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

'All Day Long' is undoubtedly one of my favourites... numerous reasons why this track tends to get overlooked: being buried away on Side Two of Brotherhood (quite possibly their weakest album of the '80s), not being aired very much live in comparison to other "beautiful" New Order tracks like 'Your Silent Face', not being a single.

Simply put, to me this is one of the most beautiful moments in the New Order back catalogue... those gorgeous keyboards throughout, and it kicks seven sorts of shit out of any other track on Brotherhood that isn't 'Bizarre Love Triangle'. Still feel it's a touch too low, though... alongside 'Doubts Even Here', this is one of my big big New Order favourites.

Movement is their weakest eighties album.

"All Day Long" and "Angel Dust" pair well, don't they? The latter sounds like an early incarnation of the disco metal they perfected on "Touched..."

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28. Shellshock
From: Pretty In Pink soundtrack
Released: March 1986
472 Points, 22 Votes

The 12" boasts an extended remix of the song running nearly ten minutes, arguably New Order's longest recording behind the original cut of "Elegia". For the release of the popular singles compilation Substance, the original Pretty in Pink soundtrack version was not used, as is widely believed, but an edited version of the 12" remix cut down to six and a half minutes omitting an entire verse of vocals. It is this version that appears most often on CD. As yet, the 9:41 single remix remains unavailable on CD, but the Pretty in Pink soundtrack version contains all of the original vocals. The cover artwork on the 12 inch single is by English photographer Geoff Power and is unique in that the typo 'Alex' on the front top cover [part of the found graffiti] was not added by Peter Saville, the designer.

Used Shellshock 12" mix with panning hi-hats to convince my Mom to buy a new car. One of my favorite sleeves and run-out grooves in the New Order catalog. 'So Hip It Hurts'

"After all the years, now i can't stand the tears, somethings gonna happen, shellshock"- That's the entirety of the omitted verse. Not very essential but it would have been nice if they had put the full version on Substance.

Huh, not sure I've heard the original version, only the version on Substance. Love how the intro trickles in slowly, and the weird little piano part before the vocals come in.

I don't think I've heard the Pretty in Pink version - it's different to the version on Substance, right?

I am going to have to bust out "Pretty In Pink" when I am next at my parents' house because I don't remember it being almost 10 minutes long

(I do remember the omitted verse; IIRC it fits into the spot where the random cutup is)

It's the 12" single that's nearly 10 mins long, I think the PIP version is about 6 minutes

ah okay that makes more sense now

Used Shellshock 12" mix with panning hi-hats to convince my Mom to buy a new car.

wait by what mechanism did this work

i understand them cutting it down for Substance, they needed the room. what i don't understand is why on the 2CD set that Rhino released in 2008 still has the shorter version. they could have easily put out the 10 minute version on that comp and have it on CD for the first time.

I've never heard it but maybe the extra four minutes are Bernard farting into the mic.

I'm a lover of 'Shellshock' and proud... it just has one of those choruses that appears in my head just out of nowhere and I'm all like "yup, I must listen to that immediately". The only criticism I can level at 'Shellshock' is that perhaps its production treatment hasn't aged as well as a lot of other '80s New Order tracks.

Brought Substance to the car dealer. Went for a test drive with her, played Shellshock loud and she was blown away by the sound system in the car. Don't think she had heard panning like that or electronic music before so it made an impact.

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27. Chosen Time
From: Movement
Released: 13 November 1981
488 Points, 18 Votes, 2 Number Ones

lyrics are a problem for All Day Long imo. My 29, but I think of them as Barney at his clumsiest, and they're both serious and front-and-centre. They get in the way for me.

tremendous. I'm surprised this wasn't even higher, based on the love it got in the nominations thread.

I'm still catching up on the playlist but it really throws me that one of the synth lines in "All Day Long" sounds like the beginning of "The Little Drummer Boy"

Love for Movement perplexes me, and probably the band too. Joy Division methadone at best.

lol

The appeal of Movement for me is the way that it sounds... I can't help but love the production on it, even if it *is* somewhat lighter in tone than the Hannett production treatments on the two Joy Division albums. I think I'd probably like Brotherhood a lot more if it didn't sound so scratchy and sloppy, and sounded more like Movement.

Movement rules because it was the only coherently assembled album with no outright clunkers or painful performances on it until Technique

It just sounds grey and indecisive to me. I should maybe try it again.

I'm sure i'm influenced by what i've read about their situation at the time but it sounds like a group of people overcome with inspiration, grief and fear. It took a while for me to really love I'm glad I stuck with it. Nothing else really sounds like it. Can you imagine if it had included Ceremony, In A Lonely Place and Procession?

Turrican otm. It's the singular sound that drew me to it.

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26. The Village
From: Power, Corruption & Lies
Released: 2 May 1983
492 Points, 26 Votes

no matter where this one was going to place it was going to be too low. a song that just makes me get up and dance. will put a smile on my face every single time. should have been a single.

my #9

haha this song is so great

there are seeds of the stuff I complain about in "Face Up" there but all of the components are working together instead of against each other; also Bernard doesn't sound like he's passing a kidney stone

I wasn't always into this, but it's one of the most joyous things they've ever recorded.

I absolutely love 'The Village', one of those New Order songs that fills me with so much joy I just wanna shake my arse, throw my arms wide and thank whatever forces are up there that music even exists. It's a thousand sunny days packed into under 5 minutes (or a lot of E, if you're that way inclined).

New Order really know their way around a 7-or-8-minute song. Temptation, Perfect Kiss, Thieves Like Us... I love how they just keep unfolding and unfolding until you're just surrounded by them.

toooooooooooooooootally

it received 492 points, will get that corrected.

It's the little things with this band that always get me: The "funk" guitar skittering throughout Chosen Time; the syncopated bass synth line that jumps an octave right at the end of The Village.

sorry that was a massive XP -
i think i came around to the idea of a long immersive song through NO tbh!
had never heard anything like that before, and theirs go down so easy

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25. Lonesome Tonight
From: Thieves Like Us (B-Side)
Released: April 1984
495 Points, 25 Votes

such a beautiful song

their greatest b-side?

I like "Procession" and "1963" more but "Lonesome Tonight" is great

procession had its own release, but I forgot about 1963. wasn't there a story that it was originally intended to be the A-side w/True Faith?

Procession is an A-side, technically. 8 different sleeve variations!

Yes, the Sound on Sound interview with the producer mentioned they weren't sure what would be the A-side until the very last moment.

"Lonesome Tonight" sounds like New Order and The Cure listening to each other and calling pax.

I just listened to lonesome tonight for the first time. it was awesome.

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24. Sub-culture
From: Low-Life
Released: November 1985 (single) and 13 May 1985 (album)
511 Points, 23 Votes

for this being such a big song, i'm surprised at the placing. i really thought that this one was going to be much higher.

Dan rigged the results to endure the album version took most of the hits

Record Mirror mix of this is the ultimate version. It's also one of the 3 Razormaid mixes but I can never remember which one.