Headphones and empty beer cans on the floor can only mean one thing: a full-on rock n roll bender.

Previous benders have been brought to you by Flipp's self-titled first CD, The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me, Cheap Trick Live in Chicago, Gimmie Shelter, and a host of others too many too mention.

The guilty party this time is new Faces Box Set, Five Guys Walk into a Bar... I can't get enough of it. Can't stop rocking. Must drink beer. Must hear Faces.

I have gone through Faces "Fases" before. Most recently last year in Minneapolis, when I spent 15 of my last 20 dollars buying the Best of The Faces, because I had to hear "Pool Hall Richard" right now. Because of this decision, I was forced to survive on plain bagels and tap water for days before we made enough cash so I could get the Friday Fish fry in Marquette.

Mmmnnn….fish fry.

I won't bore you with the history (something are best learned for yourself), but The Faces were Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and Kenny Jones. While other early 70's bands were taking things very seriously, The Faces would set up a bar on stage and play straight-forward good-time rock n roll.

McLagan sequenced this 4-CD set. According to the liner notes, after trying to do it many different ways (chronological, singles/outtakes), he pored a pint of "black madness" and just went on his own Faces bender.

The love shines through. The rarely heard Faces live version of "Maggie May" is a must hear. Check it out.