Creationism

Introduction

I have just started reading "Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label" by Alan McGee and I have loved a lot of the releases from the label, some of which were big sellers and important releases. Thi sis from a time when music actually mattered to the mainstream rather than be something to fill a Spotify playlist.

Luckily there are still a hell of a lot of people who appreciate and play music, and a lot of those could be my grandkids so real music is alive and kicking.

Creation lasted from 1983 to 1999 with a slight resurrection for the compilation album "Upside Down" which I must get a copy of after I have checked whether I already have it. I haven't though there is a Jesus and Mary Chain compilation with the same title

The Wiki entry is here:

This is a great history from the Creation Records Fan site, so they are still with us in some form:

Biff Bang Pow - "She Paints" from "Love Is Forever"

Biff Bang Pow were Alan McGee's band, and the title comes from a song by the band Creation, a favourite of mine and Alan McGee's and they gave the label its name.

This song is a beautiful acoustic ballad.

But I have to include the song by the Creation, don't I?

Oasis - "Rock 'N' Roll Star" from "Definitely Maybe"

While I was never a fan of Oasis they came up with some class songs for annoying Mancs and we covered a few of them when I performed with Spoon (the English one, me Kryz Ball, Steves Stonehouse and Kirby), and one of the many huge names nurtured by McGee and his label.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Upside Down" available on "21 Singles"

The guitar on this sounds like fingernails scraping down a blackboard and is probably one of the band's more inaccessible songs but still a worthy inclusion on this playlist.

They initially told journalists that they had taken their eventual name from a line in a Bing Crosby film, although six months later they admitted that this was not true. Other accounts suggest that the name derived from an offer on a breakfast cereal packet, which customers could send off for a gold Jesus & Mary chain.

The House Of Love - "Shine On" from their eponymous album

I saw this live last year at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle, but I had gone to see the support band, Thousand Yard Stare, but I do love their ominous shoegaze sound.

BMX Bandits - "I Wanna Fall In Love" from "The Rise & Fall Of BMX Bandits"

I loved the band name and this is just a perfect slice of pure pop music. Do I need to say anything more to tempt you to listen?

Super Furry Animals - "Something 4 the Weekend" from "Fuzzy Logic"

I have been playing a lot of their albums recently and I love that they sing with a definite Welsh accent and often have Welsh song titles and lyrics. They also, in my opinion, have a claim to the "best band in the world" as their output is so consistently excellent.

The Boo Radleys - "Wake Up Boo!"

This is just a pleasant upbeat pop. It never grabbed me but I was in the minority.

In the classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley (whose first name is actually Arthur) doesn’t leave his house or talk to anyone, which leads the children in the novel’s setting (Maycomb, Alabama) to wildly speculate about what he looks and acts like. According to main character Scout Finch’s brother, Jem, Boo Radley is more than six-feet tall with yellow teeth, a scar across his entire face, and blood-stained hands from eating raw cats.

In the reality of the story, Boo Radley is a kind but mentally underdeveloped recluse who stays inside after an accident in his childhood. He secretly leaves the Finch siblings little gifts in a tree outside as a friendly, social gesture and becomes a hero who saves them from an attack at the end of the book. Scout walks Boo Radley home after his heroics and begins to see the world from his perspective, learning her father’s lesson that you can never understand someone before “trying on his skin.”

Primal Scream - "Loaded"

Just what is it that you want to do?

We wanna be free, we wanna be free to do what we wanna do

My introduction to Primal Scream, a band who can transform themselves into anything they want. Still creating new music today and proof that new music is still alive and well.

A definite favourite of mine. Seven minutes of stoned brilliance I could listen to forever.