You Can't Hide Your Love Forever [Extra tracks, Import]

Orange Juice | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Polyg
• ASIN: B0000088HN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,578 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "This is what life is all about", July 2, 2005

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Boxodreams "[e-mail]" (district of columbia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Audio CD)

oh, dear. All these references to Talking Heads and Smiths and Television. The wee devoted children of Orange Juice are sending out a very wrong message to the explorers that come upon our cave. Good vagabonds, hear me: Orange Juice, in a single song, is happier than all the happy moments of those three named bands put together! The Smiths aren't the spawn of Orange Juice, Heavenly is!

For the somewhat initiated: I'm not going to do a whole history thing here, but those who know . . know "Ostrich Churchyard" was recorded by OJ as their first proper full-length. It got shelved when they signed to Polydor, which assigned producer Adam Kidron to work with the shambling band. Thank God. Ostrich Churchyard -- released eventually and coming around again in August as part of the Orange Juice compilation package "The Glasgow School" stinks. Kidron made "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever" into an immediate and blissful joy. The drums have a wonderful sound. The guitars a strummed buzzy crackle unlike ever heard at the time. It was schoolboyish and endearing and exciting and set indie -- this I agree -- spinning. From Heavenly and Tiger Trap and all that onward, this is home. Incidently, "The Glasgow School" will be a must purchase for those who don't have the early OJ singles, because they all will be compiled here and -- from Blue Boy, Simply Thrilled Honey, Poor Old Soul, Breakfast time and on -- they are heartbreakingly good. Get it if you can't find the rare old "The Heathers on Fire." By the way, Edwyn Collins is recovering slowly but surely from massive brain hemorrages. Go to EdwynCollins.com and wish him well on the bulletin boards. When asked if he had a message for his adoring fans, he wrote through his wife "Disaster Area." Upwards and onwards, indeed. L-O-V-E.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest debut albums of the 1980s., March 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Audio CD)

Arguably one of the most important debut albums of the 1980s (not that you could tell by it's sales figures) 'You Can't Hide Your Love Forever' merged the spiky guitars of the punk movement with a wide eyed idealism and sense of fun. Influenced by such diverse artists as The Buzzcocks, Al Green and The Byrds, OJ tried to inject soul into the post-punk movement. Including a killer rerecording of first single 'Falling and Laughing' as well as a slightly ill-advised cover of 'L.O.V.E. Love' the album is bristling with fantastic melodies, hooks and the sort of lyrics that Morrissey would later become famous for.In fact, it's hard to imagine why any of these songs couldn't have become hit singles, and, maybe in these more indie friendly times, they could have.If you love pop music, and don't own this album, then there is a huge hole in your record collection.Ignore it at your peril!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Credit where credit is due, March 28, 2003

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Roy Pearl (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Audio CD)

Make no mistake, without Orange Juice the very existence of the Smiths would have been in serious jeopardy. Edwyn Collins' fey vocals and the band's earnest jangle were the foundation upon which Morrisey's career was built. As such, it's especially difficult to separate the influence of the band from the actual quality of their recordings. "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever", from its title on down, was a direct challenge to the post-punk nihilism so fashionable in the early 80's underground. At the time the sweet pop of Orange Juice sounded like a revolutionary gesture. 20 years later that gesture has long since lost its significance, but we're gratefully left with the sweet pop. Pleasant listening for anyone who secretly wished the Smiths were a little less about mopey white boy angst and a little more about the funk.