I feel so extraordinary somePoll's got a hold on me: NEW ORDER artist poll #37 (RESULTS thread)

16 Here To Stay 1

aw, nobody else voted for the vid?

Sumner's best lyrics on the first Electronic album.

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.

well, Substance isn't an album, and Get Ready is post-peak. Republic's position makes sense.

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.

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.

I wasn't going to vote for it until I saw that other people were

Yeah I voted for Substance - it's easily the record of theirs I've played most.

Lots of people apparently consider it an album.

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.

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.

Two of my first six CDs were Substance!

Is that because it's a double cd or did you buy it twice?

Two of my first six CDs were Substance but one was by Joy Division

The other was by Bocca Juniors.

Factory Records and Boys Own were my cultural centers. Unfortunately, I was on a one man island, isolated from what was happening and only able to read about it in British publications a month or three after the fact.

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5 Brotherhood
Released: 29 September 1986
Acclaimed Music ranking: 34 1986, 306 80's Decade, 1605 All-Time
469 Points, 24 Votes

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4. Movement
Released: 13 November 1981
544 Points, 24 Votes, 4 Number Ones

thought this would be higher

should be #1

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

getting that 9 corrected

#9?!

the first time i heard movement i was around 12, it was playing in a record store downtown and i asked the clerk if it was joy division and he snickered and said 'uh NO. it's new order.' i'd always filed it as awkward and them finding their sea legs, probably would've slotted behind brotherhood for the longest time but the reissues a couple of years back (and specifically disc two of the movement one being my favorite volume or whatever of new order period) really raised it in my estimation, i think i had it third but just barely.

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3. Low-Life
Released: 13 May 1985
Acclaimed Music ranking: 7 1985, 66 80's Decade, 444 All-time
633 Points, 28 Votes, 1 Number One

I would like Low-Life so much were it not for the album versions of the singles and "Face Up"

i love the face up intro fake out

i don't know what's NOT to love about 'face up' but w/e

woo!

Trying to think of a wider gap in quality between the album and single versions of a song than "Subculture". Coming up short.

album sub-culture towers over the single is what I hope you're saying

the queasy, unsteady vocals enhance the middle stretch of the album (basically "This Time of Night" through "Sooner Than You Think", which I believe is their finest run of songs off of the albums between Movement and Technique) but absolutely destroy the rest of the album, particularly "Face Up" and the album version of "Subculture"

Haha no, I was agreeing with DJP. Maybe if I hadn't heard the single version first, I'd think of the album version as one of those half-assed NO tracks that is charming because of how quickly it was put together. But since I did, it sounds no-assed.

i'd agree that sub-culture is probably sumner's weakest vocal effort of that period, but it still comes off as charming to me. that, with hook's menacing disco bass, win me over. also not a fan of their remix stuff with john robie (too shrill & thin sounding).

(well strictly speaking "Elegia" isn't a song since it has no vocals but still)

also Vinnie is super OTM; I was so so so excited to hear Low-Life based off of the Substance 12" versions of its singles and actually sitting down with it basically felt like the band was laughing at me (awesome middle section aside)

Give it time. In the end you will in the end you will

Low Life is essential for students of Bernard's vocal stylings ("oh HOW I CAN-NOT BEAR the THOOOOOUGHT OF YOOOOO").

just reading that is making my skin crawl

"Sooner Than You Think" is a mad underrated lil narrative.

xp standard bearer for a proud lineage of whoops and oooophs

(it was after this album that I decided I would never see New Order live because I didn't think I could take Bernard's voice in a live setting)

SOMETIMES IN LIFE YOU TAKE A TUMBLE

Yeah, Sooner Than You Think never gets enough credit

Y'all are being way too hard on Bernard's singing!

ooh!

I'm seeing them for the first time in July, will report back on whether Mr. Sumner is up to the task.

Don't let anybody tell you that you're no good, cuz you know they would.

Imagining what a masterpiece Shannon would have made of "This Time of Night" is a fruitless exercise.

I truly have 0 problems with his singing -- I think it's charming, enthusiastic, and full of character.
Ooh!

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2 Power Corruption & Lies
Released : 2 May 1983
Acclaimed Music ranking: 6 1983, 73 80's Decade, 477 All-time
728 Points, 29 Votes, 5 Number Ones

whew!