New Order - Technique

Why not accept a band's flaws as more reasons to hug them harder?

This is the point were a less-jaded me would incredulously type "You're kidding, right?"

Suffice to say that I'm not ever going to agree with you, ever.

That's cool, man. However, you're wrong: we both love New Order. After a few beers and a couple of listens to "Brotherhood" and "Technique," we can discuss my theory.

Detroit 89, soundboard, in it's entirety

enjoy

Listen to the Felix Da Housecat mix of Here To Stay for what Get Ready could have been.

New Order are so much more than ageing rockers and I hope the new album (which I'll buy the day it comes out) proves it.

Technique is fantastic.

shoot speed kill light (from exterminator) vs rock the shack:

the former is a razor-edged sprawl of scuzzy rock goodness, the latter is a dumb joke. the fact that primal scream made an ace song with barney and new order made a pish one with bobby suggests to me that NO are at fault here, not mr G.

That said, I feel for you, Fiendish, even if I don't agree with you. If it turns out the new one disappoints me, I still hope you like it.

this needs remastering.

They all do!

they sound ok to me

just turn it up, fool

That's how I noticed they needed remastering.

Also, I retract all the silly things I said upthread.

it could do with a 5.1 while we're at it.

just turn it up, fool

-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, 25 July 2007

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That's how I noticed they needed remastering.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 25 July 2007

me too.

we've entered a time warp
again, through a time warp

Lurve this bit by N. It's worth requoting in full:

The whole point of it for me is that it's a whole album. I adore the sweep of it. It's all of a piece. With grinning confidence it introduces itself in the hi-hats of the glorious 'this is where we all are' Fine Time, sets the emotional 'this is where we've come from' note with All The Way and then spins through five perfect whirls of sun-bleached pop, feet never hitting the floor. Is Vanishing Point a shining pinnacle or the comedown? Depends on whether I'm dancing, maybe. Either way, it's the brilliant heart of the album. Then Dream Attack comes along to shoot you through the heart again, an epilogue, the most beautiful of all mornings after.

It remains my favorite NO album by some distance, and the one that convinced me of their greatness. However, it's fascinating that Gill remarked on the "strong synergy between all the band members" yet earlnash notes that they "sound even less like a band playing together and more of songs put together via studio production." I say it's a bit of both, no? Anyway, Republic is the one that sounds like Bernard and Stephen Hague programming synths with the odd Hooky bassline here and there.

It's always sounded fine to me.

"Guilty Partner" is criminally great.

Have you come around on "All The Way"???

that was the track that instantly gripped me all those years ago.

I was trying to remember if my old rant about this album was upthread and it was. Good.

this is the best. ever. 'all the way' is my coming out song.

Listened to the reissue a few times through a week or so ago. Totally great album, possibly my fave New Order.

yeahhh

Listening to this for the first time. Love all their other albums so far. This and Republic are the last of the NO albums I've yet to hear.

So glad I waited for the reissues to hear them for the first time. This shit sounds amazing! I read that the original CD pressings sounded like crap.

So far so good! Currently on track five, "Guilty Pleasure". What I love about NO (and what NO veterans will think, "no shit," is that every album has a distinct sound - but to pull all these distinct-sounding records off with resounding success is rare, imo.

I mean, how many bands can/have pulled this off? The Beatles, Radiohead?

Barneywaves.

I love Technique. It's my favorite album of all time. OF ALL TIME! I can still remember unwrapping the cellophone on the cassette the day it was released. The opening of Fine Time made my heart race and I was on cloud 9 for months after just letting the tape flip over and over in the car.

the best pop album ever made. it's as simple as that.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:17 (7 years ago)

I concur with me. nothing's ever even come close. i kinda feel like England fans waiting for a team that will take them to victory like in 66. i've pretty much accepted it won't happen and i'm okay with that.

i mean this was a *number 1 album* in the UK and they advertised it with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpCr8wh6zE

man alive...

the original cd pressings don't sound like crap, except for love life which had pre-emphasis on it and so sounded bad if played on a player that doesn't deal with that (which would be most players now). I haven't listened to the official remasters because I still can't figure out how to tell if you have a good batch or bad batch (the first issues of the REMASTERS were apparently awful, and they have allegedly fixed those but I don't know anyone who has found the fixed ones). anyway easier to get all of this stuff (single wise) off the internet now, the fan-led remaster project was better.

copyright date on the spine says Rhino 2009. most of the corrected remasters don't have the Deluxe slipcase overlay.

did they correct the first CD in the package or was it just the second disc that had the flaws and needed correcting? i always thought the first disc sounded amazing on that first issue. the packaging was a bit rubbish though.

They speak!

That wasn't an advert, that was played on Tony Wilson's "The other side of midnight" TV show, if I recall correctly.