Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes | 
| Artist: The Creation
Label: Diablo Records UK
Category: Music
Buy New: $21.97
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 18968
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 740155485726
EAN: 0740155485726
ASIN: B0000064RX
Release Date: April 3, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Making Time - The Creation, Pickett, Kenny | | • | Try and Stop Me - The Creation, Pickett, Kenny | | • | Painter Man - The Creation, Pickett, Kenny | | • | Biff Bang Pow - The Creation, Pickett, Kenny | | • | If I Stay Too Long - The Creation, Garner, Bob | | • | Nightmares - The Creation, Phillips, D. | | • | Cool Jerk - The Creation, Storball, Donald | | • | Like a Rolling Stone - The Creation, Dylan, Bob | | • | I Am the Walker - The Creation, Pickett, K. | | • | Can I Join Your Band - The Creation, Pickett, K. | | • | Hey Joe - The Creation, Roberts, Billy [1] | | • | Life Is Just Beginning - The Creation, Garner, Bob | | • | Through My Eyes - The Creation, Garner, Bob | | • | How Does It Feel to Feel - The Creation, Garner, Bob | | • | How Does It Feel to Feel - The Creation, Garner, Bob | | • | Tom Tom - The Creation, Garner, Bob | | • | Midway Down - The Creation, Wonderling | | • | The Girls Are Naked - The Creation, Pickett, K. | | • | Bony Maronie - The Creation, Williams, Larry | | • | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - The Creation, Williams, Larry | | • | For All That I Am - The Creation, Kahan, Paul | | • | Uncle Bert - The Creation, Garwood | | • | Ostrich Man - The Creation, Pickett, K. | | • | Sweet Helen - The Creation, Pickett, K. |
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Album Description
Comprehensive 24 track compilation comprised of all the tracks from the two previous collections for the Edsel labelby this influential '60s R&B/ mod/ freakbeat band that Alan McGee named his label after. Includes 'Making Time', 'Try And Stop Me', 'Painter Man' and 'For All That I Am', plus the unreleased bonus tracks 'Ostrich Man' & 'Sweet Helen'. 1998 Demon release. The full title is 'Our Music Is Red, With Purple Flashes'.
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 Obscure but Influential British Pop-Art Band November 14, 2007
Morten Vindberg
The Creation, the obscure band which only existed for about 3 years in the 1960's, has somehow become a legend in British pop-art psych-rock and an inspiration to many later bands.
The group recorded less than thirty songs in the sixties and the majority of them are included on this collection. The only recording I'm aware of that's not included is the instrumental "Sylvette" which was originally released on a French EP.
Their records were produced by Shel Talmy and their earliest recordings do have a lot in common with the early Who, which Talmy also produced.
The two first singles released in 1966 were very strong, but unfortunately only "Painterman" became a minor hit in their home-country. In several European countries they were more successful and in Germany they actually released two albums during 1967-68.
Tensions with the band led to leadsinger Kenny Pickett leaving the group in early 1967 and bass-player Bob Garner took over as lead-vocalist. The group wrote the majority of their material themselves, with guitarist Eddie Phillips as the most prolific. The singles released in 1967 with Garner in front were ambitious but uneven and none of them managed achieve the relative success of "Painterman".
The album "We are Paintermen" was released in 1967 including their singles, a couple of new originals and some pretty uninspired cover versions.
The line-up of the band became unstable and though experienced musicians like Ron Wood ( Faces / Stones ) were in the band for a brief period in 1968, most of their later recordings lacked the excitement of their 1966-67 material.
Oddly enough some of their best recordings like "I Am the Walker", "Ostrich Man" and "Sweet Helen" were not released long after the group had disbanded.
Apart from the tracks already mentioned "For All That I Am", "Life is Just Beginning" and "Through My Eyes" are songs that justify the band's legendary status.
The group re-united in 1991 and recorded an album which was released after the death of lead-singer Pickett in 1996.
 Some gem discoveries but definitely more for the 60s fanatic than the average rock fan February 4, 2006
Greg Brady (Capital City)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you're a HUGE Creation fan, look no further: this collection gathers all the recorded output of the late 60s U.K. "freakbeat" (insider record fan genre that basically means power pop with psych touches) band in 1 disc. As an extra, you also get rare singles "Ostrich Man" and "Sweet Helen".
The band did innovate in its guitarist's use of viola bow to play and the use of "paint bombs" in their onstage performances. Performance art, though, translates to video and DVD...not CDs. What they'll be judged on HERE is their music.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"Making Time" comes charging out of the gate with an insistent riff. The Who-like "Painter Man" details the saga of an art school grad who discovers no ones cares about his work. (That is, until he begins to draw nude postcards.) "Try and Stop Me" is in the Hollies mode..a nifty pop nugget, while "Can I Join Your Band?" is a witty Brit version of "So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star" featuring this lyrical gem: "Can I join your band?/My new guitar/my coat is suede...I'm a hippie guy/Always stoned and 8 miles high."
LOWS:
The biggest curse of albums of this vintage is a profusion of cover songs to pad out albums. Often, this was done without regard to whether the tunes fit the band well. On here, the most egregious examples are the pallid remake of "Like a Rolling Stone" and the limp "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" which won't have anyone getting rid of their Buckinghams CD.
BOTTOM LINE:
Diehard 60s "acid/garage rock" heads will probably find this a must but for the rest of us, it's hit and miss. If you find it in a bargain bin (as I did), definitely get it...the great stuff is worth having. But do NOT pay the hefty import price.
Forgotten Pop Gems June 2, 2004
Chet Fakir (DC)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you like mid '60s garage, freakbeat, Mod, British Invasion stuff, get this. Its something of a must have for aficionados of '60s mod rock. I've been in many bands that covered Creation songs and really feel at home with much of this material. Most people will recognize "Making Time" from the movie Rushmore.
Not every song works but there are enough good ones to merit the price. It has the first use of a bowed guitar, before Jimmy Page even. Lots o fun.
 Biff! Bang! Pow! September 14, 2003
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
The ultimate Mod album.PS - "Biff! Bang! Pow!"'s opening chords are identical to The Who's "A Legal Matter." They only closely resemble "My Generation"'s opening chords. But only a fanatical spoilsport would mention this. :-)
An Unkown Rare collection September 9, 2003
Ayman Karkoutly (Lubbock, TX USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This collection of the short lasting , British , not to mention Brilliant, mid 60's garage group,"The Creation", are by far one of the great unknown legends of rock n roll. With over 20 tracks of melodic ,acidic, arangements with eye brow raising lyrics, "Our Music is Red with Purple Flashes" is by far my favorite album at the moment. The Creation could of easily been taken into high acclaim in the mid to late 60's ,alike The Who The Yardbirds,The Pink Floyd(with Syd Barret not the overated Dave) and The Animals, they were unknown and brilliant which is why buying this album is a really great idea, if your into the eary 60's garage sound, and the sort of "pyscadellic" phase, buy this!!!!! My favorite tracks include, "Making Time" (currently famous from the soundtrack of Wes Anderson's Rushmore)
"life is just begining" , "painter man" (later coverd by The Television personalties, along with making time) "The girls are naked and they dance"
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