Trippy. Nice.

Great post!

Rickegee... No... You sifted my all time favourite song!

I loved this song so much i made a video for it back in October of last year, but I been listening it to years. Bastards youtube killed my account and its gone

And yet you couldn't find room in your 275+ submissions to share your favorite(and apparently wildly popular) song with the Sift.

I still can't believe that LooTube erased your account without any warning, notice, or reason given. I blame the Government's fear of the disclosure of the hovering plane.

One doesn't lay all their cards on the table all at once do they?

I believe it was the plane.

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Friday 2nd February 2007 (promotion called by gold star member Farhad2000)

Great song indeed, was just about to submit it, so heres the post I was preping:

The Orb

From the tracks Wiki:

"Little Fluffy Clouds" is centered around clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls to LeVar Burton picturesque images of her childhood. Critics and fans sometimes attribute the odd nasal tonality of Rickie Lee Jones' voice to drug use, though Jones later claimed that it was the result of a heavy cold. The sample comes from "A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones", an interview featured on a promotional 2-CD edition of the Flying Cowboys album.

Burton: "What were the skies like when you were young?"

Jones: "They went on forever – They - When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and, uh... they were long... and clear and... there were lots of stars at night. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn - it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see them in the desert."

Jones was upset at the unauthorized use of her voice and pursued the issue in the legal system. Big Life chose to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum of money for use of her voice on The Orb's recording.

The song also uses a harmonica sample from Ennio Morricone's The Man With The Harmonica (from the film Once Upon a Time in the West) and parts of Electric Counterpoint ,a piece for multitracked guitars composed by Steve Reich and recorded by Pat Metheny. Reich, unlike Jones, was "genuinely flattered" by The Orb's use of his work and instructed his record company not to sue.Alex Paterson has also mentioned that fans would "die" if they discovered where the drums on "Little Fluffy Clouds" originated from.

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, July 28th, 2007 8:39am PDT - promote requested by geo321.

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