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.

Track List

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
26. Making Time [Instrumental]
27. Painter Man
28. Biff Bang Pow
29. Sylvette [Full Length]
30. If I Stay Too Long
31. Nightmares
32. Cool Jerk
33. Like a Rolling Stone
34. Can I Join Your Band
35. Hey Joe
36. Life Is Just Beginning
37. Through My Eyes
38. How Does It Feel to Feel [UK Version]
39. Tom Tom
40. How Does It Feel to Feel [Us Version]
41. Midway Down
42. For All That I Am
43. Instrumental # 1
44. How Does It Feel to Feel [Instrumental]
45. Lay the Ghost
46. Psychedelic Rose
47. Radio Beautiful
48. United
49. Doing It My Way
50. Making Time (New Version)
51. Far from Paradise
52. White Knight
53. Spirit Called Love
54. Creation
55. Power Surge
56. Someone's Gonna Bleed
57. Shock Horror
58. That's How I Found Love
59. Killing Song
60. Nobody Wants to Know
61. City Life
62. English Language
63. Free Men Live Forever
64. Ghost Division
65. O+N

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