This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces’ First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album. The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections. In total, 17 bonus tracks are previously unreleased! The collection will also be available as a 180-gram vinyl box with the bonus disc but without the previously unreleased tracks appended to each album. ‘1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything’ – which is named after their final single – will also feature a variety of extras, such as outtakes and rehearsal recordings. Having disbanded in 1975, The Faces reunited in 2010 and played a number of shows with Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall on lead vocals in place of original singer Rod Stewart, including a headline performance at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival.
The box is named after their last single, a disco song given the unwieldy name of “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or any Other Domestic Short Comings).” It featured new bassist Tetsu Yamauchi, who had replaced Ronnie Lane, and reached No. 12 in the U.K. in 1974. The Faces approved the mixes , The band — which included Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood – was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Jones, Lane and McLagan had earlier been in the Small Faces; Stewart and Wood were members of the Jeff Beck Group. Lane died of multiple sclerosis in 1997; McLagan passed after suffering a stroke in 2014.
You Can Make Me Dance will be pressed onto 180-gram vinyl, with artwork that faithfully recreates the original releases, including the moving eyes and opening mouth from Ooh La La. The four albums are First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (1971) and Ooh La La (1973). 1974′s Live — Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners is not included.
In 2012, Hucknall sang ‘Stay With Me’ at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio. Stewart had planned to perform with the band, but came down with the flu ahead of the event.
The collection also features a bonus disc that gathers up nine tracks that didn’t appear on proper albums, including the 1973 single “Pool Hall Richard“, a live performance of the Temptations’ “I Wish It Would Rain” from the 1973 Reading Festival, and “Dishevelment Blues“, a song that came free as a flexi-disc in copies of NME.
The track listing for You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (1970 – 1975) is:
THE FIRST STEP
1. “Wicked Messenger”
2. “Devotion”
3. “Shake, Shudder, Shiver”
4. “Stone”
5. “Around The Plynth”
6. “Flying”
7. “Pineapple And The Monkey”
8. “Nobody Knows”
9. “Looking Out The Window”
10. “Three Button Hand Me Down”
11. “Behind The Sun” (Outtake) *
12. “Mona – The Blues” (Outtake) *
13. “Shake, Shudder, Shiver” (BBC Session) *
14. “Flying” (Take 3) *
15. “Nobody Knows” (Take 2) *
LONG PLAYER
1. “Bad ‘n’ Ruin”
2. “Tell Everyone”
3. “Sweet Lady Mary”
4. “Richmond”
5. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
6. “Had Me A Real Good Time”
7. “On The Beach”
8. “I Feel So Good”
9. “Jerusalem”
10. “Whole Lotta Woman” (Outtake) *
11. “Tell Everyone” (Take 1) *
12. “Sham-Mozzal” (Instrumental – Outtake) *
13. “Too Much Woman” (Live) *
14. “Love In Vain” (Live) *
A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK…TO A BLIND HORSE
1. “Miss Judy’s Farm”
2. “You’re So Rude”
3. “Love Lives Here”
4. “Last Orders Please”
5. “Stay With Me”
6. “Debris”
7. “Memphis”
8. “Too Bad”
9. “That’s All You Need”
10. “Miss Judy’s Farm” (BBC Session) *
11. “Stay With Me” (BBC Session) *
OOH LA LA
1. “Silicone Grown”
2. “Cindy Incidentally”
3. “Flags And Banners”
4. “My Fault”
5. “Borstal Boys”
6. “Fly In The Ointment”
7. “If I’m On The Late Side”
8. “Glad And Sorry”
9. “Just Another Honky”
10. “Ooh La La”
11. “Cindy Incidentally” (BBC Session) *
12. “Borstal Boys” (Rehearsal) *
13. “Silicone Grown” (Rehearsal) *
14. “Glad And Sorry” (Rehearsal) *
15. “Jealous Guy” (Live) *
* previously unreleased
BONUS LP
1. “Pool Hall Richard”
2. “I Wish It Would Rain” (With A Trumpet)
3. “Rear Wheel Skid”
4. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
5. “Oh Lord I’m Browned Off”
6. “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)” (UK Single Version)
7. “As Long As You Tell Him”
8. “Skewiff (Mend The Fuse)”
9. “Dishevelment Blues”
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