The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Orange [Black] [#1] (LP, US)

11 October 1994 Matador Records OLE-105-1
A1. Bellbottoms
A2. Ditch
A3. Dang
A4. Very Rare
A5. Sweat
A6. Cowboy
A7. Orange

B1. Brenda
B2. Dissect
B3. Blues X Man
B4. Full Grown
B5. Flavor
B6. Greyhound

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NOTES:
Matador issue on black vinyl with printed inner-sleeve and barcode sticker on outside of the shrink-wrap. There was also a Silver Picture Disc version of this album.

nb. There was also a later re-pressing of the album with the label area having a seconder wider ‘trench’ not present on this version.

The original German release had an Orange sleeve (vinyl/CD) and later re-released by Matador/Mute with bonus videos or a poster (on vinyl).

Bellbottoms was released as a white vinyl 7″ in the UK, Bellbottoms and Flavor were both released as promotional CD singles.

Tracks from Orange were also the basis for the Experimental Remixes EP.

In 2010 Shout! Factory / Shove! released a deluxe version of Orange with Experimental Remixes and a number of rare, live and previously unreleased tracks.

SONG CREDITS:
Produced by Jon Spencer and Jim Waters
Recorded and Mixed at Waterworks, NYC, 1993-94
All songs c 1994 spencer/explosion

later editions of the album give the writing/publishing credits as follows:

A1. Bellbottoms
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

A2. Ditch
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI
Saxophone: Bonnie Kane

A3. Dang
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

A4. Very Rare
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

A5. Sweat
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

A6. Cowboy
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

A7. Orange
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

B1. Brenda
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

B2. Dissect
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

B3. Blues X Man
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

B4. Full Grown
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

B5. Flavor
Writers: Campbell/Spencer/Explosion
Published: Cyanide Breathmint Music, BMG Songs inc. ASCAP/Dirty Shirt, BMI

B6. Greyhound
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

SLEEVE NOTES:
“thank you very much: peter arsenault, beck, boche, the breeders, cristina, crypt records, d a p, chris fahey, jenna felling, larry hardy, hey hey, kurt hoffman, jean luc, the jesus lizard, johnny, bonnie kane, miles kennedy, matador records, jack martin, pete moe, and ya don’t stop, whitney o’keeffee, ken pope, hollis queens, greg talenfeld, melanie vammen, jim waters, chad zaemisch.”
DETAILS:
ARTWORK:
Photos by Michael Lavine

BARCODE: 7 44861-0105-1 7

RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING:
A: “OLE-105-A-REV-1 1-1 MASTERDISK”*
B: “OLE-105-B-REV 1 MASTERDISK”*

*The ‘V’ at the end of ‘Rev’ on both sides is crossed-out.