Saturday, November 19, 2022

Faces - First Step [Japan Edition] (1970)

Year: March 27, 1970 (CD Jun 23, 2010)
Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), WPCR 13839
Style: Rock, R&B
Country: London, England
Time: 47:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 309 Mb

The album reached #119 on the Billboard 200.
First Step is the debut album by the British group Faces, released in early 1970. The album was released only a few months after the Faces had formed from the ashes of the Small Faces (from which Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Ian McLagan hailed) and The Jeff Beck Group (from which Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood hailed.) The album is credited to the Small Faces on all North American issues and reissues, while record labels for initial vinyl printings give the title as The First Step.
The album cover shows Ronnie Wood holding a copy of Geoffrey Sisley's seminal guitar tutorial First Step: How to Play the Guitar Plectrum Style.
While the album was recorded after the group's official formation and signing to Warner Bros. Records in the Autumn of 1969, the band members had been rehearsing, performing and recording together in various combinations since May of that year.
At 46:22, First Step is the band's lengthiest original release and many modern critics regard it as promising, but sprawling and unfocused - their least cohesive and most undisciplined offering. It is however perhaps the most democratic of the Faces releases, highlighting the band's talents as a unified whole and affording each member at least one composer credit, as opposed to the perceived dominance of Stewart and his songwriting partnership with Wood as their career progressed.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_(Faces_album))

01. Wicked Messenger (04:08)
02. Devotion (04:56)
03. Shake Shudder Shiver (03:15)
04. Stone (05:38)
05. Around The Plynth (05:52)
06. Flying (04:18)
07. Pineapple And The Monkey (04:25)
08. Nobody Knows (04:06)
09. Looking Out The Window (05:01)
10. Three Button Hand Me Down (05:44)

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