More 45's: The Small Faces

So as promised here is another 45 that I ripped on to my computer. This is the Itchycoo Park single from the band The Small Faces. Despite their current relative anonymity they were an important and influential band in both the mod and britpop scene, going on to join up with Rod Stewart to form the seminal band the Faces. The B-side, I'm Only Dreaming, is a little interesting. As the song starts off you first get the impression that this is going to be some mushy, written in a half hour, love song b-side but once the bridge comes the song moves somewhere good. If you can wait forty seconds (which sadly asks a lot of people) you get an idea of the motion of the song, and it moves somewhere good, so when the second equally gushing verse comes in everything is hunky dory. As far as the a-side goes, standard upbeat pop. It is complete with a frolicking verse, catchy chorus and psychedelic flange in the bridge. I think it is actually pretty goofy to tell you the truth, mainly due to how it is sung (just listen to how he sings the words "Itchycoo Park"), but fun nonetheless.

Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces

I'm Only Dreaming - The Small Faces

Turn Turn Turn-Table...

So I recently started ripping some old 45's that my dad picked last year or so at a garage sale. I do not know how much he purchased the set for, though knowing my father it couldn't have been more than ten dollars, maximum. Still for a cheap garage sale find this collection is an eclectic mix of old sixties garage rock, pop, and psychedelia. There are singles from the Kinks, Peter Paul and Mary, Spencer Davis Group, the Who, the Yardbirds all with the hits (some more than others) and their enigmatic B-sides. I am very excited to introduce this collection to sound out loud' repertoire, and see what insight the dusty shadowed side of sixties hits and obscurity can lend in our mutual (writer and reader) blogging experience!

This first selection is from the Byrds ubiquitous 1965 recording of Turn Turn Turn, the song whose melody was written by Pete Seeger and text based on that one verse from ecclesiastes about time going by... oh how it does go by. The B-Side is a surprisingly well written and catchy tune entitled She Dont Care About Time. It sounds a little Beach Boy/CSNY-eque and has aged surprisingly well from a band that these days often gets thrown only into the background of conversations about the sixties. Though the Byrds are often referred to as a folk band, but with their mop top Amero-phillic style this B-side is further evidence that what was going on in the Sixties, folk or not, is something in its own right, but something that certainly still holds merit in music to follow today.

- MC J-Sauce

Turn Turn Turn(Side A) - The Byrds

She Don't Care About Time(side B) - The Byrds