Orange Juice were in a difficult place after making their chart breakthrough with ‘Rip It Up’. Discordant third album sessions with dub dab hand Dennis Bovell were upended when guitarist Malcolm Ross and bassist David McClymont abandoned ship (citing age-old ‘musical differences’), the remains boiled down to 1984’s bijou 20-minute mini-LP Texas Fever. Nonetheless Polydor lifted its opening number ‘Bridge’ for a single. But while its snarky sophistication and Chic-like sheen should have ensured another huge hit, it shambled to a desultory 67 in the charts. Pocket money investors were amply rewarded with gorgeous B-side ‘Out For The Count’, a smouldering old-fashioned love song, with a melody to match, disguised by a slick quiff, leather trews and dark shades. An exemplar of their fusion of pop and soul, emotion and intellect, it caught singer Edwyn Collins at his most smoky and soulful, his poetic evocations of Venus and Bobbie Gentry (“She said she’d never fall in love again/At least not for a while”) packed with the sort of foppish wit and longing that Morrissey would mine thereafter. Drummer Zeke Manyika was in particularly fine fettle when Orange Juice showcased this B-side on the Old Grey Whistle Test – a reminder of a band whose finest triumphs often happened in the shadows.