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

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.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a22UPthh5PE/Uaj4_8XtnLI/AAAAAAAAASg/t2Cl2uFpE1w/w640-h320-no/23+Run.jpg

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.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fi74N5WVaSQ/Uaj_2oF5iwI/AAAAAAAAATM/y8H8iRE1I5A/w640-h320-no/22+Confusion.jpg

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.

Another instance of the alternate versions being better than the 'Substance' version. The Rough Mix is my fav but the 2002 Koma and Bones mixes were great too.

trying & failing to find the clp on Youtube where Baker is behind the mixing desk & explaining who did what on Confusion - "I brought the Funhouse handclaps" *pushes up the fader* etc

I do like the Substance version but I do prefer pretty much every other version of "Confusion" that I've heard more

ooh found it! http://youtu.be/6qARnXpMiUY?t=2m52s

It's alright, but better than 'Doubts Even Here'!? (I feel this is going to be a recurring thing throughout the remainder of this poll).

"they brought the melody and i brought the beat", should be edited to say "and I recycled a beat I used with Freez just a bit earlier in the year".

Hearing the original "Confusion" ten years (!) After the Substance one was revelatory. I prefer it to Blue Monday, in part because the "Confusion" sound ruled Miami radio for years i.e freestyle.

Outside of my top five or six, ranking was nearly impossible.

FYI I ended up sticking the 12" instrumental on the playlist because it's awesome

I also left the Pump Panel remix because it's also awesome

although I just found a cover on a Cleopatra tribute album that I'm tempted to throw on there

http://open.spotify.com/track/6lUZmqOHe9nLRg4DfPW7J8

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5chaWyM6ZbQ/UakDkd87QsI/AAAAAAAAAT4/axrRrgS00Ao/w640-h320-no/21+Fine+Time.jpg

21. Fine Time
From: Technique
Released: 28 November 1988 (single) and 30 January 1989 (album)
648 Points, 27 Votes

TOO LOW

This song is both ridiculous and awesome.

i have something to do, will be gone for about an hour. when i come back:

Top 20

Haaated this song the first time I heard it. I remembering being incredibly put off that there was no real chorus, found the synths repetitive and annoying. Now, #13 on my ballot.

I'm about to turn into a reunion pumpkin so someone else should take over updating the Spotify playlist, which I will repost here so ppl don't have to search the thread:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/62YSDYuNcMWbrUBYTl8kh6

Sorry y'all, but I have to set fire to ILM now. I promised.

lol @ "MDMA"

Fine Time graphic is so perfect. Looks like the pattern of a soccerball and the colors from the actual single. Nicely done.

Best song on Technique!

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.

Yes, exactly. Very similar problem with "1963" for me. Despite this, these were my favourite NO songs upon getting on the wagon in 1986-87. Before hearing the rest of the catalogue it even gave the band a 'guilty pleasure' status for a while, in my juvenile mind. But pleased to see "ADL" this high. Another one where I hadn't the foggiest idea if anyone else rated it.

lol @ "MDMA"

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, May 31, 2013 8:32 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup, me too! :D