167. Simply Thrilled Honey by Orange Juice

Orange Juice - Dada with Juice - 05 - Simply ...
Living in my tiny flat in Fitzroy North 1980 surrounded by hundreds of vinyl singles and albums. The walls covered in posters of my favourite bands. Guitars amps beer in the fridge and cartons of cigarettes in the cupboard. It was like a teenagers bedroom come alive. The television was simply a moving image with the sound turned down.
My favourite singles from this time were coming from the Postcard label from Scotland and the band I was fixated on was Orange Juice. Their sound was quirky but emotional. Slightly displaced from everything that was going on at the time. I suppose we were heading into post punk territory here but OJ did it with the slightest of touchs. On Poor Old Soul the refrain was "no more rock and roll for you!" In fact their lyrics really got into my psych.

I choose to leave myself of tired little fears
To stand as one against the all too obvious rising sun

[chorus]
We must be simple thrilled honey
We are just simple thrilled honey
Roominess must keep apart from me

Some girl can’t defy from her blue eyes
Turns too look at you she’s spitting foul

And she’s counting out aloud
I seemed to be ages before the album came out. So that first group of three singles which included the mighty Blue boy was all I had for ages. None of friends were much into them though. Luckily a few years down the track I started managing Captain Cocoa and I found some fellow fans.