Reel-to-reel: SMALL FACES - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake UK PSYCH 7 1/2 ips reel to reel tape

Label: Immediate ZQ 1092

Format: 4-Track reel to reel tape

Tape Speed: 7 1/2 ips.

Country: US (UK release)

Released: June 1968

Genre: Rock

Style: Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock

Condition: Tape is Near Mint Box is Very Good

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Tape Grade Detail

The tape is Near Mint plays as new flat and supple. The reel is Near Mint. The box is very good with seams splits at the thumb, a corner split and a little rough around the edges.

Notes (sources Allmusic, Wiki, Rolling Stone)

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is the fourth studio album and the first concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968, the LP peaked at number one on the UK Album Charts on 29 June, where it remained for a total of six weeks. The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogden's Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco that was produced in Liverpool from 1899 onwards by Thomas Ogden.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake at number 59 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The album was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder. There was no shortage of good psychedelic albums emerging from England in 1967-1968, but Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is special even within their ranks. The Small Faces had already shown a surprising adaptability to psychedelia with the single "Itchycoo Park" and much of their other 1967 output, but Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake pretty much ripped the envelope. British bands had an unusual approach to psychedelia from the get-go, often preferring to assume different musical "personae" on their albums, either feigning actual "roles" in the context of a variety show (as on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album), or simply as storytellers in the manner of the Pretty Things on S.F. Sorrow, or actor/performers as on the Who's Tommy. The Small Faces tried a little bit of all of these approaches on Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, but they never softened their sound.