Modcast #580: It's All Too Beautiful

What can I say about the Small Faces that hasn't already been said? Not much honestly. I'm not a Small Faces junky. But I do love their music. In fact, in my earliest mod days I think I preferred them to The Who. It's been said that The Who was a band that became mods, but the Small Faces were mods who became a band. I was looking for some covers of Small Faces songs when I realized how few there really are out there. Compared to the hundreds of covers of The Who, The Kinks, The Stones and other British invasion acts of the 60s, I was shocked at just how few people have covered their songs over the years. And amongst those, fewer still ones that are really any good. I've gathered here a double handful that I think fit the bill and do the group justice.

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The Paul Weller Movement -- Tin Soldier (Live Brixton Academy 1991)
Quiet Riot -- Itchycoo Park (1985)
PP Arnold -- (If You Think You're) Groovy (1967)
Cheap Trick -- Whatcha Gonna Do About It (198?)
Cabbage-N-Mash -- Song Of A Baker (2022)
Midge Ure -- My Mind's Eye (2004)

Ian McLagan & The Bump Band -- I Will Follow (2013)
Rod Stewart -- My Way Of Giving (1970)
Humble Pie -- I Don't Need No Doctor (1971)
Toy Dolls -- Lazy Sunday Afternoon (1995)
Buzzcocks -- Here Comes The Nice (1996)
Changing Man (Feat. Kenney Jones and Mick Talbot) -- Afterglow (1996)
Gene -- Autumn Stone (1996)

Bonus Third Set

The Kaiser Chiefs - Lazy Sunday Afternoon


Pretenders - What You Gonna Do About It



The Scorpions - Tin Soldier


The Sex Pistols - Whatcha Gonna Do About It


Great White - Afterglow


Tim Timebomb and Friends - Ooh La La


Paul Weller & Noel Gallagher - Here Come The Nice