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

also thanks to all the voters, makes ILM a special place.

The pleasure was all ours, Bee! Looking forward to your Boos poll, although I can't imagine it'll get as many ballots as this one has... still looking forward to it, though!

I have an odd half-memory that I learned about Blue Monday being the biggest selling 12" of all time from an episode of A Question of Sport. It's perhaps the most boring memory I have

I love this. I also reckon it wasn't a big seller at all, but that that story and the losing money one were cooked up specifically in a print-the-legend thing

Well, 'Blue Monday' went onto sell over a million copies on 12", so it was a big seller... I think they lost money on the original sleeve with the cut-outs (5p per sleeve), but apparently once that batch run out it was issued in a much less expensive sleeve, so the amount of money they actually lost is up for debate. They definitely didn't lose 5p on all the copies that were sold, if Peter Saville is to be believed.

1. Temptation
2. True Faith
3. All The Way
4. Regret
5. Leave Me Alone
6. This Time of Night
7. Weirdo
8. Ceremony
9. Lonesome Tonight
10. Confusion
11. Broken Promise
12. Age of Consent
13. Procession
14. Everyone Everywhere
15. Crystal
16. Dream Attack
17. Touched By the Hand of God
18. Senses
19. 1963
20. Face Up
21. Love Less
22. Morning Night and Day
23. Here to Stay
24. All Day Long
25. Dreams Never End
26. Mr. Disco
27. World (The Price of Love)
28. As It Is When It Was
29. Your Silent Face
30. The Village
31. Cries and Whispers
32. Perfect Kiss
33. Run
34. Krafty
35. Primitive Notions
36. Special
37. Round and Round
38. Sunrise
39. Angel Dust
40. Run Wild

ALBUMS

1. Technique
2. Low-Life
3. Brotherhood
4. PCL
5. Republic

VIDEOS

1. Confusion
2. Perfect Kiss
3. Crystal
4. Regret
5. Blue Monday '88

@Bee OK: Are there any songs from 1981-1993 that didn't get a vote?

I mean, it would be pretty interesting to see which are actually ILM's least favourite New Order songs from their most active time.

Pleased to see I wasn't alone in voting for "Don't Do It" or "Avalanche". :)

01 Procession
02 Ceremony
03 Age Of Consent
04 Dreams Never End
05 Leave Me Alone
06 The Perfect Kiss
07 Cries And Whispers
08 Face Up
09 Your Silent Face
10 Elegia
11 Thieves Like Us
12 Bizarre Love Triangle
13 Temptation
14 Regret
15 Mesh
16 Love Vigilantes
17 The Him
18 Broken Promise
19 Hurt
20 Chosen Time
21 I.C.B.
22 Guilty Partner
23 The Village
24 5 8 6
25 Everything's Gone Green
26 Truth
27 Vanishing Point
28 Sooner Than You Think
29 Angel Dust
30 Blue Monday
31 All the Way
32 Don't Do It
33 Sunrise
34 All Day Long
35 1963 [1987]
36 Lonesome Tonight
37 In a Lonely Place
38 Turn the Heater On
39 Avalanche
40 Here To Stay

Thanks Bee OK and Millsner!

36 Lonesome Tonight

Pathetic, my Naggy.

Thanks Bee OK and Millsner! This poll was a lot of fun!

Songs unweighted, any order would have taken too much time and to be honest, my favorites change regularly.

586
60 Miles An Hour
1963 [original B-side 7" Version]
All Day Long
All The Way
Bizarre Love Triangle
Californian Grass
Ceremony
Cries And Whispers
Dream Attack
Dreams Never End
Everything's Gone Green
Guilty Partner
Hey Now What You Doing
Hurt
I'll Stay With You
I.C.B
In A Lonely Place
Krafty
Leave Me Alone
Lonesome Tonight
Love Vigilantes
Mesh
Mr Disco
Murder
Procession
Regret
Run
Sooner Than You Think
Sunrise
Temptation [Original 12" Version]
The Perfect Kiss [Live version from Video]
Thieves Like Us
This Time of Night
Touched By The Hand Of God
True Faith
Vanishing Point
We All Stand
Weirdo
Your Silent Face

Albums I thought the comps. didn't count. Substance would have been my #3.

Movement
Technique
Power, Corruption and Lies
Low Life
Brotherhood
Waiting For The Sirens Call
Lost Sirens
Republic
Get Ready

Videos

Round And Round
Truth Faith
The Perfect Kiss
Shell Shock
Touched By The Hand Of God

Just wait 'til tomorrow.
I guess that's what they all say... just before they fall apart :/

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican)

These are some of my favourite lyrics ever.

I'm a tiny bit disappointed Ceremony beat out Regret (my second favourite song of all time) but can't complain really, this has been my favourite poll so far. One of the few polls where I like every song that's placed.

Great work Bee and Millsner

1. Regret
2. Thieves Like Us
3. All The Way
4. The Perfect Kiss
5. Vanishing Point
6. Round & Round
7. Bizarre Love Triangle
8. 1963
9. Waiting For The Siren's Call
10. True Faith
11. Dream Attack
12. Procession
13. Your Silent Face
14. Age of Consent
15. World (The Price of Love)
16. Ruined in a Day
17. Love Vigilantes
18. Crystal
19. Mr Disco
20. Leave Me Alone
21. Temptation
22. Elegia
23. Love Less
24. All Day Long
25. Guilty Partner
26. Everyone Everywhere
27. Vicious Streak
28. Touched By The Hand of God
29. Run Wild
30. Paradise
31. This Time of Night
32. Blue Monday
33. Dreams Never End
34. Ceremony
35. Face Up
36. Turn
37. The Village
38. Sooner Than You Think
39. Shellshock
40. We All Stand

1. Technique
2. Low-Life
3. Substance
4. Power, Corruption & Lies
5. Republic
6. Brotherhood
7. Get Ready
8. Movement
9. Waiting For The Siren's Call
10. Lost Sides

1. The Perfect Kiss
2. True Faith
3. Touched By The Hand of God
4. Ruined in a Day
5. Confusion

This has been a blast Bee and Millsner!

1-40

Ceremony
Everything's Gone Green
Blue Monday
True Faith
Doubts Even Here
Temptation
Dream Attack
Regret
The Village
The Perfect Kiss
1963
Bizarre Love Triangle
Round and Round
Shellshock
Age Of Consent
Vanishing Point
Your Silent Face
Thieves Like Us
Fine Time
Lonesome Tonight
586
Leave Me Alone
Procession
Guilty Partner
Face Up
Subculture
Confusion
Dreams Never End
Sunrise
Love Vigilantes
State of The Nation
Crystal
Touched By The Hand of God
Cries and Whispers
Ecstasy
Elegia
Run
Ultraviolence
Angel Dust
In A Lonely Place

Looking forward to your Boos poll

i want to update Wikipedia for the Boo Radleys poll. will have to learn how to update pages though, it looks kind of complex.

i'm doing Steely Dan next.

hooray! Just a couple of nights ago I was searching around assuming I'd missed the Steely Dan poll, would think it would be top of the ILM list.

5 number ones only ties Ceremony with Dream Attack.

― Millsner, Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:31 PM (Yesterday)

This kind of sums up the poll for me ... I never knew that people liked "Dream Attack" so much.

Why were remixes of Regret and 1963 counted separately? Wasn't Run 2 the only exception to this?

Many thanks to Millsner and Bee for doing this poll!

TRACKS (ranked)

Regret
Temptation
Fine Time
Ceremony
Bizarre Love Triangle
Leave Me Alone
Run
True Faith
1963
Blue Monday
Your Silent Face
All the Way
Dreams Never End
Truth
Everything's Gone Green
Lonesome Tonight
Perfect Kiss
Touched By the Hand of God
The Village
Round and Round
In a Lonely Place
Age of Consent
Love Less
Ruined in a Day
Krafty
Crystal
Confusion
Thieves Like Us
State of the Nation
Elegia
Love Vigilantes
World
World In Motion
Face Up
Vanishing Point
Waiting For the Sirens Call
Turn My Way
Rock the Shack
Everyone Everywhere
Turn

ALBUMS

Technique
Power Corruption and Lies
Get Ready
Low Life
Waiting for the Sirens Call

VIDEOS

The Perfect Kiss
Touched By the Hand of God
World
Confusion
Crystal

Why were remixes of Regret and 1963 counted separately? Wasn't Run 2 the only exception to this?

this is because that same person voted for "Regret" and "1963" separately. both times the originals came out on top. that is why i took out "Run 2" but now think that i should have included it with the original countdown.

my mistake

my ballot:

Blue Monday
Your Silent Face
Temptation
True Faith
Chosen Time
Dreams Never End
In A Lonely Place
Ceremony
I.C.B.
Denial
Thieves Like Us
Bizarre Love Triangle
Everything's Gone Green
Cries And Whispers
Ultraviolence
Hurt
The Village
Age of Consent
Angel Dust
We All Stand
Every Little Counts
Doubts Even Here
Procession
Ecstasy
5 8 6
Love Vigilantes
Mesh
Murder
The Him
Confusion
Sub-Culture
Elegia
The Perfect Kiss
Shellshock

I'll just share my top 10 and top 5 albums (and I like Turrican's putting the final rankings, so I'll bite that as well):

SONGS
1 The Perfect Kiss (#4)
2 Ceremony (#2)
3 Your Silent Face (#8)
4 Temptation (#1)
5 Regret (#5)
6 Bizarre Love Triangle (#6)
7 Dreams Never End (#17)
8 Age of Consent (#7)
9 Thieves Like Us (#16)
10 Everything's Gone Green (#13)

ALBUMS
1 Republic (#6)
2 Substance (#7)
3 Movement (#4)
4 Power Corruption and Lies (#2)
5 Brotherhood (#5)

My only real surprise is that Dreams Never End didn't end up in the top ten, I assumed there were enough Movement-heads voting to ensure that. All my friends have always hated Thieves Like Us, so I was prepared for that not ranking as high I ranked it. Another fun poll! Thanks to Bee OK and Millsner for their efforts, it was much appreciated. And now I'm going to spend some time listening to Low-Life, which I never gave the attention it probably deserves.

Kudos. Republic #1!

Temptation
Regret
Ceremony
True Faith
World
Krafty
Love Vigilantes
Leave Me Alone
Crystal
Let's Go
Age of Consent
Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Round and Round
Bizarre Love Triangle
Vanishing Point
1963
Elegia
Touched by the Hand of God
Dreams Never End
Confusion
All the Way
Shellshock
Thieves Like Us
All Day Long
Here To Stay
Turn
Face Up
Love Less
Run
The Village
The Perfect Kiss
Dream Attack
Every Little Counts
Rock the Shack
Lonesome Tonight
Cries and Whispers
Paradise
Weirdo
Run Wild
Special

Albums:
Substance
Low-Life
Technique
Waiting for the Sirens' Call
PCL
Brotherhood
Republic
Movement
Get Ready

Videos:
World
The Perfect Kiss
True Faith
Touched by the Hand of God
Confusion

I think I'm going to spend all tomorrow listening to New Order.

This poll:

http://blue-beards-and-jeans.tumblr.com/post/30813903833

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcqrk3ibsl1rylhq2o1_500.gif

wow you guys really don't like Blue Monday do you

I like showing the 12" to teenagers and seeing if they can figure out what it is.

wow you guys really don't like Blue Monday do you

if ILM didn't like the song it would not have shown up in the Top 10. "Blue Monday" had over exposure to deal with and it still landed at number 9.

in other words, i'm impressed with its standing. a true classic, still in 2013.

Also most of us prefer Fanta Orange to Sunkist, which didn't help.

More seriously, I feel like most of my top ten, save the top three, could have gone in almost any order. New Order's singles and best album tracks just have a very large top tier.

44 ballots, 33 votes for Blue Monday, makes 11 who do not like it.

Blue Monday placing #9 feels like an overcorrection to me -- even as I had it at 10.

Vanishing Point
Age of Consent
True Faith
Run
Chosen Time
In a Lonely Place
Shellshock
Perfect Kiss
All the Way
Blue Monday
Bizarre Love Triangle
Ceremony
Face Up
Weirdo
Love Less
1963
Temptation
Thieves Like Us
All Day Long
Everything's Gone Green
Leave Me Alone
Doubts Even Here
Regret
Dream Attack
Waiting for the Siren's Call
Love Vigilantes
Procession

Technique
Power, Corruption and Lies
Movement
Brotherhood
Low Life

xpost Or 11 people who didn't bother voting for it because they knew it would end high no matter what and wanted to lend their support to some other song.

it's just weird to me, people saying it's "overplayed," because I NEVER hear that song and it's so obviously great

I hear the '88 remix a bunch on one of the local commercial radio stations.

they don't play any version on the radio here, though I guess I should be glad because I don't like the '88 version

In the early-mid 2000s Blue Monday felt like the token 'pop' moment on a million electro house mixes.

Except maybe for my #1 (and absence of "Blue Monday"), this is like all my ballots where I'm just a casual fan--what a K-Tel best-of would look like:

1. “All Day Long” (50)
2. “Dreams Never End” (46)
3. “Ceremony” (43)
4. “Temptation” (40)
5. “Love Vigilantes” (38)
6. “Bizarre Love Triangle” (36)
7. “Fine Time” (35)
8. “The Perfect Kiss” (34)
9. “Your Silent Face” (33)
10. “Everything’s Gone Green” (32)

"Blue Monday" is ok, but I like a bunch of other NO songs more. It was never a pop event in my world the way say "True Faith" was, and I like NO best when they mix the robotic and human more amply.

First things first: fantastic job on the poll, Bee and millsner! Thank you!

Here's my ballot:

Top Albums:
1. Technique
2. Brotherhood
3. Power, Corruption and Lies
4. Low-Life
5. Get Ready

Top Songs:
1. Dream Attack
2. Vanishing Point
3. Ceremony
4. Age of Consent
5. Procession
6. All Day Long
7. Love Vigilantes
8. Here to Stay
9. Dreams Never End
10. True Faith
11. Mr. Disco
12. Temptation
13. Bizarre Love Triangle
14. Round and Round
15. Blue Monday
16. Leave Me Alone
17. Ecstacy
18. Elegia
19. Your Silent Face
20. Guilty Partner
21. Everything's Gone Green
22. Sunrise
23. 1963
24. Someone Like You
25. Weirdo
26. The Perfect Kiss
27. 60 Miles an Hour
28. All the Way
29. In A Lonely Place
30. Way of Life
31. Waiting for the Sirens' Call
32. As it is When it Was
33. Krafty
34. Regret
35. Love Less
36. Doubts Even Here
37. Crystal
38. Best and Marsh
39. The Village
40. Primitive Notion

RE: 'Blue Monday'
Yeah, I didn't place it that high for two reasons: 1) I figured it was a lock for the top ten, if not the top five and 2) I like it, yet it's never been my favorite anything. It's certainly a landmark moment in pop music, and a darn catchy tune, but they also have such a strong catalogue. It's really remarkable when you think about the high quality of their output up until the early 90's.

Overall, I am disappointed in the top five, but I can't honestly say that it's not totally representative of some of their best work — which just speaks volumes about how great they were (and still are, to a certain degree).

Saw bunches of NO 12" at the record store yesterday -- the new arrivals bin looked like someone ~ 4 yrs older than me unloaded her entire youth into the bin. It was kinda sad!

My ballot. I've always thought of them as one of the best singles bands ever, so I didn't rank the albums, but this poll encouraged me to seek out good album tracks ("Your Smiling Face" was the big find for me, plus I've always loved "Close Range").

1 Temptation
2 1963
3 Love Vigilantes
4 Bizarre Love Triangle
5 True Faith
6 Vanishing Point
7 Close Range
8 Run
9 Blue Monday
10 Waiting For The Siren's Call
11 Regret
12 Age of Consent
13 Your Silent Face
14 Touched By The Hand of God
15 All Day Long
16 Ruined In A Day
17 Crystal
18 Fine Time
19 Round and Round
20 The Perfect Kiss
21 Shellshock
22 All The Way
23 Dreams Never End
24 Primitive Notion
25 Dream Attack
26 Paradise
27 Everything's Gone Green
28 Confusion
29 Sunrise
30 World In Motion
31 60 Miles An Hour
32 Run Wild
33 Let's Go (Nothing For Me)
34 State of the Nation
35 Leave Me Alone
36 Way of Life
37 The Village
38 World
39 Subculture
40 Every Little Counts

Great poll, good work Bee & Milsner!

Here's my ballot, mainly compiled using my iTunes playcounts,

1 Your Silent Face
2 Temptation
3 The Perfect Kiss
4 Ceremony
5 Thieves Like Us
6 Blue Monday
7 1963
8 Everything's Gone Green
9 Bizarre Love Triangle
10 Confusion
11 Subculture
12 In A Lonely Place
13 Fine Time
14 Procession
15 State Of The Nation
16 Shellshock
17 True Faith
18 Lonesome Tonight
19 5-8-6
20 Age Of Consent
21 Dreams Never End
22 Murder
23 Hurt
24 Elegia
25 Round & Round
26 The Village
27 Touched By The Hand Of God
28 Cries And Whispers
29 Leave Me Alone
30 Love Vigilantes
31 Ultraviolence
32 Doubts Even Here
33 ICB
34 The Beach
35 Run
36 We All Stand
37 Mr Disco
38 Truth
39 Guilty Partner
40 Vanishing Point

I didn't vote for Blue Monday even though if I would have actually voted what I know to be the best new Order tracks, it would have been top 5.

1. Temptation
2. Bizarre Love Triangle
3. Ceremony
4. Regret
5. Subculture
6. The Perfect Kiss
7. Fine Time
8. Love Vigilantes
9. Age of Consent
10. True Faith
11. Thieves Like Us
12. Face Up
13. Lonesome tonight
14. Blue Monday
15. Round and Round
16. All the way
17. Love less
18. Run
19. Your Silent Face
20. 1963
21. Confusion
22. Every Little Counts
23. Mr Disco
24. Brutal
25. Vanishing Point
26. Dreams Never End
27. ICB
28. The Village
29. All Day Long
30. Crystal
31. Waiting for the Siren's Call
32. As it is when it was
33. Primitive Notion
34. Touched by the Hand of God
35. MTO
36. 586
37. Procession
38. In a lonely place
39. Here to stay
40. World in motion

Ordering after about 20 a bit arbitrary.

FORGOT:
Leave Me Alone. Should be top 20.

Oh, and thank you so much Bee and Millsner, Great roll-out, great images.

guess what I'm gonna do to you! whoo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWuwPIgydg

@Bee OK: Are there any songs from 1981-1993 that didn't get a vote?

this will be interesting to find out, have some things to do but will get back to you on this one.

the vote count you posted for the songs was complete right? we should be able to figure out the answer to that from those figures.

I always under-rate Temptation, probably because I have the original 7" and the snare is mixed too damn loud. Later mixes reveal the true glory of the tune. Anyway, I guess my ballot is pretty uncontroversial, although I would have liked to see Chosen Time and Ecstasy place higher than they did.

1. Ceremony
2. Chosen Time
3. True Faith
4. Blue Monday
5. Shellshock
6. Age of Consent
7. Leave Me Alone
8. Procession
9. Ecstasy
10. Regret
11. Doubts Even Here
12. World (Price of Love)
13. Bizarre Love Triangle
14. Confusion
15. The Perfect Kiss
16. Thieves Like Us
17. Dream Attack
18. Your Silent Face
19. Dreams Never End
20. Temptation
21. Everything’s Gone Green
22. Vanishing Point
23. 1963
24. The Village
25. Fine Time
26. We All Stand
27. 586
28. Sunrise
29. Someone Like You
30. Young Offender
31. Ultraviolence
32. Avalanche
33. Waiting for the Siren’s Call
34. 60 Miles an Hour
35. Crystal
36. Round and Round
37. Run 2
38. Liar
39. Subculture
40. All Day Long