History Music / OgdensNutGoneFlake

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Rene", making effective use of Cockney rhyming slang.
--> ''If you can spare the money, you'll have a ball''
--> ''She'll have your oars [[note]]"oars and rowlocks (pronounced 'rollocks')" = "bollocks" [[/note]] out!''
** In Stanley Unwin's narrative
--> ''Gnomespain, Huckleberry fickle tickle my fingold, huh, boy blue left his horn stuffin under the settee and brought his melotrone, and freaked them all out.''

* WeirdMoon: Happiness Stan wants to know where half the moon has gone. His quest tales him seven days, so by the time he's able to consult Mad John, John is able to point to the full moon. Unwin's telling it makes it ''really'' weird.

* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The album was originally packaged in a circular metal container like a very large tobacco tin. When this proved AwesomeButImpractical the packaging was was changed to a circular cardboard gate-fold sleeve. A limited number of the CD version was sold in metal tins.

--> ''John had it sussed he was living the life of a tramp [[note]]i.e. a vagrant, not a woman of bad character[[/note]]''

** To Listen With Mother, a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] radio show for small children in the 50's and 60's which always began the story with "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin". Stanley Unwin again.

-> ''The Small Faces had already shown a surprising adaptability to psychedelia with the single "Itchycoo Park" and much of their other 1967 output, but Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake pretty much ripped the envelope.''
--> '''Bruce Eder - ''Allmusic'''''

'''''Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake''''' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmallFaces, released in 1968. This album has become one of the seminal works of PsychedelicRock, breaking new ground with the innovative, if impractical, circular sleeve and in turning the whole of the second side to a whimsical FairyTale with spoken narrative interspersed with song, telling the tale of Happiness Stan and his search for the missing half of the moon. The band originally approached Creator/SpikeMilligan to speak the narrative but when he turned them down they turned to the veteran radio entertainer "Professor" Stanley Unwin whose trade mark was Unwinese, or "Basic Engly Twenty Fido", a surreal and mangled form of English inspired by Creator/LewisCarroll's Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}. The first side is a mixture of hard rocking, Music Hall and East End pub knees-up.

* BritishAccent: Steve Marriott's vocals make no concession to the international market at any time but in the Music Hall inspired tracks "Rene" and "Lazy Sunday" he gives free rein to his natural East Ham accent, including local slang.
--> ''I'll sing you a song wiv no words and no tune''
--> ''To sing in the khazi [[note]]an outdoor lavatory [[/note]] while you suss out[[note]]investigate, think about, work out[[/note]] the moon''

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The saga of Happiness Stan.

--> ''John had it sussed he was living the life of a tramp [[note]] ie a vagrant, not a woman of bad character[[/note]]''

* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The album was originally packaged in a circular metal container like a very large tobacco tin. When this proved AwesomeButImpractical the packaging was was changed to a circular cardboard gatefold sleeve. A limited number of the CD version was sold in metal tins.

--> ''There aint no one can take it away.''

** To Listen With Mother, a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] radio show for small children in the 50s and 60s which always began the story with "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin". Stanley Unwin again.

** To Listen With Mother, a [[TheBBC BBC]] radio show for small children in the 50s and 60s which always began the story with "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin". Stanley Unwin again.

* IntercourseWithYou:
** "Afterglow"

* SpecialGuest: Stanley Unwin narrates this album.

* [[Music/HumblePie Steve Marriott - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica

* Steve Marriott - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica

* Stanley Unwin - narrator

* {{Instrumental}}: "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake".

* ShoutOut: To Greek mythology via an operetta by Music/JacquesOffenbach ("Orpheus in the Underworld") in the inimitable style of Stanley Unwin