Smokestack Lightning/Don’t Ask Me What I Say/Sack O’ Woe/What You Gonna Do/Hoochie Coochie Man/I’m Your Kingpin/Down The Road Apiece/I’ve Got My Mojo Working/Its Gonna Work Out Fine/Mr Anello/Untie Me/ Bring It To Jerome/Without You/You’ve Got To Take It
British beat group Manfred Mann are best remembered for their many well crafted pop singles. However, they started out as a blues band and this style is reflected in their debut album Five Faces. (UK:3)
"One of the best blues-oriented British Invasion albums, with uniformly powerful and enjoyable tracks, providing a fine listening experience." "Listen to the stuttering organ solo and inventive blues changes on What You Gonna Do, and the magnificent piano solo on Kingpin."
"This is probably my all time favourite album. It reflects the set list of the band that they were featuring at the Marquee Club. In those days they would perform a medley of their hit singles 'to get them out of the way' and then deliver their blues in a knockout way."
"This, the band's debut album, shows what they were originally about, and it stands as one of the early classic R & B albums by a British band. Their brand of blues was rather more measured than The Stones, Yardbirds, Animals, etc. They went more for finesse than frenzy. Smokestack Lightning is a good example."
"When you listen to their albums you discover Manfred Mann were not a pop group, they were an R & B group that happened to make pop hits."
"The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann is one of the great blues-based British invasion albums. It's a hot, rocking record that benefits from some virtuoso playing and some of the best singing of its era, courtesy of Paul Jones who blew most of his rivals out of the competition with his magnificently impassioned, soulful performance."
"They were the niche that was supposed to appeal to those who wanted their R 'n' B and their rock 'n' roll, but were too conservative, too 'correct' to take it in the manner offered by the likes of The Stones or The Animals."
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