I'm not so sure, I have at times loved Orbital but they have admittedly lost focus over recent years. If they'd kept the simplicity and effectiveness of the first two records instead of gradually getting either irritatingly complex or just pedestrain on our asses (from Snivilisation onwards, although In Sides is a pretty consistent album) they would truly have become one of the greats. You have to sort the wheat from the chaff and there is no denying they make great compilations. Most albums have had at least one stand out and it is really worth hunting down the various singles and EPs for some superb alt versions and remixes (take the scary-ass Eye & I remix of Midnight...right up to the Weekend Ravers mix of Funny Break) and some of their live tracks are great (Halcyon, Bon Jovi and Belinda samples included, and Satan of course) I haven't heard much of the 'Blue Album' but unfortunately doesn't sound much like the return to the simplicity of 'Green' and 'Brown' the brothers Hartnoll make it out to be. That said, I would still rather they continued to make music rather than none at all, as i'm sure some more of those rare gems would be forthcoming. I'll miss them, they opened my eyes along with many others at Glastonbury 1994 and i'm sad as hell i missed them this year =( Paul Yearley <e23topy@yahoo.com> wrote: theREALmxyzptlk wrote:
At 10:16 PM 7/23/2004, you wrote:
*Orbital Calling it Quits*
Just my opinion, but they should have done it some years ago.
No kidding... there's only so much coma-inducing blandness that you can rehash into new albums. -Paul _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com