Biff Bang Pow! Better Life: Complete Creations 1983-1991 CD

Deluxe six CD box, boasting the entire recorded output of Biff Bang Pow! With the bonus of everything issued by The Laughing Apple. Curated with the full support of Alan McGee and other band members, the clamshell 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. And 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. Biff Bang Pow! Were formed by Alan McGee around the same time he founded Creation Records in 1983. Biff Bang Pow! Made seven albums and a handful of singles - many of which were indie hits - before they finally dissolved in 1992.

1. There Must Be a Better Life 2. Lost Your Dreams 3. Love and Hate 4. The Chocolate Elephant Man 5. Waterbomb! 6. Colin Dobbins 7. Wouldn't You? 8. A Day Out with Jeremy Chester 9. Fifty Years of Fun 10. Then When I Scream 11. The Chocolate 12. Elephant Man (Alternative Mix - Extra Intro) 13. In the Afternoon (Early Version) (By Revolving Paint Dream) 14. Then When I Scream (Different Longer Version) 15. Lost Your Dreams (Demo) 16. I'm Okay Me (Demo) 17. Someone Stole My Wheels 18. Love's Going Out of Fashion 19. She Never Understood 20. He Don't Need That Girl 21. She Shivers Inside 22. The Beat Hotel 23. The Happiest Girl in the World 24. If I Die 25. Five Minutes in the Life of Greenwood Goulding 26. The Whole World Is Turning Brouchard! 27. Sixteen Velvet Fridays 28. It Makes You Scared 29. Sunny Days 30. He Don't Need That 31. Girl (Early Version) 32. Back to the Start 33. I Need Optimism 34. She's Gone Away 35. Inside the Mushroom 36. It Happens All the Time (Alan Vocal) 37. In the Afternoon 38. The Death of England 39. The Beat Hotel (Alan 40. Vocal - Different Mix) 41. It Happens All the Time (Demo - Christine Vocal) 42. 23 She Went Away to the Love (Demo) 43. The Beat Hotel (Demo -Christine Vocal) 44. Unnamed Backwards Instrumental 45. In a Mourning Town 46. There You Go Again 47. 7 Seconds 48. A Girl Called Destruction 49. She's Got Diamonds in Her Hair 50. The Only Colour in This World Is Love 51. Baby Sister 52. Then When I Scream 53. I See the Sun 54. I'm Still Waiting for My Time 55. She's Got Diamonds in Her 56. Hair (Demo Version) 57. She Never Understood 58. (Alternate Version) 59. Fifty Years of Fun 60. The Chocolate Elephant Man 61. In a Mourning Town 62. She's Got Diamonds in Her 63. Hair 64. 7 Seconds 65. Love's Going Out of Fashion 66. Love and Hate 67. There Must Be a Better 68. Life 69. Fifty Years of Fun 70. A Girl Called Destruction 71. Colin Dobbins 72. Waterbomb! 73. She 74. Miss California 75. Toothpaste 1972 76. She Haunts 77. Searching for the Pavement 78. She Paints 79. Close 80. Ice Cream Machine 81. Electric Sugar Child 82. Dark in Mind 83. Startripper 84. She Went Away to the Love 85. The Beat Hotel (12"Version - Christine Vocal) 86. It Happens All the Time (12" Version - Christine Vocal) 87. Songs for the Sad Eyed Girl 88. She Kills Me 89. The Girl from Well Lane 90. Baby, You Just Don't Care 91. If You Don't Love Me Now You Never Ever Will 92. Someone to Share My Life with 93. Religious 94. Hug Me Honey 95. Victoria Appletree Loves Christopher Jones (Alias She Haunts -Take 1) 96. My First Friend 97. Miss You 98. I'm Burned 99. Song for a Nail 100. She Saved Me 101. You Just Can't Buy Satisfaction 102. Sad Eyes in Velvet 103. Guilt Ridden 104. Lovers 105. Baby You Just Make Me Strong 106. Bonus Tracks 107. Sleep 108. Long Live Neil Young and All Who Sail in Him 109. In Bed with Paul Weller 110. Everybody Wants to Divorce Her 111. Jean Michel Pow 112. I Hope You Burn 113. You Just Can't Buy Satisfaction (Demo) 114. Sometimes I Wish 115. Chips for Tea 116. Upstairs Downstairs 117. I'm Okay 118. Participate! 119. Wouldn't You? 120. Precious Feeling 121. Celebration 122. Instinct 123. My Judgement Day 124. Where I Take My Pleasure 125. Newspeak Demos 126. Weekend World 127. Wouldn't You? 128. She's Boxed in 129. Fifty Years of Fun 130. I Still Look for Her (Alias 131. Then When I Scream) 132. All I Want 133. 18 You Still Lost Your 134. Dream (Alias Lost Your Dreams)