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The Faces: The Best Of - Good Boys When They're Asleep - 1999Mp3 (320 kbps): 224 Mb | Scans | Rar Files (3% Recovery)Audio CD (August 17, 1999) - Label: Warner Archives/Rhino - Number of Discs: 1 - Catalog Number: 8122-75830-2 - Source: eMuleRock, Pop/RockProduct Description: Recorded between 1970 and 1975. Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot (DigiPrep). Includes liner notes by Dave Marsh. Compilation producers: Ian McLagan, Patrick Milligan, Gary Stewart.This best-of collection celebrates all the endearing strengths of the Faces. After the Small Faces lost founder Steve Marriott, they shortened their name and added the lanky duo of Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. Their four studio albums were released in three years at the beginning of the '70s. The band combined a bracing mix of confidence and innocence, as well as the casual abandon of their playing and songwriting smarts. The Faces toured constantly, making the stage their home, and in between tours they'd record their albums, then get right back out on the road. This set culls the wonderful highlights from those albums along with a few selections from their short tenure after Ronnie Lane departed the band. As rough-and-tumble as the band sometimes sounds, there's never a note here that doesn't sound completely honest. For anyone unfamiliar with the pleasures to be had from the Faces, start here.Reviews #1: Twenty years after their breakup, the Faces remained one of the most beloved bands in rock history, but it wasn't until 1999 that they were rewarded with a genuine collection, one that worked as an introduction while satisfying the dedicated with a truly listenable, terrific album. Not that the 19-track Good Boys When They're Asleep: Best of Faces contains everything worthwhile from the band -- the absence of the extraordinary live version of Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" is the most egregious omission, and there are a number of remarkable songs missing as well -- but it's hard to quibble with anything that is here. As a matter of fact, listening to Good Boys When They're Asleep is quite a thrilling ride, since it emphasizes their two sides -- the rowdy, party-addled rockers and the melancholy ballads. Collectors will be happy to have the previously unreleased "Open to Ideas," along with the non-LP selections "Pool Hall Richard" and "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything," but the real news about the disc is that it offers a genuine retrospective that's every bit as good as the band itself, while arguably being a better, more cohesive record than any of the original albums. For longtime fans, as well as neophytes who have read about the Faces but never dived into the records, it's an album that's worth the wait. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide#2: The Faces never got the respect (or the audience) they deserved. Despite the fact that they cracked the U.S. Top Forty only once--"Stay with Me," No. 17 in 1972--over a brief three-year period in the early seventies they produced some of the most raucus, ballsy rock 'n' roll of the era. Listen to bands like the Georgia Sattelites and the Black Crowes and you'll hear that they owe as much to the Faces as they do to the Rolling Stones. This 19-track collection covers the Faces' entire four studio album career--nothing from the live Coast To Coast recorded after bassist Ronnie Lane left the band. You get three songs from First Step and Long Player, six from A Nod Is As Good As a Wink and four from Ooh La La. In addition you get "Pool Hall Richard" and "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything" (which was previously available only on the long out-of-print Snakes and Ladders: The Best of the Faces from 1976) and the previously unreleased "Open to Ideas." Keep in mind, this is only a compilation and as such some of your favorite tracks are going to be missing. [Personally, I would have liked to have had "Around the Plynth" from First Step, and "Richmond" and "Maybe I'm Amazed" from Long Player.] What you do get is the entire range of the Faces' repertoire: classic rockers like "Stay with Me" and "Bad 'n' Ruin" and tender ballads like "Sweet Lady Mary" and "Debris." Conflicting egos couldn't hold the band together. By 1973 Ronnie Lane left to form Slim Chance. Rod Stewart's solo career was taking off. Ron Wood would soon become Mick Taylor's replacement in the Rolling Stones. What is left behind is some terrific rock 'n' roll. Start with this well-chosen collection, but you'll want to go back and also get their other albums because after hearing these 19 songs, you'll be wanting more. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ~ Amazon CustomerTrack Listing:01 - Flying - 4:1902 - Three Button Hand Me Down - 5:4503 - Wicked Messenger - 4:0904 - Sweet Lady Mary - 5:5105 - Bad 'n' Ruin - 5:2606 - Had Me A Real Good Time - 5:5407 - Debris - 4:3408 - Miss Judy's Farm - 3:4009 - You're So Rude - 3:4310 - Too Bad - 3:1311 - Love Lives Here - 3:0712 - Stay With Me - 4:4013 - Cindy Incidentally - 2:4014 - Glad & Sorry - 3:0715 - Borstal Boys - 2:5516 - Ooh La La - 3:3517 - Pool Hall Richard - 4:2618 - You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything - 4:2219 - Open to Ideas - 4:00Personnel: Ron Wood (vocals, guitar, harmonica, background vocals); Ronnie Lane (vocals, guitar, tambourine, background vocals); Rod Stewart (vocals); Ian McLagan (piano, harmonium, Clavinet); Kenney Jones (drums, percussion).
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