What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

2-disc comp which covers their important years pretty comprehensively.

I like the Small Faces, but probably not as much as Crazyman. Hence other than this the only full album of theirs' I have is Ogden's, and this one was bought on Crazy's recommendation.

The first disc deals with the Decca years, when they peddled their energetic take on Rhythm & Blues, whilst the second features the pick of their output for Immediate, which is predominantly a gentler, more psychedelic affair.

Other than the few tracks of cheeky Cockney chappy shit (never liked these, and emulation of the same thing from the Parklife era Blur kept me away from them for the longest time), this is a strong career summation from a very good band, who could have had it all with some slightly stronger writing IMV.


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.