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Label:

Edsel

Format:

CD, Compilations

Release Date:

17/01/2025

Cat no:

EDSL0212

Barcode:

740155741235

Genre:

Pop

Sub Genre:

Psychedelic

The Creation

The Creation: Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes (4CD)

The Creation: Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes (4CD)

The Creation

  1. Making Time
  2. Try And Stop Me
  3. Painter Man
  4. Biff Bang Pow
  5. Sylvette
  6. If I Stay Too Long
  7. Nightmares
  8. Cool Jerk
  9. Like A Rolling Stone
  10. I Am The Walker
  11. Can I Join Your Band
  12. Hey Joe
  13. Life Is Just Beginning
  14. Through My Eyes
  15. How Does It Feel To Feel (UK Version)
  16. How Does It Feel To Feel (US Version)
  17. Tom Tom
  18. Ostrich Man
  19. Sweet Helen
  20. Midway Down
  21. The Girls Are Naked
  22. Bony Maronie
  23. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  24. For All That I Am
  25. Uncle Bert
  1. Making Time [instrumental]
  2. Painter Man
  3. Biff Bang Pow
  4. Sylvette [full length]
  5. If I Stay Too Long
  6. Nightmares
  7. Cool Jerk
  8. Like A Rolling Stone
  9. Can I Join Your Band
  10. Hey Joe
  11. Life Is Just Beginning
  12. Through My Eyes
  13. How Does It Feel To Feel [UK version]
  14. Tom Tom
  15. How Does It Feel To Feel [US version]
  16. Midway Down
  17. For All That I Am
  18. Instrumental # 1
  19. How Does It Feel To Feel [instrumental]
  1. Lay The Ghost
  2. Psychedelic Rose
  3. Radio Beautiful
  4. United
  5. Doing It My Way
  6. Making Time (new version)
  7. Far From Paradise
  8. White Knight
  9. Spirit Called Love
  1. Creation
  2. Power Surge
  3. Someone's Gonna Bleed
  4. Shock Horror
  5. That's How I Found Love
  6. Killing Song
  7. Nobody Wants To Know
  8. City Life
  9. English Language
  10. Free Men Live Forever
  11. Ghost Division
  12. O+N
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About this release

  • Expanded edition of 1998 compilation Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes.
  • Featuring all The Creation studio recordings.
  • 65 tracks over 4CDs in newly designed artwork.

“Our music is red – with purple flashes” is how Creation guitarist Eddie Phillips described his band’s records. For those in the know The Creation are the very stuff of legend; these visionary architects of what’s now known as freakbeat, this tough mod-psych jumble and a cross generational inspiration to the likes of Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Sex Pistols, Paul Weller and Alan McGee.

The Creation was formed in 1966 from beat combo The Mark Four and was quickly signed to a production deal with Shel Talmy, The Who’s producer. The first release was the urgent “Making Time”, which featured guitarist Eddie Phillips playing his guitar with a violin bow, two years before Jimmy Page started doing so.

This new edition of Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes expands on the compilation released by Demon Records in 1998. It features all The Creation’s studio recordings in one definitive set. 65 tracks over 4CDs including Making Time, Painter Man & Biff Bang Pow.

Disc 1 features the original compilation in mono. Disc 2 includes Alex Palao fresh stereo mixes created 2012. Disc 3 and disc 4 consist of the albums Psychedelic Rose and Power Surge that were released after the band reunited in 1985. The set is complete with an essay by Lois Wilson and fresh artwork.

There’s still a very real sense that The Creation never got their proper due. Perhaps they never will but for those in the know, they know. The Creation are king.

DISC ONE – Mono Mixes 1966-1968
DISC TWO – Stereo Mixes 1966 – 1968
DISC THREE – Psychedelic Rose – 1987
DISC FOUR – Power Surge – 1996