Audio CD review:
Faces - The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep

Faces - The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep

Band: Faces Title: The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep Rating: Release Date: 17 August, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Flying 2: Three Button Hand Me Down 3: Wicked Messenger 4: Sweed Lady Mary 5: Bad 'N' Ruin 6: Had Me A Real Good Time 7: Debris 8: Miss Judy's Farm 9: You're So Rude 10: Too Bad 11: Love Lives Here 12: Stay With Me 13: Cindy Incidentally 14: Glad And Sorry 15: Borstal Boys 16: Ooh La La 17: Pool Hall Richard 18: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything 19: Open To Ideas

Editoral Review A revamped, bluesier edition of '60s English pop notables the Small Faces, the Faces established a rollicking musical identity that threatened to overshadow the Stones at their own game. Best known for their alumni (Rod Stewart, the Stones' Ron Wood, the Who's Kenny Jones), the Faces' brief early '70s run was as musically rewarding as it was boozy and sideshow spectacular. Though the group dissolved under the pressures of Stewart's burgeoning solo career and Wood's recruitment into comfortable career Stonedom, the Faces were about much more than just individual talents. The folksy vulnerability of the late bassist, songwriter, and vocalist Ronnie Lane (well-represented here by "Debris" and "Ooh La La") kept the lads close to roots both geographical and class, while keyboardist Ian McLagen alternated between barrelhouse-boogie and Hammond B-3 soulfulness and Jones loosely locked into irresistible grooves. They could pillage Motown ("Three Button Hand Me Down") and Chuck Berry ("Cindy Incidentally") for riffs, and turn from countrified blues ("Sweet Lady Mary") to the breakneck boogie of "Too Bad" in a heartbeat. They may have been cheated of hits, but the Faces' music remains warm, heartfelt, and enthusiastic--a legacy that's aged much better than the cheap hootch they once drowned themselves in. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Faces discography, or go back to the Faces tabs