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srsly d00d. the box, ace, the rest, fnuh. altogether aside, probly my least listened to orbital album. maybe i'll have a relisten.

― Alan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link

"Adnan's" is possibly my favorite thing they've ever done. I'm not super invested in "Dwr Budr" but everything else on that album is essential listening for me.

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link

the box, ace, the rest, fnuh.

dude 'The Girl With The Sun In Her Head' surely. 'P.E.T.R.O.L.' kicks bottoms. 'Dwr Budr' is as sinister, melancholy and lush as anything they've done, 'Adnans' too for that matter. i never used to like it as much as the second album and thought the highs on it were no greater than the high on 'Sniv'...perhaps I still don't but it really is a great piece of work as a whole.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link

i've seen Orbital only 4 times ever, all at festivals (in 97, 99, 02 and 04).

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link

but as i've said elsewhere on ILM if Orbital were to ever come back and do one of those 'perform the entire album from start to finish' gigs, I would now want it to be InSides.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link

'OUT THERE SOMEWHERE' FFS PEOPLE

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Saw Orbital at the Royal Albert Hall ('96?) and that remains one of the most incredible gigs I've ever witnessed in my life.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

ok, i WILL have a relisten. but it's still MoN all the way for me.

i think i saw orbital 7 times! five times at glasto (ISTR the same as steve, with added sometime around 1994, though 02 i was not into it so much for some reason), once at Brixton wossname, and once at Hammersmith Palais (though i was super grumpy from ticket shananigans, and it was the Altogether tour meh-ness)

― Alan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link

The first couple of minutes of Dwr Bdr are amazing and spine-tingling. In fact the second half of The Box is probably the bit I was most tempted to skip last time I listened to InSides, maybe I've just heard too much.

The first three tracks on MoN are incredible but I remember thinking at the time the album sagged hugely after that. It's improved with age if anything, possibly because around 2004 loads of dance music sounded like MoN (Nothing Left in particular). I Don't Know You People is still a bit crap though.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link

(this sounds like a record for me - i.e. the act i've seen the most live. i'd have to count times i've seen New Order...)

― Alan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

I am afraid to count how many times I've seen The Cure. Probably 12 times...?

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link

have we had a POLL on their albums yet?

can someone do one i dunno how they work.

― pisces, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Saw Orbital in 1996 at the Barrowlands and it was one of my all time favourite gigs.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link

have we had a POLL on their albums yet?

can someone do one i dunno how they work.

see my post upthread - would it really be worth it?

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link

well yeah you'd think but 'sniv..' is great and i actully like 'brown' the best. 'in sides' is the one everyone said was best at the time, but it's a bit proggy an ting.

― pisces, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Brown would get my vote.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link

In Sides was the highest ranking Orbital album in the 90s album poll.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link

i've never been that into 'brown' (hyuck hycuk drugs ref) -- prolly cos the single versh of 'halcyon' is better than the LP, and this one live version of 'impact' has always been my fave orbital choon.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link

only dud on the brown album is the talky bits - i can do without them easily. even 'monday' is great.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Given the distance of time, I totally can't decide which album of Snivilisation, In Sides or MoN I prefer. Brown is a little behind that, and the other tree a few steps even further back.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I saw Orbital 3 times, I think; once with MBM, once with The Orb and The Chemical Brothers, and once with...?

― HI DERE, Thursday, 3 May 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link

I've been re-getting-into Orbital recently, love Brown album and InSides esp "Halcyon" and "girl with the sun in her head" which is just beautiful.

― Trayce, Thursday, 3 May 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link

i relistened to insides.

ANYWAY

guess what. My copy of MoN has gone! I think i lent it out ages ago. sadly before i put it on iTunes =:-O

― Alan, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link

This thread prompted me to listen to MoN again the other day and there's still a sag in the middle (I Don't Know You People - Otono). The one that's aged really well is Style, which I was totally underwhelmed by when it came out and now it sounds great. So Kraftwerk!

― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link

i'll never turn

― blueski, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link

I like the Dollar lift on 'Style' but nothing else about it. Around the same time Alpinestars 'Interlaken' came out and much prefer that.

― blueski, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Paul Hartnoll's album turned up in the post today, just looking at the sleeve now (it looks sort of sub-Arcade Fire)... I don't know what to expect, really

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link

"i've never been that into 'brown' (hyuck hycuk drugs ref) -- prolly cos the single versh of 'halcyon' is better than the LP, and this one live version of 'impact' has always been my fave orbital choon."

Yeah the live "Impact" is quite astonishing.

― Tim F, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link

This thread prompted me to listen to MoN again the other day and there's still a sag in the middle (I Don't Know You People - Otono).

'i don't know you people' was a particular skip-track moment just because there was something about the title/sample that pissed me off; but it turns into fairground rave! how could you not like that?

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link

the Hartnoll albums sounds quite electro-goth from what i've heard, but not in the good Knife-like way.

― blueski, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link

bagpipe remix of style roxor. always liked idkyp too (title is a tag on my LJ, hem hem)

― Alan, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link

more in the "having Robert Smith on it" sort of way?

― Alan, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link

more on the evidence of this track 'Seance' by The Cravats ft. Paul - actually it's more 'industrial Wedding Present' perhaps.

― blueski, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link

The Bob Smith track is playing now. He kinda dominates it. The track before, 'Simple Sounds', was pretty Orbital-ish (thinking 'Style' specifically), but very diluted on first impression

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Isn't there a Phil Hartnoll project on the way (or Phil Hartnoll with some other dude)?

― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link

The best thing about the live Impact was the one they played around 1998 when they switched it round, did all the acid squelchy "cry for survival!" bit first and then kicked into the uplifting melodic part. I think it worked because it was mixed into the end of one of the really chaotic MoN tracks.

― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link

"Otono" is awesome!

― HI DERE, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link

in the farewell glasto, what was the extra track they mixed into the traditional "shot through the heart/oo baby do you know what that's worth" stab

― Alan, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link

The Drakness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love

― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

'times fly (fast)' is the best fake jungle track ever.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 20 July 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link

YES YES YES YES YES (except maybe "Are We Here?")

― HI DERE, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link

"Are We Here" wins.

Enrique I was going to suggest you take this to the fake jungle thread but I note that you already did 2 years ago.

― Tim F, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link

i remember hearing 'Times Fly' for first time and feeling half 'wow this is great (sped up)' and half 'nooooo, bandwagon'

― blueski, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link

oh tim that has really upset me. i am senile :(

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 20 July 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Help - what's the title of their track the first couple of minutes of which is slightly Philip Glass-sounding piano loops without a beat? I just have it listed as ? in my itunes.

― chap, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Er... Science Friction? if it's 5:04 long.

― ledge, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Nah, 9.27!

― chap, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

I mean Kein Trink Wasser... and yeah that's 9:20something

― ledge, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

lurrrrve that track

― ledge, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks! Yeah, it's great.

― chap, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link

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but... there's only one "Green & Brown set" on this list? Everything else is still the Green tour?

https://orbitalofficial.com/live/

― StanM, Saturday, 27 January 2024 13:21 (two months ago) link

The UK dates are all Green/Brown.

― mike t-diva, Saturday, 27 January 2024 13:39 (two months ago) link

No chance I'm gonna get to see them this tour but I might be the rare Orbital fan who wouldn't be excited at all to see them do Green. Brown on the other hand...

― Vinnie, Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link

I'd take a Snivilisation show for its 30th anniversary while we're at it.

― nashwan, Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:21 (two months ago) link

three weeks pass...

okay who's going to the Chicago show? apparently it's not gonna be a Green/Brown show which is fine by me, they have killer tracks throughout their catalogue

― frogbs, Monday, 19 February 2024 19:02 (two months ago) link

I am in for Chicago! Looking forward to it.

― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Monday, 19 February 2024 19:38 (two months ago) link

Just noticed that the remastered version of the Chime 12" is out today on streaming services

Hope that means we'll start to see their other singles appearing soon, as was mentioned in that interview a couple of years ago

― groovypanda, Friday, 23 February 2024 18:29 (one month ago) link

this one? that was only last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TXmdXF1FIY

― StanM, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:29 (one month ago) link

No, it was from an interview back in 2021 when they were talking about the new deal they'd signed

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

Remastered Green album out today. 6 hours (!) across 5 discs!

Looking forward to digging in

― groovypanda, Friday, 19 April 2024 05:58 (four hours ago) link

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