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I remember eight years ago when Orbital's "In Sides" topped the IDM List Poll. 1996 also saw the release of such albums as Squarepusher's "Feed Me Weird Things," Aphex Twin's "Richard D. James Album," the Mike & Rich album, and Cylob's "Cylobian Sunset." Yet somehow, Orbital won out that year. Don't get me wrong; "In Sides" is still a pretty good album, and the last two tracks are pretty phenomenal stuff, but still, I always thought that the RDJ Album was the clear winner. Maybe people just didn't have enough time to realize that. There were a lot of people who were pissed off that it was only 34 minutes longs, and the US folks had to wait until 1997 to buy this on Sire if they didn't have a way to find an "import" copy. So anyway, I just wanted to say that I definitely think that Orbital's "Blue Album" is their best since "In Sides," and a pretty nice note on which to end their careers (as Orbital, anyway). I'm not saying that it will be Album of the Year for 2004 (some people already have some strong opinions on that one), nor would it probably even be in the running if this list still did that sort of thing. I'm just saying that, hey, I like it. And there's been no traffic on the list today, so I just wanted to get things going. Oh, and here are the results of that poll: http://elists.resynthesize.com/idm/1997/01/103984/ That's all, Alan np:Kid606:Who Still Kill Sound? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

i agree. bath time and easy serv made me pray for a quick death while listening to them. i can't even like them on any sort of novelty level. still, even the rest of the album left me fairly disappointed, and this coming from a former orbital fanatic with a different orbital shirt for every day of the week. the first song's pretty good, but it's pretty different than most things they've done before. "you lot" i think is pretty damn good. "acid pants" could have been good, if they didn't decide to put in what is possibly one of the worst vocal tracks in electronic music history (second only to i think the 2nd track on spooky's album "gargantuan"...i think it's the 2nd track). everything else on the cd felt like it was somehow lacking that special bit of orbitalness that made me love their previous output (yes, i really liked "middle of nowhere", no i didn't listen to "the altogether" that much). also, why the hell did they suddenly decide that trying to make shitty nu-skool breaks tracks was a good idea? brandon --- Mark Fleschler <mark@bleego.com> wrote:

quoted 86 lines The blue album is inherenty flawed to the point of

> The blue album is inherenty flawed to the point of > wincing with Bath > Time and Easy Serv thrown in a tracklist that could > have possibly > included Initiation, Technologique Park, and What > Happens Next. Had > this juxtoposition occured, you'd probably be > getting more people > shouting out that the Blue Album is the nicest thing > since In Sides > even, perhaps even matching its greatness. > > I simply made a custom tracklist, so my Blue album > is the one that I > feel should have been pressed, and in my mind, it's > Orbital's perfect > adios record. > > -mark > > Alan Lucas wrote: > > >I remember eight years ago when Orbital's "In > Sides" topped the IDM > >List Poll. 1996 also saw the release of such albums > as Squarepusher's > >"Feed Me Weird Things," Aphex Twin's "Richard D. > James Album," the > >Mike & Rich album, and Cylob's "Cylobian Sunset." > Yet somehow, Orbital > >won out that year. > > > >Don't get me wrong; "In Sides" is still a pretty > good album, and the > >last two tracks are pretty phenomenal stuff, but > still, I always > >thought that the RDJ Album was the clear winner. > Maybe people just > >didn't have enough time to realize that. There were > a lot of people > >who were pissed off that it was only 34 minutes > longs, and the US > >folks had to wait until 1997 to buy this on Sire if > they didn't have a > >way to find an "import" copy. > > > >So anyway, I just wanted to say that I definitely > think that Orbital's > >"Blue Album" is their best since "In Sides," and a > pretty nice note on > >which to end their careers (as Orbital, anyway). > > > >I'm not saying that it will be Album of the Year > for 2004 (some people > >already have some strong opinions on that one), nor > would it probably > >even be in the running if this list still did that > sort of thing. I'm > >just saying that, hey, I like it. > > > >And there's been no traffic on the list today, so I > just wanted to get > >things going. > > > >Oh, and here are the results of that poll: > > > >http://elists.resynthesize.com/idm/1997/01/103984/ > > > >That's all, > >Alan > > > >np:Kid606:Who Still Kill Sound? > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > >For additional commands, e-mail: > idm-help@hyperreal.org > > > > > > > > > > >

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