New Order | ||
| Allmusic Biography : Rising from the ashes of the legendary British post-punk unit Joy Division, the enigmatic New Order triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the most influential and acclaimed bands of the 1980s; embracing the electronic textures and disco rhythms of the underground club culture many years in advance of its contemporaries, the groups pioneering fusion of new wave aesthetics and dance music successfully bridged the gap between the two worlds, creating a distinctively thoughtful and oblique brand of synth pop appealing equally to the mind, body, and soul. New Orders origins officially date back to mid-1976, when guitarist Bernard Sumner (formerly Albrecht) and bassist Peter Hook -- inspired by a recent Sex Pistols performance -- announced their intentions to form a band of their own. Recruiting singer Ian Curtis and drummer Stephen Morris, they eventually settled on the name Joy Division, and in 1979 issued their landmark debut LP, Unknown Pleasures. After completing sessions for Joy Divisions sophomore effort, Closer, Curtis hanged himself on May 18, 1980; devastated, the remaining trio immediately disbanded, only to re-form soon after as New Order with the addition of keyboardist Gillian Gilbert. With Sumner assuming vocal duties, the new group debuted in March 1981 with the single "Ceremony," a darkly melodic effort originally composed for use by Joy Division. The LP Movement followed a few months later, and when it too mined territory similar to New Orders previous incarnation, many observers were quick to dismiss the band for reliving former glories. However, with its next single, "Everythings Gone Green," the quartet first began adorning its sound with synthesizers and sequencers, inspired by the music of Kraftwerk as well as the electro beats coming up from the New York underground; 1982s "Temptation" continued the trend, and like its predecessor was a major favorite among clubgoers. After a yearlong hiatus, New Order resurfaced in 1983 with their breakthrough hit "Blue Monday"; packaged in a provocative sleeve designed to recall a computer disc, with virtually no information about the band itself -- a hallmark of their mysterious, distant image -- it perfectly married Sumners plaintive yet cold vocals and abstract lyrics with cutting-edge drum-machine rhythms ideal for club consumption. "Blue Monday" went on to become the best-selling 12" release of all time, moving over three million copies worldwide. After releasing their brilliant 1983 sophomore album, Power, Corruption and Lies, New Order teamed with the then-unknown producer Arthur Baker to record "Confusion," another state-of-the-art dance classic, which even scraped into the American R&B; charts. The groups success soon won them a stateside contract with Quincy Jones Qwest label; however, apart from a pair of singles, "Thieves Like Us" and "Murder," they remained out of the spotlight throughout 1984. Heralded by the superb single "The Perfect Kiss," New Order resurfaced in 1985 with Low-life, their most fully realized effort to date; breaking with long-standing tradition, it actually included photos of the individual members, suggesting an increasing proximity with their growing audience. Brotherhood followed in 1986, with the single "Bizarre Love Triangle" making significant inroads among mainstream pop audiences. A year later the group issued Substance, a much-needed collection of singles and remixes; it was New Orders American breakthrough, cracking the Top 40 on the strength of the newly recorded single "True Faith," which itself reached number 32 on the U.S. pop charts. The remixed "Blue Monday 1988" followed, and in 1989 -- inspired by the ecstasy-fueled house music that their work had clearly predated and influenced -- New Order issued Technique; their most club-focused outing to date, it launched the hits "Fine Time" and "Round and Round." After recording the 1990 English World Cup Soccer anthem "World in Motion," New Order went on an extended hiatus to pursue solo projects; Hook formed the band Revenge, longtime companions Morris and Gilbert recorded as the Other Two, and, most notably, Sumner teamed with ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant in Electronic, which scored a Top 40 hit with the single "Getting Away with It." New Order reconvened in 1993 for their biggest hit to date, Republic, which earned the band its highest charting American single ("Regret") and fell just shy of the U.S. Top Ten, despite charges from longtime fans that the band had lost its edge. A major tour followed, although rumors of escalating creative conflicts plagued the group; refusing to either confirm or deny word of a breakup, New Order simply spent the mid-90s in a state of limbo, with Sumner eventually recording a long-awaited second Electronic LP and Hook mounting another new project, Monaco. "Brutal," the first new effort from New Order in a number of years, was featured on the soundtrack of the 2000 film The Beach, and the full-length Get Ready followed one year later. By this time, Gillian Gilbert had left the band to care for her and Stephen Morris children, and Marion guitarist Phil Cunningham had been added to bolster the lineup. Dedicated touring followed the release of Get Ready, and New Order recorded a follow-up for release in 2005, Waiting for the Sirens Call. In 2006, after a succession of one-off dates, New Order decided to call it quits for a second time after bassist Hook suggested that they should quit touring for good. With Sumner announcing that they wouldnt record as New Order anymore, he started Bad Lieutenant with Cunningham in 2009. After a two-year break, New Order announced they would play a handful of live dates, with Gilbert now back in the band after a ten-year time-out. Also, Peter Hook was out of the lineup for the first time since New Orders founding, replaced by Bad Lieutenant bassist Tom Chapman. Hook stayed busy, however, recording and touring with his band the Light and writing a book of his time in Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division. The album Live at the London Troxy, released at the end of 2011, documented the bands successful return to the live arena. Continuing to tour throughout 2012, the band joined Blur and the Specials at Londons Hyde Park to help close the London 2012 Summer Olympics, and at the end of the year announced the release of Lost Sirens. The album, which featured songs that were recorded at the time of 2005s Waiting for the Sirens Call, was released in January 2013. One year later, the group signed with Mute Records, and 2015 saw them release Music Complete on the label. Produced by the band, along with Tom Rowlands (of the Chemical Brothers) and Stuart Price on a handful of cuts, the album featured guest appearances from Brandon Flowers, La Roux, and Iggy Pop. The album was released in a variety of formats, including a deluxe vinyl box set that featured extended versions of all the songs. These versions were released separately in May of the next year under the title Complete Music. NOMC15, recorded live at the Brixton Academy, followed in 2017. | ||
 | Album: 1 of 26 Title: Movement Released: 1981-11-13 Tracks: 8 Duration: 35:30 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Dreams Never End (03:14) 2 Truth (04:39) 3 Senses (04:46) 4 Chosen Time (04:07) 5 ICB (04:33) 6 The Him (05:30) 7 Doubts Even Here (04:18) 8 Denial (04:20) |
| Movement : Allmusic album Review : Movement is a first hesitant step in the transition from Joy Division to New Order. After the tragic loss of Ian Curtis, the three remaining members of the former band added keyboardist Gillian Gilbert and soldiered on. Despite a relatively assured debut single ("Ceremony," which didnt appear on the album), the first New Order album revealed a band understandably caught up in mourning for its former lead singer. (But of course, themes of loss and isolation were hardly novel for them.) Movement was made up of songs written just after the suicide of Ian Curtis, and it was recorded with alternating vocal spots to see whose would fit best -- although neither bassist Peter Hook nor guitarist Bernard Sumner sounded quite worthy of the mantle. Sumner wound up taking lead on all the tracks except for "Dreams Never End" and "Doubts Even Here." At times, both vocalists hesitancy makes it sound as if they were recording guide vocals for a Joy Division LP, expecting Ian Curtis to come in later. Despite the bands opaque lyrics, there are easily spotted references to Curtis all over the record, with despair and confusion reigning, especially on "Senses" ("No reason ever was given") and "ICB" ("Its so far away, and its closing in"). More so than on any Joy Division record, it also revealed a group unafraid to experiment relentlessly in the studio until it had emerged with something unique. It showed, too, on tracks like the very hooky "Dreams Never End" or the insistently danceable "Chosen Time," some of the pop smarts that would flower fully later on in their career. Spurred on by producer Martin Hannett, despite his antagonistic relationship with the band (and perhaps, because of it), New Order produced a ghostly, brittle record, occasionally uptempo but never upbeat, with drum machines rattling and echoing over dark waves of synthesizers and Hooks iconic basswork. A masterpiece in the career of any other post-punk band, Movement paled only in comparison to the bands later work. | ||
 | Album: 2 of 26 Title: Power, Corruption & Lies Released: 1983-05 Tracks: 16 Duration: 1:35:32 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Age of Consent (05:15) 2 We All Stand (05:14) 3 The Village (04:36) 4 5 8 6 (07:31) 5 Your Silent Face (06:00) 6 Ultraviolence (04:52) 7 Ecstasy (04:25) 8 Leave Me Alone (04:38) 1 Blue Monday (07:28) 2 The Beach (07:19) 3 Confusion (08:11) 4 Thieves Like Us (06:38) 5 Lonesome Tonight (05:11) 6 Murder (03:57) 7 Thieves Like Us (instrumental) (06:38) 8 Confusion (instrumental) (07:33) |
| Power, Corruption & Lies : Allmusic album Review : A great leap forward from their funereal debut album, Power, Corruption & Lies cemented New Orders place as the most exciting dance-rock hybrid in music (and it didnt even include the massive "Blue Monday" single, released earlier that year). Confident and invigorating where Movement had sounded disconsolate and lost, the record simply pops with energy from the beginning "Age of Consent," an alternative pop song with only a smattering of synthesizers overlaying an assured Bernard Sumner, who took his best vocal turn yet. Unlike the hordes of synth pop acts then active, New Order experimented heavily with their synthesizers and sequencers. Whats more, while most synth pop acts kept an eye on the charts when writing and recording, if New Order were looking anywhere (aside from within), it was the clubs -- "The Village" and "586" had most of the technological firepower of the mighty "Blue Monday." But whenever the electronics threatened to take over, Peter Hooks grubby basslines, Bernard Sumners plaintive vocals, and Stephen Morris point-perfect drum fills reintroduced the human element. Granted, they still had the will for moodiness; the second track was "We All Stand," over five minutes of dubbed-out melancholia. Aside from all the bright dance music and production on display, Power, Corruption & Lies also portrayed New Orders growing penchant for beauty: "Your Silent Face" is a sublime piece of electronic balladry. | ||
 | Album: 3 of 26 Title: Low‐Life Released: 1985-05-13 Tracks: 8 Duration: 40:09 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Love Vigilantes (04:19) 2 The Perfect Kiss (04:49) 3 This Time of Night (04:45) 4 Sunrise (06:00) 5 Elegia (04:56) 6 Sooner Than You Think (05:12) 7 Sub‐Culture (04:58) 8 Face Up (05:05) |
| Low‐Life : Allmusic album Review : New Orders third LP, Low-life, was, in every way, the artistic equal of their breakout, 1983s Power, Corruption & Lies. The point where the bands fusion of rock and electronics became seamless, it showed the bandmembers having it every way they wanted: heavily sequenced and synthesized, but with bravura work from Bernard Sumners guitar and Peter Hooks plaintive, melodic bass; filled with hummable pop songs, but still experimental as far as how the productions were achieved. The melodica-led pop song "Love Vigilantes" was the opener, nearly identical as a standout first track to "Age of Consent" from Power, Corruption & Lies. Next was "The Perfect Kiss," one of the first major New Order singles to appear on an album. (The band being newly signed to Warner Bros. in the United States, it made perfect sense to include such a sublime piece of dance-pop on the LP.) Even as more and more synth-heavy groups like Eurythmics and Pet Shop Boys began approaching New Orders expertise with the proper care of electronics in pop music, the band still sounded like none other. "This Time of Night" and "Elegia" evoked the dark, nocturnal mood of the albums title and artwork, but none could call them mopey when they pushed as hard as they did on "Sunrise." Only "Sub-Culture," tucked in at the end, has the feel of a lost opportunity; remixed for a single release, it became much better. But there was no mistaking that New Order had reached a peak, experimenting with their sound and their style, but keeping every moment wrapped in an unmistakable humanness. | ||
 | Album: 4 of 26 Title: Brotherhood Released: 1986-09 Tracks: 10 Duration: 43:42 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Paradise (03:50) 2 Weirdo (03:52) 3 As It Is When It Was (03:46) 4 Broken Promise (03:47) 5 Way of Life (04:06) 6 Bizarre Love Triangle (04:22) 7 All Day Long (05:12) 8 Angel Dust (03:43) 9 Every Little Counts (04:28) 10 State of the Nation (06:32) |
| Brotherhood : Allmusic album Review : New Order had been so good at integrating synth and guitars (often on the same song) that fans who greeted 1986s Brotherhood with the realization that it was split into a rock side and a dance side couldnt help but be a little disappointed. Still, the songs and the bands production had reached such a high level that the concept worked superbly, without calling undue attention to itself. The rock side comes first, revealing more of the emotional side of Bernard Sumners singing and songwriting, even leading off with acoustic guitar for one song. But Brotherhood was also a little harder than what had come before; Sumner often sang with a come-on sort of brio, matching Peter Hooks seething work on the bass. The songwriting was excellent, and the album was delivered with great pacing, especially on the first four tracks -- sensuous and roiling for "Paradise," bright and emphatic on "Weirdo," reflective for "As It Is When It Was," then back to direct and upbeat on "Broken Promise." The synthesizer side was similarly assured, beginning with one of their brightest singles (and biggest transatlantic hits), "Bizarre Love Triangle." There was no dark side to Brotherhood, as there was with Low-life; after "Bizarre Love Triangle" came only the Middle Eastern fusion of "Angel Dust" and the simple, pastoral synth pop of "All Day Long" and "Every Little Counts." For better and worse, this was a New Order with nothing more to prove -- witness the tossed-off lyrics and giggles on "Every Little Counts" -- aside from continuing to make great music. | ||
 | Album: 5 of 26 Title: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert Released: 1987 Tracks: 9 Duration: 59:13 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Touched by the Hand of God (04:58) 2 Temptation (08:36) 3 True Faith (05:45) 4 Your Silent Face (06:05) 5 Every Second Counts (04:20) 6 Bizarre Love Triangle (04:39) 7 Perfect Kiss (10:06) 8 Age of Consent (05:19) 9 Sister Ray (09:21) |
| BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert : Allmusic album Review : In the wake of early-80s post-punk artiness, New Order must have seemed like a welcome return to the world of tunes. Those not blinded by Ian Curtis pyre were certainly pleased with the direction of the band, while those that needed shades had been finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the melancholic hooks pervading even the most synth-laden dance singles coming out of the group. Which makes this live capture of New Orders divisive skill that much more appealing. Recorded on June 19th, 1987, at Glastonbury, this live set includes everything from the bands major hits ("Temptation," "Bizarre Love Triangle") to the more undisclosed favorites ("Touched By the Hand of God") all with a raw, sometimes po-faced, interpretation of their studio-friendly talents. As in "Your Silent Face," the band seems instinctually aware of accentuating the originals reed-filled ennui, yet while in the distressed "Every Second Counts" -- simultaneously reminding you where Pulp thought of their hook to "Mile End" -- they sometimes come off as just dull, "press that button" mechanists. Either way, fans will most likely enjoy the albums twin highlights: the live unveiling of "True Faith" upon an unsuspecting crowd and an outstanding, nearly incomprehensible cover of the Velvet Undergrounds "Sister Ray" that rounds off the night. Did New Order signal the beginning of something new or the end of something important? Depends on how you look at it. Perhaps BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert immortalizes a moment when a bands supporters and detractors were both exactly right. | ||
 | Album: 6 of 26 Title: Substance 1987 Released: 1987-08-17 Tracks: 24 Duration: 2:26:52 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Ceremony (04:23) 2 Everything’s Gone Green (05:30) 3 Temptation (06:59) 4 Blue Monday (07:28) 5 Confusion (04:43) 6 Thieves Like Us (06:36) 7 Perfect Kiss (08:02) 8 Subculture (04:48) 9 Shellshock (06:28) 10 State of the Nation (06:32) 11 Bizarre Love Triangle (Remixed by Shep Pettibone) (06:44) 12 True Faith (05:53) 1 In a Lonely Place (06:16) 2 Procession (04:28) 3 Mesh (03:25) 4 Hurt (06:58) 5 The Beach (07:19) 6 Confused (instrumental) (07:38) 7 Lonesome Tonight (05:11) 8 Murder (03:55) 9 Thieves Like Us (instrumental) (06:57) 10 Kiss of Death (07:02) 11 Shame of the Nation (07:54) 12 1963 (05:33) |
| Substance 1987 : Allmusic album Review : Substance is a double-disc set collecting New Orders singles, including several songs that were never available on the groups albums, at least in these versions. While there are a couple of re-recordings of earlier singles, most of Substance consists of 12" single mixes designed for danceclub play. Arguably, these 12" mixes represent New Orders most groundbreaking and successful work, since they expanded the notion of what a rock & roll band, particularly an indie rock band, could do. Substance collects the best of their remixes, and in the process it showcases not only the groups musical innovations, but also their songwriting prowess -- "Temptation," "Blue Monday," "Bizarre Love Triangle," and "True Faith" are some of the finest pop songs of the 80s. Although it is a double-disc set, Substance isnt overly long. Instead it offers a perfect introduction to New Order, while providing collectors with an invaluable collection of singles. | ||
 | Album: 7 of 26 Title: Technique Released: 1989-01-24 Tracks: 9 Duration: 39:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Fine Time (04:42) 2 All the Way (03:24) 3 Love Less (03:04) 4 Round & Round (04:31) 5 Guilty Partner (04:48) 6 Run (04:31) 7 Mr. Disco (04:21) 8 Vanishing Point (05:17) 9 Dream Attack (05:12) |
| Technique : Allmusic album Review : Tastes and sounds were changing quickly in the late 80s, which prompted New Orders most startling transformation yet -- from moody dance-rockers to, well, moody acid-house mavens. After the band booked a studio on the island hotspot of Ibiza, apparently not knowing that it was the center of the burgeoning house music craze, New Orders sure instincts for blending rock and contemporary dance resulted in another confident, superb LP. Technique was the groups most striking production job, with the single "Fine Time" proving a close runner-up to "Blue Monday" as the most extroverted dance track in the bands catalog. Opening the record, it was a portrait of a group unrecognizable from its origins, delivering lascivious and extroverted come-ons amid pounding beats. It appeared that dance had fully taken over from rock, with the guitars and bass only brought in for a quick solo or bridge. But while pure dance was the case for the singles "Fine Time" and "Round & Round," elsewhere New Order were still delivering some of the best alternative pop around, plaintive and affecting songs like "Run" (the third single), "Love Less," and "Dream Attack." Placed in the perfect position to deliver the definitive alternative take on house music, the band produced another classic record. | ||
 | Album: 8 of 26 Title: Peel Sessions Released: 1990 Tracks: 8 Duration: 37:32 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Truth (04:20) 2 Senses (04:23) 3 I.C.B. (05:18) 4 Dreams Never End (03:13) 5 Turn the Heater On (05:03) 6 We All Stand (05:26) 7 Too Late (03:39) 8 5-8-6 (06:07) |
 | Album: 9 of 26 Title: Republic Released: 1993-04-27 Tracks: 11 Duration: 47:43 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Regret (04:08) 2 World (04:44) 3 Ruined in a Day (04:22) 4 Spooky (04:43) 5 Everyone Everywhere (04:24) 6 Young Offender (04:48) 7 Liar (04:21) 8 Chemical (04:10) 9 Times Change (03:52) 10 Special (04:51) 11 Avalanche (03:14) |
| Republic : Allmusic album Review : Pulling back slightly from the raw, dance-oriented Technique, New Order took a break for four years and then crafted another slice of prime guitar pop. In keeping with previous work, Republic simply borrows elements of contemporary innovations in club music to frame a set of effortlessly enjoyable alternative pop songs. As on Technique, the singles ("World," "Spooky") are the most danceable on the record, while lyrical concerns are among the most direct of the groups career, including "Ruined in a Day" and "Times Change," sure signs of the demise of Factory Records. | ||
 | Album: 10 of 26 Title: (The Best of) New Order Released: 1994-11-21 Tracks: 16 Duration: 1:10:10 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 True Faith‐94 (05:35) 2 Bizarre Love Triangle‐94 (03:53) 3 1963–94 (03:47) 4 Regret (04:08) 5 Fine Time (03:08) 6 The Perfect Kiss (04:49) 7 Shell Shock (04:23) 8 Thieves Like Us (06:36) 9 Vanishing Point (05:15) 10 Run (04:31) 11 Round & Round‐94 (04:01) 12 World (Price of Love) (03:40) 13 Ruined in a Day (03:57) 14 Touched by the Hand of God (03:42) 15 Blue Monday‐88 (04:08) 16 World in Motion (04:30) |
| (The Best of) New Order : Allmusic album Review : New Orders first compilation album, Substance (1987), finally broke the group through to commercial success in the U.S. Its second one, The Best of New Order, isnt exactly Substance II. The previous set was a singles collection, and Best Of does pick up that story, including a series of songs -- "True Faith" (in a new remix), "Touched by the Hand of God," "Blue Monday 88," "Fine Time," "Round & Round" (in a new remix), "Run," and "World in Motion" -- that were bigger hits in the U.K. than in the U.S. (Also included is the groups biggest U.S. hit, "Regret" as well as its charting follow-up, "World [The Price of Love].") But in addition, the compilers have included one song each from the groups albums -- "Dreams Never End" from Movement, "Age of Consent" from Power, Corruption & Lies, "Love Vigilantes" from Low-Life, "Vanishing Point" from Technique, and "Ruined in a Day" from Republic. Add in some rarities, plus "Bizarre Love Triangle," repeated from Brotherhood and Substance, and you have 17 tracks taking up 70 and a half minutes and providing a good survey of New Order, 1981-1993. Substance, with its concentration on the groups run of classic singles from the early 80s, is a more consistent effort, but The Best of New Order, even if it is misnamed, is an excellent sampler of one of the major British bands of the 1980s. | ||
 | Album: 11 of 26 Title: (The Rest of) New Order Released: 1995-08-21 Tracks: 10 Duration: 1:19:59 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 World (Perfecto mix) (07:28) 2 Blue Monday (Hardfloor mix) (08:35) 3 True Faith (Shep Pettibone remix) (09:02) 4 Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction mix) (10:12) 5 Touched by the Hand of God (Biff & Memphis remix) (10:00) 6 Bizarre Love Triangle (Armand van Helden mix) (08:59) 7 Ruined in a Day (K-Klass remix) (06:13) 8 Regret (Fire Island mix) (07:07) 9 Age of Consent (Howie B. remix) (05:23) 10 Spooky (Magimix) (06:58) |
 | Album: 12 of 26 Title: Get Ready Released: 2001-08-27 Tracks: 10 Duration: 50:53 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Crystal (06:51) 2 60 Miles an Hour (04:35) 3 Turn My Way (05:05) 4 Vicious Streak (05:40) 5 Primitive Notion (05:43) 6 Slow Jam (04:53) 7 Rock the Shack (04:12) 8 Someone Like You (05:42) 9 Close Range (04:13) 10 Run Wild (03:57) |
| Get Ready : Allmusic album Review : Instead of settling down in front of the mixing board for another dance album (a lá Technique or Republic), New Order returned in 2001 with a sound and style they hadnt played with for over a decade. Unsurprisingly bored by the stale British club scene circa 2001, the band opened Get Ready with a statement of purpose, a trailer single ("Crystal") featuring a host of longtime New Order staples: a sublime melody, an inscrutable set of lyrics, a deft, ragged guitar line kicking in for the chorus, and Peter Hooks yearning bass guitar taking a near-solo role. Though there are several allowances for the electronic-dance form New Order helped develop, Get Ready is a very straight-ahead album, their first work in 15 years thats focused on songwriting and performance rather than grafted dance techniques. (Of course, the band proved themselves far more than studio hands at several points, stretching back over twenty years to Joy Divisions landmark Unknown Pleasures, as well as later New Order LPs like 1985s Low-life and 1986s Brotherhood.) Listeners familiar with the blueprint of early New Order work will find much to love on Get Ready, from the tough rockers "60 Miles an Hour" and "Primitive Notion" to pastoral downtempo material like "Turn My Way," "Vicious Streak," and the melodica-driven closer "Run Wild." This naked songcraft, however, does reveal a few of the bands deficiencies. Bernard Summers lyrics drift toward the inane: "Ill be there for you when you want me to/Ill stand by your side like I always do/In the dead of night itll be alright/cuz Ill be there for you when you want me to." And the band cant help but identify with a younger generation of music-makers, inviting Primal Screams Bobby Gillespie over for "Rock the Shack" and turning in a dense, chaotic production thats all but de rigeur for Gillespie but very strained for New Order. (The other main collaborative track, with stranded Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, is surprisingly unembarassing.) Even for fans who dont need any convincing, Get Ready is a true "grower," an album that reveal its delicious secrets -- sublime songcraft, introverted delivery, collaborative musicianship -- slowly and only after several listens. | ||
 | Album: 13 of 26 Title: Back to Mine: New Order Released: 2002-09-30 Tracks: 14 Duration: 1:13:37 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley mix) (09:00) 2 Bassline (05:59) 3 The Dance (06:53) 1 Higher Than the Sun (06:26) 2 M62 Song (03:00) 3 Cherry Red (05:15) 4 The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (03:43) 5 Was Dog a Doughnut? (03:57) 6 E=MC² (04:39) 1 Big Eyed Beans From Venus (04:15) 2 In Every Dream Home a Heartache (05:08) 3 Mushroom (04:16) 4 Venus in Furs (05:16) 5 Energy Flash (05:43) |
| Back to Mine: New Order : Allmusic album Review : Easily the most popular act to deliver a volume in the after-hours mix series Back to Mine, New Order have been much more than artists, but true tastemakers, over their two-decade history. Accordingly, instead of the narrow swath of downbeat usually found on this type of compilation, the quartet (minus Gillian Gilbert) selected tracks by 14 artists whose only clear connections are as iconoclasts. Rock experimentalists from the 60s and 70s like Captain Beefheart, Cat Stevens, Roxy Music, and Can stand next to a trio of classics from the acid house explosion of the late 80s: Derrick Mays "The Dance," Joey Beltrams "Energy Flash," and Primal Screams "Higher Than the Sun." The Velvet Underground follows on from Missy Elliott, and the end of Mantronixs electro-rap classic "Bassline" butts heads with the Groundhogs roadhouse blues "Cherry Red." Obviously, this is leagues away from a Sasha mix album, or even a David Holmes Essential Collection for that matter. Its an informed mixtape, the type you get from one of your hipper friends; and, depending on how much you care about music history (or how much you follow New Order), this is either downright essential or slightly conceited. Its perfectly in line with New Orders history of quality control, though, which is a high recommendation in and of itself. | ||
 | Album: 14 of 26 Title: International Released: 2002-10 Tracks: 14 Duration: 1:17:42 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Ceremony (04:23) 2 Blue Monday (07:28) 3 Confusion (04:43) 4 Thieves Like Us (06:36) 5 The Perfect Kiss (04:49) 6 Shellshock (06:28) 7 Bizarre Love Triangle (extended dance mix) (06:42) 8 True Faith (05:53) 9 Touched by the Hand of God (12 inch mix) (07:04) 10 Round and Round (04:00) 11 Regret (04:08) 12 Crystal (06:51) 13 60 Miles an Hour (04:35) 14 Here to Stay (radio edit) (03:57) |
| International : Allmusic album Review : Any band thats released nearly as many compilations as studio albums in the past 15 years certainly doesnt need another one, but International appeared anyway, and though its slightly better than The Best of New Order, its not nearly as solid as Substance. Beginning with New Orders recorded debut, 1981s "Ceremony," the collection proceeds immediately to the groups worldwide breakout with 1983s "Blue Monday," then slots mid-80s classics "Confusion," "The Perfect Kiss," and "Bizarre Love Triangle." It certainly didnt need three tracks from 2001s Get Ready. Most of the tracks are album versions, though the compilers made wise choices on remixes of "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "Touched by the Hand of God." As befits a middling compilation from an excellent band, International is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. | ||
 | Album: 15 of 26 Title: Retro Released: 2002-12 Tracks: 57 Duration: 5:04:09 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Fine Time (04:42) 2 Temptation (08:42) 3 True Faith (05:53) 4 The Perfect Kiss (04:49) 5 Ceremony (04:23) 6 Regret (04:08) 7 Crystal (06:49) 8 Bizarre Love Triangle (04:22) 9 Confusion (08:13) 10 Round & Round (04:31) 11 Blue Monday (07:28) 12 Brutal (04:49) 13 Slow Jam (04:53) 14 Everyone Everywhere (04:24) 1 Elegia (04:55) 2 In a Lonely Place (06:16) 3 Procession (04:28) 4 Your Silent Face (06:00) 5 Sunrise (06:00) 6 Let’s Go (03:53) 7 Broken Promise (03:47) 8 Dreams Never End (03:11) 9 Cries and Whispers (03:25) 10 All Day Long (05:12) 11 Sooner Than You Think (05:12) 12 Leave Me Alone (04:38) 13 Lonesome Tonight (05:11) 14 Every Little Counts (04:28) 15 Run Wild (03:57) 1 Confusion (Koma and Bones vocal mix) (06:01) 2 Paradise (Robert Racic mix) (06:40) 3 Regret (Sabres Slow ’n’ Low mix) (06:41) 4 Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone extended dance mix) (06:42) 5 Shellshock (John Robie mix) (06:28) 6 Fine Time (Silk mix) (06:16) 7 1963 (’95 Arthur Baker remix) (05:04) 8 Touched by the Hand of God (03:42) 9 Everything’s Gone Green (05:32) 10 Blue Monday (Jam & Spoon Manuela mix) (06:39) 11 World in Motion (Subbuteo mix) (05:08) 12 Here to Stay (extended instrumental) (05:55) 13 Crystal (Lee Coombs mix) (07:03) 1 Ceremony (04:49) 2 Procession (03:34) 3 Everythings Gone Green (05:14) 4 In a Lonely Place (05:32) 5 Age of Consent (05:02) 6 Elegia (04:46) 7 The Perfect Kiss (09:43) 8 Fine Time (05:02) 9 World (04:48) 10 Regret (04:01) 11 As It Is When It Was (03:47) 12 Intermission by Alan Wise (01:20) 13 Crystal (06:51) 14 Turn My Way (04:57) 15 Temptation (07:47) |
| Retro : Allmusic album Review : Yet another New Order compilation? Add Retro to the dizzying stack of New Order compilations and best-ofs. Actually, it was the second comp to come out in the last half of 2002 (International was released in October and contains nearly every song that is on Retro). With that said, Retro is probably the most expansive and interesting New Order compilation since 1987s Substance. Keeping an eye and ear on the amazing Joy Division set Heart and Soul, Rhino stepped in to publish this box as well (that alone will give Retro a bit more credibility). The packaging is more or less identical to Heart and Souls four-CD orientation and comes complete with its own Peter Saville-directed artwork and 70-plus-page booklet. Unlike the Joy Division set, Retro makes no attempt to create a comprehensive or complete look at New Orders expansive catalog. Rather, it is set up as an ultimate mix tape that might be made for someones cousin who knows nothing of this band. And like a mix tape, everyones track list would be different and would probably carry on a different mood. This one is curated by four individual selectors, and each disc carries on with a major theme. The first disc, "POP," is compiled by U.K. journalist Miranda Sawyer and contains all the major New Order favorites: "Blue Monday," "Bizarre Love Triangle," "Confusion," and a few minor surprises such as "Brutal" (featured on the Beach soundtrack). John McCready, journalist and Hacienda DJ, put together a "FAN" disc that contains some moodier album cuts like "Your Silent Face" and "Sooner Than You Think." Mike Pickering (M People, Hacienda DJ), selects New Orders dance-friendly material on the "CLUB" disc. Finally, Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) picks up some "LIVE" tracks -- which proves to nicely distill New Orders generally hit-or-miss concert performances. While Retro may not be a complete necessity ("Blue Monday" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" should never appear on another New Order disc), it does pull together into one spot enough rarities (nothing too impossible to find, though) and a rather entertaining track list for obsessives. For the uninitiated, Substance is probably still the best place to start. [A five-disc version was released on a strictly limited basis that held some harder-to-find tracks.] | ||
 | Album: 16 of 26 Title: Waiting for the Sirens’ Call Released: 2005-03-24 Tracks: 11 Duration: 57:06 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Who’s Joe? (05:41) 2 Hey Now What You Doing (05:15) 3 Waiting for the Sirens’ Call (05:42) 4 Krafty (04:34) 5 I Told You So (06:00) 6 Morning Night and Day (05:12) 7 Dracula’s Castle (05:39) 8 Jetstream (05:23) 9 Guilt Is a Useless Emotion (05:39) 10 Turn (04:36) 11 Working Overtime (03:25) |
| Waiting for the Sirens’ Call : Allmusic album Review : When New Order returned in 2001 with their first new record in eight years, the album they created (Get Ready) was given a great deal of leeway by fans (if not critics). Was it original? Not very. Although the band never recycled a riff, many of the songs recalled not just the bands salad days, but often specific performances from 80s touchstones Brotherhood or Low-life. What saved Get Ready from irrelevance was a brace of great songs, a new look at the band as capable rockers, and whats more, that uncanny ability to produce timeless, ever-fresh recordings. Almost as surprising as that comeback record was its follow-up, Waiting for the Sirens Call, which arrived in 2005. If New Orders ambition was only to reinforce themselves in their fans imaginations as members of a working band (à la their contemporaries Echo & the Bunnymen or even Duran Duran, for that matter), then the album is a success. Unfortunately, however, the adjectives that need to be attached to this record -- workmanlike, customary, unembarrassing -- arent going to make music fans flood the record stores seeking copies. Bernard Sumner showed the effects of a writing drought, returning to old musical themes hed visited (and revisited) before, and writing lyrics that make their 1993 single "Regret" a career classic in comparison. Titling a dramatic rocker "Draculas Castle" may be perfectly acceptable, but then making explicit mention of that metaphor within a set of clumsy lyrics ("You came in the night and took my heart/To Draculas castle, in the dark") is taking the easy way out, to say the least. The first single, "Krafty," makes the bands ties to Kraftwerk obvious, but while the German motorische experts manufactured cleverly simplistic productions, they never reached the rudimentary levels of this single. (And they surely knew better than making it sound like they meant it, as Sumner does, with the awful rhyme "But the world is a wonderful place/With mountains, lakes, and the human race.") Even the mainstream dance tracks, "Jetstream" and "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion," evince a cold heartlessness that the band never strayed into during the 80s. If New Order continue making albums every several years instead of every decade, critics will quickly begin to strain for new ways to describe Peter Hooks plangent bass work or Sumners half-bemused, half-baffled songwriting and vocal delivery. Still, thats nothing compared to what New Order might be reduced to recycling. | ||
 | Album: 17 of 26 Title: Best Remixes Released: 2005-06-21 Tracks: 16 Duration: 1:54:19 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Jetstream - Richard X Remix (07:39) 2 Krafty - DJ Dan Vocal Remix (08:18) 3 Crystal (John Creamer & Stephane K Main Remix) (11:25) 4 Spooky (Out of Order mix) (06:19) 5 World (Perfecto Mix) (07:28) 6 Ruined In A Day (Reunited In A Day Remix) (06:14) 7 Regret (New Order Mix) (05:12) 8 World In Motion (Carabinieri Mix) (05:53) 9 Round And Round (Kevin Sanderson 12" Mix) (06:48) 10 Fine Time (Silk mix) (06:16) 11 Blue Monday 88 (12" Version) (07:07) 12 True Faith (The Morning Sun Extended Remix) (09:01) 13 Bizarre Love Triangle (Extended Dance Mix) (06:42) 14 State Of The Nation (06:32) 15 The Perfect Kiss (Live version from Video) (05:14) 16 Here To Stay (Felix Da Housecat - Thee Extended Glitz Mix) (08:10) |
 | Album: 18 of 26 Title: Singles Released: 2005-10-03 Tracks: 32 Duration: 2:17:50 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Ceremony (04:37) 2 Procession (04:29) 3 Everythings Gone Green (04:10) 4 Temptation (05:24) 5 Blue Monday (07:28) 6 Confusion (04:56) 7 Thieves Like Us (03:57) 8 The Perfect Kiss (04:49) 9 Sub-Culture (03:26) 10 Shell Shock (04:23) 11 State of the Nation (03:32) 12 Bizarre Love Triangle (04:22) 13 True Faith (05:53) 14 1963 (04:21) 15 Touched by the Hand of God (03:43) 1 Blue Monday‐88 (04:08) 2 Fine Time (03:08) 3 Round and Round (04:00) 4 Run (04:31) 5 World in Motion (04:30) 6 Regret (04:08) 7 Ruined in a Day (03:57) 8 World (Price of Love) (03:40) 9 Spooky (03:45) 10 Crystal (04:20) 11 60 Miles an Hour (radio edit) (03:50) 12 Here to Stay (03:57) 13 Krafty (03:47) 14 Jetstream (03:44) 15 Waiting for the Siren’s Call (Rich Costey radio edit) (03:52) 16 Turn (7" version) (04:13) 17 Temptation (Secret Machines remix) (04:37) |
| Singles : Allmusic album Review : Now that Waiting for the Sirens Call has been officially declared part of New Orders history, only eight months after release, its time once again to reassess the group in the form of a mostly redundant compilation. Rhino calls Singles the groups "first ever career-spanning two-disc retrospective," but its more like the groups first compilation to contain tracks from Sirens Call. Besides, 1987s Substance spanned the groups career upon release and remains the basis for most New Order compilations (this one included), so its no big deal. Just as importantly, over a third of the contents date from 1993 onward; thats too high a percentage to make the set an ideal introduction. Considering its title, Singles has a clear-cut purpose, unlike 2002s International. Then again, each of the 14 tracks contained on International are also here -- what amounts to an inferior version of Substance with some crucial tracks squeezed out in favor of lesser, later singles. A proper sequel to Substance, covering Technique through Sirens Call, wouldve made more sense, but the lure in dressing up a combination of oft-recycled classics with slightly varying surroundings has yet to lose its appeal. Substance remains, and will likely always remain, the release to get you started. | ||
 | Album: 19 of 26 Title: iTunes Originals Released: 2007-09-23 Tracks: 25 Duration: 1:08:22 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 iTunes Originals (00:06) 2 A Door Opening in a Darkened Room (01:29) 3 Transmission (iTunes Originals version) (03:42) 4 The First Album "Movement" Was Very Tentative (01:00) 5 Dreams Never End (03:15) 6 Thats One of the Legends Anyway (01:17) 7 Blue Monday (07:28) 8 Another One of Our Dance Rock Things (00:55) 9 Bizarre Love Triangle (iTunes Originals version) (04:45) 10 Its Most Notable for the Quality of Its Sleeve (00:17) 11 The Perfect Kiss (04:49) 12 There Was No Great Plan (00:18) 13 Love Vigilantes (iTunes Originals version) (04:13) 14 We Dont Really Know What Were Doing (00:30) 15 True Faith (05:49) 16 Then It All Started Going Wrong (01:17) 17 Round and Round (04:31) 18 "Run Wild" Is a Very Personal Track (01:33) 19 Run Wild (iTunes Originals version) (04:19) 20 A Total Shock (01:31) 21 Regret (04:08) 22 People Like the New Numbers (00:46) 23 Waiting for the Sirens Call (iTunes Originals version) (05:22) 24 I Find It Very Pleasurable (01:01) 25 Love Will Tear Us Apart (iTunes Originals version) (04:01) |
 | Album: 20 of 26 Title: Total: From Joy Division to New Order Released: 2011-06-06 Tracks: 18 Duration: 1:16:52 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Transmission (03:36) 2 Love Will Tear Us Apart (03:26) 3 Isolation (02:53) 4 Shes Lost Control (04:45) 5 Atmosphere (04:10) 6 Ceremony (04:37) 7 Temptation (05:16) 8 Blue Monday (07:28) 9 Thieves Like Us (03:54) 10 The Perfect Kiss (04:27) 11 Bizarre Love Triangle (03:40) 12 True Faith (album edit) (04:13) 13 Fine Time (03:08) 14 World in Motion (04:30) 15 Regret (7" version) (04:09) 16 Crystal (04:20) 17 Krafty (single edit) (03:47) 18 Hellbent (04:29) |
| Total: From Joy Division to New Order : Allmusic album Review : Total: From Joy Division to New Order, issued by Rhino U.K. in 2011, is an unavoidably awkward attempt at distilling the output of two connected bands to a single disc. Should you happen to want the biggest hits and an assortment of highlights, this might do the trick: “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Blue Monday,” and “Bizarre Love Triangle” are all included. Both Joy Division and New Order released crucial studio albums and were the subjects of landmark singles compilations. This release drastically shortchanges their legacies. There is no point to the discs existence, unless you factor the one previously unreleased outtake -- a weak one at that -- recorded by New Order in 2005. | ||
 | Album: 21 of 26 Title: Live at The London Troxy Released: 2011-12-20 Tracks: 16 Duration: 1:30:35 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Elegia (02:22) 2 Crystal (06:33) 3 Regret (04:49) 4 Ceremony (05:06) 5 Age of Consent (06:00) 6 Love Vigilantes (04:43) 7 Krafty (05:44) 8 1963 (06:28) 9 Bizarre Love Triangle (05:16) 10 True Faith (07:28) 11 586 (06:15) 12 The Perfect Kiss (07:06) 13 Temptation (09:38) 1 [announcement] (00:32) 2 Blue Monday (07:44) 3 Love Will Tear Us Apart (04:45) |
 | Album: 22 of 26 Title: Lost Sirens Released: 2013-01-13 Tracks: 8 Duration: 38:20 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 I’ll Stay With You (04:24) 2 Sugarcane (04:47) 3 Recoil (05:09) 4 Californian Grass (04:35) 5 Hellbent (04:26) 6 Shake It Up (05:22) 7 I’ve Got a Feeling (04:29) 8 I Told You So (Crazy World mix) (05:07) |
| Lost Sirens : Allmusic album Review : Trumpeted in some circles as a New Order rarities collection, Lost Sirens doesnt really fit the bill as such, but it does offer a wealth of bonus tracks from circa 2005 -- call it the second disc of the deluxe edition that was never released for Waiting for the Sirens Call. Their eighth album, it eventually appeared to be the bands swan song, given Peter Hooks eventual estrangement from the rest of the original lineup. Compared to that albums half-hearted songwriting and rote sound, Lost Sirens positively shines -- leading to the customary questions of why this material didnt replace several, if not many, songs on the original Sirens Call. Most of the excitement is due to the lead-off track "Ill Stay with You," a solid rocker that sounds like it shouldve been their comeback single after 2001s energizing Get Ready. As on much of their work of the 2000s, guitar is forefront and synths are used only for texture, but with excellent results, led by the midtempo storm of "Hellbent" (the only previously unreleased track, which appeared on a 2005 hits collection). | ||
 | Album: 23 of 26 Title: Live at Bestival 2012 Released: 2013-07-08 Tracks: 13 Duration: 1:12:20 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Elegia (02:54) 2 Regret (04:05) 3 Isolation (03:14) 4 Krafty (04:59) 5 Here to Stay (06:17) 6 Bizarre Love Triangle (04:50) 7 586 (05:39) 8 The Perfect Kiss (06:32) 9 True Faith (06:59) 10 Blue Monday (07:08) 11 Temptation (10:07) 12 Transmission (04:04) 13 Love Will Tear Us Apart (05:26) |
 | Album: 24 of 26 Title: Music Complete Released: 2015-09-23 Tracks: 11 Duration: 1:04:30 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Restless (05:28) 2 Singularity (05:37) 3 Plastic (06:55) 4 Tutti Frutti (06:22) 5 People on the High Line (05:41) 6 Stray Dog (06:17) 7 Academic (05:54) 8 Nothing but a Fool (07:43) 9 Unlearn This Hatred (04:19) 10 The Game (05:06) 11 Superheated (05:04) |
| Music Complete : Allmusic album Review : For Music Complete, New Orders ninth album and first in a decade, the band signed to new label Mute and welcomed keyboardist Gillian Gilbert back for her first recordings with them since 2001. Unfortunately, original bassist Peter Hook, who quit in 2007, didnt return and his bass duties were taken over by Tom Chapman, who played with Bernard Sumner in Bad Lieutenant. The return of Gilbert is a clue that the band is looking to the past for inspiration here and forsaking the guitar-driven rock orientation of its last couple albums for something more balanced, if not tipped in favor of more electronic and dancefloor-oriented songs. To that end, they brought in Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands as well as Richard X and Stuart Price to produce tracks. Not the most daring or forward-looking choices for collaborators, but their efforts result in some of the albums highlights. Rowlands invests "Singularity" with some Chemical Brothers-style punch, while "Unlearn This Hatred" has a passionate, almost industrial drive. The Richard X-mixed "Plastic" is the most new wave-sounding moment on the record, full of sparkling surfaces and fueled by some retro sequencers. Elsewhere, the bandmembers take it upon themselves to craft songs that have more joyful bounce than one would expect from them. "Tutti Frutti" is a tricky bit of electro-disco with a rubbery electronic bassline, some vintage keyboard wash from Gilbert, and a vocal cameo by La Rouxs Elly Jackson. Shes also on "People on the High Line," which is probably the funkiest track theyve ever recorded, with finger-popping bass, house-y piano, and a beat that pulsates like a hot N.Y.C. summer night. (The other guest appearances on the album are by the Killers Brandon Flowers, who adds some over the top crooning to "Superheated," and Iggy Pop, who mumbles semi-coherently through the interminable, momentum-sapping "Stray Dog.") The melancholic guitar-driven songs are a little less interesting, with only "Restless" coming close to the feel of the groups classic tracks. Too many of them come off like New Order by the numbers, with seriously banal (even for him) lyrics from Sumner and a string section that only serves to add more weight to the already too-soggy sound. Its hard to say which is most disappointing -- the songs or the sound -- but its clear that Hooks bass would definitely have made a huge difference. Though Chapman tries his best to conjure up Hooks famous style without sounding like hes making copies, his efforts really cant compare to the melodic grace and sheer power of Hooks playing. New Order without Hook is like Joy Division without Ian Curtis, only instead of New Order forming in the wake, its Bad Lieutenant. Even making an allowance for Hooks glaring absence, Music Complete is still a watered-down and uninspired album by a band that lost the plot long ago and can now only capture an occasional glimmer of what made it so great in the first place. | ||
 | Album: 25 of 26 Title: New Order Presents Be Music Released: 2017-02-01 Tracks: 36 Duration: 3:36:30 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Love Tempo (07:06) 2 Reach for Love (05:27) 3 Cool as Ice (07:46) 4 Looking From a Hilltop (megamix) (08:09) 5 Fate/Hate (08:07) 6 Security (remix) (05:53) 7 The Only Truth (07:13) 8 You Hurt Me (radio edit) (04:47) 9 Keep on Dancin (03:40) 10 Reflection (04:44) 11 Tingle (05:18) 12 Over Italia (04:13) 1 Cant Afford (06:50) 2 Babcock + Wilcox (03:31) 3 Bootsy (The Swingfire mix) (04:19) 4 ~ (Real Love) (07:22) 5 Looking From a Hilltop (Another Hilltop Stephen Morris mix) (09:11) 6 Inside (07:22) 7 The Hunter (Stephen Morris remix) (06:56) 8 Daggers (Stephen Morris remix) (05:30) 9 Oh Men (The Other Two remix) (06:37) 10 A Wooden Box (Stephen Morris mix) (08:51) 11 Tell Me (03:04) 12 Tell Me (Theme) (02:57) 1 Lavolta Lakota Theme (03:05) 2 Knew Noise (04:44) 3 All at Once (02:55) 4 Motherland (05:43) 5 Theoretical China (05:47) 6 Security (dub) (04:03) 7 Reach for Love (New York remix) (05:30) 8 Jess + Bart (mix) (03:12) 9 Deep Sleep (05:37) 10 Telstar (03:14) 11 Sakura (05:35) 12 Video 5‐8‐6 (22:07) |
 | Album: 26 of 26 Title: NOMC15 Released: 2017-05-26 Tracks: 19 Duration: 1:53:43 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Introduction: Das Rheingold – Vorspiel (03:20) 2 Singularity (06:01) 3 Ceremony (04:55) 4 Crystal (06:53) 5 586 (05:22) 6 Restless (04:39) 7 Lonesome Tonight (04:08) 8 Your Silent Face (06:22) 9 Tutti Frutti (07:09) 10 People on the High Line (05:51) 11 Bizarre Love Triangle (06:01) 1 Waiting for the Siren’s Call (07:20) 2 Plastic (07:16) 3 The Perfect Kiss (06:21) 4 True Faith (06:39) 5 Temptation (09:38) 6 Atmosphere (04:12) 7 Love Will Tear Us Apart (04:06) 8 Blue Monday (07:30) |
| NOMC15 : Allmusic album Review : New Orders fourth official live album documents the second of two sold-out concerts at Brixton Academy in November of 2015, shortly after Music Complete was released. While the title (NOMC15) implies that the album is going to center around the studio album, only a handful of its tracks appear: singles "Singularity," "Restless," "Tutti Frutti," "People on the High Line," and the standout album track "Plastic." Besides those, as well as a curious intro excerpt of Wagners Das Rheingold, theres an excellent selection of the groups career highlights, as well as a few Joy Division tunes. Elly Jackson of La Roux pops up to provide backing vocals on a few numbers, exclaiming that shes ecstatic to be invited to such a momentous event occurring so close to her house. Bassist Tom Chapman sounds a little bit untethered compared to the groups departed co-founder Peter Hook, but he does a fine job nonetheless. Other than that, New Order run through many of their classics, delivering Moroder-esque disco beats and lightly sharp post-punk guitar riffs, sounding excellent and seeming to have a good time doing it. They get creative with the old favorites, updating them a little bit and making them a bit more dramatic, but not drowning out their essence. On some of the bands biggest hits, especially "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "True Faith," they alter the intros enough so that it takes about a minute for the audience to recognize what songs are coming. "Temptation" builds suspense by imitating the strings from Lou Reeds "Street Hassle," but this time the audience knows whats coming, chanting the opening "ooooooh"s well before the beats kick in. Following a slightly more rocked-up rendition of "Love Will Tear Us Apart," Bernard Sumner jokingly responds to "Blue Monday"s stuttering kick-drum intro with "I recognize that beat!" | ||