― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
The rap isn't even that bad and I've always liked it, I've never understood why people dislike/mock it so much.
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Never got round to hearing the last album because I was so disappointed by 'Krafty'. Been listening to 'Vicious Streak' from 'Get Ready' a lot lately though.
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.music-exchange.co.uk/pictures/98/034389W.jpg
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
"YOU WANT BLOODY SHOOTIN'"
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― the dead twin brother of Roland Barthes, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
But Rod did have the '78 squad singing back-up, even if the Willie Johnstone reference had to be subsequently cut out...
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
didn't that happen to peter osgood this week?
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Ian McCulloch will be gutted to have been erased from that we bit of music history.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
And I still think WIM is their worst song. Krafty is great compareed to this (and as the only two NO songs on the video jukebox at our local bowlarama I choose Krafty everytime). And the rap is awful - there may well be worse (hence the question mark) but this is still one of the worst. Despite this, , it is still one of the best football songs ever.
I would say my second least favourite NO is 'State of the Nation'.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
MADMAN. (That part on the chorus where the extra synth line kicks in forgives so many of mankind's sins.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
60MPH to thread. and i'm sorry, ned, but SOTN sucks a pretty big dick too.
i'd certainly take "world in motion" over half of the last album and almost all of "get ready".
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― NTBTloggedout, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't like Keith Allen, he reminds me of Bill Drummond.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
never in a million milennia - every other track on substance is superior, not to mention the early singles
*it can't match the hilarity of "and we'll really shake 'em up/When we win the Wor-ald Cup."
we're OTM there though
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
It was the coolest World Cup song at the time - from someone who is not exactly NEw Order's biggest fan - and this vote proves it's lost none of that appeal.
It was the soundtrack to the beginning of the end for football and lads as a sub-cultures respectively. After Gazza's tears the mainstream acceptance of football, the looming Sky Sports/Premiership marriage and lots of money for football was going to change it all forever and bring this dirty violent sport to middle classes as a nice neat, sat down package. Plus lad mags would start off spritely as marketing people realised that men bought stuff only to have that quickly reduced to lads like to look at breasts.
I could go on, but essentially in English popular culture World in Motion quite probably represents alot more than a song to many mid to late thirties men who also like football.
― sonicred (sonicred), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
This is true and Bernards happy smiling face on the video...ahhhhh....I'm starting to change my mind about the whole thing. I'm so easily led.
SOTN - still crap though.
I like Get Ready though - Crystal, Primitive Notion, Slow Jam, even 60 Miles An Hour - and Here To Stay, which I always associate with that album is one of my favourite song - perhaps i am a madman.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Viz (Viz), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
what about rock the shack, though? eh? EH?
a song so bad i'd forgotten it even existed.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
However I probably disliked any song in 1990 that wasn't by "The Turtles" so I guess I'd be proved wrong if I heard it today :)
― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― And the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine (Bimble...), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
For what it's worth, I love that song to bits. It's got all the ingredients of great New Order songs: silly lyrics, great keyboard sounds, huge crescendo (albeit this time with footballers singing the chorus with Bernard).
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (J-E-T) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Euler (Euler), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Just Gimme One More Day) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny Jarvis, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
yes, it was nearly their worst song in '95, but it wasn't as bad as, say "MTO" or "All Day Long" or half of Movement. '95 just seemed like a good neutral year of New Order downtime, after which nearly every song they released was worse than "World in Motion"
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
You are daft! After "Regret," it's the best song on the album! Looove the guitar solo.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
mmmmMMMMMPH! must ... not ... get ... angry ...
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The worst NO song is obviously State of the Nation and NO post-95 is better on average than pre-95, although Rock the Shack (in its album form at least, the 'in session' version being pretty great) definitely ranks amongst their 5 worst tunes.
― Le Baaderonixx de Clignancourt (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, I'd say that the two last albums are better than Republic and Lowlife, on a par with Brotherhood, PC&L and Movement, and below Technique. Hence, the average
― Le Baaderonixx de Clignancourt (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Wow, are half the posters on crack or what?
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Steve Mack from That Petrol Emotion has been seen a punk gigs lately in my town. That makes me happy for some reason.
― Ya gotta agitate, educate, organize (Bimble...), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Those new 12" with remixes on are on 3 for £10 offer. Not a huge saving, but worth it if you want the lot, I suppose.
This is my helpful shopping tip for the day.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 March 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
These crazy words of mine!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
"State of the Nation" and the "Sub-Culture" remix are not even close to being the worst New Order songs but this journo is clearly well-versed in popular journalistic opinion of the band that always rates them as such!
Take those two out and throw in any of the tracks from the 'Lost Sirens' collection.
― yesca, Sunday, 20 August 2017 03:39 (six years ago) link
Yeah, 'World in Motion' is pretty dreadful. It definitely deserves a spot on that list.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 20 August 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
'World in Motion' has always and will always continue to rule. Sorry, snobs.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 20 August 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
World in Motion is a complete joy, especially the rap.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 20 August 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
Yes
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 August 2017 08:43 (six years ago) link
TS: A-side rap vs B-side rap
https://youtu.be/7N4mIa4NNHk?t=3m13s
― nashwan, Sunday, 20 August 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
"World in Motion" is marvelous.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
I'm an American who hates sports so... "World in Motion" is definitely in the top ten worst for me. It's hard to describe how let down I felt the first time I put that 12" on.
― yesca, Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
I'm an American who hates sports.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Tom Ewing otm: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/12/englandneworder-world-in-motion/
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
I mean I've read a lot of impassioned articles about how important this song was and how it was some turning point for the perception of the band. For myself, New Order's combination of inventiveness and portentousness up to that point clouded some of the goofiness that was happening in the lyrics department (which in retrospect should have been obvious to me with songs like "Every Little Counts") and hearing this made them suddenly sound like any other terrible top ten UK pop thing. It was the first chink in the armor before we get to other super lazy pop stuff like "World" all the way through "Superheated". For some I get that this was a celebration of the pop tendencies that were always there but for me this was the beginning of the band getting knocked down from heaven and become just mere mortals. :)
― yesca, Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
goddamn pop music
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
uh, the inventiveness and portentousness (I'm not sure what this means but anwyway) required the goofy lyrics!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
― yesca, Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
A large part of New Order's greatness is their insouciance. What better way to demarcate what they once were as Joy Division than to write songs with life/knife rhymes?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
obv your New Order isn't mine. But I say you're misreading the history of a band who wrote "You caught me at a bad time/So why don't you piss off?" and recorded disco, not a genre known for its portent.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
I don't think was by design. That's by the limitations of the artist. :)
There's been several interviews with Saville where he summarizes things quite nicely. He references the NYT article about NO titled 'How Cool is Coldness?', waxes on about the delta between how they were presented and who they actually are, and how 'World in Motion' finally changed that perspective for some.
Anyhow, off topic. Back to worst NO songs!
― yesca, Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
World in Motion originated from an instrumental Steve and Gillian wrote. The band were not working together at the time. They did it for the money and it required little effort. I just don't even consider this an actual single.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
That was a remix.
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
The Making Out mix? I know there were a few around 89-90 that were done for TV by S&G and I'm pretty sure WiM was based on one of those songs.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 20 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
This is where I say I was wrong that one time eleven years ago.
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 20 August 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
"State of the Nation" and especially "Sub-Culture (remix)" are two of their BEST songs. I love "World in Motion" as well, but I agree it could be an Other Two single - not a bad thing.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 21 August 2017 06:21 (six years ago) link