Limited four vinyl LP pressing. 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 in the UK. Bizarrely, Boney M had a huge hit in 1979 with the band's composition "Painter Man". This box set has been designed by Phil Smee and the album sleeves feature photos from his collection. The four LPs include all of The Creation's legendary recordings for Shel Talmy (the 2016 stereo mixes appear on LP for the first time), We Are Paintermen replicating the 1966 German LP, the only Creation album released anywhere in the '60s. How Does It Feel To Feel rounds up the remainder of the '60s recordings, and the 1987 album Psychedelic Rose and the 1996 Creation Records album Power Surge complete the set.
01 Cool Jerk 02 Making Time* 03 Through My Eyes 04 Like A Rolling Stone 05 Can I Join Your Band? 06 Tom Tom 07 Try And Stop Me* 08 If I Stay Too Long 09 Biff Bang Pow 10 Nightmares 11 Hey Joe 12 Painter Man
Disc 2
01 How Does It Feel To Feel 02 Sylvette 03 Life Is Just Beginning 04 How Does It Feel To Feel 05 I Am The Walker* 06 Ostrich Man* 07 Sweet Helen* 08 Midway Down 09 The Girls Are Naked* 10 Bony Moronie* 11 Mercy 12 Mercy 13 Mercy* 14 For All That I Am 15 Uncle Bert
Disc 3
01 Lay The Ghost 02 Psychedelic Rose 03 Radio Beautiful 04 United 05 Doing It My Way 06 Making Time [new Version] 07 Far From Paradise 08 White Knight 09 Spirit Called Love
Disc 4
01 Creation 02 Power Surge 03 Someone's Gonna Bleed 04 Shock Horror 05 That's How I Found Love 06 Killing Song 07 Nobody Wants To Know 08 City Life 09 English Language 10 Free Men Live Forever 11 Ghost Division 12 O+n