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Since I usually have 3 CDs on here, I figured I’d one-up-it and go for four and write about the best CDs I ended up getting through 2007 was this: Five Guys Walk Into A Bar – the Faces box set. If you’ve been to the site before, you know that I’m a huge Ron Wood fan. I was Ronnie in Grade 12 for an Air Band competition. I even ran from left side to right side and back again just like the Rolling Stones when they She’s So Cold from Let’s Spend The Night Together video. They wouldn’t let me smoke though. Anyways, I find box sets are usually kinda greatest hits with the odd B-side and that’s about it. Even when I was reading about the box set, I thought, “Geeze, they only have 5 CDs (if you include the live album), they could probably fit all the albums on (they didn’t) and B-sides and that would be it.” Still worth it though, and it gets better. Disc 1 starts off with Flying which makes sense, since it was the first single they released, and I think that’s as chronological as it gets. I’m not sure if On The Beach is a good second track for disc 1, and I’m not sure if I would have put it on the box even though I like the song. A studio version of Jealous Guy is on here as well as a real treat called As Long As You Tell Him, complete with a great slide solo from Ronnie. An alternate mix of Cindy Incidentally is nice since it’s slowed down to regular tuning (this and Silicone Grown are up in pitch on the Ooh La La CD) so I can finally play along with it, just like Wyndlesham Bay which Rod put out on his own as a song called Jodie. And one of my favourites from this box is a song called Come See Me Baby (The Cheater). Very nice. Disc 2 starts off with one of my all time favourite songs, Pool Hall Richard and then goes into the start of the real gems of the box: all the BBC stuff, just like You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It). Wow. If they made a Faces at the BBC CD, I’d buy two copies (one for the car). Rear Wheel Skid is a nice treat and what was neat, was (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Right. It sounds like Rod played this version to his studio band when he covered it on his Foot Loose and Fancy Free album. You're So Rude starts Disc 3 off. I love that song. Then a stellar version of (I Know) I'm Losing You from the BBC. Silicone Grown made it on here as well as Ooh La La and a real good, but not so tight version of Stay With Me. Disc 4 starts off with Free’s The Stealer. I don’t have an original version to compare this to but this version is great. And then the rest of the disc puts back the studio versions of Miss Judy's Farm, Three Button Hand Me Down, Cindy Incidentally, Bad 'N' Ruin and ends of with Stay With Me. Oddly Wicked Messenger didn’t make the cut and neither did Tell Everyone for some reason. But all in all, it goes to show that when Rod Stewart was on, he was one of the best vocalists ever (I say he stopped being “on” around 1980); Ronnie Wood has bumped up my respect level for his playing and he was high up there already; Kenny Jones is a lot of fun to listen to as well as Ian MacLaghin. But the real treat of this whole set was Ronnie Lane’s bass playing; it was his band, after all.
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