Love Will POLL Us Apart – Joy Division – New Order Solo or other groups Poll (aka the Electronic poll) – Artist Poll #37 A New Order supplement poll (Voting is open until Friday, Dec. 8, 2017)

It is physically impossible for me to re-listen to "Decades."

There's absolutely nothing unusual about having a blast while listening to Joy Division - 'Transmission', 'Heart and Soul', 'Isolation', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'Disorder' ... all are booty-shakingly danceable.

The 12'' mix (extended version) of "Getting Away With It" is great! First time I recognized Nile Rodgers' influence on Johnny Marr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1_jWXQLdo

listening through the Electronic discography, Raise the Pressure is decent, definitely better than Republic (ignoring Regret) though a step down from the Electronic debut. Twisted Tenderness though is really not very good, it's bloated and is a direct predecessor to the rock-focus of Get Ready.

i kind of doubt "i remember nothing" will do well anyway, but how may other people can't hear it now without immediately thinking of

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

This has been a strange poll. First day I got four ballots and finally, last night, I started getting more. That was a two week gap but my fault as I don't like to keep the voting period open for to long. This one I did want to open before Thanksgiving, so it was opened up a week earlier than normal.

December 5th, a few more days...

I was wondering if someone can help me out with images for this poll? This is not going to be a huge countdown, maybe 20 slots per side. Email the above box if interested and thanks.

We will talk off line there, countdown will start mid week next week so there should be plenty of time...

opened up a bottle of wine tonight and going to try and put a Top 10 Joy Division ballot together right now.

life is good!

this is hard

all i have been doing is listening to either Joy Division or Electronic for the last two and a half weeks. putting this in order is the hard part and i'm previewing the song now as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZX4byAFCg

Does Joy Division's Peel Sessions (i.e. the Complete BBC recordings) count as an album?

https://www.discogs.com/Joy-Division-The-Complete-BBC-Recordings/master/23225

So all Friday 8th we can still vote, yeah?

That 98 tour.. man. Funny to look back now and remember it as the last time the 'With Hooky' line up were still all getting along. It was also great (IMO) that they had got back together to just do a few shows rather than punting a new album. I saw the NYE show a few months later but yeah the Reading show is the best record of that tour, Vince Power made room for them in the second-to-last-band-of-the-night slot behind Garbage(!) after Phoenix Festival (where they were due to headline) went tits up. It was the show that made Justine Frischmann want to turn Elastica into a synth-band-with-guitars so she says! Even the first few minutes with Barney talking to the crowd brings the hairs up. The version of Isolation is amazing. Supposedly Shirley Manson said "how the fuck are we gonna follow that" when they came on afterwards..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJjkU9bTqlU

I went to that. Was a bit confused about the Garbage headline thing cos I had no recollection of that, but I looked at the line up poster and I went to see Spiritualized headline the tent after New Order. The line up pictures online also have Curve playing that day in the tent but they definitely did not.

I own that '98 show on DVD and it's a barnstormer. I actually whooped Barney style when they did "Paradise."

So sad/weird that they didnt play Regret on their last tour

Does Joy Division's Peel Sessions (i.e. the Complete BBC recordings) count as an album?

Sure, if you want to vote for this l can include that as an album in that part of the rollout

the update of "True Faith" with the house piano break is marvelous.

Yeah thanks for posting this. I’d never seen this. They are on fire. So good to see the sheer joy of playing again songs they’ve played thousand of times (eg Stephen Morris singing along behind keyboards on BLT)

So all Friday 8th we can still vote, Yeah?

Yes.
I'm going to leave it open all weekend, we need the ballots.

Thanks man, want to contribute but don't have the time tomorrow (moving house)

Thanks - will submit a ballot this weekend!

i will send out confirmation emails starting tonight.

I own that '98 show on DVD and it's a barnstormer. I actually whooped Barney style when they did "Paradise."

I have that video too, but got it for the '81 show and it never even occurred to me watch the other one, having been really disappointed when I saw them in '89. Will definitely check it out now after seeing that Heart and Soul clip. Not a fan of the Barney whoops though.

I have not even received double digit ballots yet, so if you are thinking about voting please, please, please vote as this poll desperately needs voters. Even if you only have a three song ballot of Joy Division songs please send it along.

I sent my ballot about an hour ago. Outside of maybe three or four songs, my JD ballot could have contained just about anything depending on the day.

Good news, the ballots are starting to roll in. Keep voting!

conformation emails are starting to be sent out, if you voted you will get one in the next few minutes to the next hour.

VOTING IS STILL OPEN

I'll throw one together in the next hour or so

after the first 5 choices it became really hard. all my stuff is very particular to me and not at all cannon

I really like “thieves Li

11:31 PM
12/8/2017

a very depressing day

(i'm a SF Giants fan)

sorry got caught up with work. just sent it, hope it's not too late

As an early voter, it doesn't bother me if the entry period is extended.

I threw one in but didn't get confirmation yet

I'm going to leave it open all weekend

not a joke.

Voting has been extending to Sunday Night

I put Tighten Up as my number one. I vividly remember rewinding the tape over and over to hear that song again and again. It sounded like Bigmouth crossed wirh Shellshock (86-87 era Pettibone mixed tracks) and delivered on the sound in my head when I heard Johnny and Bernard were working together. These days the intro sounds terribly dated but the vocals and guitars are great. Bad Lieutenant played it on tour, but I never heard a decent recording of it. It’s a shame these songs from the Electronic catalog are going unplayed. Johnny played a couple on his last tour but his voice is as bad as Hooky’s and nobody really wants to hear that.

I didn't even mind that the sound was slightly fusty even in summer '91.

"Dated" isn't pejorative to me, by the way

Terminal lurker ballot sent under duress. Amazing that after all these years, the effort of picking favorites among JD songs still provokes emotional tugging.

Albums I wish New Order had tried to make:

1984 instrumental album with the long version of 5-8-6 on one side, the long version of Elegia on the other, allowing room for the long version of Perfect Kiss on Low Life
Some sort of dub collaboration with someone like augustus pablo, sly and robbie, etc. digging deeper into confusion, blue monday, etc. more melodicas? slow stuff down?
A full video album's worth of mid 80s live in the studio versions, after they saw the success of the perfect kiss. Demme should have made an anti-Stop Making Sense with them - black and white, no audience, no funny business, no guests, multiple retakes until each song was got right.
An early 90s unplugged album of the hits. Love the slow version of Regret by Afghan Whigs and, yes, the much maligned Frente cover. So some stuff like that sung by bernie (True Faith and Temptation might be good like this) mixed with some campfire singalong style stuff - Love Vigilantes could work well with chugging acoustic guitars or a country strum.
A late 90s live album of JD songs including redoing Sister Ray, the '87 version annoys me. Gang of Four and Mekons' punk re-does were kind of pointless, but sounded good, so I'd be interested in a whole album of Bernie singing Ian's songs, provided the backing still had some teeth from Hook.

Probably all of these would be crap if they actually happened but I like to think about these things.

The full warsaw tape should get released with the sound quality of the three tracks on the box set. I particularly like the versions of Novelty and Transmission. Also, the 1980 no-guitar-overdub versions of Only Mistake and the Kill would be nice, the unimproved version of Walked In Line was interesting to hear.

sent out another round of conformation emails. if you have voted you should have one.

this is shaping up to be a great poll, hope we can get just a few more...

VOTING IS STILL OPEN