Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. What'cha Gonna Do About It
2. What's A Matter Baby
3. I've Got Mine
4. It's Too Late
5. Sha La La La Lee
6. Grow Your Own
7. Hey Girl
8. Almost Grown
9. Shake
10. Come On Children
11. You'd Better Believe It
12. One Night Stand
13. Sorry She's Mine
14. Own Up Time
15. You Need Loving
16. Don't Stop What You're Doing
17. E Too D

Disc 2:

1. All Or Nothing
2. Understanding
3. My Mind's Eye
4. I Can't Dance With You
5. Just Passing
6. Patterns
7. Runaway
8. Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
9. That Man
10. My Way Of Giving
11. Tell Me Have You Ever Seen Me
12. Take This Hurt Off Me
13. Baby Don't You Do It
14. Plum Nellie
15. You've really got a hold on me
16. Give Her My Regards - Steve Marriott
17. Imaginary Love - Steve Marriott
18. Sorry She's Mine - Jimmy Winston And His Reflections
19. It's Not What You Do (But The Way That You Do It) - Jimmy Winston And His Reflections

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112453 in Music
• Released on: 1996-04-29
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 91 minutes

Customer Reviews

Small faces great first steps as a mod r'n'b band
A brilliant chance to hear the small faces as a rhythm and blues mod band before they got signed to the indie label immediate and went all hippy. Disc 1 is has a more beaty edge to the tracks, the trademark hammond sound cutting through on amazing tracks such as "grow your own" and "almost grown" two instrumentals proving how good the musicianship was in the band.Not many hits on this album and a good percentage of them are covers, but the unique sound of marriots voice leaves you excited on the r'n'b tracks just wanting more. Disc 2 shows how they gradually progressed from mod stompers to harmony kings.The tracks are a good blueprint of future material, such as odgens nut gone flake, but the tunes are a little on the weak side. The tale end of the album includes steve marriots first solo attempts pre faces and some jimmy winstons offerings( the 1st keyboard player). Overall if you like a bit of mod, hammond and r'n'b, buy this. If you like lazy sunday, then buy some of their later stuff.

Now thats what I call blue-eyed soul!
I've loved the Small Faces for a few years now, which begs the question why I hadn't heard a lot of these songs, one reason is before the compilation explosion of this bands material on CD, it was usually just the Decca A-sides i. e. All or Nothing etc. that you would get to hear. The Decca Anthology is a must have for any Small Faces fan who isn't fortunate enough to have all the original albums and singles from the first part of their career. The band sound fantastic, and although the later immediate stuff is incredible, this shows Steve and the boys at a no nonsense, get down to business phase. Great Hammond, great vocals great everything! Even more amazing, as pointed out in the sleeve notes, they were only 19 on a lot of the recordings???? Buy this CD!