I suddenly want to get a vinyl copy of this really badly. Sadly it's really hard to do a search for it on eBay. It does look like some copies with Getting Away With it on it came out. The album wouldn't seem right without it.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
This and Technique are Sumner's peak.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 14 March 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Looks like the versions with Getting Away With It leave off Gangster for some reason.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 March 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Really? They need to reissue this on vinyl with both those songs on as soon as possible then.
Think if I included this with all the New Order albums I'd rate only Technique and Low-Life higher. All three of them would be 10/10.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 15 March 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
It does look like some copies with Getting Away With it on it came out. The album wouldn't seem right without it.
The album wouldn't seem right with it.
― Charles, hatless (sic), Saturday, 15 March 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
The only version I've ever owned has it on there and as it's one of my favourite songs of all time I'd really miss it, even if it shouldn't be on there. It's the exact same situation as Virginia Plain on the first Roxy Music album.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 15 March 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah the original Uk vinyl and CD issue never had it on. same kinda deal as the re-issues of Meat Is Murder that have How Soon Is Now on them.
― piscesx, Saturday, 15 March 2014 05:55 (ten years ago) link
tighten up has the lovely creamy left-over-smiths guitar riff
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:35 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Saturday, 15 March 2014 06:33 (ten years ago) link
^ this is what i feel
I absolutely love some distant memory. I guess because it could so easily fit on technique..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 17 March 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
ILM's love of Some Distant Memory is what made me feel right at home when I stumbled here. That oboe solo outro still kills me after all these years
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 17 March 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
"getting way with it" is my least favourite track here. i don't like the strings on it, and in a way the song does not evolve after the good start. it just meanders around without a clear destination. it is still better than 95% of the music around but on this gorgeous album it is the stinker. my fave is definitely "feel every beat" which didn't fare too well in the poll. how it slowly builds up and gets better and better. and turns into a monster groove. that keyboard line soaked in reverb which reminds so much of matt johnson's "soul mining" cd. it is so incredibly light and airy. irresistible dance pop at its finest.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 17 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
"getting away with it", of course.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 17 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
getting away with it, yes. ok, i've not seen a pic of bernie since the mid 90s and was just confronted with the youtube spectacle of something from last year. i do hope he is well.
― into the aerosmith, over the sea (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
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― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
BETTER TO LIVE THAN TO KNOW
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Hehehehe... funny that this got bumped given that I'm currently up to the part in Chapter and Verse where Sumner and Marr are trying to promote this record while nursing killer hangovers.
(Although I haven't yet stopped laughing at the part where Ian Curtis brings a French journalist to Joy Division's rehearsal room for an interview to be greeted with the sight of a room full of miners watching a porno)
― Turrican, Monday, 23 May 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Better to live than to know.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 02:46 (seven years ago) link
I put this NO play list together that includes Electronic tracks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Whenever "Getting Away With It" pops into my head, I end up immediately singing the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way." Am I the only one who does this? I mean, the chorus is almost identical, even down to the slight variation (C instead of A on the Electronic song, not sure about the Furs) of the second note the second time they sing the hook (compare the second "all my life" to "I follow")
sorry, that was nerdy, but if ever there was a forum on which to express such a thing, it is here Would have voted "Patience Of A Saint" but missed the poll
― Wimmels, Sunday, 15 January 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Can't believe I never noticed that similarity between the songs before. From now on, I'm sure my brain will make the substitution
― Vinnie, Sunday, 15 January 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
more is less and you're repressed!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
thread prompted me to play the associated singles from the first album. I like all the non-album tracks, but especially enjoy when Free Will gets about 2mins in and it sounds like the song starts again: https://youtu.be/VD6-bMRJJZY?t=132
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 16 January 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I love the B-sides, especially this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH4u1kMCvmo
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, agree with Second to None. It seems like it could have easily fit on the album.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
Oh wow didn't know there was anything beyond the album from that era
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
They excelled at instrumentals. This one has had a long life as bumper music:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lean+to+the+inside+electronic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLpxZ_fGwY
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Turning Point and Lucky Bag are my b-sides of choice right now.
― badg, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
"Getting Away With It" was one of the last songs to be released during the 80's and made for a perfect closure to the decade. Also because of that timing it came out around Christmas so I forever associate it with the holidays.
Is there another comparable song that closes out a particular era of time so well? Maybe "Good Times" by Chic?
― yesca, Monday, 11 September 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link
the end of “gangster” >>>>>
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 December 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
You found this!!!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 December 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
'Tighten Up' fucking rules.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 9 December 2017 09:33 (six years ago) link
this is the only album i listen to now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 05:05 (six years ago) link
my drunk album
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 July 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
Happy 30th to "Getting Away With It" itself.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
See that girlShe's over thereI don't need hershe don't care
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 July 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
Happy thirtieth anniversary.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
stings cousin can not sing so i like the songs he does not sing on or is not alone on!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Disappointed and Getting Away With It on the original LP release would have made this a bonafide all-time classic. I vividly recall the sound and activity of holding down the rewind button and hearing Tighten Up quickly get back to the beginning so I could hear it again. I was afraid I would break the tape I rewound it so many times. Now the opening stabs are painful to my ears, but I still love the song. I still love this album and have very fond memories of hearing GAWI on the radio for the first time and the excruciatingly long wait to get the album.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
They are fortunately on the rerelease.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
It's so easywhy won't you leave this?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 December 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
Thirty-one years young today.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 May 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
technique - getting away with it - this LP - a streak of imperious form so impressive that one is even able to forgive world in motion
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 28 May 2022 04:37 (two years ago) link
World in Motion needs no forgiving.
― gyac, Saturday, 28 May 2022 05:20 (two years ago) link
That’s a truly baffling number of votes for ‘Gangster’!
― piscesx, Saturday, 28 May 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
it's an open act of defiance!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
Gangster rules, as does the rest of this album
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 28 May 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
bloody hell, i hate this bands name.makes ilm, google etc impossible to dig around for more info.anyways, have had the orig cd for years, and never really got into it as it sounds so weak and limp.then the other day i spotted a version in a local charity shop with a different cover.got home and did the usual discogs check up.had no idea re the 1993 remaster, and decided to spend the wallet busting 50p.yeah, not to get all SHF, but this is a lot better than the original cd version.it's not just louder, but better definition, seperation and cleaner/crisper.enjoying it so so much more.i guess someone realised quite soon after the original release that the cd edition just didn't sound that good, hence the very quick 'remaster'.
― mark e, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
Look at me, I always get the blameBut I can't even learn to spell my name
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link