joelb wrote:fancyjamtime wrote:It's a better comp than "The Glasgow School" I think.
This is the only one I have and I'm a sucker for it. Those Postcard singles, my God! Having Blueboy and Lovesick on one single is just an embarrassment of riches. Too bad those albums are so $$$.
Ditto on Edwyn Collins sounding affected but heartfelt; the honesty streams through.
Orange Juice!
I have The Glasgow School, but if you can find it, I think The Heather's On Fire is the better compilation. It's essentially the same stuff (the Postcard singles) but the booklet is brilliant: much more expansive than the Glasgow School liner notes (which are good, too). I got Heather's On Fire when I was about sixteen, and the booklet had almost as much influence on me as the music. Christ, I still remember hearing Blue Boy for the first time... and then reading the booklet and finding out about the sheer audacious ridiculousness of what they were doing with Postcard and Orange Juice that, really, hadn't been attempted in this way before.
Alan: How did we manage to do anything, coming out of a bedroom in West Princes Street with 400 quid and a whole lot of attitude. We were creative people first and foremost. We were not people trying to make a buck. Edwyn: We were all deranged. Everyone at Postcard wound themselves up into hysteria. Alan even invented an accountant called Mr Higgy who he could blame things on. David: I think the early Postcard singles are so successful because there was a sort of group mutual hatred and you went in and played your part wanting it louder and better than everyone else's. Alan:[i/] The whole Postcard thing is an absolute mess internally. That's why we can't achieve anything, we're so busy fighting amongst ourselves. It would be so great to go out when you're on top. Postcard will die rather than get complacent.
[i]booked into the punk rock hotel, with reservations...
because of the impetus that Punk had and because suddenly the music business became accessible to everyone
most go for the soft option. It's a lot more difficult to lay it on the line because you immediately leave yourself very very vulnerable and open to attack.
Although I love the version of 'Tender Object' that is on 'You Can't Hide...' it is really difficult to beat the Postcard versions of Blue Boy, Simply Thrilled Honey, and Breakfast Time, Breakfast Time (especially since the latter was reworked as a reggae jam on Rip It Up). The openings of Blue Boy and Simply Thrilled Honey do strange things to me that I can't account for.
Edwyn: I was a destructive influence in my class, always running around trying to be Andy Warhol spraying pink day-glo over everything. David was very impressionable and thought this was great so we became friends. I was very impressed by the fact that he couldn't and never had played the bass.
Not crap.
Superb hair in the Postcard days, too.
