Texas Fever
A six-song mini-album made with Dennis Bovell after the four-piece broke up.
Orange Juice, 1984
- Released
- March 1984
- Label
- Polydor
- Producer
- Dennis Bovell
- Type
- ep
Texas Fever came out on Polydor in March 1984 as a six-song mini-album, catalogued OJMLP 1 and subtitled Six Songs By Orange Juice. Dennis Bovell produced the first five songs and Martin Hayles produced A Sad Lament. Will Gosling engineered it. Collins wrote most of it, with Craziest Feeling co-written with Frank Want and Punch Drunk written by Malcolm Ross. It reached No. 34 in the UK, and the single Bridge reached No. 67. The CD reissues of 1998 and 2014 added Leaner Period, Out for the Count and Move Yourself.
Tom Ewing of Pitchfork remarked that on the Coals to Newcastle box set the six-song record is saddled with barely different alternate mixes.
Track listing
- Bridge3:38
- Craziest Feeling3:02
- Punch Drunk3:34
- The Day I Went Down to Texas2:42
- A Place in My Heart3:01
- A Sad Lament4:43
Personnel
- Edwyn Collins guitar, vocals
- Zeke Manyika drums, vocals, percussion
- Dennis Bovell producer
- Martin Hayles producer (A Sad Lament)
- Will Gosling engineer
More from Orange Juice
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982), Rip It Up (1982), The Orange Juice (1984), Ostrich Churchyard (1992), The Glasgow School (2005)
Sources
- Texas Fever, Wikipedia
- Texas Fever (Polydor OJMLP 1), Discogs
- Texas Fever: album chart history, Official Charts
- Orange Juice, Coals to Newcastle, Pitchfork (2010-11-19)