Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Charlie Brown" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.

For this edition, we spoke with legendary Orange Juice leader and solo artist Edwyn Collins, 51. The Scottish great just released Losing Sleep, his seventh solo album overall and second since suffering two brain hemorrhages in February 2005. (The Orange Juice box set ...Coals to Newcastle is out this month on Domino.) His recovery has been miraculous, thanks in part to the efforts of long time partner Grace Maxwell, who helped jog his memory and added invaluable insights to the following interview:

The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations"

Edwyn Collins: I wasn't listening to anything at all at five, but when I was eight years old I liked the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" [sings] "Good, good, good." My mother liked them. My father was an artist-- he didn't have a lot of pop music in his house, he preferred classical music.

Grace Maxwell: But he did make one concession...

EC: The Beatles.

GM: Remember, he bought Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and he thought he was being terrifically modern, didn't he? [laughs] I think the Beach Boys would have been a little beyond him. But he did offer a bit of advice from time to time. When Edwyn completed his [1997] album I'm Not Following You, I was on the phone to his father, who said, "As usual, Edwyn's lyrical standard is up to scratch, but I do feel some of the extraneous sounds and strange noises don't add anything to the sum of the whole." And I said, "OK." [laughs] And he also assigned you to improve on your lyrics a little bit.

EC: He's a little bit pretentious, you might say.

David Bowie: Aladdin Sane