Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

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Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake cover
Studio album by The Small Faces
Released June 1968
Genre Rock
Psychedelic
Mod
Length 38:27
Label Immediate Records
Producer(s) Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane
Professional reviews

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is a concept album by the British rock band The Small Faces. The title is a parody of an actual brand of tobacco, Ogdens' Nut-brown Flake.

The A-side is fairly conventional and features the hit single "Lazy Sunday". The B-side is based on an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, narrated gobbledegook-style by Stanley Unwin, who had to ask the band for tips about modern slang so that he could incorporate it into the narrative.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Ogden's Nut Gone Flake at number 59 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Contents

[edit] Spelling

The cover design spells the title as Ogdens' , but the label and sleeve copy on many versions gives it as Ogden's , and in catalogues and music websites the latter spelling is probably more common.

[edit] Packaging

The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package resembling a paper replica of a giant tobacco tin, with a fold-out cover. Two limited-edition CD releases (including a three-disc deluxe edition in 2006 that included the original mono mix of the album on CD for the first time) went even further by packaging the disc(s) in a circular tin. However, most CD releases use conventional packaging, superimposing the circular artwork on a square booklet.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" (instrumental)
  2. "Afterglow"
  3. "Long Agos And Worlds Apart"
  4. "Rene"
  5. "Song Of A Baker"
  6. "Lazy Sunday"

[edit] Side two: Happiness Stan

  1. "Happiness Stan"
  2. "Rollin' Over"
  3. "The Hungry Intruder"
  4. "The Journey"
  5. "Mad John"
  6. "Happydaystoytown"

[edit] Happiness Stan: Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

When Stan looks up in the sky and sees only half the moon, he sets out on a quest to search for the missing half. Along the way he saves a fly from starvation, and in gratitude the insect tells him of someone who can answer his question and also tell him the philosophy of life itself. With his magic power Stan intones, "If all the flies were one fly, what a great enormous fly-follolloper that would bold," and the fly grows to gigantic proportions. Seated on the giant fly's back Stan takes a psychedelic journey to the cave of Mad John the hermit, who explains that the moon's disappearance is only temporary, and demonstrates by pointing out that Stan has spent so long on his quest that the moon is now full again. He then sings Stan a cheerful song about the meaning of life.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Vinyl and CD versions

The original vinyl album includes a segue between the end of "Afterglow" and the beginning of "Long Agos And Worlds Apart". Most CD editions have a different stereo mix, and use the single version of "Afterglow" without the segue. There is also a segue between "Long Agos and Worlds Apart" and "Rene", and this is retained on the CD. Some CD editions also include one or more bonus tracks.

The 2005 3-disc "tobacco tin" Special Edition includes fully-remastered mono and stereo mixes complete with segue, plus an episode of the BBC Radio documentary series Classic Albums in which the band discuss the making of the album.

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