Silicone Grown/Cindy Incidentally/Flags & Banners/My Fault/Borstal Boys/Fly In The Ointment/If I'm On The Late Side/Glad & Sorry/Just Another Honky/Ooh La La
Ooh La La was the final studio album from the good time rockers The Faces. From now on lead singer Rod Stewart would focus on his increasingly successful solo career. Cindy Incidentally was a No. 2 UK hit single. (US:21 UK:1)
“The Faces' swansong after which they would limp along for a good while but never quite get it together enough to put out another studio album. This is a collection of neat little songs which continue their high songwriting standards. Though tensions were mounting in the band at this point, there's no sign of it on the record, though at the same time their rougher edges seem to be in the process of being surreptitiously smoothed over. Cindy Incidentally is a nice, catchy little song.”
“This album shows wear and tear within the band. Rod Stewart leads the pack, but when the leader is uninspired, it reflects on the rest of the group. He just wanted more for himself, and this (the inevitable demise of The Faces) is where the ego began to develop. Perhaps a telling story would be Ronnie Lane singing lead on the album's only truly great song, its title track.”
“Not bad, but you can tell Rod has become distracted with his solo career by this point (he was supposed to be lead vocal on Ooh La La, but didn't show up). If you like everything else by The Faces, pick this up.”
“It is far better than most of what you hear coming from the music industry now. Real musicians playing real instruments and catchy songs.”
“This is The Faces at their most lovable. The individual songs may not be as strong as on the previous outing (and some tracks sound almost unfinished) but they work together well and as a result are more than the sum of their individual parts; like every great album, the tracks seem to feed off each other. Whilst the first side is dominated by the Stewart/Wood combination, the second belongs to Ronnie Lane (even if you don’t hear much of his voice).”
“This is The Faces' tightest album, filled with rough, tough three-minute rock ‘n' roll. The arrangements are the best you'll find on any of their records, and the songs are more varied than usual in mood and tempo, spanning ballads, hard rock, piano-driven boogie rock and acoustic folk-rock.”
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