20-21: Creation Records

After watching “Upside Down: The Creation Records Story” for a second time this past week, I became a bit peeved at the documentary’s focus. It invests too much time in portraying the label as partying tastemakers who were consumed by Kingmaking. Certainly, Alan McGee and Co. fostered their fair share of critically/commercially successful bands — namely Oasis, The House of Love, Primal Scream, Ride, and My Bloody Valentine. But the label that helped to birth the C86, indie pop, shoegaze, and Britpop scenes also had a stable of highly influential (if less-appreciated by the masses) artists, so many of whom the documentary glossed over or outright ignored for whatever reason. In response, here’s a two-part series on Creation that sheds equal light on the bands the documentary failed to fully explore. And yes, if you’re keeping score at home, I did create a two-part Creation Records playlist that does NOT include Oasis. I figure you’ve already heard them once or twice.

Playlist: Part 1

  1. The House Of Love — Christine
  2. Meat Whiplash — Don’t Slip Up
  3. Razorcuts — Mile High Towers
  4. The Revolving Paint Dream — Stop The World
  5. Teenage Filmstars — Kiss Me
  6. Adorable — Favourite Fallen Idol
  7. The Jasmine Minks — What’s Happening
  8. Teenage Fanclub — The Cabbage
  9. The Bounty Hunters — Everything’s For Her
  10. Felt — Down But Not Yet Out
  11. The Telescopes — Please Tell Mother
  12. Blow Up — Catch Me
  13. Medicine — Defective
  14. Swervedriver — Duel
  15. Phil Wilson — Ten Miles
  16. The Loft — Up The Hill And Down The Slope
  17. Poster Children — Cancer
  18. Silverfish — This Bug
  19. My Bloody Valentine — Feed Me With Your Kiss
  20. The Pastels — Baby Honey
  21. The Weather Prophets — Worm In My Brain

Playlist: Part 2

  1. Momus — A Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy (Parts 17-24)
  2. The Times — Snow
  3. The Jazz Butcher — She’s On Drugs
  4. The Sneetches — Nowhere At All
  5. 18 Wheeler — Kum Back
  6. Superstar — Barfly
  7. Something Pretty Beautiful — Freak Outburst
  8. The Bodines — Therese
  9. The Jesus And Mary Chain — Upside Down
  10. Moonshake — Gravity
  11. The Boo Radleys — Take The Time Around
  12. Velvet Crush — Butterfly Position
  13. Biff Bang Pow! — In A Mourning Town
  14. David Westlake — The Word Around Town
  15. Sugar — Fortune Teller
  16. Ride — Like A Daydream
  17. Slaughter Joe — I’ll Follow You Down
  18. Nikki Sudden And The Jacobites — Before I Leave You
  19. BMX Bandits — Little Hands
  20. Primal Scream — She Power
  21. Slowdive — 40 Days

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