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Faces was an English rock band formed in 1969. They released 4 studio albums between 1970 and 1973. The original lineup consisted of Rod Stewart on lead vocals, Ronnie Wood on lead guitar, Ronnie Lane on bass guitar, Ian "Mac" McLagan on keyboards, and Kenney Jones on drums. Lane was replaced by former Free bassist Tetsu Yamauchi in mid 1973, shortly after the release of their final album. The group disbanded in 1975. The original lineup was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
| Title | Year Recorded | Album | Songwriter(s) | Lead vocal(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "(I Know) I'm Losing You" | 1970 | Single ( Every Picture Tells a Story ) | Norman Whitfield/Edward Holland, Jr./Cornelius Grant | Stewart | 4.56 |
| "Angel" | 1973 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Jimi Hendrix | Stewart | 2.50 |
| "Around the Plynth" | 1969 | First Step | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 5.52 |
| "Bad 'n' Ruin" | 1970 | Long Player | McLagan/Stewart | Stewart | 5.25 |
| "Borstal Boys" | 1973 | Ooh La La | McLagan/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 2.53 |
| "Cindy Incidentally" | 1973 | Ooh La La | McLagan/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 2.39 |
| "Cut Across Shorty" | 1971 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Marijohn Wilkin/Wayne Walker | Stewart | 5.44 |
| "Debris" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Lane | Lane | 4.36 |
| "Devotion" | 1969 | First Step | Lane | Stewart, Lane | 4.55 |
| "Every Picture Tells a Story" | 1973 | Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 5.55 |
| "Flags and Banners" | 1972 | Ooh La La | Lane/Stewart | Lane | 2.02 |
| "Fly in the Ointment" | 1972 | Ooh La La | Jones/Lane/McLagan/Wood | instrumental | 3.51 |
| "Flying" | 1969 | First Step | Lane/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 4.15 |
| "Gasoline Alley" | 1970 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 5.33 |
| "Glad and Sorry" | 1972 | Ooh La La | Lane | Lane, Wood, McLagan | 3.07 |
| "Had Me a Real Good Time" | 1971 | Long Player | Lane/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 5.50 |
| "I Feel So Good" | 1970 | Long Player | Big Bill Broonzy | Stewart | 8.44 |
| "I Wish It Would Rain" | 1973 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong/Roger Penzabene | Stewart | 4.55 |
| "I'd Rather Go Blind" | 1975 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Ellington Jordan/Billy Foster | Stewart | 3.45 |
| "If I'm on the Late Side" | 1973 | Ooh La La | Lane/Stewart | Stewart | 2.39 |
| "It's All Over Now" | 1973 | Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners | Bobby Womack/Shirley Womack | Stewart | 4.55 |
| "Jealous Guy" | 1973 | Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners | John Lennon | Stewart | 2.45 |
| "Jerusalem" | 1971 | Long Player | traditional (arranged by Wood) | instrumental | 1.53 |
| "Jodie" | 1973 | Single (B-side) | Wood/Stewart/McLagan | Stewart | 6.33 |
| "Just Another Honky" | 1973 | Ooh La La | Lane | Stewart | 3.35 |
| "Last Orders Please" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Lane | Lane | 4.55 |
| "Looking Out the Window" | 1969 | First Step | Jones/McLagan | instrumental | 5.02 |
| "Love in Vain" | 1971 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Robert Johnson | Stewart | 5.56 |
| "Love Lives Here" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Lane/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 3.50 |
| "Maggie May" | 1971 | Five Guys Walk into a Bar... | Stewart/Martin Quittenton | Stewart | 3.32 |
| "Maybe I'm Amazed" | 1971 | Single (studio) Long Player (live) | Paul McCartney | Lane, Stewart | 6.34 |
| "Memphis, Tennessee" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Chuck Berry | Stewart | 5.33 |
| "Miss Judy's Farm" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 5.44 |
| "My Fault" | 1973 | Ooh La La | McLagan/Stewart/Wood | Stewart, Wood (duet) | 3.44 |
| "My Way of Giving" | 1970 | Gasoline Alley | Lane, Steve Marriott | Stewart, Lane, McLagan | 3.33 |
| "Nobody Knows" | 1970 | First Step | Lane/Wood | Stewart, Lane (duet) | 4.05 |
| "Oh Lord, I'm Browned Off" | 1971 | Single (B-side) (Five Guys Walk into a Bar...) | Jones/Lane/McLagan/Wood | Instrumental | 4.55 |
| "Oh No (Not My Baby)" | 1973 | Single (A-side) | Gerry Goffin/Carole King | Stewart | 3.45 |
| "On the Beach" | 1970 | Long Player | Lane/Wood | Lane, Wood (duet) | 2.33 |
| "Ooh La La" | 1973 | Ooh La La | Lane/Wood | Wood | 4.33 |
| "Open to Ideas" | 1975 | Good Boys... When They're Asleep | McLagan/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 4.55 |
| "Pineapple and the Monkey" | 1969 | First Step | Wood | instrumental | 4.24 |
| "Pool Hall Richard" | 1973 | Single (Five Guys Walk into a Bar...) | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 3.55 |
| "Rear Wheel Skid" | 1970 | Single (B-side) (Five Guys Walk into a Bar...) | Jones/Lane/McLagan/Wood | Instrumental | 2.50 |
| "Richmond" | 1970 | Long Player | Lane | Lane | 3.56 |
| "Shake, Shudder, Shiver" | 1969 | First Step | Lane/Wood | Stewart, Lane (duet) | 3.13 |
| "Silicone Grown" | 1973 | Ooh La La | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 2.35 |
| "Stay with Me" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 5.22 |
| "Stone" | 1969 | First Step | Lane | Lane | 5.36 |
| "Sweet Lady Mary" | 1970 | Long Player | Lane/Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 4.22 |
| "Tell Everyone" | 1970 | Long Player | Lane | Stewart | 2.57 |
| "That's All You Need" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink.. to a Blind Horse | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 6.00 |
| "Three Button Hand Me Down" | 1969 | First Step | McLagan/Stewart | Stewart | 5.45 |
| "Too Bad" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 4.33 |
| "Too Much Woman (I Wanna Be Loved)" | 1971 | BBC recording | Ike Turner | Stewart | 2.58 |
| "True Blue" | 1971 | Never a Dull Moment | Stewart/Wood | Stewart | 4.59 |
| "Twistin' the Night Away" | 1971 | Never a Dull Moment | Sam Cooke | Stewart | 8.15 |
| "Wicked Messenger" | 1969 | First Step | Bob Dylan | Stewart | 4.05 |
| "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything" | 1974 | Single (Five Guys Walk into a Bar...) | Jones/McLagan/Stewart/Wood/Yamauchi | Stewart | 4.21 |
| "You're My Girl (I Don't Want to Discuss It)" | 1970 | Gasoline Alley | Dick Cooper/Beth Beatty/Ernie Shelby | Stewart | 2.46 |
| "You're So Rude" | 1971 | A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse | Lane/McLagan | Lane | 3.56 |
Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer and guitarist Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie. The remaining Small Faces—Ian McLagan (keyboards), Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones —were joined by guitarist Ronnie Wood and singer Rod Stewart, both from the Jeff Beck Group, and the new line-up was renamed Faces.
Small Faces were an English rock band from London, founded in 1965. The group originally consisted of Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, with Ian McLagan replacing Winston as the band's keyboardist in 1966. The band was one of the most acclaimed and influential mod groups of the 1960s, recording hit songs such as "Itchycoo Park", "Lazy Sunday", "All or Nothing" and "Tin Soldier", as well as their concept album Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake. They evolved into one of the UK's most successful psychedelic bands until 1969.
Ronald Frederick Lane was an English musician and songwriter who was the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Small Faces (1965–69) and Faces (1969–73).
Ronald David Wood is an English rock musician, best known as an official member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, as well as a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group.
Ooh La La is the fourth and final studio album by the English rock band Faces, released in March 1973. It reached number one in the UK Albums Chart in the week of 28 April 1973. The album was most recently reissued on CD in a remastered and expanded form on 28 August 2015, including early rehearsal takes of three of its tracks, as part of the 1970–1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything... box set. The box set's vinyl counterpart did not contain any bonus tracks, but it did replicate the original LP artwork and 'animated' cover.
Long Player is the second album by the British rock group Faces, released in February 1971. Among the highlights are a live cover version of Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed", the ballads "Richmond" and "Sweet Lady Mary", the party tune "Had Me a Real Good Time", and uptempo saloon bar rocker "Bad 'n' Ruin". Two tracks, "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "I Feel So Good", were recorded live at the Fillmore East, New York City, on 10 November 1970.
First Step is the debut studio album by the English rock band Faces, released on 27 March 1970 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was released only a few months after the Faces had formed from the ashes of the Small Faces and The Jeff Beck Group. 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.
Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners is a 1974 live album credited to Rod Stewart/Faces. Stewart's practice was not giving concerts as a solo act at the time, but rather appearing jointly with the Faces, thus the dual crediting.
Snakes and Ladders / The Best of Faces was an October 1976 best-of album by British rock group Faces. While the first released Faces compilation was a repackaging of the group's first two LPs as a double album, this US-only release presented the first attempt to compile the popular songs from the group after they had disbanded in 1975. Featuring photography by Tom Wright and unique cover art by guitarist Ronnie Wood, it was only eventually superseded in the US market by the CD compilation Good Boys... When They're Asleep in 1999.
Good Boys... When They're Asleep... was a 1999 compilation of British rock group Faces. Compiled primarily by keyboardist Ian McLagan, it served to supersede the 1976 effort Snakes And Ladders / The Best of Faces, and to present a CD-length retrospective of the group, lasting nearly eighty minutes.
Five Guys Walk into a Bar... is a comprehensive four-disc retrospective of the British rock group Faces released in 2004, collecting sixty-seven tracks from among the group's four studio albums, assorted rare single A and B-sides, BBC sessions, rehearsal tapes and one track from a promotional flexi-disc, "Dishevelment Blues" - a deliberately-sloppy studio romp, captured during the sessions for their Ooh La La album, which was never actually intended for official release.
Tetsu Yamauchi is a Japanese retired bass guitarist. In the 1970s, he was a member of several popular hard rock bands, including Free, where he replaced former bassist Andy Fraser before the band's final album Heartbreaker, and the Faces, where he replaced Ronnie Lane and appears on the band's final single, "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything", as well as touring with them and playing on the live album Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners. He also recorded a number of solo albums and did extensive work as a session musician before retiring from the music industry in the late 1990s.
Mahoney's Last Stand is an album by Faces bandmates Ronnie Wood and Ronnie Lane, recorded in 1972. It is the music soundtrack album of the low-budget 1972 Canadian film Mahoney's Last Stand starring Alexis Kanner, Sam Waterston and Maud Adams. The film itself, little seen at the time of its release and even less so since, charts the progress of city-dweller Mahoney (Kanner) who abandons his urban existence to become a homesteader, and the drama that ensues. Pete Townshend, who guests on guitar on some tracks on the album, also receives a credit in the film for providing 'special electronic effects', alongside Wood and Lane's musical score.
"Stay with Me" is a song by English rock band Faces, written jointly by lead singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood. Released from the band's third studio album A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse (1971), it became their only major hit in the United States, although they had a further three Top 20 singles in the UK chart. The song has also appeared on various Faces compilations and on albums by both songwriters. The lyrics describe a woman named Rita, who has a face that she has "nothing to laugh about", and with whom the singer proposes a one-night stand, on the condition that she be gone when he wakes up.
"Ooh La La" is a 1973 song by the band Faces, written by Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood. It is the title song of the band's last studio album, Ooh La La.
"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 Shortcomings)" was the last official single by British rock group Faces, released in November 1974. It later appeared on their 1976 greatest hits album Snakes and Ladders / The Best of Faces.
"Cindy Incidentally" is a song by the British group Faces, written by group members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Ian McLagan. It was produced by Glyn Johns. It was included on the band's 1973 album Ooh La La, and in the same year was released by Warner Bros. Records as the first single from that album.
"My Way of Giving" is a song written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. Initially demoed by their band Small Faces in 1966, it was given to British singer Chris Farlowe, who released his version as a single in early 1967. It was Farlowe's first single not written by Jagger–Richards since 1965's "The Fool". The Small Faces themselves decided to go on and record a version which was released on two different albums on two different record labels.
The Definitive Rock Collection is a two-disc retrospective of the British rock group Faces released in 2007, collecting thirty tracks from among the group's four studio albums, various single A and B-sides, and an outtake from the sessions for a proposed but ultimately abandoned 1975 album.