Orange Juice - The Glasgow School
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Artist: Orange JuiceEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
- Falling and Laughing
- Moscow
- Moscow Olympics
- Blue Boy
- Love Sick
- Simply Thrilled Honey
- Breakfast Time
- Poor Old Soul (Part One)
- Poor Old Soul (Part Two)
- Louise Louise
- Three Cheers For Our Side
- (To Put It In A) Nutshell
- Satellite City
- Consolation Prize
- Holiday Hymn
- Intuition Told Me (Part One)
- Intuition Told Me (Part Two)
- Wan Light
- Dying Day
- Texas Fever
- Tender Object
- Blokes on 45
- I Don't Care
Free Music Notes for The Glasgow School
Free Music Review: I'll always believe until my dying day
Hit: 4 Stars
Instigator, insurgent happy punk Edwyn Collins almost died this year when his brain ruptured twice. Early sidekick James Kirk surfaced from nowhere last year to release an album that floated out into the ether and vanished. And here, at this late date, comes the re-re-release of one of the loveliest batches of singles a little indie kid could ever hope to drop on his virtual 45-playing platter. I came to these records back to front, starting my run and love affair with a 12-inch disc with a hyperbolic but infectious take on the old Al Green nugget "L.O.V.E" backed with the rave-up Intuition Pt. II and Moscow. From there I found, already obscure in the early '80's, the 45 singles: "Simply Thrilled Honey," "Blue Boy," "Poor Old Soul" and each was a revelation with a B-side every bit as good as the A. Here, in the middle of the punk heydey, with the corporate new wave reaction already developing (and, as a digression, a wonderful piece of work corporate rock never got credit for -- there were some great bands on the bigs back then and the labels must be given their due)come four Scottish boys not too smart for their own good, but very smart and very good, deciding that, using the Velvet Underground as a building block, they would turn punk on its head and ear by turning angry rebellion against the staid status quo into a celebration of awkward, crushingly in love, romantic youth. And they would do so with a delight in language and word play that was wrapped in a bundle of jangly, propulsive guitar joy. They were lo-fi and sweet and cute and if you got it, you loved them, and those who didn't loathed what they could not loosen up to enjoy. Stateside, they made narry a dent, except to lucky souls like myself who got switched on by a music head pal (and co-cab driver, who, like me, at the time, pretty much drove taxis as an excuse to listen to the radio all day without looking like a loafer). So, again, here we are, what? Twenty-some years later? And someone has seen fit to put this wonderful stuff out again -- and in America no less. Maybe they think Edwyn's brilliant but flukey late-model smash "A Girl Like You" still resonates with the music-buying public. Come on; no way. But still, if you have stumbled this far, and you fancy yourself playful and unabashadly pop loving and want to know where, say, Tiger Trap came from (let alone the ubiquitously name-checked Franz Ferdinand, who I don't particularly like), click this into checkout. All others: If you know Orange Juice and don't have these early gems -- buy, as well.
Note: The complete album included with the singles, the aborted "Ostrich Churchyard," really doesn't do it for me, hence a one-star deduction. The right proper release, "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever," is the true gem following the great singles, and is sited by many fans as a favorite album. Only curmudgeonly cave dwellers could insist that "Ostrich Churchyard" should have been the first album. It just isn't that hot; it has distant and echoey production; and is only intermittently as moving and fun as the early singles. Again, this is, for my ears, some of the best of the best, but not all of it.
The Glasgow School Poster
A lovingly packaged reissue of the early singles and the entire "Ostrich Churchyard" first album, which have never been officially released in America until now. Contains 2 bonus tracks, which have never been released. This imitable band has inspired bands like The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, and more.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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