Aztec Camera POX

"Orchid Girl" is the great missing song from the list. The AC version of "Jump" should be included too. And I nearly forgot "Set The Killing Free" and the non-LP version of "Walk Out To Winter." Not to mention "Birth Of The True." There were some good ones ont he third album too.

Geir - neither "Birds" nor "Red Flag" is from "High Land." So including "Haywire" would make
8 out of 10, not 9.

If I was to create a next 10 list, my list would be dominated by that album and "Dreamland". The two albums where they came closest to the brilliance of the debut.

Ah, yes. David Lee Roth doing the splits in mid-air. Awesome!

Roddy Frame at the time was at his best when he did what he was so good at, writing his own songs and performing them.

I really liked his cover of "Do I Love You" on the "Red Hot & Blue" album though, so it isn't like he cannot do covers. "Jump" is kind of interesting in its own way too, most of all because it is so different from the original.

Anyway, POX:

Walk Out to Winter
Killermont Street
How Men Are
Oblivious
Reason for Living
Just Like Gold
We Could Send Letters
All I Need Is Everything
Orchid Girl
Set the Killing Free

Some kind of Deluxe Edition of "High Land Hard Rain" would do (pity, then, that EMI don't do Deluxe Editions though)

1 - Walk Out To Winter (LP version)
2 - Mattress Of Wire
3 - We Could Send Letters
4 - Orchid Girl
5 - Still On Fire
6 - How Men Are
7 - Release
8 - Walk Out To Winter (12 inch)
9 - Pillar To Post
10 - The Boy Wonders

shucks, it may just as well have been a list of the tracks on HLHR.

Here's fifteen!

I love the title track to "Stray."

Although I applaud you on including both 'Stray' and 'Black Lucia', I must protest the absence of 'Mattress of Wire.'

And no mention of Just Like Gold anywhere? Excusable perhaps in the dark days of the 80s/90s when Postcard singles went for 50 quid a pop in the NME classifieds, but now...? Any AC top ten must surely include both Postcard singles + b-sides, Orchid Girl, Queen's Tattoo...The guy was in his late teens when this stuff was written and recorded, and who else in the post-punk diaspora sounded like it at the time?

'Orchid Girl' indeed.

great list, and yes to Jump! (Edwyn Collins was also a sexy m-f, imho)

he's finally on US spotify, i just noticed the other day

I'm really feeling this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QSMTtUQYY