"Orchid Girl" is the great missing song from the list. The AC version of "Jump" should be included too. And I nearly forgot "Set The Killing Free" and the non-LP version of "Walk Out To Winter." Not to mention "Birth Of The True." There were some good ones ont he third album too.
Geir - neither "Birds" nor "Red Flag" is from "High Land." So including "Haywire" would make8 out of 10, not 9.
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
If I was to create a next 10 list, my list would be dominated by that album and "Dreamland". The two albums where they came closest to the brilliance of the debut.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Ah, yes. David Lee Roth doing the splits in mid-air. Awesome!
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Roddy Frame at the time was at his best when he did what he was so good at, writing his own songs and performing them.
I really liked his cover of "Do I Love You" on the "Red Hot & Blue" album though, so it isn't like he cannot do covers. "Jump" is kind of interesting in its own way too, most of all because it is so different from the original.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 27 May 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, POX:
Walk Out to WinterKillermont StreetHow Men AreObliviousReason for LivingJust Like GoldWe Could Send LettersAll I Need Is EverythingOrchid GirlSet the Killing Free
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 May 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― doug watson (solid air), Saturday, 27 May 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrmmhh, Monday, 29 May 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 29 May 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Some kind of Deluxe Edition of "High Land Hard Rain" would do (pity, then, that EMI don't do Deluxe Editions though)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
1 - Walk Out To Winter (LP version)2 - Mattress Of Wire3 - We Could Send Letters4 - Orchid Girl5 - Still On Fire6 - How Men Are7 - Release8 - Walk Out To Winter (12 inch)9 - Pillar To Post10 - The Boy Wonders
shucks, it may just as well have been a list of the tracks on HLHR.
― darren (darren), Monday, 29 May 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― darren (darren), Monday, 29 May 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's fifteen!
I love the title track to "Stray."
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 01:33 (six years ago) link
Although I applaud you on including both 'Stray' and 'Black Lucia', I must protest the absence of 'Mattress of Wire.'
― Austin, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
And no mention of Just Like Gold anywhere? Excusable perhaps in the dark days of the 80s/90s when Postcard singles went for 50 quid a pop in the NME classifieds, but now...? Any AC top ten must surely include both Postcard singles + b-sides, Orchid Girl, Queen's Tattoo...The guy was in his late teens when this stuff was written and recorded, and who else in the post-punk diaspora sounded like it at the time?
― mahb, Thursday, 15 June 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link
'Orchid Girl' indeed.
― Austin, Thursday, 15 June 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
great list, and yes to Jump! (Edwyn Collins was also a sexy m-f, imho)
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 15 June 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
he's finally on US spotify, i just noticed the other day
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 June 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link