Small Faces' "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" LP art

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briarfriar

Can't Leave
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It would go on to sit for six weeks at No. 1 on the U.K. charts, but released on this date fifty years ago is the Small Faces' Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake LP.
In its initial release, the album was packaged in a mock tobacco tin (pipers everywhere should get the joke) that literally was a circular metal container with oversize folded paper as one finds in a pipe tobacco tin. It proved to be too expensive and impractical, so later releases were packaged in conventional cardboard album covers. A compact disc re-issue also was marketed in a mock Ogdens tin.
It was the Small Faces concept album, telling the fairy tale of a man who sees the half moon, and goes searching for its missing half.

 

btp79

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Jan 27, 2018
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Yep this album and Piper at the Gates of Dawn were my go to in college during the late 90's. I was also a pretty big fan of Blue Cheer.

 

dottiewarden

Lifer
Mar 25, 2014
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Nice little tidbit of rock trivia related to pipe smoking.

Great album cover art and a great band.
Recently I've been listening to Itchycoo Park.
You can miss out school, won't that be cool?

Why go to learn the words of fools?

 
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