So What's Yor Favorite Track Off Of The Box Set?

[Lynney]

Very Cool! Which paper is that Julie? Any other quotes from the article?

I've also heard Mojo has rated the Box Set the best of 2004! Does anyone have a copy of the Mojo article?

I've spotted a few others that have selected the Box in their top picks of the year, and I'll be posting links soon on Mac's press page. If any more quotes/articles pop up, post the links and info here. We'd love to use this material for the websites.

Congrats FACES!!

[Lynney]

P.S. The KGSR 2004 Music Poll results are in...

Top 107 Songs of the Year:

'You're My Girl' (#53)

Top 107 Albums of the Year:

'Rise & Shine!' (#51)

The Faces - 'Five guys walk into a bar...' (#70)

Check out the results of KGSR's 2004 Music Poll here:
http://www.kgsr.com/iTOOLIncludes/2004musicpoll.htm

Remember you can listen to the top 107 today on KGSR. They're playing tracks from the Box Set NOW! Listen online at http://www.kgsr.com/frames.html

Thanks for your vote & Happy New Year!

[Lynney]

'Best of 2004' - Amazon.com
Rhino's excellent four-disc Faces box Five Guys Walk Into a Bar topped our list of the 10 Best Box Sets of 2004.

'Five guys' reviews, audio samples, and purchase info.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... n=10499511

[boddingtons_nfld]

Couldn't agree with Tim Burgess more to be honest....nobody had a voice like Rod the Mod back in the Faces days, and no band rocked like the Faces did. Getting scared listening to the boxed set in the sense that my almighty Stones might be getting upseated by the Faces. Warm rock n' roll with such a good time, feel good vibe...wow.

[brentb]

Since it still throws me when it comes up is there any added stories that anyone knows of to go along with Skewiff (Mend The Fuse); it sounds like a long jazzy jamming intro to Miss Judy's Farm that never gets around to happening.

[Paul]

Skewiff is a great instrumental isn't it. The Faces sounded so good when they just jammed like that, Rod was almost surplus to requirements at times. I have no background info on the track as such but it was the 'b' side to 'Cindy' (I think) in the UK. I've still got the original 45 (with the centre punched out) from our youthclub jukebox ha! It's got my sisters name scrawled across the label as she originally paid for the record to be there, nestling alongside David Cassidy and Donny Fucking Osmond. Ah, those were the days.

[Laur]

It's not a box set,this is the Faces Holy Bible,for all the faithful past and present,don't take it out of context,follow from start to finish.
Now pray for the new testament-----please don't be to long Mac---getting older by the track

[Paul]

I don't pray, I'm an atheist. I s'pose I could beg forgiveness though!

[Highgate45]

Listen to I'd Rather Go Blind.....a blinding version much better than the track offered on Coast To Coast.

Ian.

[mcnarie]

Blinding version, indeed. Sonic snap.

Proves that the Faces were only sloppy at times; the term "sloppy" is ignorant and weak, yet always used adjectively upon these guys.

Great, it was an old story, built on a marshmallow hill: the Faces are sloppy!

In reality, they are tight, witty, poignant, endlessly talented, and just a few times drunk.

And some think they played better drunk.

They didn't.

[ruby]

"And some think they played better drunk. They didn't"

I do everything better when drunk.

This weeks favorite tune on the boxset=======>Take a Look at the Guy.

yessiree.

[Julie]

It's a lovely sunny morning and disc 3 has just finished playing. My fave this a.m. is.........'Open To Ideas'

That's until I play the next disc...

[Paul]

It's a miserable rainy cold day down these here parts Julie. Still, United just spanked the Geordies so I'm not too down .

This week I 'ave mostly bin lisnin to...............'Disk 2'.

[Julie]

The first five trax on disc 3 are wonderful. The track I'm loving at the moment is High Heel Sneakers/Everybody Needs Somebody To Love. This has crept up on me as a great track. I didn't take to it at all until recently, but now it's a favourite. I was surprised that it was from the last Faces recording sessions, makes you wonder what the next album would've been like.........

I'm still not sold on 'Gettin' Hungry' tho.

[brentb]

from the last Faces recording sessions, makes you wonder what the next album would've been like.........

I suspect it would have sounded like a less sterile (or more human to be postive about it) version of Atlantic Crossing. Tetsu was really starting to get his style of playing integrated into the band from the sound of it.

1975 was a long way from 1971.

[gratefuldave4]

The best track is the one I happen to be listening to at the time!

[Highgate45]

As Long As You Tell Him

I'm wearing this track out at the moment, i always loved it when it was just a piece of scratchy black plastic in the mid 70's!....now on 'full blown clarity cd' it sounds even better. On par (even better?) with ANY Faces album track from '69 onwards....possibly No.5 in my all time top 10 Faces tracks.

The most underated 'b' side of all time.

Ian.

[mcnarie]

Damned straight, let me listen to it again, Ian. I'll be right back. I want to hear all the warmth and subtle nuances I know this track for. I want to make sure.

Dave

[mcnarie]

Damned straight, indeed. A warm, charming song, proving the Faces were understated, reserved, and found to be charming once heard.

Prove again the rabble about "drunkest band" is only slightly true.

Good pick, Ian.

Are you sore from getting tossed by a lady, like me? Naw, I'm over it. "Maggie May" is on.

PS I still find it hard to write about the Trinidad trip, and I'm rarely looking at the site, much less posting. Please keep me in mind, as I am not gone. It's going to be a rough summer, and I hope you weather the storm, whether you like me or not.

[Debs]

Being tossed by a lady is a delightful experience here LOL

[mcnarie]

Yes, particularly with your salad and brain intact.

[Julie]

In this heat, that's all you need. And I'm growing my own, it's better for you. 'As Long As You Tell Him', very good track. And, 'watch me, I'm fantastic' , I love the live Maggie.

[brentb]

In the text for the set Mac noted that it was The Faces at their best and at their worst. I guess Too Bad live at Tampa Bay would get put into the worst catagory but I had it come up enough times recently on random play mode that I was able to get through the recording quality and hear what they were doing and have since put the track in the at their best catagory - they were cooking.

[mcnarie]

Thanks, Brent- good point few have alluded to (including myself). Mac chose quality of performance over quality of sound many times on the box. He was correct in doing so. The box is twice longer than all legal recorded matter prior to its release put together, end-to-end, which allowed logical people and fans alike to see Mac loved (and hated) what he was doing: assembling the best box set possible.

So what if the Bermondsey sessions sound like dried rat shit rattling at the bottom of a storm vent? If you understand the import of the time (chronology), the sound is secondary. What is of sole import is the quality of the work, whether it be laid down in a motel, hotel, grotto, Olympic, or LMS. And half the time, Mac is pointing out when they didn't even sound too good. The idea was better than the demo, the rough, or the final performance.

FIVE GUYS kicks ass because it puts you behind the scenes, in front row centre, in motels and hotels, and beyond. Mac didn't really want to do this job, but he was the best of the bunch to do it. When I was in London in 2000, enough weird stuff happened that I knew Mac was fully in charge. I'm not religious, therefore not superstitious, but too much shit went down. When I left Boo's and stumbled across Sid Griffin, the guy I knew to be Mac's right-hand man (check out Sid's work on Gram Parsons, for chrissakes- Sid is a great musician who confuses his career by playing solo, in two other bands, and being smart enough to research and write (very well, might I add) the best tome on Gram Parsons available today), I had to see Sid. I trust him, he trusts me. Like meeting an old friend you never met.

I knew Sid was helping Mac so, in 2000, when I walked away from the only place I'd ever known Ronnie Lane, to stumble across a sign pushing Sid? I knew it was the right Sid. The ONLY Sid. When I met Sid, he was entirely upset that his gig didn't get press. Nobody knew it would happen.

Well, when I recognized his name on the street sign, I hung around to get in. Doors were not yet open. People passed frequently, so I'd ask time. A couple gave me the time, I recognized their accents as fairly Yank, and asked what they were doing, walking down the slums of Kentish Town
High Street alone and at night. They had no decent answer, so I asked:

"would you like to see the guy that's helping to make the Facers box set?"

"whatcha mean?"

By the end of the night, they knew. They'd seen the same gig I had, with the finale by Sid and the opening band (they were great, too).


Let's talk about Rupe taking me to the cemetary, saying, "well, Paul likes to paint gas towers, and they're about to take this one down, so who knows?"

Paul Simonon was there, painting the gasworks. Rupe said "ello", it didn't take time for Paul to know he was in family (Rupe has that way, watch th film). Rupe did ask the dumb question, which allowed me a break: "how can you paint this when it's raining?"

"he's using oils and canvas."

Nice story from the back of my worthless brain.