met de gedownloade NZB binnen te halen.

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Review by Bruce Eder AMG

There was no shortage of good psychedelic albums emerging from England in 1967-1968, but 
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is special even within their ranks. The Small Faces had already 
shown a surprising adaptability to psychedelia with the single "Itchycoo Park" and much 
of their other 1967 output, but Ogden's Nut Gone Flake pretty much ripped the envelope. 
British bands had an unusual approach to psychedelia from the get-go, often preferring 
to assume different musical "personae" on their albums, either feigning actual "roles" 
in the context of a variety show (as on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club 
Band album), or simply as storytellers in the manner of the Pretty Things on S.F. Sorrow, 
or actor/performers as on the Who's Tommy. The Small Faces tried a little bit of all of 
these approaches on Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, but they never softened their sound. Side 
one's material, in particular, would not have been out of place on any other Small Faces 
release -- "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" and "Rene" both have a pounding beat from Kenny Jones, 
and Ian McLagan's surging organ drives the former while his economical piano accompaniment 
embellishes the latter; and Steve Marriott's crunching guitar highlights "Song of a Baker." 
Marriott singing has him assuming two distinct "roles," neither unfamiliar -- the Cockney 
upstart on "Rene" and "Lazy Sunday," and the diminutive soul shouter on "Afterglow 
(Of Your Love)" and "Song of a Baker." Some of side two's production is more elaborate, 
with overdubbed harps and light orchestration here and there, and an array of more ambitious 
songs, all linked by a narration by comic dialect expert Stanley Unwin, about a character 
called "Happiness Stan." The core of the sound, however, is found in the pounding 
"Rollin' Over," which became a highlight of the group's stage act during its final days 
-- the song seems lean and mean with a mix in which Ronnie Lane's bass is louder than the 
overdubbed horns. Even "Mad John," which derives from folk influences, has a refreshingly 
muscular sound on its acoustic instruments. Overall, this was the ballsiest-sounding piece 
of full-length psychedelia to come out of England, and it rode the number one spot on the U.K. 
charts for six weeks in 1968, though not without some controversy surrounding advertisements 
by Immediate Records that parodied the Lord's Prayer. Still, Ogden's was the group's crowning 
achievement -- it had even been Marriott's hope to do a stage presentation of Ogden's Nut Gone 
Flake, though a television special might've been more in order. As with most Immediate Records 
releases, it has gone through multiple reissue cycles on vinyl and CD; the original LP came 
in a circular sleeve in keeping with the design of the cover, and was reissued in a more 
convention jacket during the 1970s and early '80s. Most of the CD versions until the 1990s 
were, in keeping with the poor state of the Immediate Records tape library, substandard in 
sound, but since 1994 or so there has been a succession of good-sounding digital remasterings.

Zoals in deze tekst al staat : de CD was in zeer slechte staat door de slechte staat van de mastertapes.
Ik heb deze en de expanded versie gedownload en die laatste was nog slechter. Het leek er op alsof die
expanded versie vanaf een cassette opgenomen was. Terwijl dat toch de CD was van 1994 waarover in de
Engelse tekst gesproken wordt. Een rechtstreekse vergelijking van Lazy Sunday, gaf aan dat de "slechte"
beter was dan die uit 1994. Blijkbaar waren het omgezette MP3's......
Ik heb daarvan 1 track genomen en toegevoegd (14).
Dit waren de slechtste songs qua geluid en stereo die ik ooit ben tegengekomen ! 
Eigenlijk zou je kunnen stellen dat de surround de remaster is van de stereo ;-)
Normaal zou ik niet eens overwegen dit te posten, maar vanwege het historisch belang en het verzoek van
Martin55, heb ik het toch gedaan. 
BTW als ik iets fake stereo noem (voor mij geldt dat voor bv de stem uit het linkerkanaal samen met de
gitaren en uit het rechter de drums en bas, dus geen Center voice) dan is dit daar wel een voorbeeld van !
Vooral track 13 (een Live track) heeft totaal geen stem in het Center !!
Overigens zijn de tracks van "kant 2" wel iets beter. 


Tracks

01   Ogden's Nut Gone Flake  2:28
02   Afterglow (Of Your Love)  3:29
03   Long Agos and Worlds Apart 2:34
04   Rene            4:31
05   Song of a Baker    3:16
06   Lazy Sunday    3:07
07   Happiness Stan    2:37
08   Rollin' Over    2:49
09   The Hungry Intruder   2:15
10   The Journey    4:09
11   Mad John     2:50
12   Happy Days Toy Town  4:18
13   Tin Soldier [live]  3:29
14   Itchycoo Park  2:50