Getting Away With It: The ELECTRONIC Poll

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.

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

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx)

BETTER TO LIVE THAN TO KNOW

Hehehehe... funny that this got bumped given that I'm currently up to the part in Chapter and Verse where Sumner and Marr are trying to promote this record while nursing killer hangovers.

(Although I haven't yet stopped laughing at the part where Ian Curtis brings a French journalist to Joy Division's rehearsal room for an interview to be greeted with the sight of a room full of miners watching a porno)

Better to live than to know.

I put this NO play list together that includes Electronic tracks.

Whenever "Getting Away With It" pops into my head, I end up immediately singing the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way." Am I the only one who does this? I mean, the chorus is almost identical, even down to the slight variation (C instead of A on the Electronic song, not sure about the Furs) of the second note the second time they sing the hook (compare the second "all my life" to "I follow")

sorry, that was nerdy, but if ever there was a forum on which to express such a thing, it is here

Would have voted "Patience Of A Saint" but missed the poll

Can't believe I never noticed that similarity between the songs before. From now on, I'm sure my brain will make the substitution

more is less and you're repressed!

thread prompted me to play the associated singles from the first album. I like all the non-album tracks, but especially enjoy when Free Will gets about 2mins in and it sounds like the song starts again: https://youtu.be/VD6-bMRJJZY?t=132

I love the B-sides, especially this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH4u1kMCvmo

Yeah, agree with Second to None. It seems like it could have easily fit on the album.

Oh wow didn't know there was anything beyond the album from that era

They excelled at instrumentals. This one has had a long life as bumper music:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lean+to+the+inside+electronic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLpxZ_fGwY

Turning Point and Lucky Bag are my b-sides of choice right now.

"Getting Away With It" was one of the last songs to be released during the 80's and made for a perfect closure to the decade. Also because of that timing it came out around Christmas so I forever associate it with the holidays.

Is there another comparable song that closes out a particular era of time so well? Maybe "Good Times" by Chic?

the end of “gangster” >>>>>

You found this!!!

'Tighten Up' fucking rules.

this is the only album i listen to now

my drunk album

Happy 30th to "Getting Away With It" itself.

See that girl
She's over there
I don't need her
she don't care

Happy thirtieth anniversary.

stings cousin can not sing so i like the songs he does not sing on or is not alone on!

Disappointed and Getting Away With It on the original LP release would have made this a bonafide all-time classic. I vividly recall the sound and activity of holding down the rewind button and hearing Tighten Up quickly get back to the beginning so I could hear it again. I was afraid I would break the tape I rewound it so many times. Now the opening stabs are painful to my ears, but I still love the song. I still love this album and have very fond memories of hearing GAWI on the radio for the first time and the excruciatingly long wait to get the album.

They are fortunately on the rerelease.

It's so easy
why won't you leave this?

Thirty-one years young today.

technique - getting away with it - this LP - a streak of imperious form so impressive that one is even able to forgive world in motion

World in Motion needs no forgiving.

That’s a truly baffling number of votes for ‘Gangster’!

it's an open act of defiance!

Gangster rules, as does the rest of this album

bloody hell, i hate this bands name.
makes ilm, google etc impossible to dig around for more info.
anyways, have had the orig cd for years, and never really got into it as it sounds so weak and limp.
then the other day i spotted a version in a local charity shop with a different cover.
got home and did the usual discogs check up.
had no idea re the 1993 remaster, and decided to spend the wallet busting 50p.
yeah, not to get all SHF, but this is a lot better than the original cd version.
it's not just louder, but better definition, seperation and cleaner/crisper.
enjoying it so so much more.
i guess someone realised quite soon after the original release that the cd edition just didn't sound that good, hence the very quick 'remaster'.

Look at me, I always get the blame
But I can't even learn to spell my name

I’d like to read
I’d like to write
But where I live
I learned to fight
So don’t you ever say that we’re the same

otm

https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2023/08/13/electronic-get-the-message-best-of-reissue/

Neil: "Bernard and Johnny Marr were almost outraged by the way we work. The way we work is we have a programmer who does all the typewriter tapping and he does everything himself and we hardly do anything ourselves. We kind of sit there reading piles of magazines telling people what to do or, indeed, sleeping while they're doing it. And Bernard thinks this is terribly funny and shocking. He can't get over the fact that Chris goes to sleep in the studio. When we did 'Patience Of A Saint', it was quite embarrassing trying to write with them. Chris had this chord change and then Johnny Marr put a bass line on it and I wrote a tune. It took about 10 or 15 minutes. And then it was time to go to The Hacienda..."