| Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes | 
 enlarge | Artist: Creation
Label: Diablo
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 4652
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 740155485726
EAN: 0740155485726
ASIN: B0000064RX
Release Date: April 6, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Making Time | | • | Try And Stop Me | | • | Painter Man | | • | Biff Bang Pow | | • | If I Stay Too Long | | • | Nightmares | | • | Cool Jerk | | • | Like A Rolling Stone | | • | I Am The Walker | | • | Can I Join Your Band | | • | Hey Joe | | • | Life Is Just Beginning | | • | Through My Eyes | | • | How Does It Feel To Feel | | • | Tom Tom | | • | Midway Down | | • | Girls Are Naked | | • | Bony Moronie | | • | Mercy Mercy Mercy | | • | For All That I Am | | • | Uncle Bert | | • | Ostrich Man | | • | Sweet Helen |
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 Inspiration From The Gods August 9, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
More than any other band of the 60's The Creation inspired me to form my own band. Their music was so punchy, simple, direct. Why were they never as big in the UK as Europe? Simple, they were too good to grace charts where novelty value was more important than music. The British Top 10 would have been much better for the likes of "Making Time", "Painter Man", "Nightmares", "How Do I Feel To Feel" and the rest. Those guys who fudge the charts to promote their own little goody-two-shoes outfits missed the whole point of Pop/Rock Music in the 60's. It was NOT about the singer looking good because they were really U G L Y!! It was NOT about the guitar-player miming to a track recorded by a session musician!! It was about THE CREATION (and other bands of the time). The guys who used to fill the clubs up and down the land who were kept out of the charts by those blokes in suits who don't know what Pop/Rock Music is all about.
This album has the best music that really represented The Sounds Of The Sixties. Hear "Making Time" c/w "Try And Stop Me" and "Painter Man" c/w "Biff Bang Pow", then you can appreciate why Peter Townshend asked Eddie Phillips to join The Who. Remember too that The Stones ASKED The Creation to PLEASE TOUR WITH US in Germany (April 1967). The Creation were the band living the sounds of the sixties and not just creating it. This Music is RED with PURPLE flashes.... and not PINK, Floyd!!
60's guitar music at its best July 7, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you like the Kinks, Small Faces or the Who then you're bound to like this. Great pop music played with the passion and youthful vigour which most bands today can only dream of. Despite the obvious similarities to many of their contemporaries this isn't simply 'paint by numbers' music these guys are creating a sound which brings together the best bits of those other artists. The songs are all catchy but more importantly they are backed by an impressive rhythm section and some great vocals. Add to the equation some extremely original guitar playing and it creates an irresitable mix. While they are mainly seen as 'the' freakbeat band, they're music begins to veer towards psychedelic for the last few songs on this compilation, but importantly the songs are always energetic and well-paced. Also their version of Hey Joe is apparently the one that influenced Hendrix (despite being released later Hendrix would have seen this version as part of their live set.) We also have what is regarded by some mod enthusiasts as the definitive version of cool jerk (personally I think the song is overrated) but luckily there is enough original material here to warrant adding this to your collection (unlike on the Action, Spencer Davis Group, Pretty Things or Birds compilations)
 Being Creative... June 29, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
With its colourful title and arty, paint-splash cover, I was expecting this to be a psychedelic album, but it isn't. From what I can tell The Creation were a Mod pop combo, and a good one at that. For me, the stand out tracks are "Making Time", "Cool Jerk" and "How Does It Feel to Feel?". The last of these is best, especially the feedback-laden US version, and was later covered by Ride. All three contain great riffs and are pretty pacey. Overall, there's some quite experimental guitar work and the lyrics must've been fairly controversial at the time. Not bad at all!
Violin bowing the guitar pre-Jimmy Page. May 29, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
No, that's not their only claim to fame. The Creation, should they have been able to continue the spirit of the first 4 tracks on here, would have been as big as perhaps The Who. And despite the 'Hey Joe,' and 'Like A Rolling Stone', those first 4 tracks are just about everything you need. Released as 45's on the Planet record label, both the 'A' and the 'B' sides tore your record player apart, (bear in mind this was pre-hi-fi!), and left you gibbering on the floor like a fool. Saw them when they played Bournemouth's Gaumont on a bill probably with the Walker Brothers or Gene Pitney, and much like this release, those 4 tracks shone like diamonds. One can argue by repeating the formula for these tracks you'd overkill by having too much of a good thing, but for me this was what The Creation were about - Eddie Phillips ever the wild and angry Pete Townshend within the band. For what this CD costs, look upon it as a 4 track maxi-single, play the first 4 and forget the rest.
A Poppish Art December 20, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
AAAAAGHHH!! The Creation come booming out of your speakers via this superbly compiled and value for cash CD. They looked cool, detested each other, experimented with all kinds of (for it's time) groundbreaking stuff, wrote instantly memorable 3 minute classics and....got absolutely nowhere for their bother!!"Making Time" is the obvious hit here with it's clanging riff, violin bow solo (I wonder if anyone has tried to play the violin with a plectrum) and straight to the point lyrics. It is deservedly a recognised "mod classic" now and has stood the test of time with ease. Eddie Phillips has to go down as one of the sharpest dressed and underrated guitarists ever, executing his innovations on other classics here namely "Biff! Bang! Pow!" alongside the artschool disillusionment echoed in "Painterman", (which thanks to Boney M packs em' in at backstreet Karoke bars the length and breadth of the country)! "How Does It Feel" rattles your fillings and boasts one of the best intros and spontaneous guitar solos I have ever heard (Ride actually did a quite faithful cover of this a few years back which is proof enough that you can't kill a good song!) and not forgetting the simplicity of "Try and Stop Me", as elementary a lesson in the three minute pop song as "I Can't Explain" was for The Who. Uncomplicated, catchy and in the case of "Through My Eyes", malevolently beautiful. The Creation had so many facets. The line up changed often and at one point included future Face and Stone Ronnie Wood. The single "Midway Down", which features the fuzzed up annihilation of the aforementioned Mr Wood, is a class tune telling the story of a Victorian style travelling circus whilst the surprisingly adept cover of "Hey Joe" portrays a musical capability often overlooked when under scrutiny by the trainspotters. There is of course the odd dud here. "Bonie Maronie" is simply nothing less than an awful choice of cover version, as is "Like A Rolling Stone" which I would class as being remembered predominantly as the moment Dylan went electric rather than for being a ground breaking tune...maybe you had to be there. Who cares? The Creation have been classed as also rans, the band who perhaps "should have but never" and even Shel Talmy's replacements for The Who . Rubbish. If you like your bands in the classic four piece bass, guitar, drums and vocals style then this is a must for you. And thankfully at least a dozen of the selections here transcend the sour taste in the mouth left behind by a bunch of young mods who deserved so much more than the often tepid accolade they have been afforded in the present day.
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