Rip It Up
The second album: the first with Malcolm Ross and Zeke Manyika, panned on release, rescued by its title song.
Orange Juice, 1982
- Released
- 12 November 1982
- Recorded
- 1982
- Studio
- Berwick Street Studios, London
- Label
- Polydor
- Producer
- Martin Hayles
- Length
- 42:16
Martin Hayles produced, engineered and arranged the record and played piano and synthesizer on it. Ross wrote Turn Away, a reworking of the Josef K song Heaven Sent, and Manyika wrote A Million Pleading Faces. The press was hostile. Richard Cook of NME dismissed them as a minor group straining to seem bigger, Sounds gave it one and a half stars, though Neil Tennant in Smash Hits gave it eight out of ten. Ross remembered asking Collins whether they really needed a Fender Rhodes on every song, and Manyika thought it too big a leap for fans of the early records. It reached No. 39, then returned to the chart for six weeks on the back of the single. Trouser Press later wrote that tension had replaced cuteness.
Track listing
- Rip It Up5:13
- A Million Pleading Faces3:11
- Mud in Your Eye3:57
- Turn Away3:08
- Breakfast Time4:59
- I Can't Help Myself5:00
- Flesh of My Flesh3:08
- Louise Louise2:50
- Hokoyo4:59
- Tenterhook4:53
Personnel
- Edwyn Collins vocals, guitar, violin
- Malcolm Ross guitar, vocals, synthesizer, piano, organ
- David McClymont bass, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Zeke Manyika vocals, synthesizer, drums, percussion
- Dick Morrissey saxophone
- Martin Drover flugelhorn
- Mel Gaynor percussion
- Gavyn Wright violin
- Paul Quinn vocals
- Louise Waddle handclaps
- Martin Hayles producer, engineer, arranger, piano, synthesizer
More from Orange Juice
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
Sources
- Rip It Up (Orange Juice album), Wikipedia
- Rip It Up (POLS 1076), Discogs
- Rip It Up: album chart history, Official Charts
- All Our Yesterdays: Rip It Up, The New Vinyl Villain (2021-06-02)
- Orange Juice, Trouser Press