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

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.

Los Angeles time

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Get-Ready-cover.png

8. Get Ready
Released: 27 August 2001
Acclaimed Music ranking: 45 2001 - 373 2000's decade
257 Points, 15 Votes

xp

The album sounds merely okay to my ears these days, but I never had a problem with Dracula's Castle.

THEORY:

Since the results have been reverse-chronological so far, Movement is a shoe-in for #1 :)

I guess it's understandable that the albums they released 20-30 years after their first releases are ranked lowest but they're really great albums. Predictably, Republic will be next.

Movement at 3 or 4, imo. Either Low-Life or PCL at 2.

shoo-in, even.

I'd give Republic 60/40 odds over Brotherhood for being next. I always had the impression that the former has some real fans here.

BTW, if anyone has a copy of Get Ready or WFTSC on vinyl that they want to sell or trade, i'm interested.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/SubstanceCoverBig.jpg

7.Substance
Released: 17 August 1987
268 Points, 10 Votes, 4 Number Ones

It's a great compilation but it's not an album. It took me about 2 years of living with this compilation but eventually Disc 2 became my favorite. I've since had to buy a 2nd copy of disc 2. Would love one of the gatefold LPs. I have it on vinyl but not one of the gatefold versions.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/New_Order_Republic_Cover.jpg

6. Republic
Released: 3 May 1993
Acclaimed Music ranking: 40 1993, 428 90's decade
310 Points, 18 Votes, 1 Number One

I think Republic is the best collection of lyrics Bernard Sumner ever wrote. The mess with Factory provide some great content for him.

of course that is it for the night.

will start again when i wake up (boo).

I think the top five might go,

5. Brotherhood
4. Low-Life
3. Movement
2. Power, Corruption & Lies
1. Technique

I would have liked to see Republic in the top five, it's their most underrated album.

I'd have thought PCL for 'top', the rest, yes.

16 Here To Stay 1

aw, nobody else voted for the vid?

Sumner's best lyrics on the first Electronic album.

Can't believe Republic outranked Substance and Get Ready. To this day I still feel ripped off by that album. Technique was like this amazing new vista after they had played out their second great phase, and then they phoned in the next album.
Maybe I should go back and listen to it again, it's been probably 15 years since I got it off the shelf.

well, Substance isn't an album, and Get Ready is post-peak. Republic's position makes sense.

I'm one of the folks who voted for Substance... technically not an album but a singles collection sure, but during the years I had it on constant rotation that distinction meant nothing to me at all. I still remember finally getting a CD player and immediately buying Substance for access to the second disc of b-sides.

yeah I agree re. Substance, it's enough of an album to have gotten my vote, and it's a really important record for me personally in the NO canon.

I wasn't going to vote for it until I saw that other people were

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.