History Music / Faces

* DownerEnding: Their final album ''Ooh La La'', which mostly contains their trademark rave-ups, closes with the poignant BreakupSong "Just Another Honky" and the bittersweet title track.

* ProductionForeshadowing: "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything" is practically a preview of the upbeat, middle-of-the-road pop direction Music/RodStewart would take in TheEighties.

* GutturalGrowler: Rod Stewart's vocal style at this time.

* RepurposedPopSong: "Ooh La La" is best known as the end credits theme from 1998's ''Film/{{Rushmore}}''.

** CantHoldHisLiquor: Tetsu Yamamuchi, clearly out of his element, repeatedly went on stage borderline catatonic during his short run with the group and needed guidance from Stewart to manage the lifestyle.

* LiveAlbum: 1974's ''Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners'', which features a mixture of Faces and Rod Stewart solo material along with some cover songs. Surprisingly, given their live reputation, the album was a critical and commercial bomb -- [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff except in Japan]]. The 2004 box carries over none of the tracks and recreates most of the songs from other recordings, so it seems [=McLagan=] wasn't a fan either.
* LongTitle: "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)". Still the longest song title for a UK chart single.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Ronnie Lane's vocal and songwriting contributions tend to be acoustic, CountryMusic-influenced songs with reflective lyrics.

After lead singer Steve Marriott left the band to form Humble Pie, the remaining three members (Ronnie Lane, Ian [=McLagan=], Kenney Jones) joined forces with Music/RodStewart and Ronnie Wood from The Music/JeffBeck Group. In doing so, they adopted a new sound: raucous, raw-sounding back-to-basics HardRock. They quickly gained a reputation as rock and roll wild men, engaging in all sorts of alcohol-fueled hijinks and general tomfoolery (Wood has compared Faces tours to a [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Marx Brothers]] movie).

After lead singer Steve Marriott left the band to form Humble Pie, the remaining three members (Ronnie Lane, Ian [=McLagan=], Kenney Jones) joined forces with Music/RodStewart and Ronnie Wood from The Music/JeffBeck Group. In doing so, they adopted a new sound: raucous, raw-sounding back-to-basics HardRock. They quickly gained a reputation as rock and roll wild men. They recorded four very popular albums and released a few hit singles, before encountering some internal dissension, with accusations that Stewart was keeping all of the best new material for his own solo career. Lane, who'd been one of the original founders of The Small Faces, quit in 1973. Tetsu Yamauchi took over on bass, but Lane's songwriting and singing capabilities were missed, and their studio output with Yamauchi was limited to two non-album singles. After an abortive attempt to record a fifth album, the band finally split up for good in 1975, spurred on by Stewart's decision to move to California and Wood making guest appearances with Music/TheRollingStones (he'd become a full member in 1976). [=McLagan=] kept busy as a sideman, including a stint with the Stones, while Jones went on to have one of the most challenging cases of ToughActToFollow when Music/TheWho chose him to replace the late Keith Moon on drums.

* {{Instrumentals}}: The album tracks "Pineapple and the Monkey", "Looking Out the Window", "Jerusalem" and "Fly in the Ointment", plus the [[BSide B-Sides]] "Oh Lord I'm Browned Off" and "Skewiff (Mend the Fuse)".

* {{Instrumentals}}: "Pineapple and the Monkey", "Looking Out the Window", "Jerusalem", "Fly in the Ointment".

** Music/RodStewart was the lead singer and frontman, but Ronnie Lane sang lead on at least one track per album.
** Ron Wood handles the vocal for "Ooh La La". Stewart and Lane both attempted vocals on it but producer Glyn Johns didn't find them satisfactory and asked Wood to try it. Stewart and Lane would both record versions of it in their post-breakup careers.

After lead singer Steve Marriott left the band to form Humble Pie, the remaining three members (Ronnie Lane, Ian [=McLagan=], Kenney Jones) joined forces with Music/RodStewart and Ronnie Wood from The Music/JeffBeck Group. In doing so, they adopted a new sound: raucous, raw-sounding back-to-basics HardRock. They quickly gained a reputation as rock and roll wild men. They recorded four very popular albums and released a few hit singles, before encountering some internal dissension, with accusations that Stewart was keeping all of the best new material for his own solo career. Lane, who'd been one of the original founders of The Small Faces, quit in 1973. Tetsu Yamauchi took over on bass, but Lane's songwriting and singing capabilities were missed, and their studio output with Yamauchi was limited to two non-album singles. After an abortive attempt to record a fifth album, the band finally split up for good in 1975, spurred on by Stewart's decision to move to California and Wood becoming a member of Music/TheRollingStones. [=McLagan=] kept busy as a sideman, including a stint with the Stones, while Jones went on to have one of the most challenging cases of ToughActToFollow when Music/TheWho chose him to replace the late Keith Moon on drums.

Faces are an English RockAndRoll group which includes members from The Music/JeffBeck Group and Music/TheSmallFaces. Their music is often raucous and raw-sounding, and they quickly gained a reputation as rock and roll wild men. They recorded four very popular albums and released a few hit singles before splitting up in 1975, amidst accusations that Rod Stewart was keeping all of the best new material for his own solo career. Ronnie Wood later joined Music/TheRollingStones, while Kenney Jones teamed up with Music/TheWho after the death of Keith Moon.

* NotStayingForBreakfast: "Stay with Me" asks the singer's one-night stand to do this.

* TitleOnlyChorus: "Three-Button Hand Me Down"

* TheTheTitleConfusion: Everyone assumes that it's "The Faces", but officially there's no "the". This is probably worsened by the fact that they are the successor group to Music/TheSmallFaces, who ''did'' use the definite article.

* LongTitle: "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)".

But, Cindy, you and me, we gotta move

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Ronnie Lane sang lead on at least one track per album. And Ron Wood handles the vocals for "Ooh La La".

* BreakupBreakout: Music/RodStewart looks like this in hindsight, though in truth his solo career was already more successful during the band's run.