Dearest Reader,
Young Ed (well, he is 31 and I'm almost 45) over at the consistently excellent 17 Seconds recently put up a posting on Orange Juice in which he bemoaned the fact that it is almost impossible, without using e-bay or second-hand record shops, to get a hold of any of their stuff.
And that got me thinking...
I've got just about every track that Orange Juice ever released. Including one of 1,000 copies of the vinyl copy of Ostrich Churchyard with 'The World's First 10" Irritation Disc' which is basically a 18 plus minute chat between Edwyn and Alan Horne.
I've a whole bundle of flexidiscs and cassettes that came with various Polydor singles. I've all albums on CD and vinyl. Sadly, I don't own (and know that I never will) the debut Postcard single of Falling and Laughing - although I'm glad to say that I have it on a compilation CD released years later. I've also got my hands a few live tracks that other bloggers have previously posted - thanks Ally at Dusty 7s
And I would like to make this stuff available to TVV readers. For charity.
Watch this:-
Now the young man in the video is my godson Kevin.
And my idea is....if you would like your very own Orange Juice compilation CD, I'll put it together and post it to you. I'm going to charge £6 for every copy. I reckon it will cost about £1 for materials, postage and packaging, leaving £5 which I will donate to Quarriers.
All you need to do is send me an e-mail to thevinylvillain@hotmail.co.uk listing what songs or recordings you would like. I'll provide 60 minutes worth on each CD.
I've gone to the trouble of setting up a paypal account to make things as easy as possible - although I will accept cash or cheques from UK readers.
I know this is all highly unusual, not to mention completely illegal as I do not own the copyright to any of the songs. But I can't think of any other way for folk to get a hold of most of these tracks - and it is all for a very good cause.
Now of course I have no idea if this will prove popular or not. I may end up with next to no requests - in fact I might end up with nothing at all. But its up to you....
And in the meantime, as I'm not wanting this particular post to lose its place, I'll not be putting anything else up on TVV for the next week. Normal service will not be resumed until Monday 10th March.
I'd also be grateful if you could use your own blogs to highlight this.
mp3 : Orange Juice - Felicity (Radio One Session, January 1981)
So...send me the e-mail listing the tracks you want. Also, let me know how you intend to pay. If its paypal, I'll issue you with an invoice. Once I get payment through, I'll get to work.
Thank You.
Full list of available songs:-
1. All That Ever Mattered (4:19) from the LP The Orange Juice
2. The Artisans (2:26) from the LP The Orange Juice
3. Barbecue (4:48) b-side of I Can't Help Myself single
4. Blokes on 45 (4:26) from The LP The Glasgow School
5. Blue Boy (live) (2:58) from The Felicity Flexi Session - The Formative Years (Polydor Tape)
6. Blue Boy (2:54) Postcard single
7. Botswana (live) (1:17 ) from The Felicity Flexi Session - The Formative Years
8. Breakfast Time (5:11) from the LP Rip It Up
9. Breakfast Time (Postcard) (1:56) b-side of Simply Thrilled Honey single
10. Bridge (3:38) single/from LP Texas Fever
11. Burning Desire (3:35) from the LP The Orange Juice
12. Bury My Head In My Hands (3:12) b-side of Lean Period single
13. Consolation Prize (2:53) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
14. Consolation Prize (3:10) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
15. Craziest Feeling (3:02) from the LP Texas Fever
16. The Day I Went Down To Texas (flexidisc) (2:52)
17. The Day I Went Down To Texas (2:42) from the LP Texas Fever
18. Dying Day(3:00) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
19. Dying Day (3:10) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
20. Dying Day (Peel Sesion - August 81) (3:10)
21. Falling and Laughing (3:51) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
22. Falling And Laughing (Peel - Oct 80) (3:24)
23. Falling And Laughing (4:01) - Postcard single
24. Felicity (2:35) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
25. Felicity (Radio One Session - Jan 81) (2:36)
26. Flesh Of My Flesh (3:13) single/from LP Rip It Up
27. Get While The Gettings Good (3:36) from the LP The Orange Juice
28. Hokoyo (5:07) from the LP Rip It Up
29. Hokoyo (single version) (3:11)
30. Holiday Hymn (3:01) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
31. Holiday Hymn (Peel - Aug 81) (3:17)
32. I Can't Help Myself (5:07) from the LP Rip It Up
33. I Can't Help Myself (12"version) (5:28)
34. I Can't Help Myself (7" version) (3:31)
35. I Can't Help Myself (Radio 1 session) (3:11)
36. I Don't Care (3:08) from the LP The Glasgow School
37. I Guess I'm Just A Little Too Sensitive (3:51) from the LP The Orange Juice
38. In A Nutshell(4:15) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
39. In A Nutshell (live) (4:38) Keele University (24-11-1982)
40. In A Nutshell (4:06) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
41. In Spite Of It All (Radio 1 session) (2:30)
42. Intuition Told Me (Part One) (1:09) fom the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
43. Intuition Told Me (Part One) (1:14) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
44. Intuition Told Me (Part Two) (3:14) fom the L.O.V.E (Love) single
45. Intuition Told Me (Part Two) (3:23) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
46. Irritation Disc (18:27) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
47. L.O.V.E. (love) (3:24) single/from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
48. Lean Period (3:19) single/from the LP The Orange Juice
49. Leaner Period (3:46) from the re-issued CD Texas Fever
50. Lord John White And The Bottleneck Train (4:47) b-side of Flesh of My Flesh single
51. Louise Louise (2:56) from the LP Rip It Up
52. Louise Louise (2:50) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
53. Love Sick (live) (2:15) extra track on Rip It Up single
54. Love Sick (Peel - Oct 80) (2:23)
55. Love Sick (2:27) - Postcard single
56. A Million Pleading Faces (3:16) from the LP Rip It Up
57. Moscow (2:01) from the Falling and laughing single
58. Moscow Olympics (2:07) from the Falling and laughing single
59. Move Yourself (3:13) from the LP Texas Fever
60. Mud In Your Eye (3:57) from the LP Rip It Up
61. Mud In Your Eye (Radio 1 Session) (3:34)
62. Mystery Girls (3:35) from the LP The Heather's On Fire
63. Out For The Count (3:54) from the LP Orange Juice
64. Out For The Count (4:46) from the re-issued CD Texas Fever
65. A Place In My Heart (3:01) from the LP Texas Fever
66. A Place In My Heart (Dub) (3:02) from the What Presence?! single
67. Poor Old Soul (French language version) (2:35) re-issued Blue Boy CD single
68. Poor Old Soul (Instrumental Version) (4:24) from re-issued Blue Boy CD single
69. Poor Old Soul (live) (3:12) from flexidisc
70. Poor Old Soul (Part One) (2:30) - Postcard single
71. Poor Old Old Soul (Part Two) (2:37) - Postcard single
72. Poor Old Soul (Peel - Oct 80) (2:35) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
73. Punch Drunk (3:34) from the LP Texas Fever
74. Rip It Up (3:45) from the 7" single
75. Rip It Up (live) (3:44) from flexidisc
76. Rip It Up (5:20) from the LP Rip It Up
77. A Sad Lament (extended) (4:43) from the LP Texas Fever
78. A Sad Lament (original) (3:23) b-side of Rip It Up
79. Salmon Fishing In New York (3:05) from the LP The Orange Juice
80. Satellite City (2:41) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
81. Satellite City (2:42) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
82. Scaremonger (3:41) from the LP The Orange Juice
83. Simply Thrilled Honey (live) (2:40) from The Felicity Flexi Session - The Formative Years
84. Simply Thrilled Honey (2:44) - Postcard single
85. Snake Charmer (4:44) b-side of Rip It Up single
86. Tender Object (4:25) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
87. Tender Object (4:40) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
88. Tenterhook (5:00) from the LP Rip It Up
89. Texas Fever (1:44) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
90. Three Cheers For Our Side (2:50) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
91. Three Cheers For Our Side (2:52) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
92. Tongues Begin To Wag (4:15) b-side of I can't Help Myself single
93. Turn Away (3:20) from the LP Rip It Up
94. Two Hearts Together (3:15) single
95. Untitled Melody(2:07) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
96. Upwards And Onwards (2:28) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
97. Upwards And Onwards (Radio One Session - Jan 81) (2:23)
98. Wan Light (2:25) from the LP You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
99. Wan Light (2:31) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
100. What Prescence ?! (live) from flexidisc
101. What Presence?! (3:58) single
102. What Presence?! (3:58) from the LP The Orange Juice
103. What Presence?! (Extened Version) (4:04)
104. You Old Eccentric (2:45) from b-side of Felcity single
105. You Old Eccentric (live) Stirling University (10-04-1981)
106. You Old Eccentric (Peel - Oct 80) (2:20) from the LP Ostrich Churchyard
Cheers
JC aka The Vinyl Villain.
PS : Tuesday 4th March at 1.20am
Just got back from seeing Neil Young in Edinburgh this evening and am overwhelmed with comments and e-mails on this. Thanks to everyone of you who have taken the trouble to get in touch. I am planning to get started on the orders in the next 24 hours - in the meantime, get those cheques posted or paypal arrangements sorted.
But I really want to say a really special thanks to my young brother Stevie over in Florida who has said that although he's not a big Orange Juice fan and doesn't want any CDs, he's donating £50 to the campaign - £25 on behalf of each of his two kids - Hannah and Liam. I'm off to bed with a huge grin on my face and a wee tear in my eye.
25 comments:
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I have all the Orange Juice I can use, but consider yourself loved and this post linked. I'm sure too, if you ask nicely, Ed'd pull his freebies and direct folks over here instead??
davy H and Villain Ed could certainly be persuaded to do something of the sort and link to you and pull the freebies.
As a gesture of solidarity I will remove the links in twenty four hours and will also buy two CDs worth from you, think you still have my snail mail address.
And glad to have got you thinking...
You might want to check the link to 17 Seconds there...
Right....new post going up at my place tonight highlighting this venture.
Once I've had a proper scan through the tracks listed I'll let you know what I'd like (and I promise not to tell Alan Horne).
D.
Wow.
What a brilliant response in the first few hours.
Davy - delighted with your link and your other e-mail.
Ed - Thanks, not only for the inspiration, but also the very noble gesture of removing your own links. Jusr drop me a line in due course with what you'd like on the CDs that your order.
Davenelli - likewise I'll say thanks for the publicity and the forthcoming order. And for staying schtum with Mr H.
Link added to Acid Ted.
I've added a link back here from Geez Back ma Heid too. All the best, it's a good cause.
my son Isaac is in currently in hospital. He has a rare genetic disease, various disabilities and learning difficulties. He now has meningitis, has had a stroke and was in a coma for 3 days. We've been in hospital for 2 weeks and my opportunites to get to a computer are obviously limited, but this is a great idea and i love Orange Juice. Please don't shut up shop before I get to order.
swiss adam.
Even if I do close up shop on this...come back again at any time.
Fingers crossed for Isaac and all those who love him.
Good man. Would it be OK if spread the word on this to folk in Singapore who might gagging for something like this? I remember a casual mention of my selling some vinyl prompted emails from strangers after my Orange Juice.
Great idea.
Advertised your generous offer on MySpace. Hope it gets some feedback.
A neat idea, my friend ... and I promise to visit you in jail then *smile* ....
Linked under: http://sexy-loser.blogspot.com/2008/03/bands-from-glasgow-pt-3.html
Cheerio,
Dirk
Monday lunchtime update - first couple of orders have arrived.
One from a member of the band Scottish Polis Inspectors (and that kind of freaked me out....) and the second from a wonderful Canadian.
Just give me yer fookin' money
Hiya JC, what an excellent idea. Can I order two please: one accessible popular opinion-based Best Of and then a personal, JC-based Best Of Everything Else.
Genius Idea
Once i've perused the tracks i'll place an order.
Good work sir
Just for the record, have removed my links, but to commemorate this I have posted Felicity as done by James kirk and Wedding Present.
Ed
Great idea! Really great! I've posted a wee bit about it on Plain Or Pan? and I'll certainly take you up on the offer of a CD once I have studied your list to find out what I need to fill the gaps in my Orange Juice collection. Good luck with the project.
OK VV, that's me paid up. Many thanks...
Augustus
Once again thanks to all of you who have spread the word - it is certainly working with folk saying they would like to get a hold of a CD having been directed to TVV by one or other of you.
Friends really are electric....
Mine arrived this morning. Perfect and well packaged, nice artwork too! My estimate is that it'll be safe on my iPod in about ten minutes flat. Many thanks VV, and to those as yet undecided... GET BUYING! :-)
Augustus
Me again. My God, I've just been listening to Mud In Your Eye from a BBC session. It's just BEAUTIFUL. How ate these tracks not commercially available? It's criminal.
Augustus.
Just got back from work and my CD-Rs are here too. Very, very excited...
Ed
I was lucky enough to see Edwyn Collins play in Manchester recently. Happily he seems to be recovering (albeit slowly) from his terrible brain haemorrhage.
I spoke to his wife Grace at the gig and she was certain that the love from his fans and the ongoing affection for his music was helping with his recovery.
So, please, let's keep it up. The world needs more musicians with the strength and talent of Edwyn Collins.
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