Snakes and Ladders

About Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders / The Best of Faces was an October 1976 best-of album (the 7th album and 2nd compilation album) by British rock group Faces, an attempt to collect all of the popular songs from the group that had disbanded the previous year. Featuring photography by Tom Wright and cover art by guitarist Ronnie Wood, it was superseded by the compilation Good Boys... When They're Asleep in 1999. This compilation is unique in that "Pineapple And The Monkey" did not appear on either Good Boys or the four disc box set, Five Guys Walk Into A Bar. ... Also, the version of "Had Me A Real Good Time" presented here is the original 1970 single release, which is actually a different earlier recording to the 'Long Player' version, rather than a simple edit of it. The selections are also heavily biased in favour of Rod Stewart's lead vocals, with only one track featuring Wood on vocals, and none featuring Ronnie Lane, the group's secondary vocalist and songwriter, who sang on and composed several tracks on each of the group's four original studio albums. Lane's songwriting is also under-represented, and he is not pictured in any of the many snapshots featured on the cover. Conversely Jesse Ed Davis - who was only hired for the group's final tour in fall 1975 - does appear in some of the cover art snapshots, despite never appearing on any of the studio tracks recorded by the group more »