best last song on a new order album

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fuckin phones

isn't "working overtime" the last song on "waiting for the sirens call"?

I didn't vote but I actually love "Leave Me Alone", even though I mostly dislike this band, especially post-PCL. I didn't know it was so well-liked by New Order fans; kind of nice to see.

Part of what makes Dream Attack so moving is Barneys bluntness: Technique, the Electronic album and Republic being his vocal and lyrical peak. It's not that he doesn't want you to go it's that he "can't see the sense" in it. Which is a very Northern English (and Scottish) thing. It's romance through pragmatism. Do you really have to go? You're just being silly.

Then there's the sighing, dreamy way he sings it all and that spiralling keyboard run before the guitar solo.

Dream Attack is my favorite song of all time. It is not the best song, but it is my favorite. Great summary of what makes it great, Dan. Many more things too, but those things you mentioned are things I love about it too. I also agree that 89-93 was the lyrical peak for Sumner.

crap, I missed this.
I would have voted for Dream Attack obviously. Leave Me Alone is equally good as a song but Dream Attack just works so beautifully as a closer. After the victory lap of Vanishing Point, it feels like waking up on a new day, full of hope (getting a bit the same vibe from Kate Bush "Morning Fog").

'Dream Attack', of course.

Technique, the Electronic album and Republic being his vocal and lyrical peak

Yeah, I'll agree with this. Even though I don't rate Republic highly outside of a couple of songs, his voice is great on it.

What was the turning point for Sumner's voice going from being the reason why autotune was invented to being relatively smooth and pleasant to listen to? 'True Faith'?

if comps had been allowed then my answer would have been "spooky (magimix)", however within the parameters defined, I totally agree re the outcome of this poll.

"True Faith"

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I looked at the thread title and thought "how could it be anything other than 'Dream Attack?'"

Then I remember I've never actually heard PC&L and "Age of Consent" is the only song I know from it

Just one of those blind spots I need to fix one of these days

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the 'True Faith' sessions just to see what Stephen Hague did and how he did it, as apparently - and I can truly beliebe this - he was a bit of a hard taskmaster in the studio. Erasure reportedly didn't enjoy working with him on The Innocents, Andy McCluskey has implied pretty much the same thing from when he worked with OMD. Then there was the time he worked R.E.M. into the ground trying to record 'Catapult' before they got rid of him.