VIDEO VAULT :: Orange Juice - Rip It Up - V
Before Edwyn Collins launched a long solo career and lent his voice to one of the best film soundtracks of the 1990’s, Empire Records, he began his foray into music as the frontman for postpunk act, the Nu-Sonics, in 1976. Three years later the Nu-Sonics became Orange Juice, an act that would earn the young Collins and his three bandmates a Top 40 honor for Rip It Up. I’ve always loved the theatrical element to Collins’ voice and it’s at its most powerful in the material of Orange Juice, mixed amongst postpunk guitar and funk stylings. Following the death of Ian Curtis, postpunk needed something different, and Orange Juice were there with a heavy dose of kitsch and a sense of humor. Far ahead of their time, Orange Juice were the first group to make use of a Roland TB-303 synthesizer which would later come to be an essential melody-maker of the acid house genre.
Despite its 1982 production date, the video from Rip It Up feels quite modern. All the boys of 2009 are dressing like the pop punks of yesteryear.
Orange Juice - Rip It Up (232 kbps)
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Apologies for the shit quality of the video. It wasn’t great to begin with, but I really wanted to share it with you. In related news, Universal Music Group can suck their own dicks dry.
don’t worry about it dooood! have fond memories of this!