Orbital poll

I voted for In Sides, which I bought on the strength of a video for "The Box". I bought the double cd version, and I remember putting it on and being blown away that "The Box" wasn't 3 minutes long but more like 30 minutes. And it was awesome.

I genuinely can't choose between any of the albums from Brown through to Middle of Nowhere. Each of those albums does its chosen thing so singularly and so well, it feels inappropriate to try to rank them.

The Altogether was such a drop-off, it actually made me depressed to listen to it at the time.

The Brown Album, even though it does remind of that awful film about hackers with Johnny Lee Miller in it. Snivilisation is the only one I don't have.

oh fuck I'd forgotten how awesome "Remind" (aka "the musical backing to Orbital's remix of Meat Beat Manifesto's 'Mindstream'") is

In Sides for me, the one that works best as an album IMO. Although if there were an option for the live album that you got when buying the (reissued?) Satan CD singles, I would probably go for that.

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ok i need to play those last 2 albums like i said i would

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interesting

nutters

Is the right answer. It's always been Brown for me - and, obviously, 38 other people.

Yay! Brown ftw!

Wow. Didn't expect that much of a gap at all; thought the top 3 would be pretty close.

yay!

there is the theory of the moebius...

IT'S A CRY FOR SURVIVAL.
A CRY. FOR. SURVIVAL.
SURVIVAL FOR THEM AND FOR US.

Yeah. And then the lead into Remind. Can't stand that strange wimpy whiny vocal in the middle of Impact tho.

Monday is pretty rubbish too.

God that crappy sax sample and pre-Robert Miles piano. It sounds so cheesily 90s.

I have very fond memories of Monday. It used to send my friend's dog mental, it would just start jumping around the room whenever we played it.

What are you guys talking about, Remind has like the best Wub in techno.

It's the right winner. When I first bought Brown (on casette!) I only played side (Lush to Remind as continous mix on the tape) for a whole week, refusing to accept that side 2 could be any better.

Largely true bar Halcyon.

Surprised!

I don't actually know Brown very well. A friend did me a tape of Green (which I already had) + Brown, and I got excited about one of the tracks and thought it must be on Brown which must therefore be the best thing ever, and then realised that it was actually on Green but not on my CD because I'd somehow got the US version. So I went into a bit of a sulk and haven't listened to Brown much.

This poll says I was wrong.

In Sides would've won this a couple of years ago

Maybe, but brown rules. I saw them on the insides tour, and as good as that material was despite the album only being out about 4 days, the brown album tracks were amazing.

problys the second best album with that Withnail sample on it ;-)

no love for the green album? kind of understandable but i still love it - probably because it was the first one i heard and it has that brilliant four track medley at the end: High Rise / Chime (Live) / Midnight / Belfast.

Whoa! Interesting. Really thought it would be in the bag for In Sides. Might listen to Out There Somewhere Pt 1 now and totally freak myself out again.

what would be the best album for someone who's only heard (and loved) Orbital 2 to get next?

any of them except for The Altogether

oh cool. everytime i went to get another i was too afraid it'd suck...didn't reailze they had that much good material

HI DERE otm but I can't let an Orbital thread go by without mentioning that "In Sides" is super awesome A++++ so that seems a good pick for next

The Middle of Nowhere is closest in sound and spirit to that album but basically any of the three albums following Orbital 2 are equally great.

Yeah if Brown is really your thing go straight to Middle of Nowhere.

wth Snivilisation wuz robbed - The Saint OST, seriously?

I think Snivilisation is a lot of people's second or third favourite album but rarely their favourite?

Yeah I mean it's 2/Brown by a landslide, I'm just saying Sniv is as-landslide the runner-up imobro.

The Saint OST, seriously?

Is that a ref to In Sides later releases having The Saint single tracks tacked on the end? Cause they shouldn't be there.

AFAIC that version of In Sides never existed

What genre is Lush 3-1 if you were being really strict about it?

Most people would characterize it as Progressive House. It's just easier to call it techno though.

Mm okay yeah.

bought "green" / "brown" / "in sides"

still making up my mind about them but having trouble seeing what made them so special in so many people's minds

is it that you think they're not better than stuff they're actually comparable to (e.g. for Brown Album i guess that would be... Spooky's Gargantuan?) or that that style generally is nothing special?

Not sure where In Sides really fits into the context of history - 1996 was maybe the last year in which anyone could have made a symphonic home listening techno album with a straight face. It sort of triangulates Spanners, 76:14 and Spring Heel Jack.