Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes - Expanded Edition | Deluxe Packaging

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 th

Tracks

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

Details

Catalogue Number: EDSL0212
Format: CD
Artist: The Creation
Release Date: 17 January 2025
Genre: Rock
Label: EDSEL
Distributor: Rocket Group