The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!

Metallic Spheres was complete crap. You'd have thought a collaboration with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour riffing over some mellow atmospherics from Alex and co would be a EDM dream come true.

 

you'd be wrong.

  On 10/18/2016 at 5:10 PM, Redruth said:

gogogo mcb.. wht r u waiting for..  :)

Still got Environments 6 & 6.5 to go first - It takes a while to get from my purchased download folder to my ears

 

  On 10/18/2016 at 5:40 PM, fumi said:

Metallic Spheres was complete crap. You'd have thought a collaboration with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour riffing over some mellow atmospherics from Alex and co would be a EDM dream come true.

 

you'd be wrong.

Oh God yes, the only Orb 'thing' I've only heard once - Just a mess, bought the special 2CD 'headphone' version too and never even made it to the alternatively mastered 2nd disc for headphones

  On 10/18/2016 at 5:40 PM, fumi said:

Metallic Spheres was complete crap. You'd have thought a collaboration with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour riffing over some mellow atmospherics from Alex and co would be a EDM dream come true.

 

you'd be wrong.

 

I read Alex's total contribution was making the spliffs

No, it was this.

 

youtu.be/den8ofw1qFg?t=1m19s

Edited October 18, 2016 by fumi

@mcbpete

 

yea, my 'new to listen folder / stack is bursting / leaning over atm.. it's such hard work to b a loon, haha. btw, thx fr reminding me about tht fsol sir.

Edited October 18, 2016 by Redruth

  On 10/18/2016 at 5:44 PM, fumi said:

No, it was this.

 

youtu.be/den8ofw1qFg?t=1m19s

 

OK, slight exaggeration then, he shook a bush and twiddled a knob too.

'metallic spheres, yea, never got tht one.. will steer clear.    th watmm keeps me safe  :)

thought metallic spheres was fine, nothing particularly exciting, but pleasant enough

so, is it shite or is it mediocre? i guess i will need to investigate, or mayb not.

it depends on your tollerance for noodly guitar solos I guess.

I remember being super excited back in the day when The Orb/Dave Gilmour collaboration was announced. As a die-hard fan of both bands, it was an album of potential music I'd only dreamed of.

 

Unfortunately it still is.

 

Best stuff since the 1990s are Okie Dokie and Baghdad Batteries.

Edited October 18, 2016 by fumi

noodles? 

From bitter experience, I'd also steer clear of that Battersea audio/visual CD/DVD thing they put out a few years back. Pretty expensive at the time and also total crap.

  On 10/18/2016 at 6:19 PM, fumi said:

From bitter experience, I'd also steer clear of that Battersea audio/visual CD/DVD thing they put out a few years back. Pretty expensive at the time and also total crap.

 

 

i really liked th art for tht. th music was just ok. definitely not worth th price, with u there. i will admit tho, i never paid for it..  

the problem with the orb is that the work up to cydonia is some of the best music ever made ever

Best Orb track ever is the hidden 15 minute mix of Oxbow Lakes on the compilation CD they put out at the end of the 90s. Absolutely incredible.

Okay it's not 15 minutes, but I've not heard it in years.

 

It is actually hidden at the end of the disc because there is a really long silence and you think the disc is finished. That's a trend that seemed really popular back in the late nineties, wasn't it? Lots of albums had that - with the artist putting something hidden at the end.

 

21st century Orb... ugh. Yeah, Okie Dokie is fine, but I find it kinda forgettable. Baghdad Batteries is nicer, has some real atmospherics on it. No masterpiece by any standards, but enjoyable once in a while. The run of ambient tracks at the end of The Dream is lovely, but the first 2/3 of the album is by far the worst shit they've done. Metallic Spheres and the Lee Perry collabs were total missed opportunities, just completely pointless music. C Batter C was massively disappointing. Moonbuilding was decent but I never listen to it anymore.

  On 10/18/2016 at 8:17 PM, purlieu said:

21st century Orb... ugh. Yeah, Okie Dokie is fine, but I find it kinda forgettable. Baghdad Batteries is nicer, has some real atmospherics on it. No masterpiece by any standards, but enjoyable once in a while. The run of ambient tracks at the end of The Dream is lovely, but the first 2/3 of the album is by far the worst shit they've done. Metallic Spheres and the Lee Perry collabs were total missed opportunities, just completely pointless music. C Batter C was massively disappointing. Moonbuilding was decent but I never listen to it anymore.

the last few tracks of the dream are incredible but some of th firste tracks are pretty boring. I disagree though about oki dookie, its a masterpiece. to me the run from 2003 to 2009 specifically Bicyle, oki dokie, the dream (indeed from track 10 to the end) and orbsessions vol 1-2 (2016, shem, dadoes, ect) and vol3 (baghdad batteries) contains a lot of masterpiece.

I feel the orbsessions vol 1-2-3 are definitely extremely underrated. my favorite is vol-2 and acutlaly one of my fav the orb release eva :)

 

need to spend more time with COW, and indeed stuff with lee perry, c batterc, moonbuilding are not something I want to revisit.

Edited October 18, 2016 by Ayya Khema

  On 10/18/2016 at 6:37 PM, fumi said:

Okay it's not 15 minutes, but I've not heard it in years.

 

It is actually hidden at the end of the disc because there is a really long silence and you think the disc is finished. That's a trend that seemed really popular back in the late nineties, wasn't it? Lots of albums had that - with the artist putting something hidden at the end.

 

 

there was one at the end of Orblivion as well, had a sample of what sounded like Arnie. Very underrated album of theirs IMHO.

 

I still haven't listened to this new one yet, must sort that out before the end of the week.

  On 10/18/2016 at 6:29 PM, dr lopez said:

the problem with the orb is that the work up to cydonia is some of the best music ever made ever

 

the good doctor spaketh the troof.

 

I still think the Live 93 contains some of the best material the Orb ever released.

Yeah, you can't beat the Thrash years imo. I still wonder what they could have produced if he hadn't walked out, they peaked with Orbus Terrarum. A shame he never seemed to do anything meaningful afterwards (apart from the awesome Killing Joke remix).

 

I also just love the rambling epic tracks they used to produce, I haven't heard Cow yet but I just know I'm going to wish it was twice as long

yes its very short but i liked it

 

anyway i've probably said this before but if y'all want several gigs of live orb shows (from maggie thatcher and various other corners of the internet) just pm me

  On 10/18/2016 at 9:31 PM, BUNKUM said:

Yeah, you can't beat the Thrash years imo. I still wonder what they could have produced if he hadn't walked out, they peaked with Orbus Terrarum. A shame he never seemed to do anything meaningful afterwards (apart from the awesome Killing Joke remix).

 

I also just love the rambling epic tracks they used to produce, I haven't heard Cow yet but I just know I'm going to wish it was twice as long

 

There's still the occasional epic ambient remix like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xrnLMPqn4

 

Just downloaded COW, I'll have a listen a later.

Edited October 18, 2016 by mokz

COW is lovely - their best since Orbus Terrarum IMO