The Friday Canon: ORBITAL v THE ORB

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A double-header for your delectation this week! Between them, Orbital and The Orb have racked up 15 UK Top 40 hits, so you get just FIVE ticks spread over the lot. Strap a torch to your head and get ticking!

[Poll #1032733]
The Kinks: (link)
1. Waterloo Sunset
2. You Really Got Me
3. All Day And All Of The Night
4. Lola
5. Sunny Afternoon
6. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
7. Victoria
8. Days
9. Dead End Street
10. Tired Of Waiting For You

EDIT: B0LL0CKS for some reason everyhit didn't show Orbital's last 6 singles when I first searched. Arrrrrrrrrgh :(

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Argh, hardest canon ever!

BTW, Radiccio EP was the one with the original version of Halcyon.

Re: Perpetual Dawn WARNING

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

didn't the omen chart? the one between Chime and III (the one with Satan on it)?

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Only five! That is cruel.

I got kicked out of an RE class in Year 9 for playing the intro to Satan* through mini speakers at the back of the class.


*although, isn't that whole intro nicked off a Butthole Surfers song?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yep. It differs sharply after the sample :)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

http://marna.org/sweatloaf.mp3

Drugs snobbery revealed

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Basically I knew lots of people who loved Orbital but never took E, and no-one who liked non-Clouds Orb without the help of dope.

Re: Drugs snobbery revealed

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld is one of the best records ever made. I'm not saying I've never smoked weed, mind you, but I liked the Orb for about 2 years before I did!

Re: Drugs snobbery revealed

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I went to see the Orb in Brighton in the '90s without the help of artificial stimulants of one kind or another.

Re: Drugs snobbery revealed

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

*waves*

Especially 'Orblivion'. (which was, obv, the goff choice, being somewhat, er, 'darker')

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Orb had two tracks on Rave '92, Orbital had none. From thence my preference arose! I listened to Blue Room and Assassin hundreds of times and wore the tape out. BONUS FAKT: The Opus III track sampled on Halcyon WAS on Rave '92 and hence it always feels a bit strange listening to it backwards. Strange but GOOD.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, didn't Style chart too?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

In fact, didn't lots of their later stuff chart?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

SHIT SHIT SHIT

CRAP CRAP CRAP

I HAVE FVCKED UP THE ENTIRE CANON

Perpetual Dawn WARNING

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The hit single version of Perpetual Dawn is a STINKER - it has the woman going "Perpetual Dawn....infinite sunriiiiise" inna Bodyform style.

(The album version is totally awesome obv and an easy tick)

Re: Perpetual Dawn WARNING

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

oh yeah... didn't it have that guy going "dawn is raging... OOH YEAH...". Awful.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Easiest canon ever - the five current leaders are obvious stand-outs
(unless there are awesome tracks on those anonymous-sounding Orbital EPs I'm overlooking or something)

I ticked "Satansatansatansatan (live)" rather than the other Satan since that's the version I own.

Top Five Things About The Orb (Other Than Their Music Being Good)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1. 3D Space Chess on TOTP (thanx poll for reminding me of this)
2. "Clitus, I'm BORED. What PLAYTHING can you offer me today?"
3. Their "huge ever growing..." title has become 1x grebt MEME
4. Explaining that their album title Live Orb 93/Evil Bro 39 was a reference to H1TLER!
5. Finding said live album on a grumpy pub landlord's jukebox that summer and putting an entire 70 minute ambient disc on for a quid.

Re: Top Five Things About The Orb (Other Than Their Music Being Good)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

6. Randomly listening to Doctor Fox*'s Jukebox on Capital FM, when 8-year-old girl rings up and requests George Michael for her mum. Doctor Fox asked her what she would have picked for herself, patronisingly prompting her with "come on, what's your favourite song at the moment?". Girl replies "Toxygene by The Orb!" Fox is rendered speechless for a moment before saying "Really??".

*NB I don't think he's a real doctor.

MOAR OARB

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Has anyone heard any of their MINIMAL stuff on Kompakt etc? I think I heard a track once and was sort of underwhelmed.

Ans:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's not bad but like you say, nothing earth shattering.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Orbital's fifth album, 'The Middle Of Nowhere' is seriously underrated, and I still can't quite believe they never released a single from it. Jeez, they even had Alison Goldfrapp guesting on vocals, and this was in 1999, years before Goldfrapp would hit it big with Black Cherry.

I'd have voted for 'I Don't Know You People' if it had been released and thus included in this canon.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see, you messed up the canon, and they did actually release two singles from the album, 'Style' and 'Nothing Left' (which was the one featuring Alison G). Still, they should've released 'I Don't Know You People'.
I actually only got into Orbital through 'Middle of Nowhere' and then went back and took the history class.

BLUE ROOM

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The 7" mix is way better than the 39-minute long 12" mix.

Discuss.

Re: BLUE ROOM

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've seen you say this before! I am pretty sure that the bassline on the 7" mix is SOMEWHERE in the 39 minute one.

Ta Wikipedia!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How did I not know/realise that the "Huge Ever Growing Brain" title is a reference to the episode of BL4KE'S S3V3N that starred N1CK D4STOOR'S DAD!!!

Re: Ta Wikipedia!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

are you sure. isn't 'Ultraworld' an ep of Blakes 7 which has a giant brain in it - but that's not the one with Sam D in it.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I thought they were the same band. It all sounds the same to me.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Re: religious experience with Halcyon, I mean that everyone seems to have known it when it came out and heard it occasionally since but there was a sort of apocalyptic moment when it got played by Scott Mills or somebody when we were all about eighteen (ie: two or three years ago) and SUDDENLY WE ALL KNEW WHAT IT WAS. Evidently it embedded rather deeply in everyone's consciousnesses because we were all about 5 or 6 when it came out, obviously. It was just strange that no one had managed to adequately describe it to anyone else enough to track it down but everyone and I mean EVERYONE knew it.

And obviously also that none of us had ever acquired the Human Traffic soundtrack but that is just one of those things.

I find The Orb faintly annoying but this is largely due to ARGH BLOODY CLOUDS, which is just dreadful in every way.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Also, am I REALLY the only person who likes 'Oxbow Lakes?'

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Only 5 ticks is bastard hard! Gah!

Feeling old

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Glastonbury 2004: Sunday night Muse vs Orbital on the two main stages. Everyone over about 28 went to see Orbital, everyone under went to see Muse. Even though I knew I'd made the right decision, boy did it make me feel old.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Orb: Liked "Little Fluffy Clouds" but failed to like anything after that, despite many attempts.

Orbital: As usual, I totally missed out on them - heard "The Saint" single and was about as impressed as I was with the Adam Clayton+Larry Mullen version of teh M:I theme. Lumped them in with Orb as another dance band I just didn't get. Then heard their last single, whatever it was, and really loved it, and went back and found all kinds of good stuff.