#1 Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjolqpKR4g
1. The Perfect Kiss350 Points, 17 Votes, 11 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
Hey! That's the ghost of Ian Curtis in the doorway!
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
11 number ones!!
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 May 2013 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to cry anyway I love this video so much. They used to play it on the giant video screen at the club I went to when I was a kid. Eleven minutes of pure joy.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2013 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
19 ballotsfull results for 16 videos:
350 The Perfect Kiss 17-11212 Touched By the Hand Of God 13-2203 True Faith 12-2177 Confusion 10-186 Round & Round 5-182 World (The Price Of Love) 5-181 Regret 5 (2 Baywatch version)68 Blue Monday 4-1 (2 '88 version)60 Bizarre Love Triangle 456 Ruined In A Day 445 Crystal 341 World In Motion 316 Blue Monday 1 ('83 version)16 Here To Stay 114 Fine Time 114 Shellshock 1
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
should i continue, or really start tomorrow?
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'm ready but it does seem a bit quiet at the moment. Were you going to do albums next?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
YES
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
Go! I'm clicking refresh every minute.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm doing the same. Maybe we should all get ready...
for the album results!
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
Expect the Factory 5 to be 1-5 but I'm curious about the order. Technique at 1 is a lock but the rest could be any order.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
Might Republic not be higher than Brotherhood? Also interested to see where Substance fits in with the actual studio albums. Technique should be number one.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
i have just seen the pictures that Millsner has done for us for tomorrow's half of the poll. all i can say is that we are in for a serious treat.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
you're too kind!
very excited for the track results, anyway. some of the placings really threw me.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/The_Lost_Sirens_%282013%29_-_New_Order_album_cover.jpg
10. Lost Sirensreleased: 14 January 201383 Points, 6 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't include it on my ballot because I don't consider it an album but there are a few songs on there that are worth hearing.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't know this before yesterday, but that cover is a 3x3 pixel version of the WFTSC single art:
http://www.niagara.edu/neworder/graphics/nuocd15.jpg
All of the JD/NO singles were given the same treatment:
http://www.niagara.edu/neworder//graphics/clashmagazineconcept.jpg
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, originally done for a magazine, then expanded to include the full discography. Think it was available as a poster for a limited time as well.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/New_Order_Waiting_for_the_Sirens_Call_album_cover.jpg
9. Waiting For the Sirens' CallReleased: 28 March 2005240 points, 14 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
after going back and revisiting all the albums this past couple of weeks, sirens call has aged surprisingly well
― i worked myself into a clam (electricsound), Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
imo
I love it. Great album. Not sure why everyone slates Dracula's Castle.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
Los Angeles time
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Get-Ready-cover.png
8. Get ReadyReleased: 27 August 2001Acclaimed Music ranking: 45 2001 - 373 2000's decade257 Points, 15 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
xp
The album sounds merely okay to my ears these days, but I never had a problem with Dracula's Castle.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
THEORY:
Since the results have been reverse-chronological so far, Movement is a shoe-in for #1 :)
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
I guess it's understandable that the albums they released 20-30 years after their first releases are ranked lowest but they're really great albums. Predictably, Republic will be next.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
Movement at 3 or 4, imo. Either Low-Life or PCL at 2.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
shoo-in, even.
I'd give Republic 60/40 odds over Brotherhood for being next. I always had the impression that the former has some real fans here.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
BTW, if anyone has a copy of Get Ready or WFTSC on vinyl that they want to sell or trade, i'm interested.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/SubstanceCoverBig.jpg
7.SubstanceReleased: 17 August 1987268 Points, 10 Votes, 4 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
It's a great compilation but it's not an album. It took me about 2 years of living with this compilation but eventually Disc 2 became my favorite. I've since had to buy a 2nd copy of disc 2. Would love one of the gatefold LPs. I have it on vinyl but not one of the gatefold versions.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/New_Order_Republic_Cover.jpg
6. RepublicReleased: 3 May 1993Acclaimed Music ranking: 40 1993, 428 90's decade310 Points, 18 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think Republic is the best collection of lyrics Bernard Sumner ever wrote. The mess with Factory provide some great content for him.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
of course that is it for the night.
will start again when i wake up (boo).
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
I think the top five might go,
5. Brotherhood4. Low-Life3. Movement2. Power, Corruption & Lies1. Technique
I would have liked to see Republic in the top five, it's their most underrated album.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 May 2013 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'd have thought PCL for 'top', the rest, yes.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 May 2013 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
16 Here To Stay 1
aw, nobody else voted for the vid?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
Sumner's best lyrics on the first Electronic album.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Can't believe Republic outranked Substance and Get Ready. To this day I still feel ripped off by that album. Technique was like this amazing new vista after they had played out their second great phase, and then they phoned in the next album.Maybe I should go back and listen to it again, it's been probably 15 years since I got it off the shelf.
― MatthewK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
well, Substance isn't an album, and Get Ready is post-peak. Republic's position makes sense.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm one of the folks who voted for Substance... technically not an album but a singles collection sure, but during the years I had it on constant rotation that distinction meant nothing to me at all. I still remember finally getting a CD player and immediately buying Substance for access to the second disc of b-sides.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I agree re. Substance, it's enough of an album to have gotten my vote, and it's a really important record for me personally in the NO canon.
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't going to vote for it until I saw that other people were
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I voted for Substance - it's easily the record of theirs I've played most.
― kraudive, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of people apparently consider it an album.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Psychologically I file it with Louder Than Bombs -- sure it was a singles collection to some people, but it was the only thing available to me so I played it to death while my brain was still forming and therefore it is an album.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
this is how I saw it, too.
as a budding new order fan, it was also the only way I could make sense of their early singles catalogue.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Two of my first six CDs were Substance!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Is that because it's a double cd or did you buy it twice?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link