Faces - First Step (1970)

Artist...............: Faces
Album................: First Step
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 1970 [Rem. 2010]
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: Flac
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 318 Mb


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The notorious sloppiness of the Faces was apparent on their debut, almost moreso on the cover than on the

music, as the group was stilled billed as the Small Faces on this 1970 debut although without Steve

Marriott in front, and with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood in tow, they were no longer Small. They were now

larger than life, or at least mythic, because it's hard to call an album that concludes with a riotous ode

to a hand-me-down suit as larger than life. That was the charm of the Faces, a group who always seemed like

the boys next door made good, no matter where next door was. Part of the reason they seemed so relatable

was that legendary messiness - after all, it's hard not to love somebody if they so openly displayed their

flaws - but on their debut, it was hard not to see the messiness as merely the result of the old Faces

getting accustomed to the new guys. Fresh from their seminal work with Jeff Beck, Rod and Ron bring a

healthy dose of Beck's powerful bastardized blues, bracingly heard on the opening cover of "Wicked

Messenger," but there's a key difference here; without Beck's guitar genius, this roar doesn't sound quite

so titanic, it hits in the gut. That can also be heard and Rod and Woody's "Around the Plynth," or "Three

Button Hand Me Down," which is ragged rocking at its finest. Combine that with Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan

finding their ways as songwriters in the wake of the Small Faces' mod implosion, and this goes in even more

directions. Lane unveils his gentle, folky side on "Stone," McLagan kicks in "Looking Out the Window" and

"Three Button Hand Me Down." All these are moments that are good, often great, but the record doesn't quite

gel, yet that doesn't quite matter. the Faces is a band that proves that sometimes loose ends are as great

as tidiness, that living in the moment is what's necessary, and this First Step is a record filled with

individual moments, each one to be savored.




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01. Wicked Messenger
02. Devotion
03. Shake Shudder Shiver
04. Stone
05. Around The Plynth
06. Flying
07. Pineapple And The Monkey
08. Nobody Knows
09. Looking Out The Window
10. Three Button Hand Me Down