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- Date Released: August 9, 2005
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Post-Punk
- Label: Domino Recording Co
The campy, sensitive, and hopeful alternate version of post-punk.
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We Say...
"You must think me very naïve," Edwyn Collins began on "Falling and Laughing," the first-ever Orange Juice single, released back in the spring of 1980. A sweet sentiment, but one that seemed out of step with the seriousness of post-punk, which trafficked in the illusion that we had all passed beyond the days of untouched innocence. Campy, delicate, sensitive and ultimately hopeful, Orange Juice was certainly a different kind of band, then and now. As Collins cried: "I only see what I want to see."
Glasgow School collects Orange Juice's earliest material for the now-legendary Scottish label Postcard Records, including the brilliant "Blue Boy" and "Simply Thrilled Honey." (For the next chapter, check out Edwyn Collins: A Casual Introduction.) The songs are raw and delightful, and they delineate an alternate vision of post-punk that grafts the form's defiant, twitchy gallop with the snaking basslines and shuffling backbeats of disco and funk. The compilation is essential for its inclusion of Ostrich Churchyard, the previously unreleased Orange Juice debut album. Despite spring-wound, head-bobbing tracks like "Satellite City" and "Wan Light," the album's heart is in the slower, woozier numbers like "In a Nutshell" or the delicate "Consolation Prize," where Collins' weathered, heartfelt croon is on full display. -
They Say...
Orange Juice's three albums, along with compilations of various shapes and sizes, have floated in and out of print throughout the years. This hasn't made it convenient for anyone curious about the band, whether the interest was sparked by Haircut 100, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, the unlikely mainstream success of Edwyn Collins' "A Girl Like You," the history of post-punk, or the birth of indie pop. The Glasgow School, released in 2005 by Domino, contains the band's four singles for Postcard, the bulk of Ostrich Churchyard (a disc released in 1992, containing early versions of what would become 1982's You Can't Hide Your Love Forever), a Stars on 45-style version of "Simply Thrilled Honey," and a crude cover of the Ramones' "I Don't Care." For a lot of people, the material here (dating no later than 1981) is where Orange Juice begins and ends. The band signed to Polydor soon after the latest song on this disc was recorded, and they promptly gave their sound a coat of shiny wax -- so they helped invent indie pop, only to abandon it before their first album. Though the notion extends throughout Orange Juice's discography, they were nothing if not fearless. What other way is there to describe lyrics like "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn's/I was hoping to impress/So frightfully camp -- you laughed," or their wholly convincing (if occasionally gawky) way of bouncing the jangly folk-rock of the Byrds off the fat-bottomed disco drive of Chic, all the while creating an identity all their own? Both the singles and the Ostrich Churchyard takes are as crafty as they are crude, and if you can't get past the amateurishness, there's plenty of winsome attitude to win you over. This disc serves as proof that, along with Josef K, Associates, Altered Images, Simple Minds, Cocteau Twins, and the Scars, Orange Juice helped make Scotland a very productive resource during the post-punk/new wave era.
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| 01. |  |
Falling and Laughing |
3:59 |
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| 02. | |
Moscow |
2:01 |
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| 03. | |
Moscow Olympics |
2:07 |
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| 04. | |
Blue Boy |
2:54 |
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| 05. | |
Lovesick |
2:27 |
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| 06. | |
Simply Thrilled Honey |
2:43 |
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| 07. | |
Breakfast Time |
1:56 |
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| 08. | |
Poor Old Soul, Pt. 1 |
2:29 |
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| 09. | |
Poor Old Soul, Pt. 2 |
2:37 |
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| 10. | |
Louise Louise |
2:51 |
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| 11. | |
Three Cheers for Our Side |
2:52 |
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| 12. | |
(To Put It in A) Nutshell |
4:05 |
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| 13. | |
Satellite City |
2:43 |
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| 14. | |
Consolation Prize |
3:10 |
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| 15. | |
Holiday Hymn |
3:00 |
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| 16. | |
Intuition Told Me, Pt. 1 |
1:13 |
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| 17. | |
Intuition Told Me, Pt. 2 |
3:23 |
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| 18. | |
Wan Light |
2:32 |
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| 19. | |
Dying Day |
3:10 |
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| 20. | |
Texas Fever |
1:44 |
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| 21. | |
Tender Object |
4:40 |
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| 22. | |
Blokes on 45 |
4:26 |
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| 23. | |
I Don't Care |
3:07 |
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23 Total Tracks, 66:09 Total Length
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Credits
- Edwyn Collins - ? // Alan Douches - Mastering // David McClymont - ? // James Kirk - ? // Steven Daly - Liner Notes // Matthew Cooper - Layout Design // Matthew Cooper - Packaging // Claire Lin - Layout Design // Claire Lin - Packaging
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