Talk:Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

Album Title
About the spelling: It says "Ogdens'" on the cover, but I've always assumed that this was a typo (or in this case, "painto"). All the catalogue's I've seen give the title as Ogden's, and that's also on the CD version I've got. Don't currently have a vinyl edition to check the label.

I would like to get this cleared up, otherwise there may be a spelling war for the correct placement of the article.

Lee M 18:56, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I don't mean this maliciously, but it's funny to hear you talking about the misplacement of the apostrophe and then, in the next sentence, refer to "catalogue's". Starry  Eyes  06:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Strange. The artwork seems consistently to show Ogdens', and Google searches yield far more in that form than the other, including an article from a well-respected newspaper (www.guardian.co.uk). Amazon has albums listed under both names. •Λmniarix• (talk) 12:05, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

As written (or designed) on the original album cover, it is indeed a typo (or 'painto'), and a quick image search of original vintage Ogden's tobacco products confirms it - possessive apostrophe and all. However, for better or worse the record album itself is commonly known as Ogdens' Nutgone Flake, grammatically correct or not, so it should probably stand. I mean, just imagine all the fun to be had with 'correcting' Slade's discography, for example, if we held such correctness up as a hard and fast rule...HippyGumbo (talk) 03:01, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

The Jacket Designer
Perhaps someone who's a better researcher can confirm some part of this. Derek Burton, who subsequently lived in the US and worked for years as the art director of the men's mag Gallery, was designer of the original die-cut version of this LP jacket, though I've yet to find a confirming source. After Gallery, he entered publishing as a principal in a firm that briefly published a true-crime magazine called CrimeBeat. Throughout the time I knew him, Derek was a terrible drunkard who pined miserably for his glory days of partying with Brit popstars. He succeeded in drinking himself to death a couple of years after CrimeBeat failed. Bustter (talk) 01:44, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Film adaptation
I know there was some discussion in the late 60's/early 70's of an animated film adaptation of the fairy tale on side 2. i believe someone named John Harvey, with connections to the San Francisco Bay Area "scene" was involved. The film was also discussed in a Hello Magazine interview in the 90's. any information on this would be good to add to the article.(mercurywoodrose)76.245.46.57 (talk) 02:07, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

First Line
Might you change the first line from "was a successful concept album" to "is a concept album." Successful, while perhaps true of Ogden's, is too subjective for a first line. Who's to say what is a success? Tom Waits selling 500,000 copies of an album is a success for him. It wouldn't be a success for Abbey Road to have sold 500,000 copies. Besides, you give the album's chart number and the "1001 Albums" reference. I think the reader can figure out from these references that the album was successful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.229.61.31 (talk) 16:05, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

GTA V
Someone should do an article just for the song Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake; cuz' not that it has been the soundtrack for the first trailer of GTA V, i think it deserves it. 190.92.46.177 (talk) 22:56, 19 November 2011 (UTC)