Small Faces

The Small faces. 4 outstanding studio albums and gone. There's been noone like them since. The 2 Immediate albums are the pick but everyone needs to own all 4 plus the post split Autumn Stone compilation and rarities.

This is an incredibly underrated and influential band. They were the first "mod" group, which later gave birth to the manchester brit pop movements. You wouldn't have bands like The Jam, Oasis, Stone Roses, or The Smiths if these guys didn't pave the way first. They may have existed, but they would appear different or appear later in history. Steve Marriot is THE greatest white singer when it comes to soul and R&B. He's like the white James Brown, and this shows more in Humble Pie, the band he made after Small Faces split. Listen to "You Need Loving" from their first album and you will see exactly where Robert Plant from Led Zepplein got most of his influence. Whole Lotta Love is very close to a straight ripoff of this song (which is turn, a cover of Willie Dixons's song he wrote for Muddy Waters, but Steve Marriot made it his own). This band may seem like a copy cat of all the other hit 60's bands at first, but they truly were unique and have that particular feel that just works like the Beatles or the Who. It's just a certain groove that works and just feels genuine despite the simplicity of some of the songs. They were just as heavy as the Who were. If they got together just 1 year earlier and stayed together instead of breaking up in 69' they would have been as big as The Who or the Stones.

Due to a typo the band were was shown as The Small Faece on a concert flier, there were useless that night