Song of the Day: Orange Juice – What Presence?!
It’s tempting to say that “What Presence?!” is just as fresh as when it was first squeezed in 1984, but Orange Juice was a band before it’s time. If anything, they were simply too fresh for their own good: less like juice and more like soup that tastes better on the third day. Coals to Newcastle, a box set of their complete remastered catalog with several bonuses, including a DVD, is now available. It’s amazing and well overdue. I have yet to absorb it all, but more posts will certainly be forthcoming … For now I’m stuck on their fourth album, The Orange Juice. It feels like 1994 all over again, the year I first got into this band and, coincidentally, the year OJ Simpson dealt orange juice its biggest PR blow since Anita Bryant’s anti-gay agenda inspired a boycott in 1977.
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