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

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.

this has got to be one of their most fan-dividing songs, no?

I just put the single version on the playlist ^_^

also album version 4 life

one of my favorite pieces of doggerel ever: "A view without a room/unveils the truth so soon"

Lonesome Tonight far too low - also the first song i ever learned on bass, its really easy!

I honestly don't understand how ppl can dislike the backing vocals on the single version

The whole thing is basically joy distilled into a knife

I was seriously tempted to use the sad keanu pic for this song

I do actually like the menacing march that the album version builds into, it's just a shame about what happens before that point

Bernard wouldn't be above writing "I've joy distilled into a knife/I knew that you would be my wife."

"/goodbye city life"

I can't stop focussing on what sounds like an out of time bass sequencer when I hear the 12" version.

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23. Run
From: Technique
Released: 28 August 1989 (single) and 30 January 1989 (album)
573 Points, 26 Votes
*Run 2 was taken out and listed as a separate song: 80 Points, 4 Votes (if added it would jump two spots to number 21 with 653 points.)

That sounds to me to be very intentionally on the offbeat to add a more dynamic rhythmical sense to the song; the bass line makes the 12" version gallop and the album version is very lumpen and stolid in comparison.

man, I used to really hate "Run" and then one day it just CLICKED

still didn't vote for it though

(part of my issue is that it doesn't feel like the song starts lyrically until the second verse)

"Run 2" was remixed by Scott Litt from the version on Technique, hence the appendage of "2" to the title. The main difference is that the song has been made more radio-friendly by editing down most of the long instrumental run-out and appending it with a final repeat of the chorus. Litt's mix strips back much of the echo and layers of synthesizers, and in place centres the mix on Sumner's vocal and the bass guitar of Peter Hook. Despite the effort taken to produce a radio single, only 20,000 of the Factory 12" release were ever pressed. 500 7-inch records were also pressed, for promotional use. The single was only released in the UK.

No way. Run and Run 2 should be counted together, IMO. Looked for this 12" for years and when I finally broke down and bought one on Discogs, I ended up finding 2 locally the same week.

Somehow lucked into a copy of the 7" as well. If you're a fan of this song you should seek out the demo/mix collection online. There's an instrumental version that rules.

"81/82 EP is the single best New Order disc, record, artifact."

Yup. Got it at a record fair shortly after release, nothing was ever the same.

'Run' was one of only two songs off Technique that I didn't vote for.

Still a great track though.

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.

I probably rated this higher than it deserves because this was the first song (on Substance) by NO that really clicked with me. Agreed about the production -- tho I have a soft spot for John Robie. Chorus is all-time, however.

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22. Confusion
From: Confusion
Released: August 1983
603 Points, 28 Votes

YES!

what an amazing song.

http://open.spotify.com/track/3QDbZBqR93chaaMuNScmrc

are people familiar with the Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix used in the first club scene in "Blade"? because that owns

(also for whatever reason the "Confusion" 12 " mix on Spotify won't play for me)

The '87 version is alright, too, in its sloppy Brotherhood way.

There's only one more spot for Regret to take without breaching the top 20. Will ILM be burned to the ground or not? I guess we'll know soon.