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

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

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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

Key lyric of 'Fine Time': haahaah'h'h'h'haaah'hah'hahaaahaah'h'h'h'haaah'hahahaha *stereo pan*

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20. Leave Me Alone
From: Power Corruption & Lies
Released: 2 May 1983
656 Points, 27 Votes

trivial pursuit, new order edition!

Great idea! What would the categories be!?

Yay! My highest placed deep cut, IIRC. The guitar intro alone just about makes me weep.

A gift of fate Bernard was from Manchester and thus able to rhyme "book" and "luck"

didn't make my list but what a great closing for Power Corruption & Lies.

leave me alone is great because it's really easy to hear how it comes together in the beginning
i love their singsongy melodies -- is there a word for that?

would totally play new order trivial pursuit

oh i forgot the categories

LOVE SONGS
DANCE SONGS (haha between the two that's all of the songs)
LOL SONGS (this is for divisive songs and remixes)
BAND MEMBER TRIVIA
MINUTIAE
WILD CARD

Damn! I just realized I left Leave Me Alone off my ballot! It would have easily made my top 10.

New Order Trivial Pursuit Categories:

Chemicals
English Football
Discos
FACT #s
Dick references

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19. Round & Round
From: Technique
Released: 27 February 1989 (single) and 30 January 1989 (album)
714 Points, 29 Votes

The band recorded three versions:

The album version (4:29), which appears on Technique, emphasises drums and bass for a hard dance feel. It concludes with a cold ending in which the sequencers are run through phasers before then cutting out abruptly.

The 7" version (3:59) co-produced with Stephen Hague emphasizes the melody, synth pads, and vocals. It has a similar structure to the album track but replaces the instrumental break with a repeat of the intro, and fades out in conclusion. This is the version used in the video. Sumner remarked in a radio interview with Terry Christian on Key 103 that he was not fond of the plethora of "Round & Round" remixes and named the 'Stephen Hague Radio-Remix' as his favourite.

The 12" version (6:50) has a 2:45 intro sequence and stops cold before proceeding much as in the 7". It has a wash of synthesizers and a keyboard solo midway through the song. Also, the line "It makes me act like a child" repeats several times as the song ends. instead of fading out like the seven inch version, it ends in a manner closer to the original album version though less discordant.

when I discovered "Round and Round" in high school it was at the same moment I read Dorian Gray for the first time.

Argh, this is way too low. The ending on the album version is king!

this was also the time when friends started making fun of New Order's easy presets i.e. the ending

Dick references

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, May 31, 2013 9:40 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, yes! Totally!