What I really miss is series after series of posts about "where's my BOB?" Jesus Christ that got old. I don't remember but one post about the quality of ANY of that music. Not one. "Wow, that was a great song on BOB10, don't you think?" "This guy on BOB8 sucks ass but the song is starting to grow on me." Was there any of that? NO. I would so much rather listen to these guys make idle threats at one another and throw poop at each other than sterile, meaningless number hunts. I've started a few threads by making a forceful comment about something Orb related. I've seen others do it. It's somebody else's turn now. Give me a reason to go listen to an Orb record or a Sunday Teatime. Give me a reason to go listen to something I've already listened to a thousand fucking times! What else is the point of a list like this other than to entertain us? Record swapping is great, hunting for rarities is great, waiting for a new album sucks, but there is so little worth reading about any of those things. How many "new" discoveries of back catalogue Orb have we had in the last year? One? Two? What was that worth, five utterly dry posts with questions about it? If that much? What drew me to the Orb at the onset (ok, so I'd only heard a couple of import singles before the abbreviated American version of ABTUW came out which was way late for most hipsters of the day) was the sense of wonder at the journey they delivered. Moments in space. Moments with some stoned chick talking about clouds. Moments of suspense that open into ultimate dub. I just ate that shit up. I still love that. I liked Cydonia a lot (though I really liked the advance version that was on Napster much better) but it doesn't approach the scope of the first stuff. A few of the Thurs. Teatime shows have been really really close IMHO (heh, I've never used that before... probably won't again because it's really gay) and Bbbroo's totally killer mix from last year comes closer still. THAT'S what I want to read on the list. Where the killer sounds are and why they're killer. And I really like getting a good laugh. More good laughs please. And Goddammit There Is Nothing Wrong With the Chi-Lites!!! Next you're going to be saying that Gap Band sucked and Earth Wind and Fire were talentless. I'm gonna beat you mercilessly with my rendition of "Rocketman" next time I'm in your neighborhood!!! Whoever you are... some random links: Another variation on the Shrub/monkey theme: http://www.webdesignlab.co.uk/niksthings/masking.html Lots of funny pictures: http://www.howstrange.com/frames.htm "Dell Guy Busted for Pot": http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78110,00.html Movie: http://www.divstivs.plus.com/iconwar/ Joke-a-thon: http://www.wtcguy.homestead.com/page12.html -----Original Message----- From: "Joshua Long" <jlong@wfubmc.edu> AMEN!!!!!!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: skinner_matt@hotmail.com [mailto:skinner_matt@hotmail.com]=20 Gotta say I'd rather read one of Thrash's posts than 200 posts about = items for sale on Ebay, which version of a remix is longer or what they = talked to Andy Hughes about backstage for 20 seconds....I mean who gives = a fuck?
OK I have a MP3 call the Lotus Chillout Vol 1 Mix CD. Has anyone head of it, and if so, did LZ contribute to this project. I hear some of the KLF Chillout disk on the mix and I was just wondering if any of the ORB were in on the project? How about this for a Question? :) RMStringer "I just don't want to know anymore, Life shifts up and down Everybody knows it's wrong..... Why don't you care?" Skinny Puppy - Somthered Hope -----Original Message----- From: orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Alan Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 8:18 PM To: Orb@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Orb] Believe it or not FORCEFULLY on topic. By god. What I really miss is series after series of posts about "where's my BOB?" Jesus Christ that got old. I don't remember but one post about the quality of ANY of that music. Not one. "Wow, that was a great song on BOB10, don't you think?" "This guy on BOB8 sucks ass but the song is starting to grow on me." Was there any of that? NO. I would so much rather listen to these guys make idle threats at one another and throw poop at each other than sterile, meaningless number hunts. I've started a few threads by making a forceful comment about something Orb related. I've seen others do it. It's somebody else's turn now. Give me a reason to go listen to an Orb record or a Sunday Teatime. Give me a reason to go listen to something I've already listened to a thousand fucking times! What else is the point of a list like this other than to entertain us? Record swapping is great, hunting for rarities is great, waiting for a new album sucks, but there is so little worth reading about any of those things. How many "new" discoveries of back catalogue Orb have we had in the last year? One? Two? What was that worth, five utterly dry posts with questions about it? If that much? What drew me to the Orb at the onset (ok, so I'd only heard a couple of import singles before the abbreviated American version of ABTUW came out which was way late for most hipsters of the day) was the sense of wonder at the journey they delivered. Moments in space. Moments with some stoned chick talking about clouds. Moments of suspense that open into ultimate dub. I just ate that shit up. I still love that. I liked Cydonia a lot (though I really liked the advance version that was on Napster much better) but it doesn't approach the scope of the first stuff. A few of the Thurs. Teatime shows have been really really close IMHO (heh, I've never used that before... probably won't again because it's really gay) and Bbbroo's totally killer mix from last year comes closer still. THAT'S what I want to read on the list. Where the killer sounds are and why they're killer. And I really like getting a good laugh. More good laughs please. And Goddammit There Is Nothing Wrong With the Chi-Lites!!! Next you're going to be saying that Gap Band sucked and Earth Wind and Fire were talentless. I'm gonna beat you mercilessly with my rendition of "Rocketman" next time I'm in your neighborhood!!! Whoever you are... some random links: Another variation on the Shrub/monkey theme: http://www.webdesignlab.co.uk/niksthings/masking.html Lots of funny pictures: http://www.howstrange.com/frames.htm "Dell Guy Busted for Pot": http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78110,00.html Movie: http://www.divstivs.plus.com/iconwar/ Joke-a-thon: http://www.wtcguy.homestead.com/page12.html -----
Quoting RMStringer <RMStringer@austin.rr.com>:
OK I have a MP3 call the Lotus Chillout Vol 1 Mix CD. Has anyone head of it, and if so, did LZ contribute to this project.
LZ.. would that be Alez Patterson, the rarely rumoured imperfect clone of Dr LX who used samples from Ronnie Leigh Evans on his space techno single 'Small Puffy Nebulae'? --ravenspiral ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through Arachnet Webmail: http://www.arach.net.au
I don't remember but one post about the quality of ANY of that music. Not one. "Wow, that was a great song on BOB10, don't you think?"
First, one must get their BOB 10 to appreciate it. That's where the problem was. Gavin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com
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