Orange Juice - The Singles (gnv64)

Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class
Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed
the Nu-Sonics (named after a cheap brand of guitar) with his school-mate
Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly,
who left a band called The Machetes. The band became Orange Juice in
1979. They are best known for the hit "Rip It Up", which reached number 8
on the UK Singles Chart in February 1983, the band's only UK Top 40 hit.

The band released their first singles during 1981 on the independent Postcard
Records label founded by Alan Horne, along with fellow Scottish bands Josef
K and Aztec Camera. Shortly afterwards this line-up signed to Polydor
Records and recorded their first album, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever.
However, internal tensions led to Kirk and Daly leaving in early 1982 (they
would go on to form a short-lived band called Memphis), and for the next two
album releases the core line-up was: Collins and McClymont with Malcolm Ross
on guitar, vocals and keyboards, and Zeke Manyika on drums. By early 1984,
Ross and McClymont had left the band leaving a core line-up of Collins and
Manyika who recorded Orange Juice's final album, The Orange Juice, with
Clare Kenny and Johnny Britten, produced by Dennis Bovell.

The band's only Top 40 hit, "Rip It Up" was achieved with the aid of the
synthesizer.

Discography
Studio albums
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (UK No.21) – March 1982
Rip It Up (UK No.39) – November 1982
Texas Fever (UK No.34) – March 1984
The Orange Juice – November 1984

Singles
1980 – "Falling and Laughing" (UK Indie Chart No.48)
1980 – "Blue Boy" (UK Indie Chart No.15)
1980 – "Simply Thrilled Honey" (UK Indie Chart No.5)
1981 – "Poor Old Soul" (UK Indie Chart No.5)
1981 – "Wan Light" (scheduled on Postcard Records but never released)
1981 – "L.O.V.E. Love" (UK No.65)
1982 – "Felicity" (UK No.63)
1982 – "Two Hearts Together" (UK No.60)
1982 – "I Can't Help Myself" (UK No.42)
1983 – "Rip It Up" (UK No.8)
1983 – "Flesh of My Flesh" (UK No.41)
1984 – "Bridge" (UK No.67)
1984 – "What Presence" (UK No.47)
1984 – "Lean Period" (UK No.74)

Compilations
1984 – In a Nutshell
1992 – The Esteemed – The Very Best of Orange Juice (featuring Edwyn
Collins)
1992 – Ostrich Churchyard – the CD release of the previously unreleased
debut Orange Juice album for Postcard Records ('The Sound of Young
Scotland'), along with a John Peel Session, and, on the Japanese issue, a
bonus BBC Radio 1 session track, "Wan Light".
1993 – The Heather's on Fire – the other CD release by Orange Juice on
Postcard Records, this collection brings the first four singles together with
some more radio sessions and, on the Scottish version, a NuSonics (pre-
Orange Juice) cover of the New York Dolls song "Who Are The Mystery
Girls?".
2005 – The Glasgow School – a compilation of Postcard-era tracks – named
"Reissue of the Year" for 2005 by Uncut magazine in the UK.
2010 – Coals To Newcastle – a box-set anthology of all Orange Juice's
previously released and unreleased output, released through Domino
Records.

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Orange Juice - The Singles
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Artist...............: Orange Juice
Album................: The Singles
Genre................: Alternative
Source...............: Web
Year.................: 2014
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v2.3
Posted by............: gnv64 on 10/7/2014
Included.............: NFO, M3U


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Tracklisting
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1. Orange Juice - Falling and Laughing [03:51]
2. Orange Juice - Blue Boy [02:53]
3. Orange Juice - Simply Thrilled Honey [02:43]
4. Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul, Pt. 1 [02:29]
5. Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul, Pt. 2 [02:39]
6. Orange Juice - Wan Light [02:24]
7. Orange Juice - L.O.V.E. Love [03:33]
8. Orange Juice - Felicity [02:35]
9. Orange Juice - Two Hearts Together [04:06]
10. Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself [03:30]
11. Orange Juice - Rip It Up [05:20]
12. Orange Juice - Flesh of My Flesh [03:13]
13. Orange Juice - Bridge [03:38]
14. Orange Juice - What Presence?! [03:57]
15. Orange Juice - Lean Period [03:19]

Playing Time.........: 50:17
Total Size...........: 115.18 MB

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