Creation Singles Poll, Part Company - 1998, 1999, 2000

oh, and I checked: There were promos: https://www.discogs.com/Oasis-Go-Let-It-Out/release/1591842

although,
https://www.discogs.com/Boo-Radleys-Kingsize/release/384046 would have been CRE312, probably
https://www.discogs.com/Technique-Sun-Is-Shining/release/303517 maybe would have been CRE318, maybe a rerelease of CRE306

Both exist as promos, so write in for those if you want to.

I always felt that "Hold on Hope" was GbV's attempt to write an Oasis song.

CRE293 Arnold Fishsounds June 1998

I wish that was the band name, "Arnold Fishsounds"

if they move, kill 'em still sounds pretty good to me - voting for that

i'd managed to forget how terrible hurricane #1 were but reading the title of 'only the strongest will survive' somehow dredged up a memory of that limp, anemic attempt at an anthemic chorus *shudder*

There's only a handful I like here - I'd go for one of these:

CRE284 Primal Scream If They Move, Kill 'Em February 1998
CRE288 Super Furry Animals Ice Hockey Hair EP June 1998
CRE314 Super Furry Animals Northern Lites May 1999
CRE325 Guided by Voices Teenage FBI October 1999

Actually I like 'Swastika Eyes' too but only the Jagz Kooner remix.

The title track of the Ice Hockey Hair EP is SFA's second best song, so voting for it is unavoidable considering some of the shit on this list. By this point, The Boo Radleys and SFA were the best things on the label. Neither being "Alan McGee" type of bands, either.

Saint Etienne disappoint here with a couple of lacklustre singles so has to be Ice Hockey Hair doesn't it?

Voted Syvlie because it really means a lot to me.

This b-side of Bad Photographer is one of my favourite Saint Etienne songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRgRtP2Vn7A

SFA do kind of take over at this point.

Bad Photographer easily my least favorite St Et single :(
Sylvie, on the other hand, what a tune

The Primal Scream singles here are gr8

"Fire in My Heart" was a single but "Wherever I Lay My Phone That's My Home" wasn't?

Noh

It was supposed to be - it had promos pressed and everything, but it got shelved.

this is between Primal Scream (agree brimstead), SFA and the Boo Radleys (agree Turrican).

i even liked Bernard Butlers solo stuff but wonder what i would think today?

Today I think "Not exactly Neil Young, was he Mr McGee?"

Swastika Eyes.

CRE292 The Jesus and Mary Chain Crackin' Up April 1998

^ i don't really like the jamc but this song is fucking great fyi

insane, the Jesus and Mary Chain are great. going to sign up and do their poll at some point.

I made this one run too long as well, didn't I?

1997 on was my peak Creation single buying period I reckon. A lot of stuff in there I liked at the time but I'm going with "Fire in my Heart" because it's a genuinely lovely song.

I'd like to think if Creation hadn't folded and they'd carried on putting out records, that they would have moved away from the Oasis type of stuff and repositioned themselves as a label that were more towards the SFA/Boo Radleys end of the spectrum. Basically the Dick Green stuff, not the Alan McGee stuff. Stuff like Mishka showed that McGee was losing interest post-Oasis, he shoulda left the label to Green, who would have pushed the label forward.

I mean, christ, you just have to look at what both McGee and Green did after Creation. Wichita (Green's label) or Poptones (McGee's label)? I know which roster I prefer.

Is Green still involved with Wichita?

McGee seems to have quietly given up on the label he started with Cherry Red, 359 Music.

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I don't know a lot about Wichita vs. Poptones. I'd think that Beachbuggy would go a long way, but so would Los Campasinos! What's the consensus?

Wichita all the way.

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peak primal scream splitting the votes here

Bit of a golden age, by the look of it.

Wonder who voted Go Let It Out?

Not me, but I still like that one.