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"What Happens Next" should so be on the album. Fools.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, Nick I just found out about the different tracklistings by looking at your blog, which I found a link to in another thread. I'm happy to say I've got all the new Beta Band songs now but I still have 4 more Orbitals to go. I tried looking around on slsk tonight but no one had them. :( I'll keep trying obviously.

I really had a good, proper revisitation with Orbital tonight, though, played the Brown album, In Sides and danced around in my room. It's been a long time since I've done that. What a workout! Whew!

― bimble (bimble), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Acid Pants" is like a happy hug from your mother.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 May 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Why have you been hugging my mother, Daniel?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 May 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Your mothers must both be fucking delirious intense nutcases.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Good ol' mom!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

What a good young Mr. Dan. :-)

The Sparks list that I run was intrigued to know about the "Acid Pants" collaboration and at least one person has vowed to start investigating Orbital's music = I am most happy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the thing I like about "You Lot" is how the speech turns into this Vocodered ghost towards the end of the song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the fact that it's fucking amazing.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I've managed to get a listen to this "promo" malarkey, and it sounds pretty decent so far!!!!

BTW I've just noticed that Glastonbury has suddenly become their second last date- they're also playing at the Sunday at "T In The Park"!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I have exactly one song so far -- "Transient" -- and it is FANTABULAR.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I have exactly one song so far -- "Transient" -- and it is FANTABULAR.

Yes, I can imagine quite a few "fans" will be working out the guitar "tabs" to this tune as well!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If "Transient" is P+P at their proggiest, then give me my cape!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Lost is the one that's really grown on me since first listening to it - it's like those opening bars of Dwr Bwdr crossed with the whole mournful Adnan's vibe.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus, this thread is making my mouth water. Not being able to download (at all) yet is bringing a tear to me eye.

Pardon the green eyed monster drooling in the corner;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried to get it on slsk at work today and failed completely - it was not there

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve if you don't have a copy by the weekend let me know and hopefully I'll whack you up a CDR in time for Saturday.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Leaving England in a few hours. Leaving all the CDs in storage. Thought I'd take a 'special' one. Couldn't decide, there's hundreds. Time running out. Which one did I really need, which one demanded to be taken? 'Insides' it was. Which under True-Life-Emotionally-Fraught-Situations testing qualifies it as my favorite CD of the last ten years. See y'all next time around.

― dave q, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Well goddamn. Dave Q trumps us all. Again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

indeed, bon voyage mr q

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF?! Dave Q is leaving England?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

He is, sadly. I think he's off back to Canada.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 May 2004 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that where he's from originally? Where in Canada?

I'm listening to the whole of the Blue album for the first time. I admit I don't remember a thing about Middle of Nowhere, which was the last time I bothered listening to their work, but I know it was nowhere NEAR as interesting as this Blue album stuff. "Acid Pants" still hits me the wrong way - kind of a poor cousin to Satan and other things they've done in the same vein, I think, but other than that, I'm pretty well flabbergasted by this. There IS a small element of the first album in it, I think, in it's raw primitive weirdness. But I think this is a good thing.

I really owe you ilxors this, I mean, if it weren't for this thread, Orbital probably would have remained a very pleasant memory for me.
It feels really nice to return to them after so many years. I've also kindof put some demons in my personal life to rest lately, and it just feels right to revisit these guys who once meant the whole world to me. Thanks.

I'm terribly jealous of those who can catch the last shows, but I guess I shouldn't be. I saw them at least three times, and I feel lucky/grateful just for that.

― bimble (bimble), Friday, 7 May 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's my theory concerning the song "Initiation": Orbital took every single molecule of LSD on the planet, melted it all down, poured it inside their instruments and...

― bimble (bimble), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmmmm, dunno if this is better than The Altogether...

'You Lot' is classic Orbital tho, awesome stuff - it has that sinister aspect i tend to find unnerving, i find it very macabre tho of course that's the point - but there's that point where it all's really kicking off that must rank up there with all time great Orbital moments, and the effects on the vocal do remind me of BOC's '1969' too. 'Initiation' would be my other big fave. and i like 'Transient' as it's something a little different. find 'Acid Pants' a bit dull/done. 'One Perfect Sunrise' is too Dreadzone/new-agey for my liking.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 May 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

boy i want this. boy i want this. FUCK i want this.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

So essentially there are three tracklistings floating around at the moment

Make that four, woops five!!!

― Po, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Those two are just the one Matt DC had with "Technologique Park" and a couple of remixes/edits stuck on the end. I'm still favouring what it says at www.loopz.co.uk.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey, you could make a mini-LP with what's left after taking away the official tracklisting!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

*bump*

(blue in shops today)

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Just got it and listened to it briefly on my dinner hour, it sounds okay but it lacks the class of the brown album and Insides.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

only three tracks on 'Blue' i really like - 'Transient', 'You Lot' and 'Lost'

i want to hear the Ray Keith remix of 'Chime'. only just saw Dan's mentioning of it!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

'You Lot' is included on one of the CD singles for 'One Perfect Sunrise' which might just be the worst Orbital single ever. apparently the video is a montage of other Orbital videos and performances. They should've done that with 'Frenetic', and 'Frenetic' is really the perfect last Orbital single imo but i don't suppose they will play it at Glasto :(

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

So is there an American release date offing over the horizon?

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

And which is the official tracklisting?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on now, pertinent questions awaiting!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Transient
2. Pants
3. Tunnel Vision
4. Lost
5. You Lot
6. Bath Time
7. Acid Pants
8. Easy Serv
9. One Perfect Sunrise

Is the official tracklisting, and the awesome "What Happens Next" is a b-side.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

barry, any idea when it's available up here¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Or down here, for that matter?

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

but more importantly - up here¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately I don't know ... since d/l'ing my version from slsk I haven't thought much about it.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

They've broken up.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh right, sorry, shoulda read the thread.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Colin, supposedly they have a new album coming out!

― Picard Maneuver (Leee), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

When I asked my ye aulde shoppe, they said July. I don't want to believe this.

― Picard Maneuver (Leee), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he could be forgiven. Time is running out to read threads, here.

― Bimble (bimble), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to rate Orbital in my fav 3 acts of all genres, but it's not regrettable that they decide to split up after all this time. A friend once told me she thought Orbital embodied that big fork in the road ca. 1992, when the rave scene split between those who defered to the tee-pees of electronica's alt 'sprituality', and those who stayed with the grittiness of the urban scene. I'd have to agree.

So much of their music is majestic and ethereal (my fav being the live version of Out There Somewhere - Irvine Plaza live mix), but it's that same tone that's increasingly made them feel a little too fuzzy to maintain their pull/relevance.

I've since developed more of an appetite for tension in sound and themes, to excite a sense of the present moment, rather than the remember-a-time-when-chillouts-were-so-psychedelic-man type nostalgia that pines for great present moment's of years passed.

― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 2 July 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Out There Somewhere" is fuzzy = the song takes several minutes to make its statement, the entire song is a big tease with little in the way of a euphoric moment like the opening notes of "Chime". Its great moments are smeared over several minutes, you have to wait a long time for the song to "deliver".

But that's just one song -- I'd say that "The Box" and "PETROL" (also from In Sides, of course) provide plenty of tension and immediacy.

(I may have completely misunderstood your argument, though)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you mean by "relevance"?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was saying that "OTS" takes so long to reach its climax that the rush becomes lost along the way. (I disagree with this, btw).

Let's face it -- "OTS" is as proggy as techno gets. Not everyone wants to sit through a 26 minute techno opus about alien abduction as an allegory for the crucifixion. Sometimes you just want to play the last four minutes of "Impact USA" over and over.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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