Lyrics Rip It Up and Start Again
| "Rip It Up" | ||||
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| Single past Orange Juice | ||||
| from the album Rip It Upwards | ||||
| B-side |
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| Released | February 1983 | |||
| Recorded | Berwick Street Studios, London | |||
| Genre | New moving ridge, post-disco | |||
| Characterization | Polydor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Edwyn Collins | |||
| Producer(southward) | Martin Hayles | |||
| Orange Juice singles chronology | ||||
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"Rip It Upwards" is a 1983 single past Scottish indie pop band Orangish Juice. It was the second single to be released from their 1982 album of the same name. The song became the ring's but Uk pinnacle 40 success, reaching no. viii in the chart. "Rip It Up" signalled a deviation from the sound of the band'southward earlier singles, with Chic-influenced guitars and using a synthesiser to create a more disco-oriented sound.
The song was sampled in 2009 past British soul singer Beverley Knight on her song "In Your Shoes" from the album 100%.
In 2014, NME ranked information technology at number 216 in its listing of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[1] It was also included by Pitchfork at number 157 in a listing of The Best 200 Songs of the 1980s.[2]
Recording and influences [edit]
The song was recorded as part of the sessions for Orange Juice'south 2d studio album and would keep to become the championship track of said album. It marked a departure from their previous guitar-popular based material, instead utilising Chichi style guitar-funk and a bubbling Roland TB-303 synthesiser bassline, becoming the first nautical chart single to feature the instrument.[3] The song likewise quotes two lines of lyrics ("Y'all know me, I'm acting dumb-dumb / You lot know this scene is very humdrum")[4] [5] [6] and a snatch of the guitar riff from "Boredom", a song past Buzzcocks that featured on their debut Screw Scratch EP.[3] The riff chimes briefly in, just as Collins namechecks the song in the lyrics claiming that "...and my favourite song is entitled 'Boredom'."[3] Backing vocals on the song were provided by Paul Quinn, the lead vocaliser of fellow Scottish band Bourgie Bourgie, with whom Collins would after record a unmarried in 1984, a embrace of the Velvet Hush-hush vocal "Stake Blue Eyes."[ citation needed ]
Music video [edit]
The video opens with the band in a futuristic, simply cheaply synthetic, control room as they sing, trip the light fantastic and operate diverse controls. The band then watch themselves on a monitor screen as they walk down a rainy British high street dressed in incongruous, brightly coloured summertime clothes. The video then cuts back to the control room, this time with the band playing their instruments superimposed over information technology, before returning to more scenes of a British metropolis in torrential rain as the band walk around in scuba diving gear. The video finally cuts dorsum to the band playing in a silver foil covered room, before superimposing them over a pile of random photographs.
UK single release [edit]
"Rip It Up" was released as a unmarried in the UK in Feb 1983. The vii inch vinyl version of the unmarried was bachelor in 3 versions, a double pack including a 2d seven-inch and a fold out affiche,[7] forth with two versions of the standard release, initially with a silver injection moulded labels,[8] then subsequently with paper printed labels.[9] The vocal was also released on twelve inch vinyl, with extended versions of the title track and B-side.[7] All versions were housed in a paper sleeve depicting a US P-40 Warhawk fighter airplane (decorated with eyes and teeth) partially submerged, tail first, in the bounding main,[vii] fatigued by Edwyn Collins.
Track listing [edit]
| No. | Championship | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rip Information technology Upward" | Edwyn Collins | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Snake Charmer" | Malcolm Ross | 4:43 |
| No. | Title | Author(due south) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rip Information technology Upward" | Edwyn Collins | |
| ii. | "Snake Charmer" | Malcolm Ross | |
| iii. | "Dear Ill" (Live) | Edwyn Collins | |
| 4. | "A Sad Lament" | Edwyn Collins |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rip It Up" (Long Version) | Edwyn Collins | |
| 2. | "A Sad Lament" (Long Version) | Edwyn Collins |
Chart positions [edit]
| Nautical chart (1983) | Height position |
|---|---|
| Republic of ireland (IRMA)[12] | 23 |
| UK Singles Chart[thirteen] | 8 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[x] | 42 |
References [edit]
- ^ "Rocklist.net....NME The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.. 2014". www.rocklistmusic.co.uk.
- ^ "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s - Pitchfork". pitchfork.com.
- ^ a b c "Buzzcocks: Boredom / Orange Juice: Rip It Up". Stylus Mag. 25 Baronial 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Cooper, Neil (nineteen July 2020). "'Information technology'south the Buzz, Cock!' – Beloved, Autonomy and Grassroots Music Venues in the Time of Covid". Bella Caledonia . Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Orangish Juice - Rip It Upwardly Lyrics". Genius . Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Buzzcocks - Colorlessness Lyrics". Genius . Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Orange Juice - Rip It Up 12". Discogs. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Orange Juice - Rip Information technology Upwardly". Discogs. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Orange Juice - Rip Information technology Up". Discogs. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ a b "Orange Juice - Rip It Upwardly (Vocal)". charts.nz. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Orangish Juice - Rip It Up". Discogs. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Rip It Up". Irish Singles Nautical chart.
- ^ "Orange Juice". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
External links [edit]
- Music video on YouTube
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_It_Up_(Orange_Juice_song)
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