Humble Pie The Crust of Humble Pie (Vinyl, Immediate Records, 1972) ****
Genre: Rock
Places I remember: Fives; Spellbound Wax Company
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Cold Lady
Gear costume: Home and Away
Active compensatory factors: By rights I should love Humble Pie. The double guitar attack (Peter Frampton and Marriott) and the voice of Steve Marriott are big draw cards.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Cold Lady
Gear costume: Home and Away
But when I bought Performance I was hugely disappointed. The long rambling numbers and the obnoxious side of Marriott on a few numbers mean I shelved the album. Rolling Stone being the worst offender - apart from being just plain offensive it's also just plain boring. Sixteen minutes looong! No thanks.
The album hasn't grown on me since, although the more focused songs like Four Day Creep and Stone Cold Fever have meant that I've hung onto it.
The Crust of Humble Pie is a compilation put out by Immediate in 1972. Interestingly, none of the Performance songs make an appearance on the compilation.
Instead, it presents 10 songs from the band's first two albums on Immediate (As Safe As Yesterday Is, Town and Country). For my money these are far superior to the bombastic stuff they churned out for A&M.
There are a few lingering elements from The Small Faces on these songs and Steve Marriott is in fine vocal form. At his best he is peerless.
Where do they all belong? I love The Small Faces and there is more to come when we get to them in the collection, but I'm not tempted to buy any more Humble Pie beyond The Crust of Humble Pie.
Where do they all belong? I love The Small Faces and there is more to come when we get to them in the collection, but I'm not tempted to buy any more Humble Pie beyond The Crust of Humble Pie.
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