3:01 Pick Me Up: Small Faces

Today’s offering: Like the Ramones, Small Faces suffered the opposite of Spinal Tap syndrome: only their drummer, Kenney Jones, has survived. The rest of the band’s best-known lineup eventually fell victim to shitty luck, as singer-guitarist Steve Marriott perished in a 1991 house fire, bassist Ronnie Lane succumbed to multiple sclerosis in 1997, and keyboardist Ian McLagan died of a stroke just this past December.

Jones himself fell victim to publicly supporting the U.K.’s Conservative Party, a devastating fate in its own right.

But at their peak, in the mid to late ’60s, Small Faces were better than many other British bands that wound up getting a lot more attention—every bit as fierce as the Who, say, but with actual soul.

Here, in this lip-synced TV performance alongside singer and label ally P.P. Arnold, Marriott gives a master class in striking blousy-shirt rock poses. He also proves that a song never really needs more than three-and-a-half minutes, even when it ranges from whisper-sweet lines to hammering power chords.