Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake – THE SMALL FACES***

Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake/After Glow/Long Agos & Worlds Apart/Rene/Son Of A Baker/Lazy Sunday/Happiness Stan/Rollin’ Over/The Hungry Intruder/The Journey/Mad John/Happy Days Toy Town

This flawed concept album was The Small Faces' last outing before they split. Nevertheless, Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake was graced by the inclusion of the chirpy cockney Lazy Sunday, a UK No. 2 hit single. The gobbledegook interludes of 'Professor' Unwin become wearisome. (US:159 UK:1)

"The true highlight on this album is Lazy Sunday. I remember liking this song when I was really young listening to it on the radio. The entire song is so catchy that you can’t help but sing along to it, and the cockney accent adds the delightful ingredient of humour. Rene is the next obvious highlight with another catchy chorus."

"Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake has a fairly good A-side with some catchy songs, but the B-side is average at best. The songs aren't anything special and the narration pretty much ruins every song."

"While I love many of their singles, this album is mostly dross. Lazy Sunday and maybe Afterglow are the only things that stick out on side A, while they still don't hold up to the band's best stuff. The B-side is awful to listen to with half-finished song ideas interrupted by an annoying troll talking voice."

"Housed in the world's first circular album sleeve, it was split into two distinct sides. Ogdens' first half consists of six tightly buzzing slices of the psychedelic R & B that was now their stock in trade. Mainly penned by Marriott and Lane, the fare divides itself between punchy blue-eyed soul stompers like Afterglow (Of Your Love) and more chirpy psych knees ups like Lazy Sunday. The second side contains the story of Happiness Stan, interlinked by forgotten master of gobbledegook, Stanley Unwin. Here the songs are considerably more embellished and varied in texture; but somehow at the heart of it all was The Small Faces' muscular approach that makes Ogdens' certainly the least fey of all English psychedelic classics."

"Lazy Sunday is awesome. Side B is just plain silly. Another over-rated 'critics list' LP here."

"A very unique, enjoyable, and well crafted English pop album from the sixties’ psychedelic era."