from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
B-side
"Into the Fourth Dimension"
Released
16 November 1990
Genre
Ambient house
Length
4:27 (album version)
Label
Big Life
Songwriter(s)
Martin Glover
Alex Paterson
Steve Reich
Producer(s)
The Orb
The Orb singles chronology
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" (1989)
"Little Fluffy Clouds" (1990)
"Perpetual Dawn" (1991)
"Little Fluffy Clouds" (1990)
Clip from The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds", featuring vocal samples of Rickie Lee Jones.
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"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the British ambient house group the Orb. It was originally released in November 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at number 87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. "Little Fluffy Clouds" was re-released several times with different B-sides, with its 1993 re-release reaching number 10 in the UK.
It ranked number 275 in NME's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[1] Pitchfork Media ranked it at number 40 on their list of the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s.[2]
^NME staff and writers (8 February 2014). "NME 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time".
^"The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 50-21". pitchfork.com. Condé Nast. 2 September 2010.
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