Biff Bang Pow ! - There Must Be a Better Life

  by Anthony Strutt

published: 1 / 4 / 2009

Label: Edition 59 Records
Format: CDS

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First rate reissue of Creation label owner Alan McGee's band Biff Bang Pow !'s 1984 second single

This reissue of Biff Bang Pow !'s 1984 second 7 inch single on Creation Records on CD has come out like all its label Edition 59's releases in a limited edition of 59 copies. 'There Must Be a Better Life' still stands up for itself twenty five years on. It is jangly guitar heaven, backed by hard driving drums and Teardrop Explodes style keyboards, and reveals a total passion for life. It is a call to arms, a pure celebration of youth in the same way that The Who's 'My Generation' was twenty years before that. It's original B side, 'The Chocolate Elephant Man', is much softer and very Rickenbacker flavoured. It is song to nod your head too , a song to make you smile, and as strong as anything by the early Byrds.

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