Edwyn Collins

His hard-fought, home-recorded comeback, "A Girl Like You," resulted in one of biggest global hits of the mid-1990s and turned the boutique label Setanta into a major player. At once craftily mainstream, defiantly eccentric, and comically cranky, George includes the great title track and the breezy "If You Could Love Me" (which could be late-period Orange Juice).

As leader of the Scottish band Orange Juice, Edwyn Collins crafted rich, devil-may-care
pop that combed the styles of the 1980s, greatly influencing fellow countrymen like
Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. But Orange Juice's releases like the 1982 albums You Can't
Hide Your Love Forever and Rip It Up or the Texas Fever EP, released in 1984, were a
source of fresh-faced fun. Even subsequent Collins solo recordings like Hope an... More >