I feel so extraordinary somePoll's got a hold on me: NEW ORDER artist poll #37 (RESULTS thread)

i love the Baywatch version, i can see them pitching this. hey New Order we have an idea for a video. we are going to fly you out the California and have you preform on the beach. meanwhile we will have women in bathing suits play volleyball around you. what do you think?

― Bee OK

Just read this on Wikipedia,

The band filmed a performance of the song for Top of the Pops from the beach where Baywatch was filmed, featuring David Hasselhoff and various extras in the background. The band initially wanted to have Hasselhoff mime along to the song

That would have been great!

can't believe regret didn't place higher

#5 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4

5. Round & Round
86 Points, 5 Votes, 1 Number One

#4 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKyPMXQb5o

4. Confusion
177 Points, 10 Votes, 1 Number One

aw, the version of the bizarre love triangle video you linked to is missing the best part!

namely the part at about 2:37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V5O5ovevxk

nice eye, thanks for linking that.

that version is 15 seconds longer.

Love the Confusion video. Can't remember who pointed out to me that it was shot by the v great Henri Alekan.

Holy Ghost made a practically shot-for-shot remake, complete with Arthur Baker cameo: http://vimeo.com/10870979

so the number of votes doubled for "Confusion" went from five to 10.

I just realised there is going to be a glaring omission from the top 3 :(

don't be so quick to lose hope... there be surprises ahead, let me assure you

holy ghost remake makes the original seem even more classic

#3 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rhnHpRSXQ

3. True Faith
203 Points, 12 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Holy Ghost made a practically shot-for-shot remake, complete with Arthur Baker cameo: http://vimeo.com/10870979

this was going to be James Murphy, but they happened to run into Arthur Baker the week before; when they told him about the video he insisted on playing himself instead

have to admit that i didn't vote in the video poll. i was burnt out by then. these last two however would have been ones i would have voted for along with the next two.

Damn, forgot Confusion. Actually my 2nd fave. Voted in a rush for vids. Touched = 2, TPK = 1.

I can think of 4 more videos that would have a shot at placing, plus one lock, so there might be some tears forthcoming

#2 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65pwY25H14

2. Touched By The Hand Of God

212 Points, 13 Votes, 2 Number Ones

still genius

Hooky was the only one who could use his own wardrobe.

Phew! So glad tbthog placed, thought Crystal was going to be #2

yeah we dodged a bullet there

still room for 60 MPH at #1 though

The US promo 12" for TPK has the video version. Worth owning.

I will cry if Perfect Kiss is not #1

more on topic, however, is that Bill Paxton in that video?

Perfect Kiss will be number one, making the top three just about spot on.

Yes, it is Bill Paxton

And Rae Dawn Chong!

#1 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjolqpKR4g

1. The Perfect Kiss
350 Points, 17 Votes, 11 Number Ones

Hey! That's the ghost of Ian Curtis in the doorway!

11 number ones!!

I'm going to cry anyway I love this video so much. They used to play it on the giant video screen at the club I went to when I was a kid. Eleven minutes of pure joy.

19 ballots
full results for 16 videos:

350 The Perfect Kiss 17-11
212 Touched By the Hand Of God 13-2
203 True Faith 12-2
177 Confusion 10-1
86 Round & Round 5-1
82 World (The Price Of Love) 5-1
81 Regret 5 (2 Baywatch version)
68 Blue Monday 4-1 (2 '88 version)
60 Bizarre Love Triangle 4
56 Ruined In A Day 4
45 Crystal 3
41 World In Motion 3
16 Blue Monday 1 ('83 version)
16 Here To Stay 1
14 Fine Time 1
14 Shellshock 1

should i continue, or really start tomorrow?

I'm ready but it does seem a bit quiet at the moment. Were you going to do albums next?

YES

Go! I'm clicking refresh every minute.

Yeah, I'm doing the same. Maybe we should all get ready...

for the album results!

Expect the Factory 5 to be 1-5 but I'm curious about the order. Technique at 1 is a lock but the rest could be any order.

Might Republic not be higher than Brotherhood? Also interested to see where Substance fits in with the actual studio albums. Technique should be number one.

i have just seen the pictures that Millsner has done for us for tomorrow's half of the poll. all i can say is that we are in for a serious treat.

you're too kind!

very excited for the track results, anyway. some of the placings really threw me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/The_Lost_Sirens_%282013%29_-_New_Order_album_cover.jpg

10. Lost Sirens
released: 14 January 2013
83 Points, 6 Votes

I didn't include it on my ballot because I don't consider it an album but there are a few songs on there that are worth hearing.

Didn't know this before yesterday, but that cover is a 3x3 pixel version of the WFTSC single art:

http://www.niagara.edu/neworder/graphics/nuocd15.jpg

All of the JD/NO singles were given the same treatment:

http://www.niagara.edu/neworder//graphics/clashmagazineconcept.jpg

Yeah, originally done for a magazine, then expanded to include the full discography. Think it was available as a poster for a limited time as well.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/New_Order_Waiting_for_the_Sirens_Call_album_cover.jpg

9. Waiting For the Sirens' Call
Released: 28 March 2005
240 points, 14 Votes

after going back and revisiting all the albums this past couple of weeks, sirens call has aged surprisingly well

imo

I love it. Great album. Not sure why everyone slates Dracula's Castle.

I feel good and i feel bad, but common sense i've never had.

One reason I haven't seen New Order live is because I've seen concert footage and my general reaction has been "why do they let him sing"

Why don''t they let Gillian take a turn on vocals for the next album? It can't be worse. They should have Bernard on 4 songs, Gillian on 2, and then finish the album with 2-3 instrumentals.

Hook’s NO book suggests that he ground his teeth in irritation through most of their shows, at Barney’s whoops and laziness

I got the impression from Hook's memoir that everyone in the band was lazy except Peter Hook.

Well Peter Hook can eat a bag of dicks too, with his COME ON'S yelled during LWTUA and the rest of anything he utters on the microphone. Keep that man 50 yards from the nearest live mic, imo.

So the solution is to bring along Dave Gahan?

Jimmy Coversale.

Coverdale too.

I'm telling you, get Marr! Marr is a fine singer, and can not only bolster Sumner and the band but also play with the PSBs and sing with them, too.

Or Coverdale, he's got pipes.

what's the guy from Information Society up to

Pure energy.

I dunno, David Sommerville might be a better fit.

(Marr has an acceptable voice if you want to hear Smiths songs being sung over while Johnny Marr plays guitar. He is a very boring frontman though [also Bernard Butler replaced him as PSB utility guitarist on the new album, whose own voice is more on a The Other Two level])


I got the impression from Hook's memoir that everyone in the band was lazy except Peter Hook.

He very fairly also gives the impression that everyone in the band hates going to work with him because he’s such a massive prick.

About the only kind thing he says about Gillian was how well the three worked together recording Republic before Sumner and Stephen Hague purportedly ruined it.

The Hague.

i have probably seen New Order around 10 - 12 times and all with Peter Hook. like others have said they are an ok band live, but it's not like seeing Depeche Mode or the Cure where it's an event. anyways, my friends really want me to go so i'm probably going and looking forward to seeing Pet Shop Boys for the first time.

https://i.imgur.com/wXLnF7G.jpg

my first New Order show and look at this ticket on top. anyways this is just proving how old i am. lol. this must be the Low Life tour.

What they paid that night:

Nov 5, 1986 at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California

1. Elegia
2. Paradise
3. Subculture
4. Sunrise
5. Your Silent Face
6. Sooner Than You Think
7. Angel Dust
8. Broken Promise
9. 5 8 6
10. Age of Consent
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. The Perfect Kiss
13. Sister Ray (The Velvet Underground cover)

from what I've seen of the Brotherhood clips on YouTube from this era, Sumner acquits himself okay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKjyeVfrKs

think I saw New Order in the 80s live more than any other band

thanks for posting the images Bee OK! I didn't vote in this but I like the results

I love the early New Order live recordings/clips, where Barney looked like he (and the rest of them) wanted to be anywhere else but there, like the 1983 TOTP performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTb2rZ0SBg4

Anyone else going to the Hollywood Bowl shows this year?

well, Sumner's had COVID twice, so maybe he has immunity.

They've postponed twice already, once in 2020 and once in 2021. Fingers crossed for this time.

I think they have always been a very uneven band live. The first time I saw them was in 1985. They were simply brilliant, one of the three best shows I've ever seen. This is almost a perfect setlist:

New Order, August 16, 1985, Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO

Sunrise
This Time of Night
Hurt
Thieves Like Us
5 8 6
Everything's Gone Green
The Village
Subculture
Denial
Confusion
The Perfect Kiss

Encore:
Ceremony
Blue Monday

Encore 2:
Temptation

Saw them again the following year, and they were shit. Completely phoning it in. I almost took it personally.

I had tickets for the original Hollywood Bowl dates in 2020, not sure if I'm going to still go. I feel like I have seen them enough times now.

I'm still planning to go. Also planning to see Peter Hook and the Light in June. Hoping I won't be too depressed by either event.

I saw them in 2019 they were great very professional.