The Autumn Stone (album)

The Autumn Stone
Compilation album by Small Faces
Released November 1969
Recorded 1965-1968, London, England England
Genre Rock, rhythm and blues, psychedelic rock, beat
Length 65:59
Label Immediate
Small Faces chronology
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
(1968)Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake1968		 The Autumn Stone
(1969)		 Playmates
(1977)Playmates1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone(favorable)[2]

The Autumn Stone is a posthumous retrospective double album released in the UK by Small Faces in 1969 on the Immediate label.

Album profile

The double album contains most of the Small Faces' Immediate and Decca original 7" single releases, together with live recordings from a concert at Newcastle City Hall and previously unreleased material, some of which was possibly intended for the band's projected but unrealised fourth LP, 1862.

Alongside the title track, the album contained an alternate version of "Afterglow Of Your Love" (which had been released as the Small Faces' final single earlier in the year), covers of two Tim Hardin songs ("If I Were A Carpenter" and "Red Balloon") and the instrumentals "Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall" and "Collibosher" (both of which are claimed to be unfinished backing tracks by the compilers of the Here Comes The Nice box set).

The title track "The Autumn Stone" and "Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am" (its correct title, according to composer Steve Marriott - 'Wham Bam Thank You Man', as it was titled on the Afterglow single where the song first found release in March 1969, was apparently a label misprint) had originally been recorded on September the 11th 1968 as the a and b sides of a projected but ultimately unreleased single. This recording session proved to be the band's final studio work together aside from some session work in Paris with Peter Frampton for a Johnny Halliday album in December.

The Autumn Stone album was released by Immediate Records founder Andrew Loog Oldham in November 1969, more than six months after the band had officially announced their break up, and three months after Steve Marriott's new band Humble Pie had released their own debut LP. In Germany, a single LP version with only the 'new' material was released under the title In Memoriam.

A 3LP/2CD 'definitive expanded deluxe edition' of the album, remastered from original sources and including extra material, is scheduled for release in April 2018.

Track listing

Record One

  1. "Here Come the Nice"
  2. "The Autumn Stone" + (projected but withdrawn single release recorded September 1968)
  3. "Collibosher" + (outtake from the Ogden's Nutgone Flake recording sessions, recorded April 1968)
  4. "All or Nothing" (live)
  5. "Red Balloon" + (recorded May 1968)
  6. "Lazy Sunday"
  7. "Call It Something Nice" + (recorded October 1967)
  8. "I Can't Make It"
  9. "Afterglow of Your Love" (alternate version)
  10. "Sha-La-La-La-Lee"
  11. "The Universal"
* Note: on some editions the live version of All Or Nothing is replaced with the studio version

Record Two

  1. "Rollin' Over" (live)
  2. "If I Were A Carpenter" (live)
  3. "Every Little Bit Hurts" (live)
  4. "My Mind's Eye"
  5. "Tin Soldier"
  6. "Just Passing"
  7. "Itchycoo Park"
  8. "Hey Girl"
  9. "Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall" + (recorded June 1968)
  10. "Whatcha Gonna Do About It"
  11. "Wham Bam Thank You Mam" (Alternate Mix) (recorded September 1968)

+ Previously unreleased material, some of which was possibly intended for inclusion on their projected fourth LP 1862.

In Memoriam

Immediate had originally intended to release a single album of exclusively 'new' material, with five live tracks on side one and five 'new' studio tracks on side two. This version was released in Germany as In Memoriam.

Side one

  1. "Rollin' Over"
  2. "If I Were A Carpenter"
  3. "Every Little Bit Hurts"
  4. "All or Nothing"
  5. "Tin Soldier"

Side two

  1. "Collibosher" +
  2. "Call It Something Nice" +
  3. "Red Balloon" +
  4. "Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall" +
  5. "The Autumn Stone" +

In Memoriam was reissued on vinyl in the 1980s, bolstered by the inclusion of other rarities such as 1967's "Don't Burst My Bubble". It has also since been issued on CD with the rest of the tracks from The Autumn Stone as bonus tracks.

+ Previously unreleased material (see main track listing for details).

Personnel

Steve Marriott - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Ronnie Lane - vocals, guitar, bass guitar
Kenney Jones - drums
Ian McLagan - keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Jimmy Winston - vocals, keyboards

References/Notes

Notes:

  1. ↑ Allmusic Rating link
  2. ↑ Frith, Simon (7 March 1970). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (53): 46. Retrieved 29 July 2017.

References:

  • Paolo Hewitt John Hellier (2004). Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN 1-900924-44-7.
  • Paolo Hewitt/Kenney Jones (1995) small faces the young mods' forgotten story - Acid Jazz ISBN 0-9523935-0-6

See also

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