Breakfast time – Orange Juice Oh how i wish i was young again. Edwyn Collins was 20 years old when this song came out. I remember wishing the same thing at 20. This is a weird song. It starts of expectedly sweet but then descends into some dark discordant where’d-the-song-go part with freeform poetry over [...]
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Breakfast Time
Posted in Orange Juice, Scottish bands on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
L.O.V.E. Love
Posted in Orange Juice, Scottish bands on December 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
L.O.V.E. Love – Orange Juice
Falling And Laughing
Posted in Orange Juice, Scottish bands on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Falling and laughing – Orange Juice Quite simply one of the best songs ever written. And it was their first single! It does things to me – things i very much like it doing. Both in the helplessly gooey-inside way Edwyn Collins subdues me as he sings that rising verse, and how gently it drops; [...]
Poor Old Soul
Posted in Orange Juice, Scottish bands on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poor old soul – Orange Juice This marks the third time this song has come up, and if this is the Orange Juice, the one and only one everyone knows, that just makes me look square doesn’t it? I live with “Back with a vengeance much in vogue…” in my head. No more rock’n’roll for [...]
Poor Old Soul
Posted in missed days, Orange Juice, Scottish bands on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poor old soul – Orange Juice I missed today, waking up at Peter’s after the best record fair ever! And then i went to work. And now i’ve just got home. Here.
In A Nutshell
Posted in Orange Juice, Scottish bands on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a nutshell – Orange Juice Shoo-shoo-shoo-shoodoo… Yes, yes, a Scottish band. The sound of young Scotland, even, even though this came out on Polydor Records. Find me a gentler song, i dare you. With this one prerequisite: One with “heartless mercenary” among its lyrics.
Poor Old Soul
Posted in Orange Juice, Scottish bands on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poor old soul – Orange Juice Scottish bands. I think maybe Edwyn Collins may have my all time favourite singing voice. There’s something about it. His deep, breathy, epiglottal, agonised, tender, croony delivery seems so out of place and disingenuous (especially when coming from some nerd in a guitar band from Edinburgh), but at the [...]
