ORANGE JUICE HAND-DRAWN COVER "Blue Boy/Love Sick" - 1st PRESSING MINT
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!! ORIGINAL PRESSING !!
!! "BLUE BOY"/"LOVE SICK" !!
EACH RECORD-COVER HAND-COLORED INDIVIDUALLY BY THE BAND!!
“It was just love of music that didn't recognize any
boundaries.” -- Edwyn Collins
FROM UNCUT:
“I remember when I was 18 walking along the beach at Brora in
Sutherland,” says Collins, “thinking it’s time to develop, that’s not
good enough, it’s crap. I was 17 when I wrote [1980 single] ‘Blue
Boy’. It’s crude, the chorus is crude, but I was thinking, ‘I’m 17, I
need to get better than this…’”
By then, too, Collins had become friends with Alan Horne, the
former singer with Glasgow punk band Oscar Wild, and a would-
be Svengali who styled himself after Andy Warhol. Horne and
Collins co-founded Postcard Records, operating out of Horne’s flat
in West Princes St. Beginning in February 1980 with Orange
Juice’s debut single, “Falling And Laughing”, Postcard’s initial run
of a dozen 7” singles – each one produced on a shoestring budget
and packaged in a hand-folded sleeve – provided the model for
indie labels from Creation onwards.
Crucially, Postcard gave a platform to local post-punk bands –
“The Sound Of Young Scotland” – whose rattly, lo-fi charms
would later be embraced by The Smiths, Primal Scream and the
C86 bands on to Belle And Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand.
“The Postcard flat was an exciting place to be,” says Ken
McCluskey, then vocalist with Orange Juice’s Glasgow
contemporaries, The Bluebells. “With people making posters and
folding record sleeves and listening to Chic or Stax and Northern
Soul records on repeat. If Horne was Andy Warhol to Edwyn’s Lou
Reed, Postcard was the Factory.”
Orange Juice’s four singles for Postcard – “Falling And Laughing”,
“Blue Boy”, “Simply Thrilled Honey” and “Poor Old Soul” – had
little in common with either punk’s macho swagger or the
earnestness of post-punk: Collins was as big a fan of George
McRae’s “Rock Your Baby” as he was of The Byrds and The Lovin’
Spoonful. According to Steven Daly – now a contributing editor to
Vanity Fair in the States – similarities between the guitar on The
Velvet Underground’s Live ’69 album and the rhythmic chopping of
Chic proved equally influential. “We weren’t being arch,” says
Daly. “It was just love of music that didn't recognize any
boundaries.”
FROM Frankie & The Heartstrings:
As far as I'm concerned Orange Juice invented Indie music. In 1977 all the teenagers were shoving safety pins in their ears and pogoing to The Sex Pistols while Edwyn Collins was straightening out his boot lace tie and listening Al Green. He did however take the best element of Punk which was energy and fuse it with his love for northern soul.
Without them we'd of never had Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand or The Yummy Fur and the world would be a sad place without those.
FROM Mike Schulman (Slumberland):
"When I was in high school back in the dark days of the early 1980s, I was a dedicated reader of an amazing newsprint magazine called New York Rocker.
One of the issues featured a cover article about The Sound of Young Scotland, and featured a lovely picture of Edwyn Collins and Clare Grogan (sigh).
I'd never heard any of the bands but what I read made me quite curious, and some rather dedicated scouring of local record shops eventually turned up a copy of Orange Juice's "Blue Boy" 7" on Postcard.
I don't think I'd ever heard a record quite like it.
The rush of energy, the raw, edgy guitar sound, the arch lyrics and the MELODY.
The debt to punk was clear, but this was POP and it opened my head up in ways that few records before or since have.
I picked up all the Orange Juice Postcard singles pretty soon after, and of course tracked their evolution into a "proper" pop band, but it's those first few gape-mouthed listens to "Blue Boy" that have stuck with me the most.
A large part of what I've tried to accomplish with Slumberland and the bands I've been in can be traced right back to that little piece of vinyl."
- The ORIGINAL1st PRESSING on POSTCARD RECORDS 1980!!
- ONLY 1000 COPIES were PRESSED of the ORIGINAL 45!!
- The FIRST Orange Juice single to CHART UK Indie Top-20!!
- And EACH record-cover is HAND-COLORED BY THE BAND!!
- THE BOY LOOKED AT JOHNNY !!
Tracklist:
A Blue Boy
B Love Sick
Written-By – Edwyn Collins
Producer – Alex Fergusson, Orange Juice
Engineer – Calum Malcolm
Notes:
This is the first pressing with hand colored fold-out sleeve and blue labels (all different colored)
Advertising of Postcard Record "Josef K - Radio Drill Time" at the inside of the fold-out-cover.
Handwritten QUOTE on back-cover comes from Patti Smith's 1975 song "HORSES" inspired by William S. Bouroughs.
Engineered by Callum Malcolm at Castle Sound Studios, 30th April 1980.
There is NO OTHER COPY the same as this one!!
This record is not only in TRUE-MINT CONDITION but the Drawing and Quote are, without hyperbole, BOTH AMAZING!!
Please see my OTHER listings for more ULTRA-RARE RECORDINGS!! New "wonders" added almost-daily - thanks.
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