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is what's playing right now in my living room. I think it's a terrific record but I can't say why exactly. Can you? I could have called this thread "Say Something Interesting About Technique", I suppose. It came out at the start of 1989 - Select magazine once called it the best album of the 80s. At the back of my mind there's a nagging feeling we've had a thread on it before (I know we've had lots on the people who made it) but it seems weirdly undiscussable.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Takes the vague lyrics NO thing a bit far, and might not be the best album of the eighties, but is IMHO the best NO LP (singles band, innit).

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Come now. The best New Order LP is assuredly Power, Corruption & Lies. That said, Technique is an amazing album and was, for a while, the preeminent album with which to test-drive speaker systems (notably the opening notes of "Fine Time").

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Haha Tom we have instantly turned your thread into "rank the New Order albums AGAIN"!

_Technique_ is wonderful and fantastic. I was dubious about "Run" for a long time, but even that song has now won me over. ("All The Way" has taken its place as the dubious track.)

"Guilty Partner" is possibly their most underrated song.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

This was my college NO album and I loved it to bits. Run is just great once the lyrics stop*, a wonderful duelling guitar line at the end. creamy. Which is the track that has the "love will tear us apart" medley line sneaked in there?

I played the first Electronic album again recently. How MUCH better is it than anything they did subsequently? A couple of duff tracks but the rest are joyful AND triumphant.

*as per on any NO track generally

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

The first Electronic album is GODLY. "Ganster", "Tighten Up", "Get The Message", "Reality" and "Patience Of A Saint" have all been recent additions to my work playlist.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Mmm, such a fine album. It was the first one that came out after I had gotten into them, so I was just waiting for it to finally appear -- and it did, and it was great, and so was the tour. Happy Ned. Probably the album of theirs I still listen to the most.

That Electronic album is pretty good. Maybe a bit overhyped at the time, though. Oddly enough, I just heard "Soviet" last week while watching a football news story at Martin's place. "Patience of a Saint" is a beauty and a half.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

i vote for lowlife and the first side of brotherhood myself.

― seanp (seanp), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

The first Electronic album is GODLY. "Ganster", "Tighten Up", "Get The Message", "Reality" and "Patience Of A Saint" have all been recent additions to my work playlist.

Yeah, I think this album has ended up being underrated by people because of how meh the rest of Electronic's output has been.

With Technique, I think one of the things that makes it great is its consistency -- it seems very seamless and cohesive, something that just plays well as an album.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

That whole period when it came out was a great time to be getting into music on a serious basis. They're was so much great stuff just around the corner.

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

That Melody Maker of them on the cover in early 89 is the first issue I got that made me go out and buy it on a regular basis. What did it was not neccessarily the New Order feature if I remember correctly but just the buzz I got from the great writing. Hence I tend to get a bit teary eyed nostalgic whenever I hear Technique

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Technique may well be the best album of the 80s. It may as well be. In Feb '89 I listened to it on my Walkman each morning on the bus to Redditch, I always remember the piercing winter sunlight being strobed as we passed the bare tree-lined, frosty fields. For New Order's TOTP appearance Barney mimed the "sophisticated laydeeee" bit in Fine Time, that was quite amusing. It sounds so colourful and crisp. I love this album.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 18:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

For what it's worth, I wrote an essay for a friends zine, called Twenty Years Too Late, all about her Joy Division/New Order obsession. My essay was primarily about New Order's relationship to club culture. My comment on Technique was it was the first album where they were not influencing dance culture, but picking up from it, referencing all the acid house/chicago house/techno that had emerged circa 1985-1989, all of which, of course, owed a large debt to New Order's earlier records. Just a thought.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

I read some weird dismissal of it somewhere recently. I was like 'I thought everyone realised this was the best New Order album??' They seemed to be implying that one just needed a couple of tracks from it.

The whole point of it for me is that it's a whole album. I adore the sweep of it. It's all of a piece. With grinning confidence it introduces itself in the hi-hats of the glorious 'this is where we all are' Fine Time, sets the emotional 'this is where we've come from' note with All The Way and then spins through five perfect whirls of sun-bleached pop, feet never hitting the floor. Is Vanishing Point a shining pinnacle or the comedown? Depends on whether I'm dancing, maybe. Either way, it's the brilliant heart of the album. Then Dream Attack comes along to shoot you through the heart again, an epilogue, the most beautiful of all mornings after.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

Easily my favourite New Order LP, has a sublime mix of electronic dancier type stuff and more guitary/band stuff also. And who could resist "Run" with that gorgeous break down in the middle?

― steve, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

I adore the rock songs, but really have to be in the mood for the dance stuff - pretty much my attitude towards most New Order music post-PC&L, but this LP particularly.

It took a long time, but a few years ago I realized just how good "Run" really is.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

um, just twisting the topic slightly...was listening to the radio yesterday. i heard this:

I don't know if I told you, but I'm seeking sanctuary
You'll never guess the things that I do
I'll have the devil round for tea
Don't you know that I'm here beside you
Can't you see that I can't relax
When I saw you in my rearview
You could've stopped me in my tracks

I'll be there for you when you want me to
I'll stand by your side like I always do
In the dead of night it'll be alright
'Cos I'll be there for you when you want me to

You can take me to an island, ride across the stormy sea
We can worship pagan idols, there together you and me
Why don't you run over here and rescue me?
You can drive down in your car
Why don't we both take a ride and turn that key
We'll drive at 60 miles an hour

they are the most banal, senseless and cringy lyrics ever. in fact i think bernard is one of the worst lyricists of all time. at least other amateurs can do 'dumb' and sound cool, but this is sub-oasis. actually, the more i think about it, new order get far too much kudos. they're old, boring and earnest. fuck em.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

Your complaints are noted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

appreciated...

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

They won't be acted upon, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, but if i can just make one person cringe when they listen to new order's lyrics...and if that one person checks him/herself before ever buying another new order album....success!

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hm. I have other goals.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 03:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've heard that one a lot: "But the lyrics are so bad!" *yawn* Next...

― steve, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 03:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Everybody upthread is OTM.
While, 'Power, Corruption and Lies' may have (barely) higher highs, 'Technique' is supremely consistent and one of the best sequenced album I've heard. The closing 'Vanishing Point' - 'Dream Attack' combo is just godly. I could do without 'Fine Time' which doesn't really go anywhere but it works as an opening salvo.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 06:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

I totally agree on Technique's consistency, and also on its crispy, autumn-y sound. This is one of my fave albums ever, let alone one of the best of the '80s. I really like the kind of dreamy serenity of this album, a band who've accomplished so much and now just concentrate on their strenghts. And, as said a couple of times upthread, the closing couple of "VP"-"DA" is heaven.

― Janne (Janne), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 06:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

I first hear it on a train from Waterloo and as the power stations and football pitches fly past, I want to get out and race the train to the sound of this perfect, perfect music.

The day before this record came out I had a very lucid dream that I was listening to it and it was the most fantastic thing I had ever heard. When I woke up I ran straight to the record shop to buy it and ran straight home again... and it WAS!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 07:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Power, Corruption And Lies" and "Sub Culture" are the best New Order albums

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

That would be "Low Life", not "Sub Culture" (which is the best track on that album anyway though)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

"absolutely brimming over with wrongability"

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

"60 MPH" is a fantastic song and _Get Ready_ is their second-best album after _Movement_ (_Technique_ is third).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

60 MPH is indeed awesome, but Technique is def. up there. What about PCL?

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

_PCL_ is fourth.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

the best pop album ever made. it's as simple as that.
can't say why. isnt that what's great though about the greats ?

bernard butler's favourite album of all time too.

other thoughts :
http?//ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=1086897

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

yanno, i still can't get my head around why people rate the first Electronic album so highly. actually, of the three albums they put out, i favour it the least. and have been known to have (admittedly slightly piss-taking) conversations with people about the merits of the other two, and specifically how Raise the Pressure would be a boy-band album shot straight to number one in an alternate universe. XD

Technique is a great album, no question. probably their best whole album, in fact. it's consistently good all the way through. as to complaints about Bernard's questionable lyrical ability, i've argued before that with NO, it' s the whole package moreso than individual components. admittedly some lyrics do make me cringe (i think it's a B-side from one of the "60 MPH" singles that contains the line "you keep me feeling fresh; we're driving down that highway" which always makes me think it belongs in a commercial for feminine hygiene products), but for the most part, i don't see how they're torn apart so often and with such abandon. i wouldn't say they're brilliant, but that doesn't mean they don't work a good portion of the time.

and although i'd argue that it's technical perfection, i wouldn't say Technique is my favourite, because Low-Life is. despite the sinful truncation of "The Perfect Kiss" and "Elegia" edits which are onboard. and probably mostly because of "Face Up," which never fails to amuse me. mmm, Bernard sounding psychotically gleeful. :)

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

the lyrics from 60MPH don't just make me cringe, (especially that bit about having the devil round for tea) they practically bring on an epileptic fit
despite that, New Order are my favourite band of all time. Vanishing Point is so unbearably sad and beautiful, it rarely fails to bring tears to my eyes.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 21:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Technique is great, I wonder if it'll stand the test of time though (I'm sure it will), just that it's wrapped up in what was going on at the time. It doesn't sound like New Order before then either which is good. "Fine Time" is the best ever New Order single. My Granfather liked "Round and Round" when it was on Top of the Pops.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 21:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

60 MPH" is a fantastic song and _Get Ready_ is their second-best album after _Movement_ (_Technique_ is third).

Took me a while to get into 60 MPH, honestly. Liked Crystal and Rock The Shack better, poss. due to Bobby Gillespie on backing vocal.

No doubt Technique is class. Rates second for me, as there isn't a dud song in the bunch.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

thats the beauty of new order. you can listen to every album all the way through with no problems. i cant say the same thing about most other artists..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

you can listen to every album all the way through with no problems.

MAYBE YOU CAN. Whenever I hit "The PErfect Kiss" or "Sub-Culture" on _Low-Life_, all I can think is "FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY CAN'T THIS MAN CARRY A TUNE??????"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

right after I wrote that I thought to myself 'however, that subculture is one piece of garbage' but perfect kiss!? thats in my personal top 5.

but still.. one out of 60-75 aint bad.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

i never understood the rabid dislike for "subculture" and "state of the nation". when i first heard the Substance double-disc set at the tender age of 13 i didn't hear a single dud track.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

(second CD i ever owned fact fans)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Jim is OTM. The Sub-Culture remix on Substance is fantastic, Robie outdid himself on the breakdown.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Subculture is pretty good, but 'State of the Nation'?? That one is truly unbearable.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 23 October 2003 06:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

Vague Technique facts...

The Other Two wrote the theme for a TV drama called"Making Out" (on telly 88ish based aroudn the workers in a small Manchester electronics factory) featuring Keith Allen as the boss. The theme was expanded upon and became... was it Vanishing Point. anyone better able to remember the theme and able to tally Technique trax with titles?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2003 10:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Surely it was the other way around? "Making out"'s first series used "Vanishing point" as it's main theme and occasional background music and everyone loved it so much that the BBC commisioned the Other Two to do incidental music for the second series.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

Technique is superb. Fine Time not only is the best tune to check out new speakers, it's also a great way to check out whether your double glazing shakes. But no, not their best LP, because none of them are their best, each has its merits and majesty. Dan, Ned & Tom will know how I feel about NO so I'll shut up, but everyone who's written something nice about any NO LP is right. Everyone else should try listening again.
"Ibiza, Menorca, and Benidorm too...."

― Rob Wosley, Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Rob W! Good to see you here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

I think the TV series was before the album, because when the record came out the BBC put out some kind of press release saying it was their music and New Order replied saying no it wasn't. Something like that. It was in the NME or MM. Let's ask Jerry the Nipper, he'll know.

I listened to what used to be side 2 of Technique yesterday, and it was very good but... I don't know. It is FUNNY and SAD at the same time. Back in the block party era I though Fine Time was great and everything else came a long way behind. I think I was right.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

I re-listened to it too, and Fine Time, to me, is still the same, the silly bit of (grebt) fun at the start of a much stronger album. Sad to say I am twee enough that the breakdown at the end of Run had me a teensy little moist round the eyes (approx when the synth line finishes its first run)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

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I'm finally starting to get Technique---"Fine Time" is a weird opener, I think, jagged & herky-jerky, not anthemic, not particularly melodic: it never brings me into the album. It would work fine as a side 2 track album (I don't mean on *this* album, I mean in terms of the album pacing I prefer). But if I kinda don't pay attention to that opening, "All The Way" gets things started just right.

But yeah, the first Electronic album is a classic, as are the remixes & b-sides.

― Euler, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

o_O I think "Fine Time" is ALL anthem and melody!

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe I'm too young

― Euler, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

much too young

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

o_O I think "Fine Time" is ALL anthem and melody!

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, October 28, 2011 3:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Completely agree! And as a statement, it can't be beaten either.

― Turrican, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Fine Time" is also a ridiculously great album starter, one element after another continually built up to create the full song -- it's notable that one of the most stereotypical New Order elements, Hook's bass, is the last thing to appear after everything else, almost like it's the sudden new anchor to the song that slams everything else back into an overall context.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

abs.

― Mark G, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

That's precisely right, re: Hook's bass on the track. The curious thing is that until it kicks in, I don't find myself missing it!

― Turrican, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

also "All the Way" is my least favorite song on the album by some distance; I generally skip it

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha yeah that's great. maybe what's going on is that I love NO firstly as a rock band & only secondly as a dance band? Both elements are there in all their best work, but "Fine Time" forefronts the dance side & "All The Way" forefronts the (folk) rock side.

― Euler, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

That's fair enough. When it comes to their 'dance' side, I think 'Fine Time' is one of their best... I definitely prefer it to stuff like 'Shellshock' and 'Confusion'!

― Turrican, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

I vividly recall unwrapping the Technique cassette and listening to the opening track on the drive home. It was stunning, thrilling, unexpected. Still my favorite album of all time. Electronic's debut is in my top 5. Rewound Tighten Up so many times I'm surprised the tape didn't break.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Fine Time sampled nicely in this track.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

I had forgotten how effective the 1-2 closing punch of "Vanishing Point"/"Dream Attack" is; I actually almost never listen to this whole album front to back these days so playing the whole thing is a fresh experience all over again.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

"All The Way" was for a long time my favorite song. I'd never heard a "confessional" song with a bass track so muscular.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

xxxpost:

Listening to Neil Tennant singing about driving his car 'bloody well' on 'The Patience Of A Saint' brought a smile to my face! Great electronic snare sound on that track as well.

― Turrican, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'd like to put forward the opinion that if you removed Bernard Sumner's vocal from 'Guilty Partner', and got Martin Hannett to produce the backing track, you'd have the makings of a Joy Division track.

― Turrican, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

but why on earth would you do that?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

because it would sound murky and forlorn and awesome?

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

("Guilty Partner" is one of my faves off of the album)

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

but it already sounds murky, forlorn, and awesome!

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

it sounds crisp, forlorn and awesome

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

well, it's my least favorite song: the chorus is meh. But that massive synth wash at the end (and more thrusting Hook bass).

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

'Guilty Partner' is one of my favourites from the album as well, the moments where the chorus kicks in are so powerful for me.

― Turrican, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm unsure about 'best band of all time'

They're in a toss-up with two other bands for me. Lean towards them, mostly.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah Guilty Partner was always my least fave track; sticks out too much. oddly enough i was present when they played it live for the first time ever! didn't like it any more after that though either.

― piscesx, Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

xpost

What are the two other bands?

― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

When my roommate first played this for me in high school, I absolutely hated it. I couldn't stand the synths and could barely get past the first track. It was only about twenty years later that I realized how unbelievable the songwriting is and that the balance between the synth stuff like Vanishing Point and Hooky acoustic songs like All the Way is just about perfect. My favorite LP of theirs by some distance.

― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 30 October 2011 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

I find a lot of New Order's charm stems from the fact that it orbits "best band of all time" almost entirely by accident, and certainly barely by design.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2011 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah. Well put.

― tubby permacrocked whorefucker (Lostandfound), Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

What are the two other bands?

My Bloody Valentine and Roxy Music (and sometimes also The Jesus and Mary Chain and Pulp)

― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 6 November 2011 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

crikey yeah Electronic wipes the floor with Republic or Brotherhood IMO.

oh hell no

― John Lennon, Sunday, 6 November 2011 01:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

"got plenty of love for Republic but anyway - "Some Distant Memory" is the true hidden gem on that first Electronic album (the oboe part!)"

was just going to say this; my favorite song on the album, beats several NO songs for me as well. I think the first Electronic album certainly beats Brotherhood/Republic/Get Ready/Sirens.

― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2011 18:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

I knew ILE was home when I discovered six years ago the "Some Distant Memory" love.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 November 2011 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

some distant memory is also a favorite of mine. the electronic album is the best thing sumner was ever involved in, in my opinion. absolute masterpiece.

― zingzing, Sunday, 1 January 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

I found a sealed LP copy of Technique at an antique store last week!

― sleeve, Monday, 2 January 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I played Technique on LP over the Christmas Break. It's still my favorite album.

RE: Electronic, did those who would be interested get the great Greg Wilson edit of Getting Away With It? it's 11mins long!

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

never heard of that Greg Wilson edit, where can I hear it?

― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 07:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

There's a .wav on Wilson's Soundcloud, along with extensive sleevenotes: http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/electronic-getting-away-with

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Friend of mine just got this vanity plate (Technique's catalogue #)

Bummed I didn't think of it first.

― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

some distant memory is also a favorite of mine. the electronic album is the best thing sumner was ever involved in, in my opinion. absolute masterpiece.

― zingzing, Sunday, January 1, 2012 6:30 PM (9 months ago)

Can't agree with the second and third sentences but otm x 1000 on the second.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:40 (7 months ago) Permalink

*the FIRST that is

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

Spotted a one-line mention in this months Mojo that New Order are about to go back into the studio to work on an "electronic" album. I assume the style, not the side project.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

Bernard has most of an album written with Stuart Price producing. Wonder if any of that will turn up on this as New Order rather than the solo project.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 02:27 (7 months ago) Permalink

why did my mind briefly think you'd said 'stuart murdoch' and actually start wondering what that would be like

― whining boom (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 02:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

still have very distinct memories of buying this on cassette at a strip-mall record store in 1989.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:21 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

in los angeles IIRC

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:21 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

I remember buying this on cassette from the local indie shop and not even realising it was released. To this day I still don't know if I got it early.

And then I proceeded to play it at least once a day for months.

― Culture Cub (I am using your worlds), Thursday, 30 May 2013 01:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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