Thursday, May 27, 2021

The Faces - The Stealer - Non-Album Tracks (1973)

After releasing two albums in 1971, the Faces kept a relatively low profile in 1972, releasing no album or single that year. Then they released the "Ooh La La" album in 1973. Despite that, there's enough material from 1973 for a stray tracks album from that year. Here it is.

All the songs here have been officially released. However, you wouldn't have been able to buy many of them in 1973. The first song and the last four are A- and B-sides from that year. (Note that "Oh! No Not My Baby" and "Jodie" were credited to "Rod Stewart and the Faces." I'm including them here and not on a Rod Stewart stray tracks album because indeed all of the Faces played on them.) The song "Dishevelment Blues" was only available on a "flexi-single" that you got when you purchased a certain magazine. The rest - songs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 - were released decades later on the "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." Faces box set.

In my opinion, this is a pretty strong album. The only snag is that many of the songs are cover versions, and the Faces liked to have all or nearly all original songs on their studio albums.

01 Pool Hall Richard (Faces)
02 [If Loving You Is Wrong] I Don't Want to Be Right (Faces)
03 Come See Me Baby [The Cheater] (Faces)
04 Dishevelment Blues (Faces)
05 Insurance [Instrumental] (Faces)
06 Jealous Guy (Faces)
07 The Stealer (Faces)
08 Oh! No Not My Baby (Rod Stewart & the Faces)
09 Jodie (Rod Stewart & the Faces)
10 Skewiff [Mend the Fuse] [Instrumental] (Faces)
11 I Wish It Would Rain (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116262/TFacs_1973_TheStealr_atse.zip.html

I don't know the details of the cover art photo, except it comes from 1973.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Paul, thanks for this. But are you sure that "I Wish It Would Rain" was a single a-side? I believe it was the b-side of "Pool Hall Richard". But never mind...
    Tutti saluti
    Willi

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