Getting Away With It: The ELECTRONIC Poll

Can I mention the B-sides, all of which are wonderful in their own way? "Second To None" and its huge orchestral synth chords, and "Free Will" and its acid house nonsense -- a distant cousin to the Pet Shop Boys' "Don Juan"?

Can anyone work out what the vocal sample in Free Will says? "Bring the light - something?"

I thought it said "Real life is empty," which explains why it's buried.

This is one of those days when "Idiot Country" is the greatest song in the world. Things to note today: the pause, whoosh & restart at 3:19, and the slightly higher key for the main key riff immediately thereafter. This song is loaded with little details like that.

man "Tighten Up" was robbed. classic Marr guitar on that one.

This song is loaded with little details like that.

Also: the whistling and that orchestral synth part

An expanded 2 disc edition of Sumner and Marr's 1991 debut as Electronic.

'Electronic' sounds a little more like New Order than the Smiths. The three singles from the album remain the highlights: "Get the Message," "Feel Every Beat" and "Getting Away with It" featuring Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

The project has been described as a joyous venn diagram of Sumner and Marr’s influences. Although ostensibly coming from different disciplines, the experimental dance pop of New Order and the full-bodied jangle of The Smiths, their common interests were many: dance music, a good tune and pushing musical boundaries.

The release includes 8 previously unreleased tracks including alternate versions, edits & instrumentals.

Tracklisting

CD 1
1. Idiot Country (2012 - Remaster)
2. Reality (2012 - Remaster)
3. Tighten Up (2012 - Remaster)
4. The Patience Of A Saint (2012 - Remaster)
5. Getting Away With It (2012 - Remaster)
6. Gangster (2012 - Remaster)
7. Soviet (2012 - Remaster)
8. Get The Message (2012 - Remaster)
9. Try All You Want (2012 - Remaster)
10. Some Distant Memory (2012 - Remaster)
11. Feel Every Beat (2012 - Remaster)

CD 2
1. Disappointed (Stephen Hague 7” Inch Version) (2012 remaster)
2. Second To None (Edit) Previously unreleased
3. Lean To The Inside (Edit) Previously unreleased
4. Twisted Tenderness (Guitar / Vocal Mix) Previously unreleased
5. Idiot Country Two (12” Version)
6. Free Will (Edit) Previously unreleased
7. Until The End Of Time (Edit) Previously unreleased
8. Feel Every Beat (Edit) Previously unreleased
9. Getting Away With It (Instrumental) (2012 remaster)
10. Turning Point (Edit) (2012 remaster)
11. Visit Me (Edit) Previously unreleased
12. Twisted Tenderness (Instrumental) Previously unreleased

Release date: 11/03/13

Hmmm tempting - although I would have hoped to have a super extended version of Some Distant memory amongst the bonus tracks.

their B-sides are fantastic. "Second to None" is this quiet melancholic thing. "Lean to the Inside" is the ultimate TV theme.

I think this says it all:

http://www.feeleverybeat.co.uk/albums/melodymaker25may1991.jpg

i note there's already an expanded edition on Spotify
http://open.spotify.com/album/1BUrw4Xa1r4eQI6D6kz7zr

but it's a bit different

I love that review, Alfred, and quite interesting today to note his frame of references. I don't think I read it at the time (iirc my music press debut was a couple of weeks later) but I do remember Lester was still on the same riff when he reviewed Slowdive's debut later in the year. Something like: 'if anyone was going to make a better album this year than Electronic, it would be Electronic themselves ... but I secretly hoped Slowdive might somehow surprise us all'

Funny how attitudes to age in pop have changed. "By rights they should be washed up, trading on former glories, a miserably uninspired pair of codgers way past their prime." Sumner was 35, Marr 27.

haha what a review

We're aware of this, right?

http://pitchfork.com/news/50126-johnny-marr-and-new-orders-bernard-sumners-project-electronic-to-reissue-debut/

I love how they unwittingly made it difficult to google for downloads by naming themselves Electronic. Marr must have taken notes from fellow seer Matt Johnson.

Ha. Once I saw some dudes at the airport who were clearly in some kind of band. I asked what the name was and guy told me, in heavy French accent, "Rock and Roll"

Great news on the reissue. I have the original CD which I suspect was mastered from vinyl, and was looking into ordering the previous remastered version with the black cover from the uk. Glad I waited.

I have absolutely no words...

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17564/reviews/4146274

the irony of accusing the re-issue of being "lazily tossed-off" is delicious.

Haha.

The second disc is pretty bad though. Alternate versions of songs that came out almost a decade later?

On the other hand I wanted remastered opy of Second to None.

I initially thought the Twisted Tenderness demos might have been recorded at the time of the 1st lp and then finished 10 years later

If you want to go
I just can't say no

Reviving because it's been, you know, a year since the last time.

Bought this on vinyl a couple months ago. It's still one of my favorite albums. Kind if wish they had release it in the US on vinyl so I could have Getting Away With It on there as well.

Phone posting leads to some shady errors.

I hope the new stuff from New Order incorporates the sweet synth basslines on display in Try All You Want and Some Distant Memory.

better to live than to know

surprised Sumner and Marr haven't signed up to perform the album live at some festival.

do you want to see Bernard dancing?

I have the sudden urge to listen to this again because it is so springlike, but I no longer seem to own this album! How did that happen?

Surprised Sumner hasn't signed up to perform the album with Cunningham and Chapman, minus Marr.

are these two estranged then? Anyway BB OTM - this album has such a fresh and sunny Spring feeling.

https://imtransfer.shapeservices.net/uploads/8227139480887496356/Image.jpg

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.

This and Technique are Sumner's peak.

Looks like the versions with Getting Away With It leave off Gangster for some reason.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

^ this is what i feel

I absolutely love some distant memory. I guess because it could so easily fit on technique..

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

"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.

"getting away with it", of course.

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.