I Am Kurious, Oranj. Kurious Oranj; New Big Prinz; Overture From 'I Am Curious, Orange' Dog is Life/Jerusalem; Guide Me Soft; Win Fall CD 2088 AD; Yes O Yes; Bad News.
- The Fall I Am Kurious Oranj Mick Middles, October 8th, 2018 16:11 Another magnificent Beggars Arkive reissue (on oranj vinyl) Back in autumn 1977, I sat and watched Kay Carroll, Fall manager and girlfriend of Mark E Smith, as she Biro-ed the finishing touches to the sleeve of the band’s sprightly second single, ‘It’s The New Thing’.
- View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 Gatefold Vinyl release of I Am Kurious Oranj on Discogs. Label: Rebel Rec. SPV 08-2883. Format: Vinyl LP, Album Gatefold. Country: Germany. Genre: Rock. Style: Alternative Rock, New Wave, Indie Rock.
Pained and intense, man
They were inquiring.
They were curious orange...
They rode over peasants like you, they rode over peasants like you,
And their horses loved them too, and their horses loved them too.
They Were Kurious Orange. They Were Curious Orange.
They built the world as we know it, all the systems you traverse.
Rode slipshod over all dumbshits.
They were curious orange...
They freed the Blacks too.
They built church in one day, man,
Amish
They were curious orange...
Their clothes were cool.
Paved way for atom bomb--didn't know.
They made the Jews go to school.
They made Hitler laugh in pain.
They sent missionary girls to Arab states, and the sun-baked men
did drool.
They were curious orange...
They made Hitler laugh in pain.
They turned Napoleon over and didn't know.
They invented birth control
They were invulnerable to cool.
They were curious orange
They were beyond Ooobenblief
They were primo efficient to a man.
They were Stuyvestant smoking.
They were the Reformation spring
And everybody in the world turned Reformation blue.
They were invulnerable to cool
And everybody in the world...
And they were inquiring.
They were positively deranged and they were curious orange.
They were curious orange...
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The last thing most Fall fans expected the group to do in 1988 was provide music for a ballet, but in fact this is what they did. Of course, it helped that the Michael Clark company of dancers were some of the most avant-garde at the time in Britain and were inspired originally by the Fall's 'Hey! Luciani' single. The concept, very loosely, centers around William and Mary of Orange, and finds Smith arranging William Blake's 'Jerusalem' for the band, adding his own lyrics ('It was the fault of the government,' providing ironic contrast to the self-sufficiency espoused in Blake). As a cohesive Fall album it fails: The strongest tracks are those that have little to do with the ballet (and are available elsewhere). 'New Big Prinz' updates their own 'Hip Priest' into one of their heaviest tracks, full of threat and wonder. 'Cab It Up!' features all forward momentum and jingling keyboards. For the first time tracks felt like filler, and indeed they were. The CD booklet contains photographs from the performance full of giant pop-art hamburgers and cans of baked beans, suggesting I Am Kurios Oranj would have been more interesting to see than hear.