The Glasgow School

by Orange Juice

The Glasgow School cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 25 July 2005
  • Label: Domino
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:06:20
  • Community rating: 3.98/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Painstakingly collects Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice's incredibly influential, pre-major label recordings originally released on the seminal Postcard Records imprint between 1979 and 1981. The compilation documents their radical decision to infuse jagged, DIY post-punk energy with romantic, Byrds-inspired jangle-pop melodies and Motown soul. It is the definitive foundational text of the entire 1980s Scottish indie-pop explosion.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, crooning, jangly, twee, witty

Tracklist

  1. Falling and Laughing (3:59)
  2. Moscow (2:01)
  3. Moscow Olympics (2:07)
  4. Blue Boy (2:54)
  5. Lovesick (2:27)
  6. Simply Thrilled Honey (2:43)
  7. Breakfast Time (1:56)
  8. Poor Old Soul, Pt. 1 (2:29)
  9. Poor Old Soul, Pt. 2 (2:37)
  10. Louise Louise (2:51)
  11. Three Cheers for Our Side (2:52)
  12. (To Put It in A) Nutshell (4:05)
  13. Satellite City (2:43)
  14. Consolation Prize (3:10)
  15. Holiday Hymn (3:00)
  16. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 1 (1:13)
  17. Intuition Told Me, Pt. 2 (3:23)
  18. Wan Light (2:32)
  19. Dying Day (3:10)
  20. Texas Fever (1:44)
  21. Tender Object (4:40)
  22. Blokes on 45 (4:26)
  23. I Don't Care (3:07)

Credits

  • Orange Juice - primary artist
  • David McClymont - performer [orange juice]
  • Edwyn Collins - performer [orange juice], written-by
  • James Kirk - performer [orange juice], written-by
  • Vic Godard - written-by
  • Nu-Sonics - performer
  • Douglas Colvin - written-by
  • Jeffrey Hyman - written-by

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