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Small Faces — Itchycoo Park
Album: There Are But Four Small Faces
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Released: 1967
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Over Bridge of Sighs
To rest my eyes in shades of green
Under dreaming spires
To Itchycoo Park, that's where I've been

''(What did you do there?)'' I got high
''(What did you feel there?)'' Well, I cried
''(But why the tears there?)'' Tell you why
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful

I feel inclined to blow my mind
Get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun
They all come out to groove about
Be nice and have fun in the sun

I'll tell you what I'll do ''(What will you do?)''
I'd like to go there now with you
You can miss out school ''(Won't that be cool?)''
Why go to learn the words of fools?

''(What will we do there?)'' We'll get high
''(What will we touch there?)'' We'll touch the sky
''(But why the tears there?)'' I'll tell you why
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful

I feel inclined to blow my mind
Get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun
They all come out to groove about
Be nice and have fun in the sun

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
Ha

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
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 Ok_Sobriquet wrote:

The Bridge of Sighs is in Venice, Italy. It leads to a prison. Or used to.



No, it's here: bridges of sighs robin trower
Posted 1 month ago by Pitjes    [ Reply ]
Love love love this song.
Reminds me of my first 2nd shift job working in a glass plant.
They played great music & that was back in the early 80s
Posted 10 months ago by KPC1    [ Reply ]
the answer is “smoking pot in the park”…
Posted 1 year ago by tm    [ Reply ]
 xcranky_yankee wrote:

Itchycoo Park...why ask why...but who came up with that? must be a 'great story' there somewhere (am not going to google it for fear of getting on some feminine hygiene website's potential contact list)



Wikipedia sez: Inspiration

The song was first conceived and largely written by Ronnie Lane, who had been reading a leaflet on the virtues of Oxford which mentioned its dreaming spires.[12]

A number of sources claim the song's name is derived from the nickname of Little Ilford Park, on Church Road in the London suburb of Manor Park, where Small Faces' singer and songwriter Steve Marriott grew up. The "itchycoo" nickname is, in turn, attributed to the stinging nettles which grew there. Other sources cite nearby Wanstead Flats (Manor Park end) as the inspiration for the song.[13]

Photo of Wanstead Flats, London E12 near Marriott's Manor Park home

Marriott and Small Faces manager Tony Calder came up with the well-known story when Marriott was told the BBC had banned the song for its overt drug references, Calder confirms:

We scammed the story together, we told the BBC that Itchycoo Park was a piece of waste ground in the East End that the band had played on as kids – we put the story out at ten and by lunchtime we were told the ban was off.[14]

Ronnie Lane said of the true location of Itchycoo Park: "It's a place we used to go to in Ilford years ago. Some bloke we know suggested it to us because it's full of nettles and you keep scratching actually".[15]

Posted 1 year ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
When I was hiking up in the Himalayas and picking some smokable weeds  this was on high rotation in my head
Posted 1 year ago by NoisyMiner    [ Reply ]
Own this on 45 vinyl. Still a fan. Sadly though my turntable and 99% of my vinyl collection were "inherited" by my son and daughter in law.
Posted 2 years ago by gammapi    [ Reply ]
Itchycoo Park...why ask why...but who came up with that? must be a 'great story' there somewhere (am not going to google it for fear of getting on some feminine hygiene website's potential contact list)
Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
 Madness1954 wrote:


But Itchycoo Park was in East London, UK, where the band grew up.

I've always interpreted the start of the song to mean they're being released, metaphorically, from prison* to go be free and trip in the park.

* School, work, East London, the mundane, etc.
Posted 2 years ago by Ok_Sobriquet    [ Reply ]
 Ok_Sobriquet wrote:

The Bridge of Sighs is in Venice, Italy. It leads to a prison. Or used to.



But Itchycoo Park was in East London, UK, where the band grew up.
Posted 3 years ago by Madness1954    [ Reply ]
The Bridge of Sighs is in Venice, Italy. It leads to a prison. Or used to.
Posted 3 years ago by Ok_Sobriquet    [ Reply ]
This song alway's takes me back to that time. I LOVED the 60s!
Posted 4 years ago by vickiekillion    [ Reply ]
Tony Robinson (Baldrick in Blackadder as well as many other things) tells a story of going to school with Steve Marriot and being asked it he went to bunk off school and go the park. He didn't, but you get an idea what he missed in the song.
Posted 5 years ago by rbmbe    [ Reply ]
I wanna get high in the park too
Posted 5 years ago by TerrorGovernor    [ Reply ]
I recently posted that "Incense and Peppermints" may be the quintessential Summer Of Love song, but on second thought, I think I have to change my vote to this flanger-laden beauty. It's all too beautiful!
Posted 5 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
From Small Faces to Humble Pie. What an amazing artist.
Posted 5 years ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
This was the most amazing song for a kid in grade school to hear in 1967!
Posted 6 years ago by khardog145    [ Reply ]
 {#Clap}certainly a powerful force in music  Garyohh wrote:
Steve Marriott was the best!

 

Posted 6 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
 Stefen wrote:
Dropping acid in the park was a rite of passage in the 60s.
 
Yep but never mind the acid, one COULD go IN a park in the 60s...


Posted 6 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
Dropping acid in the park was a rite of passage in the 60s.
Posted 6 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
 oppositelock wrote:
It would be nice to have more Small Faces like Tin Soldier.
 

 
{#Clap}
Posted 6 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
 Niel wrote:
I've heard that the name of the band came from the fact that all four of the members were quite short, under 5'-6". Does anyone know if this was true?

 
According to Wikipedia's article:
 
The group chose the name, Small Faces, for many reasons: because of the members' small physical stature and "A 'Face' was somebody special, more than just a snappy dresser, he was Mister Cool."

Posted 6 years ago by ubuntourist    [ Reply ]
For 1967, this was pretty innovative compared to some of the bubble gum that was playing.
Posted 6 years ago by rabaak    [ Reply ]
https://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/images/0005/P5140918.jpg
Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge.
Posted 6 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
I've heard that the name of the band came from the fact that all four of the members were quite short, under 5'-6". Does anyone know if this was true?
Posted 7 years ago by Niel    [ Reply ]
All I can think of is...Boy have things changed since then.
Posted 7 years ago by markthecarp    [ Reply ]
 NeilBlanchard wrote:
I think this is the first song to use "flanging".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dB7skqrks
 
Nope.  Toni Fisher's song The Big Hurt in 1959 had it!!!      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIukZsRS5r8
Posted 7 years ago by midigitguy    [ Reply ]
Steve Marriott was the best!
Posted 7 years ago by Garyohh    [ Reply ]

Posted 7 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
 NeilBlanchard wrote:
I think this is the first song to use "flanging".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dB7skqrks
 
not sure about that, "flanging" was a word John Lennon made up, it was his shorthand for the process
Posted 7 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
As others have noted, this hearkens back to AM-Radio, heard in the family cars, in back yards, at picnics. It's a fine, telling Time-piece!
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 NeilBlanchard wrote:
I think this is the first song to use "flanging".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dB7skqrks
 
Whoa. Love that tech.
Posted 7 years ago by BBoyes    [ Reply ]
I think this is the first song to use "flanging".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dB7skqrks
Posted 7 years ago by NeilBlanchard    [ Reply ]

Posted 7 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
It would be nice to have more Small Faces like Tin Soldier.
 
Posted 8 years ago by oppositelock    [ Reply ]
Still love the tape flangeing. Legend has it they worked on off sync-ing two tape decks all night.
Posted 8 years ago by Cueburned    [ Reply ]
 Too beautiful for this 10 year old as well..always loved this song  Babette55 wrote:
too beautiful for a 12 year old....LOVED it! {#Bananajumprope}
had NO clue what this song was about....{#Daisy}

 


Posted 8 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Always liked the special effect in the drumming. I looked it up and it's called flanging. In case you would like to know: Itchycoo Park turns out to be number one in the-top-10-greatest-flange-effect-recordings-of-all-time!

https://www.sourceaudio.net/blog/post/the-top-10-greatest-flange-effect-recordings-of-all-time/
Posted 8 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
Another classic oldie covered well on Nellie McKay's latest, "My Weekly Reader."
Posted 8 years ago by Carl    [ Reply ]
Breakthrough song and message in 1967!!
Posted 8 years ago by Piranga    [ Reply ]
 Skydog wrote:
1960's AM radio at it's best,
well except for Beatles and Motown and Stax

 
Yup takes me right back to childhood and listening to songs like this via the elders transistor radios
Posted 8 years ago by Johnny-smooth    [ Reply ]
1960's AM radio at it's best,
well except for Beatles and Motown and Stax
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of when I bought my first New Musical Express...{#Bananajam}
Posted 8 years ago by BobbyCat    [ Reply ]
To cruise about....     LOVE IT!!!   MISS OUT SCHOOL...  before I use psychedelics  i knew what it was about from songs like this. 1967.

please keep running with the oldies.  makes me so happy!
Posted 8 years ago by markthecarp    [ Reply ]
too beautiful for a 12 year old....LOVED it! {#Bananajumprope}
had NO clue what this song was about....{#Daisy}
Posted 9 years ago by Babette55    [ Reply ]
Mescaline, swimming in the sea of cortez at night with luminescence in the water.  Every stroke illuminated. This song playing on the boat. Ah the memories.   
Posted 9 years ago by jackie0    [ Reply ]
Wow.  This dropped in 1967.  It's my first time hearing it and I gotta admit that I like it and that it has aged really well.  I love the "I got high" refrain.
Posted 9 years ago by Egrey    [ Reply ]
I did a couple of blotters on top of Volcan Atitlan, Guatamela during the partial eclipse of the full moon.  But it was the San Pedro cactus at roughly 4,400 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes mountains that took that experience to a new level.

Anybody else? 

{#Mrgreen} 
Posted 9 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 easmann wrote:
Aud wrote:
I always thought that one of the lines in the call and response section sounded like "Look like she's dead there" so I never could understand the appeal of this song. It was always kind of a creepy, drug song to me
 
Geecheeboy wrote:
I've been familiar with this song for more than 40 years. Read the lyrics today for the first time. Weird.
  
Getting the lyrics was often quite a challenge. I suppose it drove some percentage of sales, hoping for lyrics in the liner notes? I puzzled and pondered the lyrics of many songs. The Internet now reveals mysteries. : )

 
It's easy....drop acid, go to the park, feed ducks....ha ha. I've done it many times myself......way cool!
Posted 9 years ago by dragon1952    [ Reply ]
Very, very nice!
Posted 9 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
The song that introduced us to flanging....
Posted 9 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
{#Propeller}  Let's dance....
Posted 9 years ago by Jannne    [ Reply ]
 its all too beautiful out here in deep space.. {#Sunny}
Posted 9 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
Easy to relate to itchycoo park....just received my draft notice ending my college deferment. Those were the days.....
Posted 10 years ago by marty88210    [ Reply ]
 Geecheeboy wrote:
I've been familiar with this song for more than 40 years. Read the lyrics today for the first time. Weird.

 

Try MacArthur's Park, from same era!

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.  
Posted 10 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
I've been familiar with this song for more than 40 years. Read the lyrics today for the first time. Weird.
Posted 10 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
sounds like Freddy Mercury...
Posted 10 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
I always thought that one of the lines in the call and response section sounded like "Look like she's dead there" so I never could understand the appeal of this song. It was always kind of a creepy, drug song to me
Posted 10 years ago by Aud    [ Reply ]
{#Cool} ...... love it loads, "trippy stuff"
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
 HazzeSwede wrote:
This sound's so much better on vinyl.


 
What doesn't?
 
Posted 10 years ago by capandjudy    [ Reply ]
vivakitty wrote:
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?

Businessgypsy wrote:
No, but a flux capacitor would help.

 Cynaera wrote:
Oooh, good zap. I love you.
 
Ha, just saw this today. Hope you're having fun in the next adventure, sweet lady! The rest of us will be along in dribs and drabs.
Posted 10 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]
What will you do there?
Great song from my youth.  Evokes memories.
Posted 10 years ago by ScottN    [ Reply ]
Great memories if this song when I was a wee lad!
Posted 10 years ago by EdHommersen    [ Reply ]
geiler Song!
Posted 10 years ago by DieterHautsch    [ Reply ]
 wlpendley wrote:
. . . Itchycoo Park still has "the magic". . .
 
I know exactly what you mean.
Posted 11 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Any day every day is a good day to get stoned and go wandering around in a park...It's all too beautiful, really!
Sounding really great today, RP, Thanks!
Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
All of a sudden I am very tired of most 1960s songs.  I listened to them for decades, and it was amazing how long I loved them.  But after 40 years, I find myself deleting most of them from my playlists and donating my old CDs to charity.

But not this one. Itchycoo Park still has "the magic".  Curiouser and curiouser...   {#Curtain}
Posted 11 years ago by wlpendley    [ Reply ]
 eswiley2 wrote:
Who comes up with a name like Itchycoo Park?  :)

 
Many different people could have: Lewis Carroll, e.e. cummings, Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl?  In this case, it was probably Steve Marriott.
Posted 11 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Loved this as a kid...still do as an older gentleman
Posted 11 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
 eswiley2 wrote:
Who comes up with a name like Itchycoo Park?  :)
 
Don't know "who" but this is where:

https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question27896.html

The Itchycoo Park in the song is actually University Parks in Oxford. The Small Faces were sent to stay in a hotel in Oxford to get them away from the London scene and supposedly concentrate on writing more songs. They got very stoned and wandered around the park on one particular day, and that's where the song came from. (From a 'Story Behind The Song' article in Mojo, and the accompanying book.) 
Posted 11 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Who comes up with a name like Itchycoo Park?  :)
Posted 11 years ago by eswiley2    [ Reply ]
 oldviolin wrote:
nuttin' but net...
 

{#High-five}
Posted 11 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Just wanna go back to those times!!
Posted 11 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
Sounds Queen-ish at times... not necessarily in a good way
Posted 11 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
 BillG wrote:

No Rod here. Ronnie Lane + Steve Marriott. 
 
Quite correct. Became a Steve Marriott fan later on, during his Humble Pie days. {#Yes}
Posted 11 years ago by DD gypsyman    [ Reply ]
 joelbb wrote:
The original parental indignation tune.  Great if for nothing else than historical reasons.  Rod and Ron were teenagers.
 
No Rod here. Ronnie Lane + Steve Marriott. 
Posted 11 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
 meadowwoods wrote:
This song still brings a smile to my face :)
 
Me Too!!    {#Jump}
Posted 12 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
 vivakitty wrote:
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?
 
Of course—-it's even a cliche that one would speak those exact words "it's all too beautiful" when one was on acid. (I didn't get the good stuff back in the sixties, mind you.)
Posted 12 years ago by Giselle62    [ Reply ]
The original parental indignation tune.  Great if for nothing else than historical reasons.  Rod and Ron were teenagers.
Posted 12 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
One of many great like-minded tunes on this compilation...




Posted 12 years ago by IrieTom    [ Reply ]
Proclivities wrote: The concoction with Stewart and Wood joining the other three members was known as "(The) Faces".

Yes, I know.  I think they dropped the "Small" because they simply had big plans.  I actually prefer the stuff Rod Stewart did with Beck and The Faces to most of his solo work.  Stewart even re-teamed with Beck to cover People Get Ready and it is a great cover.  I think that was in the 80s.
Posted 12 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
When you could listen to AM radio{#Sorry}
Posted 12 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
This song still brings a smile to my face :)
Posted 12 years ago by meadowwoods    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:

Well I was alive when this effort came out, and thousands (no exaggeration) of exposures to it later over the decades and I'm sick to the back teeth with it. I could likely sing it from heart I've heard it so often on the radio. There's nothing intrinsically bad about the song or the group, but even a 10 can become a 1 after serious over-exposure. Where the feck is Itchycoo Park anyhoo?

 
That's funny. Back in the cradle of psychedelia, we looked on the sentiments expressed by "Itchycoo Park" as, well, quaint, a lot of paisley-adorned wannabes climbing on the peaceandloveandgetstoned bandwagon. Then you heard Small Faces live, and you knew they were one, tight rock'n'roll band. Other pretenders like Scott McKenzie ("San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)") and Eric Burdon ("San Franciscan Nights"), despite their pedigrees, fared less well—although Burdon's work with War played well live.
Posted 12 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
cuttin school, going to the park, and getting high. Beautiful back then...
Posted 12 years ago by max_p    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
 ...  Where the feck is Itchycoo Park anyhoo?
 
Cute poetry in your question!  Thanks to Wikipedia:
Marriott and Small Faces manager Tony Calder came up with this well-known story when Marriott was told the BBC had banned the song for its overt drug references: "We scammed the story together, we told the BBC that Itchycoo Park was a piece of waste ground in the East End that the band had played on as kids - we put the story out at ten and by lunchtime we were told the ban was off."
 
Ronnie Lane on the true location of Itchycoo Park:  "It's a place we used to go to in Ilford years ago. Some bloke we know suggested it to us because it's full of nettles and you keep scratching."
Posted 12 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 bachbeet wrote:
I like this song more now than I did then.  Rod Stewart joined them with Ron Wood after he left Jeff Beck and after Marriot left Faces.
 
When Marriott left to co-form Humble Pie, "The Small Faces" was essentially disbanded.  The concoction with Stewart and Wood joining the other three members was known as "(The) Faces".


Posted 12 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
We used to dance to this in h.s., looking forward to the day when we could get HI-IGH!
Posted 12 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
 DaveInVA wrote:
I was in High School when this Small Feces song came out, hard to believe it was that long ago, like in another lifetime....
 

Freudian slip?  LOL
Posted 12 years ago by Stratocaster    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:

Yep - and wow. I remember this song - and I keep thinking it ended up in a commercial... Still, so funky and fun... And to the naysayers who are bitching about the mix - it was about twenty years before you were born, so just shut up. Thank you.

 
Well I was alive when this effort came out, and thousands (no exaggeration) of exposures to it later over the decades and I'm sick to the back teeth with it. I could likely sing it from heart I've heard it so often on the radio. There's nothing intrinsically bad about the song or the group, but even a 10 can become a 1 after serious over-exposure. Where the feck is Itchycoo Park anyhoo?

Posted 12 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Far out!  Always dug this tune man
Posted 12 years ago by gjones    [ Reply ]
 gigikent wrote:
What's with the horrible metallic sound? some precursor of house music?
 
It's psychedelic, man.


Posted 13 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Freddie Mercury was in another band before Queen? {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 13 years ago by shawshank    [ Reply ]
What's with the horrible metallic sound? some precursor of house music?
Posted 13 years ago by gigikent    [ Reply ]
 bachbeet wrote:
I like this song more now than I did then.  Rod Stewart joined them with Ron Wood after he left Jeff Beck and after Marriot left Faces.
 
I love the tune!  Takes me back...    Marriott went on to sing with Humble Pie.

Posted 13 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
nuttin' but net...
Posted 13 years ago by oldviolin    [ Reply ]
I like this song more now than I did then.  Rod Stewart joined them with Ron Wood after he left Jeff Beck and after Marriot left Faces.
Posted 14 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
 Businessgypsy wrote:
No, but a flux capacitor would help.

 
Oooh, good zap. I love you.

Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
 hippiechick wrote:
Woo Hoo! Back in High School again!

{#Dancingbanana_2}
 
Yep - and wow. I remember this song - and I keep thinking it ended up in a commercial... Still, so funky and fun... And to the naysayers who are bitching about the mix - it was about twenty years before you were born, so just shut up. Thank you.

Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
vivakitty wrote:
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?
No, but a flux capacitor would help.

Posted 14 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]
 bluedot wrote:
RIP STEVE MARRIOTT!
 
...like bluedot said...

Posted 14 years ago by bluedot    [ Reply ]
This sound's so much better on vinyl.

Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
 auburntigerrich wrote:
Yugh... this recording is awful. The definition of lo-fi. The song's nothing to shout at either.

I can't get past the fact that I think the percussion sounds like a guy beating on trash cans with hammers.

Cornfest. 3.
  
That's not a surprising opinion from someone born in 1980: the majority of recordings from that era would be considered "lo-fi" by contemporary standards.

Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Woo Hoo! Back in High School again!

{#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 14 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
Beautiful
Posted 14 years ago by mrdak    [ Reply ]
Bill, this would be fun paired with CCR's "Looking Out My Back Door"... Mice having fun in the sun, happy creatures dancing on the lawn!

Posted 14 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
 jenntenn wrote:

I missed free form radio. And then I found RP.
 
"Radio's" never been freer! (dang, it seems like the word should be "freeer" but three of the same letter in a row isn't allowed in English...lol)

Posted 14 years ago by bluedot    [ Reply ]
RIP STEVE MARRIOTT!
Posted 14 years ago by bluedot    [ Reply ]
 vivakitty wrote:
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?
 
Haha, if you have to ask that question, the drugs probably wouldn't help.  You'd probably have a BAD TRIP!  LOL

Posted 14 years ago by bluedot    [ Reply ]
 capandjudy wrote:
This just reminds me that in the 1960s you could hear anything from Jimi Hendrix to Otis Redding on AM radio. Now a listener is locked into particular genres which is too bad really. By the way, this is a great tune.

 


I missed free form radio. And then I found RP.
Posted 14 years ago by jenntenn    [ Reply ]
I love love this song.   ....back in day.  
Posted 14 years ago by duchamp    [ Reply ]
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?
Posted 14 years ago by vivakitty    [ Reply ]
This just reminds me that in the 1960s you could hear anything from Jimi Hendrix to Otis Redding on AM radio. Now a listener is locked into particular genres which is too bad really. By the way, this is a great tune.

Posted 15 years ago by capandjudy    [ Reply ]
I remember my Mom guffawing at the song title as well as the song itself.  Ah, the memories of my childhood in 1968.

Posted 15 years ago by wlgordon    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:
This is a good song, but it would be great to hear some more Small Faces; Steve Marriott was brilliant.
 
And he showed it OUT LOUD as the guts of Humble Pie.
Posted 15 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]

This song has made me laugh out loud (or at least chuckle audibly) every single time I hear it.  "It's all too beautiful, baby!"


Posted 15 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Its all too cool.  As Van Morrison sings 'take me back, take me back, take me back...'
Posted 15 years ago by dedawson    [ Reply ]
I was in High School when this Small Feces song came out, hard to believe it was that long ago, like in another lifetime....
Posted 15 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
Oh, take me way back! It's all too beautiful!
Posted 15 years ago by LastChance    [ Reply ]
I think this song is fantastic, one of my "All time" top ten.
Posted 15 years ago by STEVIE1    [ Reply ]
 DeeCee1109 wrote:
Context is everything.  Life seemed so much simpler back in that day . . . . 
    It sure was!  (i love this song) #9


Posted 15 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]