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
Carbrain
Posted in sarah records, Scottish bands, Wake on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Carbrain – The Wake One of the bands who came to Sarah Records with an established history, coming to the label with a reputation, not having their reputation shaped by it. From them forming in 1981 to arriving at Sarah in 1989 they did some things and went places that look good on paper/internet, played [...]
Peaches
Posted in Orchids, sarah records, Scottish bands on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Peaches – The Orchids YEEESSSSSSSSSS! Something else! To demonstrate that the Sarah bands were not immune to ambition and the climate of music they existed in but separately to. This song could have been a hit. Sarah weren’t about to release an album track as a single, so maybe that’s the reason why it was [...]
Television
Posted in Broccoli, Scottish bands on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Television – Broccoli From when the Paint It Black record store opened, as it moved location, until near it closed, there lay in the discount racks throughout seemingly every Crackle/Rugger Bugger release, untouched, unsold. For me, there was just always something else to spend money i didn’t have on. And i just didn’t know what [...]
Chance Meeting
Posted in Josef K, Scottish bands on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Chance meeting – Josef K The non-Postcard version. The slower version with the keyboards. Those keyboards, lazy, sounding like there’s not enough voltage passing through, mixed as high as can be. If a song could last forever…
Safety Net
Posted in Scottish bands, Shop Assistants on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Safety net – Shop Assistants I think there’s another song by another band that starts with this exact same floor tom-snare drum beat, this exact same bass line, with the guitar coming in at the exact same time, and i might actually have that song in my head. A more menacing, intense song. Or, to [...]
Something Going On
Posted in Pastels, Scottish bands on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Something Going On – The Pastels I watched Upside Down: The Creation Records Story last night and of course it wasn’t good enough for me. It wasn’t made for me. It should have been called “Breezy excerpts from the Creation Records story: Catalogue numbers 12, 15, 55, 57, 70, 73, 87, 96… blah, etc. with [...]
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; [...]
Million Tears
Posted in Pastels, Scottish bands on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Million tears – The Pastels ? and the Mysterians sang of 96 tears, an oddly specific number that carries in its specificity that those tears were indeed real, tallied, felt, cried. The Pastels in 1984 raised the lachrymatorial ante: One million tears. Who’s to say that number is any less calculated than the Mysterians’? Is [...]
