As a longtime Floyd collector (yep, I'm that old!)
I read in Miles' Pink Floyd bible that The Orb sampled a lot of PF. I happened
to be on a yard sale in London, a few months later, and I found a 12
inch called Little Fluffy Clouds (and also a Polish David Gilmour tape, but that
has nothing to do with this story). I bought it and back at home I listened to
it and was NOT very impressed. The B-side was also rather awful, IMO (that's
what I thought, then)...
Years went by and The Orb made an appearance at
Forest National in Brussels, I went to see time and was not very amused,
although a few tunes haunted my mind for days long (later I would find out
these were Blue Room and Lovin' You).
I went to a record shop, bought me the double
Ultraworld in nice price, listened to it, had a few nookies on it as well, and I
was hooked... especially when I found out that among these floating geezers were
Steve Hillage (ex-Gong and a lot of psychedelic solo recordings in the
seventies) and Guy Pratt.
Bought everything from The Orb and still do today,
but didn't follow LX on all his solo-outings and Badorb
excursions...