Complete Collection 1: Making Time [Import]

Creation | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 16, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Retroactive Records
• ASIN: B00000DF8B
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,390 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Making Time

2. Try And Stop Me

3. How Does It Feel To Feel

4. Tom Tom

5. Nightmares

6. If I Stay Too Long

7. How Does It Feel To Feel(UK Version)

8. For All That I Am

9. Uncle Bert

10. Cool Jerk

11. Bony Moronie

12. Ostrich Man

13. I Am The Walker

14. For All That I Am

15. Nightmares

16. How Does It Feel To Feel

17. Instrumental #1

18. I'm A Man

19. That's How Strong My Love Is

20. Making Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Painter men, February 2, 2006

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Collection 1: Making Time (Audio CD)

The Creation never had the sort of commercial success that came to the likes of the Kinks and the Who, two bands whose most exciting and energetic moments were also captured by Shel Talmy, the Creation's producer. They also adopted the art-rock pop-art mod image of their peers and their guitarist Eddie Phillips pioneered the violin-bow techniques that distinguished their sound on groundbreaking singles like Making Time and Painter Man, which appeared on Shel Talmy's Planet label. Perhaps the lack of major label backing or a string of line up changes hindered their chances of fame. 
At any rate, their exciting stage act was not to blame. During live performances of Painter Man, which reached no. 2 in Germany, for example, singer Kenny Pickett took to creating a spray painting, the finished canvas being slashed to pieces by violin bow or set on fire at the end of the show, to huge acclaim.
The band never released an album in their lifetime though there have been some compilations, The Complete Collection being the most comprehensive. It is split into 2 separately available CDs, Making Time and Biff Bang Pow! Both feature singles from the period 1966 and 1968, as well as unreleased tracks, alternative and stereo mixes, live performances and the like. Vol. 1 has the A-sides Making Time, How Does It Feel To Feel and If I Stay Too Long, with B-sides, while Vol. 2 features Painter Man, Life Is Just Beginning and Midway Down, with their B-sides. Well worth exploring.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definitive comp of an influential Mod band, July 5, 2000

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Jeffrey Jotz "You'll know him when you find him" (Rahway, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Collection 1: Making Time (Audio CD)

Fans of the mod-soaked Brit invasion stuff of the Who/Kinks/Action/Small Faces universe will enjoy this lengthy CD comp.

Searing guitar, snotty lyrics and Moon-esque drumming highlight this mesmerizing snapshot of the mid-60s mod era in England. The Creation is much more influential than you think today -- people even named a label after 'em (Creation Records, silly). Hey, if Pete Townshend was a member of this band's fan club, then you know they gotta rock!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerizingly Rocking, April 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Collection 1: Making Time (Audio CD)

Of course, as a youngster I was more exposed to the likes of the Who and Kinks, both of whom I liked well enough (more so the Kinks because my dad loves them and used to rock out in his car to "Set Me Free"). Never *really* loved the Who in large part due to the, let's face it, lame vocals (except Townshend's vocals, which rock). Knew there had to be some other vintage Brit rock from back then and thanks to the Rushmore link, have discovered the Creation. It's brilliant. Indeed, at first listen sure sounds a lot like those other 60's Brit icon bands but since the Creation is new to me, it's like... like hearing the old Who with a good vocalist. The song "Making Time", I am sure you'll agree, is every bit the "hit" "My Generation" is. The first of many should-have-been hits on this cd.