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Biff Bang Pow! were responsible for many classic singles, a solid string of great albums, and basically helped establish the sound and style of Creation Records during its formation. Made up of the label's founders and luminaries (Alan McGee, Dick Green, Andrew Innes) it was no wonder that they established Creation's sound; the funny thing is that they didn't get much credit for it at the time. If they were mentioned at all, it seemed to be to slag them as a McGee vanity project. Cherry Red's exhaustive collection A Better Life: Complete Creations 1984-1991 tells the band's story using singles, B-sides, album outtakes, demos, and rare live recordings, and in doing so totally debunks that theory and unearths them as one of the premier indie pop bands of the era. The group began as jangling punks, building a sound on Dexy's, garage rock, punk, and the Byrds that sounds just as fresh decades later as it did at the time. Beginning with the "Fifty Years of Fun" single, the band proved adept at juxtaposing hooks with melancholy, giving McGee a lovely backdrop for tales of frustration and woe. 1987's The Girl Who Runs the Beat Hotel is the pinnacle of this early approach, mixing Joe Foster's echoing production with the yearning songs written by McGee and vocalist Christine Wanless and coming up with a timeless weeper spiced with the occasional flash of art pop weirdness. A subtle shift occurred with the same year's Oblivion. The band took over production themselves and made a more polished record meant to compete with the top bands on Creation at the time. It would be hard to find another guitar pop record made during the time that bests it; songs like "In a Mourning Town" and "She's Got Diamonds in Her Hair" have all the gripping drama, plangent melodies, and tear-stained lyrics one could ever want, and taken as a whole, it's classic. Love Is Forever isn't far behind quality-wise and brought some new influences like Neil Young to the table. McGee's songs just kept getting more personal and more heart-wrenching, and the band's final two albums were basically him spilling his guts while strumming an acoustic guitar. Less pop with a capital "P" but still painfully effective. If the set were just the collected albums it would be worth buying, but the extras make it a fan's dream. Not only are there demos -- including one for "She's Got Diamonds" that glitters like the object in question -- there's a super fun live set from 1987, all the non-LP tracks, and the lost mini-album Sixteen Velvet Fridays, which was supposed to follow Beat Hotel, but was shelved at the last minute. Added to these goodies is a full disc of tracks from pre-BBP! groups the Laughing Apple and Newspeak, plus a four-song demo McGee recorded with Jowe Head. It all adds up to something pretty beautiful; a fitting artifact for a band who crafted some of the most thrilling, most melancholy, and longest-lasting music of the early Creation/post-C-86 era, even if no one really noticed it at the time.
© Tim Sendra /TiVo
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Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, Composer, MainArtist
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Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
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Biff Bang Pow!, Composer, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2016 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red Records
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist - Richard Green, Composer
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The Revolving Paint Dream, Composer, MainArtist
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Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
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Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, Composer, MainArtist
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Biff Bang Pow!, Composer, MainArtist
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Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
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Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist - Christine Wanless, Composer
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist - Christine Walness, Composer
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Creation Records Creation Records
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Creation Records Creation Records
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - J.C. Brouchard, MainArtist - Big Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2015 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1992 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1986 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1986 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
DISC 3
McGee, Composer - Bif Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2016 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist - Christine Wanless, Composer
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist - Christine Wanless, Composer
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist - Richard Green, Composer - Christine Wanless, Composer
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1984 Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Alan McGee, Composer - Biff Bang Pow!, MainArtist
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1989 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Albumbeschreibung
Biff Bang Pow! were responsible for many classic singles, a solid string of great albums, and basically helped establish the sound and style of Creation Records during its formation. Made up of the label's founders and luminaries (Alan McGee, Dick Green, Andrew Innes) it was no wonder that they established Creation's sound; the funny thing is that they didn't get much credit for it at the time. If they were mentioned at all, it seemed to be to slag them as a McGee vanity project. Cherry Red's exhaustive collection A Better Life: Complete Creations 1984-1991 tells the band's story using singles, B-sides, album outtakes, demos, and rare live recordings, and in doing so totally debunks that theory and unearths them as one of the premier indie pop bands of the era. The group began as jangling punks, building a sound on Dexy's, garage rock, punk, and the Byrds that sounds just as fresh decades later as it did at the time. Beginning with the "Fifty Years of Fun" single, the band proved adept at juxtaposing hooks with melancholy, giving McGee a lovely backdrop for tales of frustration and woe. 1987's The Girl Who Runs the Beat Hotel is the pinnacle of this early approach, mixing Joe Foster's echoing production with the yearning songs written by McGee and vocalist Christine Wanless and coming up with a timeless weeper spiced with the occasional flash of art pop weirdness. A subtle shift occurred with the same year's Oblivion. The band took over production themselves and made a more polished record meant to compete with the top bands on Creation at the time. It would be hard to find another guitar pop record made during the time that bests it; songs like "In a Mourning Town" and "She's Got Diamonds in Her Hair" have all the gripping drama, plangent melodies, and tear-stained lyrics one could ever want, and taken as a whole, it's classic. Love Is Forever isn't far behind quality-wise and brought some new influences like Neil Young to the table. McGee's songs just kept getting more personal and more heart-wrenching, and the band's final two albums were basically him spilling his guts while strumming an acoustic guitar. Less pop with a capital "P" but still painfully effective. If the set were just the collected albums it would be worth buying, but the extras make it a fan's dream. Not only are there demos -- including one for "She's Got Diamonds" that glitters like the object in question -- there's a super fun live set from 1987, all the non-LP tracks, and the lost mini-album Sixteen Velvet Fridays, which was supposed to follow Beat Hotel, but was shelved at the last minute. Added to these goodies is a full disc of tracks from pre-BBP! groups the Laughing Apple and Newspeak, plus a four-song demo McGee recorded with Jowe Head. It all adds up to something pretty beautiful; a fitting artifact for a band who crafted some of the most thrilling, most melancholy, and longest-lasting music of the early Creation/post-C-86 era, even if no one really noticed it at the time.
© Tim Sendra /TiVo
Informationen zu dem Album
- 6 Disc(s) - 119 Track(s)
- Gesamte Laufzeit: 05:55:45
- Künstler: Biff Bang Pow!
- Komponist: Various Composers
- Label: Cherry Red Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternativ und Indie
© 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2022 Cherry Red Records Ltd / Jowe Head
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