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Small Faces — Itchycoo Park
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jun 10, 2013 - 14:55
 
Loved this as a kid...still do as an older gentleman

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 15:05
 
 eswiley2 wrote:
Who comes up with a name like Itchycoo Park??  :)
 
Don't know "who" but this is where:

http://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.) 

eswiley2
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 07:18
 
Who comes up with a name like Itchycoo Park??  :)

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 19:45
 
 oldviolin wrote:
nuttin' but net...
 

{#High-five}

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Jan 17, 2013 - 14:08
 
Just wanna go back to those times!!

scrubbrush
(All lost in the supermarket)
Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 11:33
 
Sounds Queen-ish at times... not necessarily in a good way

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 11:32
 
 BillG wrote:

No Rod here. Ronnie Lane + Steve Marriott. 
 
Quite correct. Became a Steve Marriott fan later on, during his Humble Pie days. {#Yes}

BillG
Posted: Dec 15, 2012 - 12:57
 
 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. 

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 18:34
 
 meadowwoods wrote:
This song still brings a smile to my face :)
 
Me Too!!    {#Jump}

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 21:28
 
 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.)

joelbb
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 21:22
 
The original parental indignation tune.  Great if for nothing else than historical reasons.  Rod and Ron were teenagers.

IrieTom
(Plattsburgh , NY)
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 20:02
 
One of many great like-minded tunes on this compilation...





bachbeet
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 23:41
 
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.

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 18:24
 
When you could listen to AM radio{#Sorry}

meadowwoods
(Dane County, WI)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 09:02
 
This song still brings a smile to my face :)

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 08:40
 
 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.

max_p
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 08:33
 
cuttin school, going to the park, and getting high. Beautiful back then...

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 12:13
 
 fredriley wrote:
 ...  Where the feck is Itchycoo Park anyhoo?
 
Cute poery 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."

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 12:06
 
 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".



hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 12:01
 
We used to dance to this in h.s., looking forward to the day when we could get HI-IGH!

Stratocaster
(Bermuda)
Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 07:12
 
 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

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 07:09
 
 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?


gjones
Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 07:08
 
Far out!  Always dug this tune man

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 16:10
 
 gigikent wrote:
What's with the horrible metallic sound? some precursor of house music?
 
It's psychedelic, man.



shawshank
(Maryland)
Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 06:50
 
Freddie Mercury was in another band before Queen? {#Cheesygrin}

gigikent
Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 02:33
 
What's with the horrible metallic sound? some precursor of house music?

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: May 31, 2011 - 06:39
 
 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.


oldviolin
(Esse quam videri)
Posted: Jan 25, 2011 - 09:27
 
nuttin' but net...

bachbeet
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 21:59
 
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.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 22:00
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
No, but a flux capacitor would help.

 
Oooh, good zap. I love you.


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 21:59
 
 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.


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 13:32
 
vivakitty wrote:
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?
No, but a flux capacitor would help.


bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 22:45
 
 bluedot wrote:
RIP STEVE MARRIOTT!
 
...like bluedot said...


HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Feb 26, 2010 - 06:30
 
This sound's so much better on vinyl.


Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 09:33
 
 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.


hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 09:27
 
Woo Hoo! Back in High School again!

{#Dancingbanana_2}

mrdak
(Middle GA)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 19:18
 
Beautiful

lmic
(Harmless Little Bunny)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 19:18
 
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!


bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 22:51
 
 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)


bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 22:48
 
RIP STEVE MARRIOTT!

bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 22:48
 
 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


jenntenn
(Indy)
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 22:47
 
 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.

duchamp
(Hardwood Hammock)
Posted: Dec 25, 2009 - 09:02
 
I love love this song.   ....back in day.  

vivakitty
(The Girl Who Wrecks Your Dreams)
Posted: Dec 09, 2009 - 14:20
 
Do I need drugs to understand the appeal of this song?

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 04:55
 
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.


wlgordon
Posted: Oct 23, 2009 - 13:21
 
I remember my Mom guffawing at the song title as well as the song itself.  Ah, the memories of my childhood in 1968.


unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Oct 23, 2009 - 13:21
 
 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.

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Oct 23, 2009 - 13:19
 

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!"



dedawson
(You never know where you're going til you get there (currently, Thousand Oaks, Ca)
Posted: Aug 21, 2009 - 11:25
 
Its all too cool.  As Van Morrison sings 'take me back, take me back, take me back...'

DaveInVA
(VA)
Posted: Aug 21, 2009 - 11:24
 
I was in High School when this Small Feces song came out, hard to believe it was that long ago, like in another lifetime....