Search and Destroy : New Order

oh, THIS is 'age of consent'?

Lose 'Thieves Like Us'? Together with 'Lonesome Tonight' you could make a case for it being the best thing they ever did. (You'd be wrong, but not far off.)

More underrated goodness:

Hurt
Sooner Than You Think
Way of Life

Following the Movement poll, I've been obsessed by Chosen Time

I saw New Order in 1984 when they played Perfect Kiss for the first time ever and they also played Decades as an encore. So there.

you guys are all SO goth!

I saw New Order in 1984 when they played Perfect Kiss for the first time ever and they also played Decades as an encore. So there.

I've got a cock
It looks like the M1
It's long and thin
It's got a white line down it

It curls about
It curls about
There's crashes on it
And service stations too

For Brits, have just noticed that Spotify has the deluxe versions of all the LPs online now. Am going to go and binge!

Can you explain that last comment?

Spotify - anyone heard of it?

x-post what HI DERE said, but also:

Spotify: http://www.spotify.com/en/

Allows you to play back albums in full over the internet, legally. They have added all New Order's 80s albums very recently, previously they only had Technique and Low Life.

So is it like lastfm?

They have music online also

Kind of, except last.fm has much more limited album playback capabilities. It's more internet radio, whereas Spotify bills itself as a medium through which to play back whole albums, as well as offering radio functionality.

so its like Deezer?

x-post Lots more discussion on that thread linked to above though, don't want to derail this one!

I am playing it now, would you believe - 'Ceremony'

destroy

everything's gone green

oh, THIS is 'everything's gone green'?

these titles always escaped me.

Destroy Ceremony? You're crazy.

OK, keep it

I've moved on to GO SAILOR !!!

out loud, to self, before clicking on thread: "bimble woke this up"

I assume/think this for 100 percent of post-punk threads woken up in the AM hours of the night (US time).

And 90 percent of the time, it's true.

pinefox, do you even like new order, wtf

have the fixed the remaster issues?

they

Not so far as I know.

Still no official word, but apparently Warners have got someone in charge of 'sorting out the mess'. There's more over at the NOO forum.

I like some of their records, yes, thanks

that's why I posted to a Search & Destroy thread about them

answering questions on an ilm thread two days later. i'd say classic.

I dug up my "Gerry and the Holograms" single recently.

for those of you who may not know, Mhannet jumped from Rabid records to Factory, and the dudes left behind founded Absurd records.

Let's just say it bears a remarkable resemblance to a NO 12" single of note. and was made at least a year before it....

To be honest, I have a couple of the reissues and still don't hear any issues worth complaining about.

Can't say I ever noticed how much Gerry and the Holograms sounds like Blue Monday. Pretty amazing. I have a few of the Absurd releases, Blah Blah Blah, Eddie Fiction and 48 Chairs. The 48 Chairs single is a total classic.

Holy shit really? I haven't heard that Gerry & The Holograms thing in a few years now. I remember it being very good. I'll have to relisten. Don't know Eddie Fiction. Wasn't impressed with either Blah Blah Blah or 48 Chairs.

I'm only familiar with it because of the remix that ended up on that Diplo/Santogold 'Top Ranking' mix last year.

Well I'm listening to it now and don't see much of a similarity, I'm afraid. Only if you were specifically looking for one, I guess...

I saw New Order in 1984 when they played Perfect Kiss for the first time ever and they also played Decades as an encore. So there.

wait seriously? damn

The similarity is mostly to BM's sequenced bassline.

Someone must be more goth than both of us, John.

OK, time zones it is..

Anyhow,

Can't say I ever noticed how much Gerry and the Holograms sounds like Blue Monday

It's the same bassline, it's the same tune!

Blimey.

check: http://www.go-quick.co.uk/Holograms.MP3

Doesn't want to load, mate. Sorry. Anyway, drunkards on this side of the Atlantic who have to go to work at a 9 to 5 tomorrow need to go to bed now. It's 2:20 AM. Goodnight.

http://www.go-quick.com/holograms.mp3

(Think I'd know my own website address...!)

@J0hn D:

I was at that same Billy Barty's Roller (Disco) Fantasy gig in 1983, as well as the Florentine Gardens show a couple of nights earlier. Fantastic show. Love it that someone recorded it from the soundboard and it's out there in FLAC. (I'd forgotten Barney's "If you like this, you must like Ronald Reagan." quote - classic)

Just such a bizarre venue for a gig. A GoldenVoice one at that.

Strangely, in an interview Tom (their US label guy) said the Florentine Gardens show was "crap". Yet I clearly remember at one point thinking, "My entire reason for being is to be standing here seeing this magnificent band play this music." (OK, so I was young and overwhelmed.)

@Millsner:

"Cries And Whispers" is my all-time favorite NO track. They only played it live a few more times after that Billy Barty's gig. I'm glad (and lucky) I heard them do it, in retrospect.

seen this yet?

http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.com/

spaaaaffff

thanking u

Very cool! Thanks for posting the link. Most exciting is this from the August 4th post:

Once the remaining ten singles are done there'll be some more surprises to wrap up New Order's Factory years. Remember that rarities box set you wished Retro was going to be? Yeah.

i expect to see NO back at the top of the ilx last.fm charts this month