The Small Faces - All or Nothing - Non-Album Tracks (1966)

I just posted an album of the earliest stray tracks from the Small Faces. As I wrote, that album is more for the serious fans of the band. This album, by contrast, should be for anyone who loves 1960s rock with a strong soul influence, because the music here is excellent.

The Small Faces only formed in 1965, and put out their first album in 1966, simply called "Small Faces." That contained two hit singles, "Whatcha Gonna Do about It" and "Sha-La-La-La-Lee." But the British custom at the time was to usually not include hit singles on albums, so as to not make the customer sometimes buy the same song twice. Thus you might argue these songs are actually a stronger bunch. They're helped greatly by containing three Top 10 British singles, "Hey Girl," "All or Nothing," and "My Mind's Eye." "All or Nothing" was also the band only British number one hit.

Three more songs are the B-sides to those A-sides, plus another A-side, "Patterns." Another five songs come from the album "From the Beginning." At the end of 1966, the band switched record companies and management after realizing they were getting ripped off. Their old record company then put out an album containing the best unreleased material they had at the time. Some of those were relatively old (I've included a few of those on the previous stray tracks album I just posted). But others contained recent songs the band wanted to put on their next album, and they showed the group moving in a more psychedelic direction. You can especially see that on the last two songs here. The album was released in early 1967, but I consider the songs on them to be from 1966, since they were all recorded that year. That's the case also for the unsuccessful single "Patterns."

The last two songs are very obscure. "Comin' Home Baby" is a BBC performance that didn't make it onto the band's official BBC compilation, but did make it to another archival release. And "Strange" comes from an obscure album that has only been included with copies of a French book about the band. (I've described that in the previous post.) I only have this one song because someone posted it onto YouTube. It's a cover of a Larry Williams song.

01 Hey Girl (Small Faces)
02 Almost Grown (Small Faces)
03 Strange (Small Faces)
04 Comin' Home Baby [Instrumental] (Small Faces)
05 Patterns (Small Faces)
06 You've Really Got a Hold on Me (Small Faces)
07 Plum Nellie [Instrumental] (Small Faces)
08 All or Nothing (Small Faces)
09 Understanding (Small Faces)
10 Take This Hurt Off Me (Small Faces)
11 My Mind's Eye (Small Faces)
12 I Can't Dance with You (Small Faces)
13 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Small Faces)
14 That Man (Small Faces)

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The album cover uses a promo photo from 1966. I added the record company logo since that what the band albums did at the time.