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Monday 29 October 2012

When He Spoke She Smiled In All The Right Places



It's a small skip and jump from Roddy's Aztec Camera to Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice. Their Postcard single Blue Boy is a hyper-excited rush of trebly guitars and fresh faced enthusiasm that sounds almost too good three decades later. They'd never make it to bootcamp. Tulisa would criticise Edwyn's singing. The whole thing could fall apart at any moment. Gary would do that smirk thing, shaking his head slowly. Louis would say he couldn't see the wow factor. They'd have to be re-styled to look exactly the same as everyone else. And to sound the same as everyone else. Lord help us.

Blue Boy

Edit; I've just remembered that Blue Boy was a B-side. A B-side!

3 comments:

drew said...

first pressing double a side, by the second pressing Blue Boy was the a-side.

Dirk said...

Yes, Drew, and I bet you always sat in the front raw in class, right?

ally. said...

i like to think edwyn and james and hell the whole bloody lot of them would have glorious quips to squash even the most brutish telly monster. do you believe in magic...