THE CREATION - Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes (Expanded Edition) - 4CD Box Set [JAN 17]

4CD Set (65 tracks). Expanded to include all The Creation’s studio recordings in one definitive set. 

“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.

• 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

Tracklist: 

DISC ONE – Mono Mixes 1966-1968
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

DISC TWO – Stereo Mixes 1966 – 1968
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]

DISC THREE - Psychedelic Rose - 1987
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

DISC FOUR - POWER SURGE – 1996
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