Faces - The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep
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Artist: FacesBrand: FACES
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Flying
- Three Button Hand Me Down
- Wicked Messenger
- Sweet Lady Mary
- Bad 'N' Ruin
- Had Me a Real Good Time
- Debris
- Miss Judy's Farm
- You're So Rude
- Too Bad
- Love Lives Here
- Stay With Me
- Cindy Incidentally
- Glad and Sorry
- Borstal Boys
- Ooh la La
- Pool Hall Richard
- You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk,
- Open to Ideas [#]
Free Music Notes for The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep
Free Music Review: best they could do
Hit: 5 Stars
I always loved bands like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, or the Who, but avoided Rod Stewart because he kind of sucks nowadays. Then, I randomly picked up Jeff Beck's "Truth" and was introduced to early Rod Stewart and the Faces. While I think the Faces rocked just as hard as the Stones or Who (except they sound like they are having much more fun), the early Rod Stewart lyrics are so honest and full of substance, I think if he had not sold out, he could have rivaled Bob Dylan as rock's greatest poet.
Thus, the best songs are those that combine Rod Stewart's honest lyrical side with straight forward rock -- Bad N' Ruin, Sweet Lady Mary, Three Button Hand Me Down. The drunker, philandering, almost sexist, blusy side seen in Too Bad, Stay with Me, Borstal Boys, and Had Me a Real Good Time are fun and exciting rock, but unfortunately foreshadow the Rod Stewart of the late 1970's (thank god Silicone Grown is left off this compilation).
A Faces compilation presents a problem. One CD (80 minutes) is not enough time to showcase all of the highlights, yet 2 CDs would make the collection more expensive (and less accessable) and may have made a "best of" rambling and directionless.
With that said, this CD is excellent and the best they could do. While some omissions are regrettable (espicially Maybe I'm Amazed and Memphis), others are forgiveable (like My Fault or Richmond).
This CD is a rarity in compliations. It includes the Faces most obviously best songs (Too Bad, Bad N' Ruin, Stay with Me, etc.) with others that showcase the range of talents for the band; others that will hopefully introduce this wonderful band and early Rod Stewart CDs to a new generation. If I had to put together a Faces greatest hits CD, this is, with one or two exceptions, *exactly* how I would have done it. Well done, Rhino!
PS -- As a side note, the Faces performed as a band on several Rod Stewart solo albums; I wish the songs could be on a Faces compilation.
The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep Poster
This wonderful 19 track collection includes all their hits and favourites including Stay With Me, Cindy Incidentally, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything, Pool Hall Richard and 'Ooh La La'.Best known for their alumni (Rod Stewart, the Stones' Ron Wood, the Who's Kenny Jones), the Faces' brief early '70s run was as musically rewarding as it was boozy and sideshow spectacular. A revamped, bluesier edition of '60s English pop notables the Small Faces, the Faces established a rollicking musical identity that threatened to overshadow the Stones at their own game. Though the group dissolved under the pressures of Stewart's burgeoning solo career and Wood's recruitment into comfortable career Stonedom, the Faces were about much more than just individual talents. The folksy vulnerability of the late bassist, songwriter, and vocalist Ronnie Lane (well-represented here by "Debris" and "Ooh La La") kept the lads close to roots both geographical and class, while keyboardist Ian McLagen alternated between barrelhouse-boogie and Hammond B-3 soulfulness and Jones loosely locked into irresistible grooves. They could pillage Motown ("Three Button Hand Me Down") and Chuck Berry ("Cindy Incidentally") for riffs, and turn from countrified blues ("Sweet Lady Mary") to the breakneck boogie of "Too Bad" in a heartbeat. They may have been cheated of hits, but the Faces' music remains warm, heartfelt, and enthusiastic--a legacy that's aged much better than the cheap hootch they once drowned themselves in. --Jerry McCulley
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