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

Just watching the BBC radio 1 TV broadcast from 1983. Temptation is the only one Barney doesn't royally screw up. I remember staying up till 2 or 3 am in the hope they would show the Love Will Tear Us Apart vid. Oh the days before the internet....

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42. Sunrise
From: Low-Life
Released: 13 May 1985
303 Points, 19 Votes

i thought this was a lock for my Top 5 before doing my list, just dropped to 11.

Terrific unhinged Bernard gitar!

I expected this would place higher, being one of their most-requested songs at gigs.

Sunrise was one of the last songs I cut from my ballot. I voted for six out of the eight songs on Low-Life in the end.

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41. Guilty Partner
From: Technique
Released: 30 January 1989
309 Points, 17 Votes

and here comes the technique juggernaut :)

Noice. Voted for this one, but not sure I've ever heard anyone else ever mention it.

I wonder if anything off Technique will actually miss out? Guilty Partner came last in the Technique poll a few years back.

It was the least immediate track on Technique for me, but I've grown to like it. It fits well as a closer to side A.

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40. World (The Price Of Love)
From: Republic
Released: 23 August 1993 (single) and 3 May 1993 (album)
323 Points, 17 Votes

Yes! Love this song, glad to see others do too.

one of their finest pop moments

Reunited in a Day is the good remix btw xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost

"World" was dated even in 1993 but it's a terrific post-house track. With great remixes.

xpost yes! much better than the album cut

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39. Love Less
From: Technique
Released: 30 January 1989
340 Points, 20 Votes

world does nothing for me (nah nah nah nah), can't understand it placing whatsoever

It's crazy for New Order to ignore Technique live.

really, i never thought about that but you are right.

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38. Touched By the Hand Of God
From: Salvation! Soundtrack
Released: December 1987
370 Points, 19 Votes

I voted for every one of these.

'touched' was the first new order 45 i bought iirc

(and probably the only 45 from back then i still own)

Beautiful sleeve on Touched. It wasn't released as a single in America so we had to get it on the BM88 12". It's the best side of that single.

so the heavy metal band parody video of touched has something to do with the movie salvation? I never did get around to watching it.

love this picture, top notch Millsner.

I've always really liked Touched By The Hand Of God; it's not in my top twenty but it seems kind of slight and I like that! Isn't there a story about Tony Wilson saying this had a chorus so was lame, whereas Blue Monday never did so was awesome? Tried to find something on google but nothing much comes up.

Oh, And I have the 45 for this as well. It may even be the first New Order I bought. Hmm.

There's a version of it on the Japanese version of Salvation (and maybe somewhere else) that just crushes the other versions.

Bernard "Ace" Albrecht, ha! I guess we should refer to Ace this way in the rest of the thread!?

Love TBTHOG, especially with the video. Huge sound on this. Another in the great line of Ace lyrics that might be about wanking, too.

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37. Elegia
From: Low-Life
Released: 13 May 1985
392 Points, 23 Votes

Ah, the first New Order track I out-and-out loathe has placed. Never was the biggest fan of 'Touched By The Hand Of God', and to see it place over 'Guilty Partner' and 'Doubts Even Here' is frankly criminal. The video is brilliant, though.

I love 'Guilty Partner', whenever the chorus kicks in its an amazing moment... and that bit after the chorus and before the verses where the bass descends and the guitar climbs.

Elegia is too low as well.

Wiki:

According to drummer Stephen Morris in an interview with Select magazine in 1993, the album version of the song was a 5-minute highlight of a recording 17 and a half minutes long. As the internet became widely available, a poor-quality mp3, allegedly of this recording, surfaced in the mid-90's. However, it was not until the release of the compilation boxset, Retro, in 2002 that the full recording officially saw the light of day. The song was used as the conclusion to the bonus fifth disc included with early releases of the set. The mp3 that found its way onto the internet did appear to be the same as the song later released. This version was also released on the 2008 Collector's Edition of Low-Life.
Elegia is Latin for elegy.

The band have stated that the song was written in memory of Ian Curtis

SUNRISE TOO LOW!

yeah, i agree but it did get 19 votes.

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36. Face Up
From: Low-Life
Released: 13 May 1985
393 Points, 20 Votes

Yaaaaay

Ooh!

Touched received 370 points, didn't mess up the order...

HOW!?

lol

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35. Cries and Whispers
From: Everything's Gone Green (B-Side)
Released: December 1981
402 Points, 18 Votes

so good

yay! such energy

they can't play this song enough

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34. In A Lonely Place
From: Ceremony (B-Side)
Released: 6 March 1981
413 Points, 21 Votes

OK, the image scared me for a minute