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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rampant 60s subculture., 28 Jul 2000
By A Customer
The Creation, what a group, never released an album, had a constantly changing line up and yet produced a collection of singles most other bands of the same period (bar the Beatles) would have been proud of. Making Time and How Does It Feel... are the real highlights of this compilation but there are plenty of others who compete closely, Painter Man and Biff Bang Pow. Overall a wonderful, quirky sometimes vicious album in which all the songs (even the few slow, thoughtful ones) seem to be performed by a band with a twisted smile and a slightly manic view of the world. Compare with their Freakbeat competitors of the same period, The Who, and they come out more than favourably. Buy this album! Oh...., and try and hear the points where the guitar is played with a violin bow (a prototype Jimmy Page)>
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Poppish Art, 20 Dec 2005
AAAAAGHHH!! The Creation come booming out of your speakers via this superbly compiled and value for cash CD. They looked cool, detested each other, experimented with all kinds of (for it's time) groundbreaking stuff, wrote instantly memorable 3 minute classics and....got absolutely nowhere for their bother!!"Making Time" is the obvious hit here with it's clanging riff, violin bow solo (I wonder if anyone has tried to play the violin with a plectrum) and straight to the point lyrics. It is deservedly a recognised "mod classic" now and has stood the test of time with ease. Eddie Phillips has to go down as one of the sharpest dressed and underrated guitarists ever, executing his innovations on other classics here namely "Biff! Bang! Pow!" alongside the artschool disillusionment echoed in "Painterman", (which thanks to Boney M packs em' in at backstreet Karoke bars the length and breadth of the country)! "How Does It Feel" rattles your fillings and boasts one of the best intros and spontaneous guitar solos I have ever heard (Ride actually did a quite faithful cover of this a few years back which is proof enough that you can't kill a good song!) and not forgetting the simplicity of "Try and Stop Me", as elementary a lesson in the three minute pop song as "I Can't Explain" was for The Who. Uncomplicated, catchy and in the case of "Through My Eyes", malevolently beautiful. The Creation had so many facets. The line up changed often and at one point included future Face and Stone Ronnie Wood. The single "Midway Down", which features the fuzzed up annihilation of the aforementioned Mr Wood, is a class tune telling the story of a Victorian style travelling circus whilst the surprisingly adept cover of "Hey Joe" portrays a musical capability often overlooked when under scrutiny by the trainspotters. There is of course the odd dud here. "Bonie Maronie" is simply nothing less than an awful choice of cover version, as is "Like A Rolling Stone" which I would class as being remembered predominantly as the moment Dylan went electric rather than for being a ground breaking tune...maybe you had to be there. Who cares? The Creation have been classed as also rans, the band who perhaps "should have but never" and even Shel Talmy's replacements for The Who . Rubbish. If you like your bands in the classic four piece bass, guitar, drums and vocals style then this is a must for you. And thankfully at least a dozen of the selections here transcend the sour taste in the mouth left behind by a bunch of young mods who deserved so much more than the often tepid accolade they have been afforded in the present day.
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiration From The Gods, 9 Aug 2006
More than any other band of the 60's The Creation inspired me to form my own band. Their music was so punchy, simple, direct. Why were they never as big in the UK as Europe? Simple, they were too good to grace charts where novelty value was more important than music. The British Top 10 would have been much better for the likes of "Making Time", "Painter Man", "Nightmares", "How Do I Feel To Feel" and the rest. Those guys who fudge the charts to promote their own little goody-two-shoes outfits missed the whole point of Pop/Rock Music in the 60's. It was NOT about the singer looking good because they were really U G L Y!! It was NOT about the guitar-player miming to a track recorded by a session musician!! It was about THE CREATION (and other bands of the time). The guys who used to fill the clubs up and down the land who were kept out of the charts by those blokes in suits who don't know what Pop/Rock Music is all about.
This album has the best music that really represented The Sounds Of The Sixties. Hear "Making Time" c/w "Try And Stop Me" and "Painter Man" c/w "Biff Bang Pow", then you can appreciate why Peter Townshend asked Eddie Phillips to join The Who. Remember too that The Stones ASKED The Creation to PLEASE TOUR WITH US in Germany (April 1967). The Creation were the band living the sounds of the sixties and not just creating it. This Music is RED with PURPLE flashes.... and not PINK, Floyd!!
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