The Orange Juice is a 1984 album

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 by Scottish

Scotland

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 post-punk

Post-punk

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 band Orange Juice

Orange Juice

Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...

. It was their last studio LP.

The album was released with free 12" single versions of several tracks on the cassette version - hence it sold mostly in this format. The album is very difficult to find in CD format - it was re-released briefly but is no longer available.

Edwyn Collins used to dedicate the song "I Guess I'm Just a Little Too Sensitive" to Morrissey

Morrissey

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 on the tour promoting this album.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Edwyn Collins

1. "Lean Period"
2. "I Guess I'm Just a Little Too Sensitive"
3. "Burning Desire"
4. "Scaremonger"
5. "The Artisans"
6. "What Presence!?"
7. "Out for the Count"
8. "Get While the Gettings Good"
9. "All That Ever Mattered"
10. "Salmon Fishing in New York"

Personnel

• Edwyn Collins
  Edwyn Collins
  Edwyn Stephen Collins is an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice...
  
    – guitar
  Guitar
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  , synthesizer, vocals, songwriting
  Songwriter
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• Zeke Manyika
  Zeke Manyika
  Zeke Manyika is a drummer, vocalist and songwriter.Manyika was born in Zimbabwe, but has lived in Britain for most of his life. From 1982 to 1984 he was a member of the pop group Orange Juice, and contributed to their biggest hit single, "Rip It Up"...
  
   – drums
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  , vocals, percussion
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  , songwriting
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with:

• Clare Kenny - bass
• Dennis Bovell
  Dennis Bovell
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  - keyboards
• Johnny Britton - guitar