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Josef K
Postcard Records introduced The Sound Of Young Scotland to the
world. And that meant Orange Juice with Edwyn Collins, Aztec
Camera and the least successful of the three; Josef K.
Although they never found mass success the K found a
ready market with the Joy Division long mac miserable
brigade. Their songs sound as magnificent now as they
did then
, and certainly
in the same league as Joy Division. The first single
"Chance Meeting" was but a prelude to "Radio
Drill Time" which ploughed the same furrow as
JD's "Transmission", but the lyrics "the records
are letters, from hundreds to millions, the wrong
place to start" was a liberating addition to
the DIY punk ethic. They then flowered with the
subsequent "It's Kinda Funny" and "Sorry For
Laughing" which are only bettered by "Candyskin"
in the pantheon of Scottish rock. The later
splitting up and solo careers of Paul Haig and
the Johnny Marr like ubiquity of Malcolm Ross
never quite reached the same heights.
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