Small Faces - My Mind's Eye Lyrics

WOOW, Can we please go back in the 60's . Their songs bring back so many wonderful memories...

Top Mod song, this was The Small Faces Christmas offering for 1966, reached No.4 in the charts in December 1966 and was the UK's No.93 of 1966.

It's a grim rainy day and circumstances are such that I'll need to be inside, alone, for much of it. But I hope I never have a day so grim that I feel I must downvote a perfectly pristine, magic two minute performance like this.

IT IS STILL BRILLIANT COMPOSITION. THANK YOU SMALL FACES. HORACIUS. PRAGUE

Bought one of their albums just because this song was on it

I agree that this is a great track. It's only half a song,I wished it was finished. I imagine having a few bars of the 'ahs' followed by middle eight and last verse again. Surely with permission a good mixer could do it.

This was my first record , I got it from Santa 1966 and played it on a Dancette record player that I had to share with my brother and sister. I love this song and Steve Marriott.

I still love The Small Faces.

My favourite small faces song and I liked a lot of them

the best band ever !

This song and this band are way overdue for greater respect

Fantastic I remember singing this in 1977 my 1st day at work,because there'll never see ...

YES ✌

Beauty Christmas memories, with tears in my eyes....back in the 60's....

Excellent song by the small faces! Ogden's but gone flake psychedelic! Great to listen to! I've known them since I wed my husband 23 years ago! Just wish he was still here for Humble Pie 2. Sad tragic loss of a fantastic rock group! My husband misses you Steve! Brilliant clothing too! We love mod clothing too, and forvme bohemian wear just like Stevie Nicks. 💜

Great song thanks for sharing this with us!!!

this was a demo disk rush released by decca,before they left them.still a masterpiece.a better version may have been longer.

Cheers. Discovered them in '96. Turns out this was a demo? Yeah maybe it does sound a bit rough. Maybe why i liked it.

Geniuses at work

Ripoff of the Beatles and that Christmas song.. But somehow still good

rubbish

One of my favourite Small Faces songs. R.I.P. Mac.

+James Martin One of my faves too

And me.

just the best band ever

So nice to see the last remaining member of the Smallfaces Kenny Jones back in the East End last Sunday . He was greatly received by a lot of his old pals at the Brayford Club, off the Commercial Road.

Top track. Something to drift away to.................

Listen to the bass.  At the time that this song was recorded there was only one bass player in the world who sounded like that, playing on heavy-gauge roundwound strings, wide tonal range, melodic, great phrasing, perfect rhythm and timing, clever interplay and counterpoint with the other instruments.  I guess that Ronnie Lane must have sat this one out while Mr Johnny Thunderfingers stepped in for the session.

Well spotted, KevMuso...that's definitely 'Thunderfingers' on that...

I've never heard any stories of him playing on Small Faces tracks.

Excuse my ignorance, but who is 'Johnny Thunderfingers'?

John Entwistle?

I think you are probably underestimating Ronnie Lane - this bass line fits with the sound and style of all the other tracks the Small faces recorded ...was 'Thunderfingers' sitting in on every one?

Not a Christmas song - but it's the only way I can get them onto my festive compilation.

Great 60s Mod Record

A GREAT PEARL

Beautiful

Haha yea I hear that. I think with the Byrds it was a homage but in this case with Small Faces it was probably just a coincidence. I often write melodies that I think are so great until I later realize its already been written. (then I call it a homage) haha

Marriott admitted it was intentional.

Don't hate me for this but does anybody else hear "Gloria in Excelsis Deo"?

I do indeed :)

Classic.

SORRY Ronnie and Steve for those that didnt understand you!

great single from a great 60s mod band

.=_=.

when i listen it i go to past =_=

No matter what the Small Faces thought of it, this is one of the best songs they ever wrote. Love the tune too. If you want rubbish, what about Sha La La La Lee ???

much better than sha la la la lee

Yeah I heard that this was the demo version, they were supposed to rerecord it but Don Arden released it anyway as he wanted another hit after All or Nothing.

This is what Steve Marriott said in 1967 "We recorded rubbish like My Mind's Eye because we knew it was commercial and it would sell"

Steve mightn't have liked it, but I think it's great.

sweet tune, got that glitching in the eye I always aimed for,

@gropingwithastoker Yes, I had noticed that too.

What is the classical riff that this song ends with (and seems to be composed from, though you don't realise it until the end)???? Is it the Alleluiah Chorus????
A true Genius at work. and all in a 2 minute er "pop" song!

One of the great LSD songs

I agree with @xoxosuga keep the small faces going they were one of the best of the 60's music

Woow!! I love this song, it's my favourite... I'm a young girl too and I listen to this fantastic old music and I'm proud of it.

My favourite Small Faces song.

i love this song

Love that Album cover. Brilliant

Webb Wilder did a great version of this on his/their "Town & Country" album about 1995 or so.

lol brism

One of my favourite Small Faces songs (but difficult to choose as so many of their songs are good - especially Tin Soldier). I listen to them still, now on my iPod shuffle and blast the sound out of my 1972 Mini - heaven!! I have the single myself, very scratched now. Thanks for the posting. Alison

I was still alive when this single was about..and I remember it well, as I do their subsequent releases. Now that I am 'dead' so to speak, I must search the ether for their sounds and the sounds of others I can remember during my residence on 'planet earth'. One thing in my favour; I have an infinatessimal amount of time on my hands....living as a human is difficult, and full of problems. Once rid of the 'human' or 'earthly' containment..........the universe is your oyster.

song makes you wanna smoke weed

As a kid about 6 around 1993 I remember playing this song on repeat and going to the corner shop to get cobbers then coming home and still hearing it. I just loved it! Strange child! Short and sweet, could hear it about 10 times on repeat in 20 mins :D

Mine too, quality.

My favourite Small Faces song. Steve Marriot was a great lead singer.

HA HAA!!
shoulda known u'd post this mate!!
deffo *****

Lee
The Sawdust Caesar

Great number from a great Sixties group. RIP Stevie and Ronnie. Thanks for posting.

love this song, used to sing it a lot,

My favourite from Small Faces!