From laerm Sent Wed, Sep 23rd 1998, 15:45
From laerm Sent Wed, Sep 23rd 1998, 15:45
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Adam J Weitzman wrote:
> To be fair, both _Orbus_Terrarum_ and _Orblivion_ consist of original
> material, so that's two, not one. Plus, Island *asked* for _UFOff_, so
> you can't really blame LX for that.
well, yes, true, but _orbus terrarum_ was completed before he signed to
island. he signs, then two weeks later, "here's album no.1, release it".
i'm not blaming him - i just see this proliferation of non-new albums as
bringing the orb's end closer, and i don't like that.
> Island is really getting into the greatest hits thing: they just signed a
> contract with U2 for *3* greatest hits albums. Gotta wonder about that. I
> imagine this conversation:
>
> Island: Here's $50 million, please let us compile tracks you've already
> recorded and made famous. Oh, yeah, and we want to make three packages
> out of it. Would that be OK with you?
>
> U2: Um, OK.
yeah, i can't see them saying no to that.
> To bring this to a complete circle, I reallyreallyreally hope that the Orb's
> remix of "Numb" ends up on one of the forthcoming CDs.
right on!
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