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Creation Rebel

Close Encounters Of The Third World - 2024 Reissue

    A sublime set of roots, vocal and dubbed out instrumental magic, Close Encounters Of The Third World is a real lost gem in the treasure-filled Creation Rebel back catalogue. A true cross-atlantic collaboration - initial rhythm tracks were laid down in London in 1978, with horns and vocals overdubbed at Channel One in Jamaica, before bandleader Crucial Tony returned to London with the tapes for the album to be mixed by a visiting Prince Jammy.

    Originally released on pre-On-U Sound label Hitrun, and the second album released by the group chronologically. Unavailable for 45 years, it has been carefully pieced back together, for this new edition featuring extended 12” discomix versions of “Beware” and “Natty Conscience Free”, re-cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery. Includes new sleevenotes by reggae scholar David Katz that tells the story of the album in full, plus download card

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Know Yourself
    2. Conspiring
    3. Beware
    4. Dangerous And Deadly
    5. Shouldn’t Do That
    6. Creation Fever
    7. Natty Conscience Free
    8. Joyful Noise

    The Creation

    We Are Paintermen - 2023 Half-Speed Master Edition

      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. Also featured are “Biff Bang Pow”, and “Painter Man”, a hit in Germany, and later covered by Boney M .

      This new edition has been expertly mastered by Barry Grint at AIR Mastering from the original tapes using precision half speed mastering.

      TRACK LISTING

      Side One
      1. Cool Jerk
      2. Making Time
      3. Through My Eyes
      4. Like A Rolling Stone
      5. Can I Join Your Band?
      6. Tom Tom

      Side Two
      1. Try And Stop Me
      2. If I Stay Too Long
      3. Biff Bang Pow
      4. Nightmares
      5. Hey Joe
      6. Painter Man

      David Cavanagh

      The Creation Records Story - My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize

        Out of print for many years and regarded as one of the greatest music books ever written, My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story is the definitive account of the iconic British record label, republished for the label's 40th anniversary.

        'The greatest book ever written on British independent music' Guardian 'One of the best British music books of the last ten years' Mojo

        Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and other anti-Establishment acts. During the Britpop boom of the mid-90s, the astonishing success of Oasis brought Creation fame on the world stage. In 1999, however, McGee announced his shock departure as his label's influence over a generation of British music came to a confusing and disappointing end. Containing interviews with Creation musicians, employees, supporters and detractors, this is the inside story of Creation Records - and of British music since the 1980s.

        The Creation

        Psychedelic Rose

          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.

          In January 1985, The Mark Four reformed for a one-off show in Cheshunt, and subsequently Eddie Phillips and original lead vocalist Kenny Pickett reunited to make some new Creation recordings. At the time, only two tracks – “Spirit Called Love” and a new version of “Making Time” – were issued as a single in 1987, before the record label went out of business. These two tracks plus the remainder of the recordings were finally issued as the album “Psychedelic Rose” in 2004.

          TRACK LISTING

          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 

          The Creation

          Power Surge

            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.

            Creation Records founder Alan McGee named his label after the band, and named his band Biff Bang Pow after one of their songs. So perhaps it was no surprise when in 1995 he came up with the idea of The Creation recording a song called “Creation” to be released on the Creation label. In the wake of reunion shows at The Mean Fiddler in 1993 and 1995, the original line-up re-convened, and the recordings expanded into an album. “Power Surge” was released in 1996.

            TRACK LISTING

            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 

            The New Creation

            The Fish Song / Elijah Knows

            The New Creation were a five piece ensemble made up of family members Robert James Randle (Aka Rasheed Shakoor Sr) his son Keith Randle (aka Rasheed Shakoor Jr) their nephew/cousin Mel Houston. Mel’s stepfather William Cooper (aka Wali Ali) and a fifth unrelated member Wayne E-2X.
            The creator of The New Creation was William Cooper a guitarist who had previously worked with Norman Whitfield at Motown and had toured with The Undisputed Truth and The Jackson Five. He had also been employed by HB Barnum as part of Areatha Franklin’s touring band an association that would be relevant in The New Creation’s story.

            The concept of The New Creation began sometime during 1973 when Robert James Randle penned the song “The Fish Song” ( credited as Robert 51-X) and William Cooper penned the song “Elijah Knows” amongst other material that never really got past the demo stage. Adding teenage cousins Mel Houston (Bass Guitar) and Keith Randle (Conga drums) and Wayne E-2X , The New Creation began performing through their affiliation to the African America political and religious movement , The Nation Of Islam with no lesser a person than Muhammad Ali, as a support act to his Celebrity Boxing Promotion Tours. They also toured as a support act to one of Philadelphia’s most well known soul groups, The Delfonic’s.
            During the summer of 1974, under the tutelage of HB Barnum, The New Creation entered the Devonshire Recording Studio’s in North Hollywood to lay down the basic tracks of the above two songs with HB later adding the horn arrangements. The group pressed 2000 copies (plus a later 500) on their own Salaam label. They initially began to seek out radio airplay, unfortunately this wasn’t to be too forthcoming as the majority of radio stations considered “The Fish Song” to have been recorded as a commercial song , (which the group had no intention of) and demanded extortionate fees to promote. Therefore The New Creation were left with no choice but to promote their own product which they did by mail order and appearances throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver (Colorado), Cleveland and New York selling their 45, for $5 each complete with a homemade promotional brochure.

            With the groups growing popularity came the need for more rehearsals which sometimes lasted till three in the morning the teenage members of the group parents feared this would compound upon their High School work and so pulled them out of the group. They were replaced briefly by older members before the group broke up for good.

            The New Creation’s “The Fish Song/Elijah Knows” is now a highly regarded and sought after 45 with sweet and harmony soul collector’s in Europe and it’s native USA.


            TRACK LISTING

            Side 1

            1. "The Fish Song" (3:25)

            Side 2

            1. "Elijah Knows" (3:55)

            Leon's Creation

            This Is The Beginning

              The first reissue of this private press late 1970 San Franciscan psychedelic soul masterpiece. Led by Leon Patillo, this self-contained group took their influences from Sly And The Family Stone and Santana. Patillo would later go on to sing with his heroes Santana on their ‘Borboletta’ and ‘Festival’ albums before establishing himself as a successful gospel singer.

              The Creation

              Creation Theory

                Alan McGee was such a big fan of The Creation that he named his record label after the band, and named his own band after one of their songs – Biff Bang Pow. 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. Whilst very popular in Germany, UK success largely eluded the band, and after a number of non-charting singles and line-up changes (including Ron Wood), the band broke up in 1968 without ever having released an album.

                Phillips and lead vocalist Kenny Pickett recorded an album in 1987 that remained unreleased until 2004, and in 1995, following reunion concerts at Harlesden’s Mean Fiddler, Alan McGee and Joe Foster managed to persuade the original line-up to record a new album, for release on Creation Records.

                Compiled with the assistance of Eddie Phillips himself, this limited edition deluxe media book presents a chronological history of the band. The four CDs include all eight single sides by The Mark Four (and three live reunion recordings from 1985), all of The Creation’s legendary recordings for Shel Talmy, in both mono and brand new stereo mixes, the 1987 album and the Creation Records album, and some solo recordings by Eddie from 1990 and 2011.

                The DVD features a lengthy new interview with Eddie, filmed in October 2016, five songs from The Creation’s two live appearances on the legendary German 60s TV show “Beat Beat Beat” (from the original tapes, three songs appear on DVD for the first time), and 21 songs from the band’s two reunion concerts at the Mean Fiddler in the 90s.

                TRACK LISTING

                CD 1:
                Rock Around The Clock
                Slow Down
                Try It Baby
                Crazy Country Hop
                Hurt Me If You Will
                I'm Leaving
                Work All Day (Sleep All Night)
                Going Down Fast
                Making Time
                Try And Stop Me
                Painter Man
                Biff Bang Pow
                Sylvette
                If I Stay Too Long
                Nightmares
                Cool Jerk
                Like A Rolling Stone
                Can I Join Your Band
                Hey Joe
                Life Is Just Beginning
                Through My Eyes
                How Does It Feel To Feel [UK Version]
                Tom Tom
                How Does It Feel To Feel [US Version]
                I Am The Walker / Ostrich Man / Sweet Helen

                CD 2:
                Midway Down
                The Girls Are Naked
                Bony Moronie
                Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
                For All That I Am
                Uncle Bert
                Making Time [instrumental]
                Painter Man
                Biff Bang Pow
                Sylvette [full length]
                If I Stay Too Long
                Nightmares
                Cool Jerk
                Like A Rolling Stone
                Can I Join Your Band 
                Hey Joe
                Life Is Just Beginning
                Through My Eyes
                How Does It Feel To Feel [UK Version]
                TomTom
                How Does It Feel To Feel [US Version]
                Midway Down / For All That I Am
                Instrumental # 1
                How Does It Feel To Feel [instrumental]
                CD 3:
                Hurt Me If You Will
                Got My Mojo Workin'
                That's How Strong My Love Is
                Lay The Ghost 
                Psychedelic Rose
                Radio Beautiful
                United
                Doing It My Way
                Making Time [new Version]
                Far From Paradise
                White Knight
                Spirit Called Love
                The Jimi Hendrix Trilogy

                CD 4:
                Creation
                Power Surge
                Someone's Gonna Bleed 
                Shock Horror
                That's How I Found Love
                Killing Song
                Nobody Wants To Know
                City Life
                English Language
                Free Men Live Forever
                Ghost Division
                O+N
                Woodstock Daze
                Good Times

                DVD:
                Eddie Phillips Interview
                Making Time
                I'm A Man
                That's How Strong My Love Is
                Try And Stop Me
                Painter Man
                Try And Stop Me
                Life Is Just Beginning
                I'm A Man
                Nightmares
                If I Stay Too Long
                Batman
                Biff Bang Pow
                Try And Stop Me
                Life Is Just Beginning
                I'm A Man 
                Nightmares
                If I Stay Too Long
                Hey Joe
                Making Time
                Creation
                Power Surge
                Tom Tom 
                That's How Strong My Love Is
                How Does It Feel To Feel
                Painter Man
                Biff Bang Pow

                For their fifth album, the Athens-bred/Nashville-based power trio the Whigs wanted to find the exact midpoint between raw and rehearsed. After more than a decade together - during which they’ve released four critically lauded studio albums and toured constantly as either headliners or openers for the likes of the Drive-By Truckers, Kings of Leon, and MGMT - the three members all agreed that they wanted to flex their muscles a bit: write some good songs, get them down as tight as possible, hit , and tear shit up.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. You Should Be Able To Feel It
                2. Asking Strangers For Directions
                3. The Particular
                4. Hit Me
                5. Modern Creation
                6. Friday Night
                7. She Is Everywhere
                8. Too Much In The Morning
                9. I Couldn't Lie
                10. The Difference Between One And Two

                "Upside Down: The Creation Records Story", produced & directed by Danny O'Connor, is the definitive and fully authorised documentary of the highs & lows of the UK's most inspired & dissolute independent record label - Creation Records. This is the accompanying 34 track, double disc set, compiled by Creation label founders Alan McGee and Joe Foster, featuring Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Oasis, Ride, Jesus & Mary Chain, House Of Love, BMX Bandits, Boo Radleys and many more...

                STAFF COMMENTS

                Andy says: Superb compilation from the label that soundtracked many of our lives. Some amazing songs and inspiring attitude. But where's The Pastels?

                TRACK LISTING

                CD 1:
                1. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down
                2. Oasis - Rock N Roll Star
                3. Primal Scream - Loaded
                4. Ride - Leave Them All Behind
                5. The House Of Love - Shine On
                6. BMX Bandits - Serious Drugs
                7. Teenage Fanclub - The Concept
                8. The Telescopes - Perfect Needle
                9. Biff Bang Pow - There Must Be A Better Life
                10. Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
                11. Slaughter Joe - I’ll Follow You Down
                12. The Jasmine Minks - Think
                13. The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
                14. Revolving Paint Dream - In The Afternoon
                15. Sugar - If I Can’t Change Your Mind
                16. Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford
                17. Super Furry Animals - Something 4 The Weekend

                CD 2:
                1. Oasis - Wonderwall
                2. Ride - Taste
                3. Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
                4. Swervedriver - Duel
                5. Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt
                6. Biff Bang Bow - It Makes You Scared
                7. Slowdive - Alison
                8. Revolving Paint Dream - Flowers In The Sky
                9. The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart
                10. BMX Bandits - I Wanna Fall In Love
                11. Slaughter Joe - So Out Of Touch
                12. The Jazz Butcher - Girl Go
                13. The Creation - Creation
                14. The Telescopes - Perfect Needle
                15. Primal Scream - Imperial
                16. The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo!
                17. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking


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