It may have taken a minute or two (it’ll get more regular, promise!), but this is the best episode yet. Your hosts’ chat gets extra trippy, and fungi may have been ingested to celebrate a record of such psychedelic magnitude. Come on in!

Ken Popple, drummer on the single in question (as well as on almost all of the Biff!Bang!Pow! records), turns out to be the perfect guest. We hope he comes back. Enjoy!

Links are included below, and we highly recommend you check out the Revolving Paint Dream compilation available on CD (Rev-Ola) and on streaming services.

Links of note:

Revolving Paint Dream “Flowers In the Sky”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDXOLilMA3s

RPD “In the Afternoon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt-v6-RG6I

Lord Fayrebank (Ken’s new project): https://lordfayrebank.bandcamp.com/track/out-on-the-lake

Feature on our guest voiceover specialist Rose Melberg: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/rose-melberg-feature

Stuff that comes up on the episode:

Revolving Paint Dream

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music and to Rose Melberg for spectacular voiceover reading.

Here it is!!!

Matt & Scott finally get to the first proper release on Creation. (Quality takes time, right??!) 

Your hosts debate the merit of the (much-maligned-in-its-time) record that started it all, and then they talk to the man himself, JERRY THACKRAY a.k.a. THE LEGEND! a.k.a. EVERETT TRUE.

Best known for his writing in the NME and Melody Maker, as well as for his and books on NIRVANA, WHITE STRIPES, and THE RAMONES, Mr. Thackray is a fascinating and Zelig-like character. And we LOVE his later (post-Creation) EPs (links below), so you’ll hear a few clips of those as well. It’s a sprawling and wild ride, but trust us, it’s worth sticking around for the whole thing. There’s music, there’s sadness, there’s drama, there’s brushes with fame. It’s got everything, even a live song.

Links of note:

The Legend! “73 in 83” (CRE001): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DPe-2HuApE

The Legend: “Talk Open”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNc8tbK89E0&t=43s

Everette True’s first interview with Young Marble Giants: http://www.collapseboard.com/the-first-interview-i-ever-did/

Everett True’s Song-A-Day on Youtube (almost up to 300!!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQwfu13Cg4of5pFAbXiWD2w

Stuff that comes up:

CREATION RECORDS

The Legend

Television Personalities

Revolving Paint Dream

The Laughing Apple

Marine Girls

The McTells

Go-Betweens

Daniel Johnston

Bruce Pavitt

Jad Fair / Half Japanese

Bobby Gillespie

The Smiths

The Pastels

Oasis

John Peel

Cherry Red

Stephen Pastel

Cannanes

Huggy Bear

David Nichols

Young Marble Giants

Biff! Bang! Pow!

Soup Dragons

Jasmine Minks

John Robb / Membranes

Twelve Cubic Feet (great band)

Alan McGee

Geoff Travis

The Ramones

Rough Trade

The Go Team, Beat Happening, Calvin Johnson, Tobi Vail, Bikini Kill

Kill Rock Stars

Sub Pop

Graham Fellows

Nirvana

…And the Native Hipsters

Talulah Gosh & Amelia Fletcher

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music

OUR SECOND (pre-season) EPISODE!!

We then have a visit from old friend and member of BLACK DICE, Bjorn Copeland. We chat about zines, music, fashion, and beer. It's a fun one!

Links of note: 

TVPs' "Biff Bang Bow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AthbITD1c

TVPs' live "Picture of Dorian Gray": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CeXDJD07Xc

(Both of these tracks are available on the TVPs' "Some Kind of Happening" reissue, Fire records, 2019)

and since we both love it so much:

Eyeless in Gaza "New Risen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-arERZino

Things that come up in the episode:

Television Personalities/TVPs

Biff! Bang! Pow!

The Creation

John's Children

Les Fleur De Lys

Cherry Red

Alan McGee

Jerry Thackray

Zarjaz

Tronics

Joe Foster

Kaleidoscope Sounds

Eyeless in Gaza

Microdisney

Mike Alway

Black Dice

Eric Copeland

Satisfact

Henry's Dress

Seen Studio

Primal Scream

The Pastels

Special thanks to the Reds, Pinks & Purples for the theme music and Johnny Flores for technical assistance.

OUR FIRST EPISODE!!!!

Scott & Matt kick off the first episode of the Creation Records audio fanzine with a discussion of the first of two flexi singles that came with Alan McGee & Jerry Thackray (THE LEGEND)’s pre-Creation fanzines, Communication Blur.

In addition to some digging into the flexi & the zine, the boys interview TONY FLETCHER, esteemed author (bios on R.E.M., Keith Moon, Wilson Pickett), who in his fanzine Jamming, wrote a piece on the state of music in 1982 that ended up being a key piece of Creation origin story.

Links of note:

“The Story that Spawned Creation”: https://www.ijamming.net/Jammingmagazine/Jamming!MagazineCreation.html

Tony Fletcher’s web site (with link to Jamming archive): https://tonyfletcher.net/

Tony’s podcast: https://shows.acast.com/onestepbeyond

Things that come up on this episode:

The Legend

Bobby Gillespie

Primal Scream

The Laughing Apple

The Pastels

Strawberry Switchblade

Revolving Paint Dream

Dan Treacy

Television Personalities

Patrik Fitzgerald

The Jam

Paul Weller

Paul McCartney

Pete Townsend

Acid House

The Homosexuals

REM

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for the theme music and to our guest narrator, Rose Melberg.

Fifty Years of Fun podcast trailer. First episode coming soon!