Biff Bang Pow! - The Acid House Album (1989)

Hay títulos engañosos.Aquí no vas a encontrar música electrónica y mucho menos "Acid".Lo que te vas a encontrar son melodías casi perfectas que destilan lo mejor de la música de los 60.

Pero es que el nombre del grupo no engaña: se trata de uno de los mejores temas de The Creation, grupo que da nombre al sello donde se editó este recopilatorio de singles y rarezas.

Se trata de la banda que formó su fundador, Alan MacGee.Precisamente por esto fue ninguneado por la crítica ,a pesar de que casi todas las referencias que editó su sello,Creation,tuvieron su reconocimiento y el del público,también.

Es hora de que se haga justicia a uno de las bandas más desconocidos de los 80 y que ,sin duda, alguna merecieron mejor suerte.

En The Acid House Album, aparecen los que son ,en mi opinión dos de los mejores singles de los 80:"There Must Be A Better Life y Love´s Going Out of Fashion" y otros a recuperar como "Fifty Years of Fun" y "Someone Stole my Wheels".

¡A disfrutarlo!

Almusic,dice: "Formed in 1981 by the leaders of the incredibly influential British pop label Creation, Alan McGee and Dick Green, Biff Bang Pow! crafted emotionally powerful songs and delivered them wrapped in a jangly, guitar-driven style that touched on folk-rock, British Invasion, and psychedelic pop sounds. Waterbomb is the definitive collection of highlights from their decade-long existence.

Produced and selected by the redoubtable Joe Foster, this disc illustrates just how wonderful the band was. There are at least three songs on here that should be considered classics of the era: "There Must Be a Better Life," which has one of the group's most dissatisfied and angry lyrics over a jangling, searching melody topped by one of McGee's finest vocals (which despite what many cloth-eared critics claimed are never anything less than good and are often quite moving), "Love's Going Out of Fashion," which rides ramshackle acoustic guitars and harmonica and careens like the Cure at their most pop (with McGee's vocals eerily similar to Robert Smith's), and the marvelous "She's Got Diamonds in Her Hair," a beautiful aching ballad that shifts from a low-key jazz-ish verse to a chorus that shines like, well, a diamond.

Biff Bang Pow! always created a very adult brand of teen pop and always did it very well, as this collection shows. So if you were a fan of the band back in the day or are just finding out about the group from one of the bands like Comet Gain, the Tyde, or Lovejoy, who can be found trumpeting the virtues of Biff Bang Pow! to all who will listen, this is an essential collection that will knock you out."by Tim Sendra