This is hilarious. It's the Orb's classic Little Fluffy Clouds , but instead of Rickie Lee Jones going on about how pretty the skies were over Arizona, it's Alan Parker having a good old moan about Watford. Alan Parker, Urban Warrior is the comic creation of Simon Munnery, and he's none to happy about the structure of this interview. He's been asked about what the skies were like when he was young several times, and he's getting rather fed up with the whole affair. It's all very dull and monotonous. Like Watford, apparently. [...]
First time for a bit of ambient in NME's top 25 and space for shiny disco balls. 9. The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (1990) NME says “When Rickie Lee Jones was young, the skies always had little fluffy clouds in ‘em, and, uh...they were long...and clear and...there were lots of stars at night. On ‘LFC’, pretty, colourful images dusted with childhood nostalgia crashed headlong into the interlocking synth-hooks of cerebellum-squeegeeing techno. The Orb knew where the button marked ‘some real psychedelic shit’ was.” [...]
- An ambient jol? No, you’re mad. Ous’ll never go for it. - Whad'you mean, ‘never go for it’? There’s shitloadsa ou’s that’ll smaak it! - Never. You’re mad. In Durban? You got a snowball’s. - Well screw you, my little sunbeam of joy, cos I’m gonna do it and the ou’s can come if they smaak, and if they don’t I guess it’ll just be me, my tunes and my beer, right? - Righto. Just being reasonable, y’know? Seen you do this before with the dub thing, and, y’know, the ou’s didn’t exactly queue up for those jols, so…just [...]
Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve - Live @ G-MEX Manchester, July 2007 This track simply sums up the British summer this year. The Orb (Feat Alan Parker) - Grey Clouds
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