The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Orange

Matador Records ole105-1 1994 12" 33rpm (USA)

 The Blues Explosion open with a nod to a plush, Stax feel for the blues with the aid of a full string section. Other unusual touches include the use of scratching and a guest appearance by media sensation and blues aficionado Beck. The strange paradox that makes the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion so hard to figure--and them all the better for it--is that despite a brazen desire to flaunt their complete lack of authenticity with an absurdly over-the-top howlin' bluesman schtick, their music really does kick tons more ass than just about anything else being passed off as contemporary blues these days. Orange augments the usual mess of raw blues and primal rock with Philly soul strings, theremin, and Beck's guest rapping. The added flavors don't make these songs better, but then, the band's raw material--bashed out on two guitars and drums--rocks quite well on its own, thank you.

Tracklist
A1  Bellbottoms  5:17
A2  Ditch  2:34
A3  Dang  1:59
A4  Very Rare  3:05
A5  Sweat  3:06
A6  Cowboy  2:57
A7  Orange  2:59
B1  Brenda  2:56
B2  Dissect  2:39
B3  Blues X Man  3:33
B4  Full Grown  3:19
B5  Flavor  6:16
B6  Greyhound  4:04

    Performer – Jon Spencer, Judah Bauer, Russell Simins
    Photography By – Michael Lavine
    Producer – Jim Waters, Jon Spencer
    Written-by [All Songs] – Spencer, Explosion

All songs c 1994 Spencer/Explosion and c & p 1994 Matador Records.

Recorded and mixed at Waterworks, NYC, 1993-94.

Glossy inner sleeve has a full color picture of the band on one side and "orange" written on the other side.

This is the black vinyl version of this LP with a metallic silver cover.

Condition:  LP is NEAR MINT in a color printed paper inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in GOOD condition (corner bend, light ring wear)

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
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