Fаces: 5x SHM-CDs cоllection (1970-1976)
Fаces: 5x SHM-CDs cоllection (1970-1976) [Japanese Limited Release]
5x EAC-FLAC Tracks with CUEs & LOGs - 1,4 GB | Full Scans | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 481 MB
Rock / Blues Rock | TT - 208:37 minutes | Label: Warner Music Japan | Remaster 2010
5x EAC-FLAC Tracks with CUEs & LOGs - 1,4 GB | Full Scans | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 481 MB
Rock / Blues Rock | TT - 208:37 minutes | Label: Warner Music Japan | Remaster 2010
This mini-LP reissue series featuring complete studio discographie from the Faces: the albums "First Step", "Long Player", "A Nod Is As Good As A Wink... To A Blind Horse", "Ooh La La", and "Snakes And Ladders". The reissue faithfully replicates the original UK jacket artwork and features Japanese obi-strip. Featuring the 2010 digital remastering.
Faces (sometimes known as The Faces) are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie. The remaining Small Faces - Ronnie Lane (bass guitar), Ian McLagan (keyboards) and Kenney Jones (drums & percussion) - were joined by Ronnie Wood (guitar) and Rod Stewart (lead vocals), both from The Jeff Beck Group, and the new line-up was renamed Faces.
Faces released four studio albums and toured regularly until the autumn of 1975, although Stewart simultaneously pursued a solo recording career, and during the band's final year Wood also toured with The Rolling Stones, whom he later joined.
all music.com says:
When Steve Marriott left the Small Faces in 1969, the three remaining members brought in guitarist Ron Wood and lead singer Rod Stewart to complete the lineup and changed their name to the Faces, which was only appropriate since the group now only slightly resembled the mod-pop group of the past. Instead, the Faces were a rough, sloppy rock & roll band, able to pound out a rocker like "Had Me a Real Good Time," a blues ballad like "Tell Everyone," or a folk number like "Richmond" all in one album. Stewart, already becoming a star in his own right, let himself go wild with the Faces, tearing through covers and originals with abandon. While his voice didn't have the power of Stewart, bassist Ronnie Lane's songs were equally as impressive and eclectic. Wood's rhythm guitar had a warm, fat tone that was as influential and driving as Keith Richards' style.
Notorious for their hard-partying, boozy tours and ragged concerts, the Faces lived the rock & roll lifestyle to the extreme. When Stewart's solo career became more successful than the Faces, the band slowly became subservient to his personality; after their final studio album, Ooh La La, in 1973, Lane left the band. After a tour in 1974, the band called it quits. Wood joined the Rolling Stones, drummer Kenny Jones eventually became part of the Who, and keyboardist Ian McLagan became a sought-after supporting musician; Stewart became a superstar, although he never matched the simple charm of the Faces.
While they were together, the Faces never sold that many records and were never considered as important as the Stones, yet their music has proven extremely influential over the years. Many punk rockers in the late '70s learned how to play their instruments by listening to Faces records; in the '80s and '90s, guitar rock bands from the Replacements to the Black Crowes took their cue from the Faces as much as the Stones. Their reckless, loose, and joyous spirit stayed alive in much of the best rock & roll of the subsequent decades.
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