CREATION SOUP - Best/Favourite side of the "first fifty singles" Box Set (Vinyl)

Creation Soup Volume One [CRELP 101]
A1 –The Legend* 73 In 83
A2 –The Legend* You Were Glamorous
A3 –The Legend* Melt The Guns
A4 –Revolving Paint Dream Flowers In The Sky
A5 –Revolving Paint Dream In The Afternoon
A6 –Biff Bang Pow! Fifty Years Of Fun
A7 –Biff Bang Pow! Then When I Scream
A8 –The Jasmine Minks Think
A9 –The Jasmine Minks Work For Nothing
A10 –The Pastels Something's Going On
A11 –The Pastels Stay With Me 'Til Morning
B1 –X-Men* Do The Ghost
B2 –X-Men* Talk
B3 –Biff Bang Pow! There Must Be A Better Life
B4 –Biff Bang Pow! Chocolate Elephant Man
B5 –The Jasmine Minks Where The Traffic Goes
B6 –The Jasmine Minks Mr. Magic
B7 –The Loft Why Does The Rain
B8 –The Loft Like
B9 –The Legend* Sings The Blues
B10 –The Legend* Arrogant Bastards

Creation Soup Volume Two [CRELP 102]
A1 –The Pastels Million Tears
A2 –The Pastels Surprise Me
A3 –The Pastels Baby Honey
A4 –X-Men* Spiral Girl
A5 –X-Men* Bad Girl
A6 –Les Zarjaz* One Charming Night
A7 –Les Zarjaz* My Baby Owns A Fallout Zone
A8 –The Loft Up The Hill & Down The Slope
A9 –The Loft Tuesday
B1 –The Bodines God Bless
B2 –The Bodines Paradise
B3 –Primal Scream All Fall Down
B4 –Primal Scream It Happens
B5 –Jasmine Minks* What's Happening
B6 –Jasmine Minks* Black & Blue
B7 –Slaughter Joe I'll Follow You Down
B8 –Slaughter Joe Napalm Girl
B9 –Meat Whiplash Don't Slip Up
B10 –Meat Whiplash Here It Comes

Creation Soup Volume Three [CRELP 103]
A1 –Five Go Down To The Sea* Aunt Nelly
A2 –Five Go Down To The Sea* Silk Brain Worm
A3 –Five Go Down To The Sea* Women
A4 –The Pastels I'm Alright With You
A5 –The Pastels For What It's Worth
A6 –The Pastels Couldn't Care Less
A7 –The Moodists Justice & Money Too
A8 –The Moodists You've Got Your Story
A9 –The Moodists Take Us All Home
A10 –Biff Bang Pow! Love's Going Out Of Fashion
B1 –Biff Bang Pow! It Happens All The Time
B2 –Jasmine Minks* Cold Heart
B3 –Jasmine Minks* World's No Place
B4 –Primal Scream Crystal Crescent
B5 –Primal Scream Velocity Girl
B6 –Felt Ballad Of The Band
B7 –Felt I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
B8 –Weather Prophets* Almost Prayed
B9 –Weather Prophets* Your Heartbeat Breathes The Life Into Me
B10 –The Bodines William Shatner

Creation Soup Volume Four [CRELP 104]
A1 –The Weather Prophets Naked As The Day You Were Born
A2 –The Weather Prophets In My Room
A3 –Felt Rain Of Crystal Spires
A4 –Felt I Will Die With My Head In Flames
A5 –Nikki Sudden Jangle Town
A6 –Nikki Sudden The Last Bandit
A7 –Biff Bang Pow! Someone Stole My Wheels
A8 –Biff Bang Pow! It Makes You Scared
A9 –Slaughter Joe She's Out Of Touch
A10 –Slaughter Joe See My Rider
B1 –Phil Wilson (2) Waiting For A Change
B2 –Phil Wilson (2) Even Now
B3 –Momus Murderers, The Hope Of Women
B4 –Momus Eleven Executioners
B5 –Momus What Will Death Be Like
B6 –Biff Bang Pow! Everything's Turning Brouchard
B7 –Biff Bang Pow! The Death Of England
B8 –Bill Drummond King Of Joy
B9 –Nikki Sudden & Rowland Howard* Wedding Hotel
B10 –Nikki Sudden & Rowland Howard* Girl With No Name
B11 –Nikki Sudden & Rowland Howard* Hello Wolf

Creation Soup Volume Five [CRELP 105]
A1 –Baby Amphetamine Chernobyl Baby
A2 –Baby Amphetamine Cheque It Out
A3 –The House Of Love Shine On
A4 –The House Of Love Love
A5 –The House Of Love Flow
A6 –The House Of Love Real Animal
A7 –The House Of Love Plastic
A8 –The House Of Love Nothing To Me
A9 –Blow Up Good To Me
A10 –Blow Up To You
B1 –Phil Wilson (2) Ten Miles
B2 –Phil Wilson (2) A Jingle
B3 –Felt The Final Resting Of The Ark
B4 –Felt Autumn
B5 –Blow Up Pool Valley
B6 –Blow Up Smile
B7 –Emily (3) Mad Dogs
B8 –Emily (3) Reflect On Rye
B9 –Emily (3) What The Fool Said
B10 –Emily (3) Old Stone Bridge

Voted Vol 1 side B on the understanding that I can turn the record player off before The Legend! starts.

Vol 3 side B maybe slightly robbed by the vagaries of sequencing (and licensing?): replace “It Happens All The Time” and “William Shatner” with “Love’s Going Out Of Fashion” and “Therese” and that side wins by a mile.

#2 is probably my favourite overall but difficult to pick just one side...

why weren't the JAMC on this btw, did Creation sell the rights to Upside Down to Blanco Y Negro?

JAMC should've been between Million Tears and Spiral Girl, #2 side A would def win then

I assume it was a licensing thing, yeah (that has to be true of "Therese" by the Bodines as well, I think - my guess is someone signed a contract not to re-release the original when the Bodines re-recorded the song for MCA).

Expecting an avalanche of votes for Vol 1 Side A...

My winner is Album 2, Side 1 - Pastels, X-Men, Les Zarjazz, The Loft and The Bodines.

(xp) I'm assuming most people won't last beyond the first three tracks.

Vol 3 side B maybe slightly robbed by the vagaries of sequencing (and licensing?): replace “It Happens All The Time” and “William Shatner” with “Love’s Going Out Of Fashion” and “Therese” and that side wins by a mile.

― Tim, Thursday, 18 April 2019 10:41 (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Another thing I'd call "slightly robbed" - My copy of the Vol3 has the A side on the B-side as well!

why weren't the JAMC on this btw, did Creation sell the rights to Upside Down to Blanco Y Negro?

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 18 April 2019 10:58 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Quite probably, but it took them aaaages before "Vegetable Man" got re-released on anything.

Vol 2 is the best but it's a toss-up between side A & B. Vol 4 is amazing too.

The side with all the House Of Love singles for me.

^ Yup, the very same!

the only good house of love single is by east17

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Vol 1 Side A 0

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I actually *chunka chunka* kinda like that CRE 001 The Legend single; more than some other things here at least.

Yeah, that one is OK, it's his next one that's a waste of vinyl.