Artist: Biff Bang Pow! Album: A Better Life (Complete Creations 1984-1991) Country: UK Label: Cherry Red – CRCDBOX125 Format: 6 x CD, Compilation, Box Set Released: 2022 Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)

Tracklisting / Additional Info: CD One - Pass The Paintbrush, Honey:

1. There Must Be A Better Life 3:14
2. Lost Your Dreams 2:00
3. Love And Hate 3:26
4. The Chocolate Elephant Man 3:09
5. Waterbomb! 2:00
6. Colin Dobbins 2:44
7. Wouldn't You? 2:29
8. A Day Out With Jeremy Chester 4:07

Bonus Tracks: 9. Fifty Years Of Fun 1:56 10. Then When I Scream 2:50 11. The Chocolate Elephant Man (Alternative Mix - Extra Intro) 3:18 12. Revolving Paint Dream - In The Afternoon (Early Version) 3:41 13. Then When I Scream (Different Longer Version) 3:08 14. Lost Your Dreams (Demo) 2:04 15. I'm Okay Me (Demo) 3:33

CD Two - The Girl Who Runs The Beat Hotel

1. Someone Stole My Wheels 2:45
2. Love's Going Out Of Fashion 3:16
3. She Never Understood 3:12
4. He Don't Need That Girl 2:07
5. She Shivers Inside 3:21
6. The Beat Hotel 2:17
7. The Happiest Girl In The World 3:23
8. If I Die 2:35
9. Five Minutes In The Life Of Greenwood Goulding 4:24
10. The Whole World Is Turning Brouchard! 1:30

Sixteen Velvet Fridays 11. It Makes You Scared 2:56 12. Sunny Days 2:08 13. He Don’t Need That Girl (Early Version) 2:30 14. Back To The Start 3:45 15. I Need Optimism 4:08 16. She’s Gone Away 2:45

Bonus Tracks: 17. Inside The Mushroom 3:08 18. It Happens All The Time (Alan Vocal) 3:22 19. In The Afternoon 3:53 20. The Death Of England 3:09 21. The Beat Hotel (Alan Vocal - Different Mix) 2:20 22. It Happens All The Time (Demo - Christine Vocal) 2:37 23. She Went Away To The Love (Demo) 2:48 24. The Beat Hotel (Demo - Christine Vocal) 3:10

CD Three - Oblivion:

1. In A Mourning Town 2:40
2. There You Go Again 2:05
3. 7 Seconds 2:51
4. A Girl Called Destruction 3:14
5. She's Got Diamonds In Her Hair 3:26
6. The Only Color In This World Is Love 2:52
7. Baby Sister 2:52
8. Then When I Scream 3:21
9. I See The Sun 2:53
10. I'm Still Waiting For My Time 3:54

Bonus Tracks: 11. She's Got Diamonds In Her Hair (Demo Version) 3:44 12. She Never Understood (Alternate Version) 3:20 13. Fifty Years Of Fun (Almost Live Version) 1:53

Dortmund, Germany, February 1987. 14. The Chocolate Elephant Man 2:58 15. In A Mourning Town 2:30 16. She's Got Diamonds In Her Hair 3:31 17. 7 Seconds 3:04 18. Love's Going Out Of Fashion 2:38 19. Love And Hate 3:11 20. There Must Be A Better Life 2:40 21. Fifty Years Of Fun 1:51 22. A Girl Called Destruction 3:15 23. Colin Dobbins 2:47 24. Waterbomb! 1:06 25. She Never Understood 2:44

CD Four - Love Is Forever:

1. Miss California Toothpaste 1972 3:40
2. She Haunts 2:47
3. Searching For The Pavement 2:56
4. She Paints 5:22
5. Close 3:24
6. Ice Cream Machine 4:06
7. Electric Sugar Child 3:29
8. Dark In Mind 3:14
9. Startripper 2:45
10. She Went Away To The Love 1:47

CD Bonus Tracks: 11. The Beat Hotel (12” Version - Christine Vocal) 3:11 12. It Happens All The Time (12” Version - Christine Vocal) 2:35

Songs For The Sad Eyed Girl. 13. She Kills Me 4:42 14. The Girl From Well Lane 2:39 15. Baby, You Just Don't Care 4:19 16. If You Don't Love Me Now You Never Ever Will 2:43 17. Someone To Share My Life With 2:49 18. Religious 5:34 19. Hug Me Honey 2:56 20. Victoria Appletree Loves Christopher Jones (alias She Haunts - Take 1) 4:00

CD Five - "Me":

1. My First Friend 1:47
2. Miss You 4:48
3. I'm Burned 3:01
4. Song For A Nail 2:58
5. She Saved Me 2:10
6. You Just Can't Buy Satisfaction 2:56
7. Sad Eyes In Velvet 2:39
8. Guilt Ridden 1:30
9. Lovers 3:04
10. Baby You Just Make Me Strong 4:28

Bonus Tracks: 11. Sleep 2:39 12. Long Live Neil Young And All Who Sail In Him 3:35 13. In Bed With Paul Weller 1:51 14. Everybody Wants To Divorce Her 1:29 15. Jean Michel Pow 2:22 16. I Hope You Burn 3:43 17. You Just Can't Buy Satisfaction (Demo) 2:42

CD Six - The Laughing Apple:

1. The Laughing Apple - Sometimes I Wish 3:15
2. The Laughing Apple - Chips For Tea 2:19
3. The Laughing Apple - Upstairs Downstairs 2:43
4. The Laughing Apple - I'm Okay 3:08
5. The Laughing Apple - Participate! 2:58
6. The Laughing Apple - Wouldn't You? 2:18
7. The Laughing Apple - Precious Feeling 4:37
8. The Laughing Apple - Celebration 3:32

Demos: 9. The Laughing Apple - Instinct 4:15 10. The Laughing Apple - My Judgement Day 2:47 11. The Laughing Apple - Where I Take My Pleasure 2:56

Newspeak Demos: 12. Newspeak - Weekend World. 3:24 13. Newspeak - Wouldn't You? 3:16 14. Newspeak - She’s Boxed In 3:01

Alan McGee & Jowe Head Demos:. 15. Alan McGee & Jowe Head - 50 Years Of Fun 1:56 16. Alan McGee & Jowe Head - I Still Look For Her (alias Then When I Scream) 2:14 17. Alan McGee & Jowe Head - All I Want 2:07 18. Alan McGee & Jowe Head - You Still Lost Your Dream (alias Lost Your Dreams) 2:07

BIFF BANG POW! A Better Life: Complete Creations 1984-1991 (2022 UK/EU Deluxe Edition SIX CD box set - To many fans of Creation Records, Biff Bang Pow! [formed by Alan McGee around the same time he founded Creation Records in 1983] were the label's best-kept secret, fusing '60s psychedelia and power pop with beautiful, haunting melodies. Their early sound seemed to reinvent The Jam circa 1980, with a pop art approach reminiscent of the '60s band from whom their took their name, TheCreation [who recorded the song ‘Biff Bang Pow!’]. Curated with the full support of Alan McGee and other band members, this set also adds a raft of previously unissued demos and live material plus tracks from an abandoned album ['Sixteen Velvet Fridays'] and a handful of previously undocumented songs plus a Laughing Apple CD also adds some hitherto unheard demos by Alan with the band Newspeak [pre-Laughing Apple]. With sleevenotes including quotes from those involved, this is the ultimate tribute to one of the unsung talents of the C86 generation of indie bands. All six discs are UNPLAYED housed in the sealed clamshell picture box)