... Coals to Newcastle
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Orange Juice
... Coals to Newcastle
[ Domino / 7 CD/DVD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 8 November 2010
Beautiful to look at, wonderful to listen to... a dream come true for Orange Juice fans who weren't able to get a hold of the original albums or the Japanese CD reissues.
When the Scottish pop band Orange Juice split up in January of 1985, it didn't seem too likely that they would become one of the more influential bands of the era. Yes, their early singles on the tiny Postcard label generated some excitement, and they had a bona fide chart hit with the 1983's single "Rip It Up," but their career had mostly come to a sputtering halt outside the lens of the public eye. One short year later, with the rise of C-86 and the early indie pop bands, the brightly scrappy attitude and scruffily melodic sound of early Orange Juice suddenly became popular again. Fast forward to the mid-'90s and Belle & Sebastian, then Franz Ferdinand and more, to see that the Orange Juice legacy lives on as strongly as ever. The songs of Edwyn Collins (and those of James Kirk) have been required listening for a large number of great pop bands. Thanks to the release of 2005's The Glasgow School, which made all the band's early recordings widely available for the first time, even more bands were able to draw inspiration from the band and their sound. In 2010, all the band's recorded output was finally made easily accessible.
Put together in part by Edwyn Collins, the box set. 'Coals to Newcastle' is beautiful to look at, wonderful to listen to, and basically a dream come true for Orange Juice fans who weren't able to get a hold of the original albums or the Japanese CD reissues. Even if you did own either of those, 'Coals' is still worth seeking out for all the extras. The six-CD/one-DVD set contains all of the band's recorded output: the early singles, the three studio albums, the Texas Fever EP, a full complement of B-sides, a handful of demos and different mixes, a disc of BBC sessions, two videos, live footage from the Old Grey Whistle Test, and a very '80s concert video (Dada with the Juice) that the final incarnation of the band made. The Glasgow School is included as the first disc, and it's still amazing to hear all the singles and demos cut in that short period of time (between 1980 and 1981) all strung together. Songs like "Blue Boy," "Falling and Laughing," and "Lovesick" bubble and pop in a brilliant mix of wise-ass punk and off-kilter disco, at once creating and defining a new kind of pop. The joy and energy that radiate from these tracks is life-affirming. While common wisdom states that the Postcard singles were the artistic high point of the band, the three albums and EP that the revamped (and shifting) band produced are perfectly good, even sometimes great. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a better early-'80s pop album that their debut, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever. Hearing the discs one after the other with all the assorted B-sides, live cuts, and spare tracks, you can see that the progression the band makes from lo-fi kids thrashing about in the studio to polished pros.
"4 stars out of 5 - James Kirk's scratchy guitar sets the tone on mini-masterpieces such as 'Simply Thrilled Honey' and 'Blue Boy,' but it's the quirky Collins baritone that ultimate cements an identity for the band on 'Poor Old Soul."
-Record Collector
"4 stars out of 5 - [T]he Juice were too wayward and whimsical to stick to the main road, their songs are always cantering off down lyrical sideroads, careering through melodic backwaters."
-Uncut
Shamelessly erudite and delightfully frenetic....Each studio album has much to enjoy...
Clash
"5 stars out of 5 - Orange Juice sweetly balanced the tensions between internal turmoil and exterior poise, tension embodied by Collins' vocals, the swooning, tremulous romanticism propped up by the brittle language of the Algonquin set."
-Mojo
Tracks:
Disc 1 - THE GLASGOW SCHOOL:
1. Falling and Laughing
2. Moscow
3. Moscow Olympics
4. Felicity - (live)
5. Blue Boy
6. Lovesick
7. Simply Thrilled Honey
8. Breakfast Time
9. Poor Old Soul, Pt. 1
10. Poor Old Soul, Pt. 2
11. Louise Louise
12. Three Cheers for Our Side
13. To Put It in a Nutshell
14. Satellite City
15. Consolation Prize
16. Holiday Hymn
17. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 1
18. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 2
19. Wan Light
20. Dying Day
21. Texas Fever
22. Tender Object
23. Poor Old Soul [French Version]
24. Poor Old Soul [Instrumental Version]
25. Simply Thrilled Honey - (live)
26. Botswana - (live)
27. Time to Develop - (live)
28. Blue Boy - (live)
Disc 2 - YOU CAN'T HIDE YOUR LOVE FOREVER:
1. Falling and Laughing
2. Untitled Melody
3. Wan Light
4. Tender Object
5. Dying Day
6. L.O.V.E. Love
7. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 1
8. Upwards and Onwards
9. Satellite City
10. Three Cheers for Our Side
11. Consolation Prize
12. Felicity
13. In a Nutshell
14. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 2
15. Moscow
16. You Old Eccentric
17. Two Hearts Together [10" Version]
18. I Can't Help Myself [7" Version]
19. Tongues Begin to Wag
20. Barbeque
Disc 3 - RIP IT UP:
1. Rip It Up
2. Million Pleading Faces, A
3. Mud in Your Eye
4. Turn Away
5. Breakfast Time
6. I Can't Help Myself
7. Flesh of My Flesh
8. Louise Louise
9. Hokoyo
10. Tenterhook
11. Rip It Up [12" Version]
12. Snake Charmer
13. Lovesick [Re-Recording]
14. Flesh of My Flesh [7" Version]
15. Lord John White and the Bottleneck Train [12" Version]
16. Flesh of My Flesh [12" Version]
17. All That Ever Mattered
Disc 4 - TEXAS FEVER:
1. Bridge
2. Craziest Feeling
3. Punch Drunk
4. Day I Went Down to Texas, The
5. Place in My Heart, A
6. Sad Lament, A
7. Out for the Count
8. Bridge [Summer '83 Version]
9. Poor Old Soul [Re-Recording]
10. Leaner Period
11. Move Yourself
12. Day I Went Down to Texas [Flexi Version], The
13. Craziest Feeling - (previously unreleased)
14. Bridge - (previously unreleased)
15. Day I Went Down to Texas, The - (previously unreleased)
16. Place in My Heart, A - (previously unreleased)
17. Out for the Count - (previously unreleased)
18. Punch Drunk - (previously unreleased)
Disc 5 - THE ORANGE JUICE:
1. Lean Period
2. I Guess I'm Just a Little Too Sensitive
3. Burning Desire
4. Scaremonger
5. Artisans, The
6. What Presence?!
7. Out for the Count
8. Get While the Getting's Good
9. All That Ever Mattered
10. Salmon Fishing in New York
11. What Presence?! [12" Version]
12. Place in My Heart [12" Version], A
13. In a Nutshell - (live)
14. Simply Thrilled Honey - (live)
15. Dying Day - (live)
16. Bury My Head in My Hands
17. Lean Period [12" Dub Version]
18. Rip It Up - (live)
19. What Presence?! - (live)
20. Burning Desire [Alexis Mix] - (remix)
21. All That Ever Mattered [Alternate Version]
Disc 6 - BBC SESSIONS:
1. Poor Old Soul
2. You Old Eccentric
3. Falling and Laughing
4. Lovesick
5. Upwards and Onwards [John Peel October 1980]
6. Wan Light [John Peel October 1980]
7. Felicity [John Peel October 1980]
8. Dying Day [Richard Skinner January 1981]
9. Holiday Hymn [Richard Skinner January 1981]
10. Three Cheers for Our Side [Richard Skinner January 1981]
11. Blokes on 45 [Richard Skinner January 1981]
12. Mud in Your Eye [John Peel August 1981]
13. I Can't Help Myself [John Peel August 1981]
14. In Spite of It All [John Peel August 1981]
15. Turn Away [John Peel August 1981]
16. What Presence?! [Kid Jensen, April 1982]
17. Salmon Fishing in New York [Kid Jensen, April 1982]
18. Bridge [Kid Jensen, April 1982]
19. BBC Interview [Pt. 1] [Kid Jensen, February 1984]
20. BBC Interview [Pt. 2] [Kid Jensen, February 1984]
Disc 7 - DAD-A WITH THE JUICE:
1. Rip It Up [Music Video]
2. What Presence?! [Music Video]
3. I Can't Help Myself [Old Grey Whistle Test]
4. Rip It Up [Old Grey Whistle Test]
5. What Presence?! [Old Grey Whistle Test]
6. Out for the Count [Old Grey Whistle Test]
7. Salmon Fishing in New York
8. Dying Day
9. Falling and Laughing
10. In a Nutshell
11. Simply Thrilled Honey
12. Place in My Heart, A
13. Craziest Feeling
14. Bridge
15. Rip It Up
16. Poor Old Soul
17. What Presence?!
18. Day I Went Down to Texas, The
19. All That Ever Mattered / Diana
