The one hundred twenty-sixth album: #126 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
If I have to summarize the first half of this album, it's that it's variations of rock. Some songs go harder, some softer, but it's moving within these defined parameters. Long Agos and Worlds Apart and Rene stand out here. From a soulful ballady song it becomes a drinking song set to rock. The decent rock songs, like Song of a Baker, work best for me, but on the whole it's good to listen to (although the stereo effects got quite distracting and made me wonder whether my headphones were failing).
The second half is more of a concept album, a fairy tale told through rock. Narrated by Stanley Unwin, we get a concept album with a story that would work better as a bedtime story than those that came before. It's quite a nice story and while the songs don't have the variety of the first half, it's well put together.