The Creation - Making Time: The Best Of (140g Splatter Vinyl) [2LP]

Demon Records

£30.58

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: DEMREC1002
Barcode: 5014797907201
Release Date: 18 Mar 2022
Genre: Rock

• For a band that never achieved much chart success in their native Britain, The Creation is one of the most paradoxically enduring of British combos to emerge in the furiously creative mid-sixties. Their recordings from their 1966-68 heyday are not numerous, but they have become the archetype ‘cult’ band, their music being discovered, loved and admired by successive generations of fans over the last half-century or so.

• The key to The Creation’s longevity lies in their retrospective status as the prime exponents of a musical sub-genre latterly dubbed ‘Freakbeat’ – and for gifting their name for one of the most successful British independent record labels of the eighties and nineties. And songs like “Making Time”, “Biff Bang Pow” and “Can I Join Your Band” regularly appear on TV drama soundtracks.

• This 2LP set includes the band’s 60s recordings, plus (for the first time on a “Best Of” compilation) highlights from their studio reunions in 1987 and 1996, along with full annotation by Alan Robinson. With photos from his own archive, the design and artwork are by sleeve design-legend Phil Smee. Pressed on 140 gram splatter vinyl.

SIDE 1
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
SIDE 2
1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Can I Join Your Band
3. Hey Joe
4. Life Is Just Beginning
5. Through My Eyes
6. How Does It Feel To Feel [UK version]
7. Tom Tom

SIDE 3
1. How Does It Feel To Feel [US version]
2. I Am The Walker
3. Ostrich Man
4. Sweet Helen
5. Midway Down
6. The Girls Are Naked
7. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
8. Uncle Bert
SIDE 4
1. Lay The Ghost
2. Psychedelic Rose
3. Radio Beautiful
4. Creation
5. Power Surge
6. That’s How I Found Love