You got (to) love Technique

go on.

I'm worried no one else will vote for Love Less.

you need another login. like this one.

NO

mr disco by default

"Vanishing Point", just because "Round and Round" will do fine without my help. Toughest ILM poll choice yet. This album is beautiful.

too hard. it's all one record for me.

Easily Vanishing Point for me.

Another for Vanishing Point - c'mon!

But, really, greatest overall album by best band ever. Probably.

i think you're probably right.

certainly, for me, it opened up and changed everything ... which was a mixed blessing because although it sent me off searching for guitars and beeps and bleeps and beauty everywhere, i never found anything that quite measured up.

i wore out my vinyl copy. but i MP3d it anyway and it's the one i still listened to, because every scratch and crackle is an essential part of it now ;)

i think rjg is right, it's 'mr disco', but i already voted 'fine time'.

I went with Guilty Partner in the end. There's something about it.

"I always know that you'll come back to me"

All the Way or Round and Round... and I think the latter pips it. But Vanishing Point as well... hmmm.

"Guilty Partner" is so fantastic.

For some reason, despite this being one of the albums I've listened to the most in my life, I cannot remember some of the track titles on this. In my mind, I always confuse 'Guilty Partner', 'All the Way' and 'Love less'.

Well, they're not the most obvious of titles.

I've only just realised that not a single one is taken from the lyrics.

A lot of New Order songs pull that trick.

Yeah, is there a single song on this album that does?

Is the first New Order track to have the title in the song..

Ultraviolence?

Did PC&L come out before "Confusion"?

yes

today I would've voted for "Mr. Disco." Those synth chimes on the chorus – man.

Also: has Bernard ever sung this well on an album, like, ever?

He does as well on most of WFTSC.

Exactly what I was gonna say

Listening to it now, it's not making things any easier!

"Don't waste my money, baby" classic lyric!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

My first ILM poll has been swamped by others. :(

I think Round & Round is still going to win.

All the way, narrowly from Fine Time and Run.
Just 'cos "it takes years to find the nerve to be apart from what you've done" has always been my personal mantra to overcome that feeling of waking up with an awful hangover and remembering all the humiliating things you said and did the night before.

I always heard "...a part of what you've done"

i think 'vanishing point' will win.

Hmm Hi Dere seems to be with me (almost). I'll listen tonight. I hope it's as I remember it, or it will lose all its soothing power!

I totally voted for Mr. Disco, which is only the coolest song name ever.

All the Way takes it for me as well. Late surge?

Voted for "Dream Attack" but I suspect "Round & Round" will win this.

how can you people sleep at night?

seriously though, if I REALLY had to choose it would be either "Mr. Disco" or "Dream Attack".

Prediction:

Round & Round
Vanishing Point
Dream Attack
All the Way
Mr Disco
Run
Fine Time
Guilty Partner
Love Less

ana: The solution is to pick "Dream Attack".

Agreed. If "Dream Attack" fails to take this poll, I'll set myself on fire in protest.

(not really...all nine songs could probably win a poll like this if they were on other albums)

ceremony / dream attack / regret... all seem to build on each other to me. maybe just because they are guitar-centric

all nine songs could probably win a poll like this if they were on other albums

This is very OTM and I don't even like "All The Way" that much.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That "Guilty Partner" is the least liked song says volumes about this album's marvelousness.

I am v.surprised by the winner. I don't suppose someone cheated, did they?

Sorry - that sounds ungracious. Thank you for voting everyone. I love Fine Time.

i'm not surprised. it's the single, and it's dancey. i couldn't see 'round & round' winning. also it's a very close contest.

I don't like Fine Time :(

Yeah I don't know Grimly. I find the enthusiasm in this review quite infectious. Obviously, I'm already drunk on the kool-aid but I'd probably be pretty intrigued if I hadn't heard the album before.

I'm afraid I may have broken this poll by absentmindedly voting for Fine Time when I meant to vote for Round And Round. Putting three songs on 12 votes.

STEWARD'S INQUIRY!

I am fully prepared to believe the lamb bleating at the end of this track is Christ applauding.

!!!

(Assuming it's the Christ I'm thinking of, the review is worth it for this line alone.)

wow great showing for DREAM ATTACK. i'd never have guessed. Tune!

I always heard it as “you’ve got a lot of technique”
which actually works a bit better for me
so I think I’m going to keep hearing it that way

thanks

a bit surprised fine time won this actually, but it’s a great opener

Maybe you'd write me a letter
And tell me why I never met you
Our rendezvous just ended in sorrow
Without you there's no tomorrow.

About time for a relisten. (It's weird to realize I'm seeing the current version this year when the last time I saw them was for this tour.)

Yeah, I hadn't heard it in ages until a drive home last night. Late Sunday afternoon melancholia + softening weather.

Bizarre poll order, generally (but not specifically) about the reverse of my order of preference

Bizarre poll triangle