Orbital - Brown Album Deluxe 4xcd with underworld mix

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Originally Posted by holden

Orbital does, in my opinion, seem to be mining the nostalgia/legacy route a lot lately, what with Green, Brown boxes, EPS (Omen, Chime, Lush, III, Midnight/Choice, Belfast), the 30Something re-edits/remix collection. I don't doubt they'll continue the trend with Snivilization...maybe even In Sides, since their first four are considered classics of the genre, and later releases get a bit more divisive.

I appreciate the reissues, and the remasters are really well done. That said, the pricing is outrageous. Of course I've got the deluxe LP and CD sets on order. Of course.

Originally Posted by holden

(i'd rank 'em as such:
1. Brown, In Sides
2. Snivilization, The Middle Of Nowhere
3. Green, The Altogether, Blue, Wonky, Monsters Exist, Optical Delusion
Nothing bad, just preference and the later stuff is still mostly good in my mind, if a bit of retreads (Blue, Wonky), or oddball (The Altogether, Phil's contributions to Optical Delusion), or solid but pretty unsurprising (Monsters, Paul's tracks on Optical Delusion). Green is a collection of singles and sounds dated, whereas the rest feel cohesive and hold up well through time and space and loops of that nature!)

We're doing this, I guess.

1. In Sides + The Box EP
2. Brown
3. Snivilisation
4. The Middle of Nowhere
5. Green

... all the rest somewhere below that. Pretty much the same as your list.