New Order

Chopper · June 20, 2007, 06:03:37 PM

anyone else out there a fan?

i haven't been able to put down Brotherhood lately.

i'm dying to get Low Life, the Perfect Kiss, Love Vigilante, lots of great stuff on that album.

Substance - disc 2 has also been in heavy rotation.

Snivelly · June 20, 2007, 06:24:52 PM

Haven't heard the newer stuff, but New Order never gets old for me either. I've liked all of the albums I've heard, and owned a few too.

raj · June 20, 2007, 06:57:10 PM

I was always more into Joy Division myself. Haven't listened in a few years as I need to get a new needle for my turntable.

Chopper · June 21, 2007, 11:28:42 AM

Right on Snivelly, i thought the Sirens Call was a pretty strong album, I didn't hear the album before that but nonetheless i still feel Sirens Call has a lot of strong tracks on it and is very diverse in it's influences, much like Technique.

Quote from: Snivelly on June 20, 2007, 06:24:52 PM
Haven't heard the newer stuff, but New Order never gets old for me either. I've liked all of the albums I've heard, and owned a few too.

Chopper · June 21, 2007, 11:32:37 AM

i hear ya Raj. i guess i've always loved them both. Joy Division just popped out of this weird time for punk, all the anarchist - mohawk stuff was kinda fading away. JD really brought their personal stamp to the whole thing.

i don't know if it's just me but sometimes when i hear Ceremony i can feel the spirit of Ian in Bernard's voice.

Quote from: raj on June 20, 2007, 06:57:10 PM
I was always more into Joy Division myself. Haven't listened in a few years as I need to get a new needle for my turntable.

dean · June 27, 2007, 04:27:38 AM

For my birthday last month we went karaoke-ing and to open proceedings I 'sang' [loose term here] Blue Monday. Nothing like a one and a half minute intro to really kick things off. I have video footage of it somewhere around, but I'll be damned if I post it.

Great track, can't get enough of it, but haven't heard any of their new work recently, except if memory serves me correctly, the did the soundtrack to "Sunshine" which was really nice ambient music.

Must admit that whilst I'm a New Order fan, I haven't really heard anything barring the usual suspects [Bizzare Love Triangle etc etc]

ER · April 30, 2020, 09:00:29 AM

I like Joy Division better but in dying and coming back as New Order the band definitely scored an all-time great with Bizarre Love Triangle, a song I don't think ever would have been recorded had Ian Curtis stayed alive. (And speaking of Ian, I marked the thirtieth anniversary of his passing in here in 2010, and in a couple weeks we'll be at forty years. Whoosh.)

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Alex · April 30, 2020, 12:20:57 PM

I remember them announcing his death via a town crier. That made the national news. Then again, I guess it was supposed to.

ER · April 30, 2020, 12:50:59 PM

Did you ever see 24-Hour Party People, where that was recreated? The town crier I mean, but they also depicted Ian's funeral, him lying there in a high collar. Pretty grim stuff.

Alex · April 30, 2020, 12:52:03 PM

Can't say I've ever seen the movie.

ER · April 30, 2020, 01:16:34 PM

Quote from: Alex on April 30, 2020, 12:52:03 PM
Can't say I've ever seen the movie.

It's good and kinda bad but it tells the story of Factory Records from the '70s and '80s and is all about Tony Wilson and all the bands he promoted out of Manchester, without ever making money, because he signed a contract in blood that he wouldn't, lol. Joy Division was one of his first bands and play a big role in the first quarter of the movie (which came out just before Tony died in real life, sadly) and Ian Curtis' downward spiral was shown without any romance to it at all. Two scenes that stick out in my mind are when these jerks in some band or other fed poison bread to seagulls so birds would drop dead all over Manchester, and when this Chris Farley type was too obese to be buried in his own grave, a fact discovered only in the middle of his service.

The best movie about Joy Division is Control, which really ought to be a classic but it seems like hardly anyone's heard of it. Ian was played up as more of a suffering martyr than the real man actually was according to everyone who knew him, but there's only so much distance you can put between tragedy and your story when it opens with a man about to kill himself, and ends with a darn brutal depiction of him doing it....filmed literally in the exact place he hanged himself.

lester1/2jr · April 30, 2020, 01:38:54 PM

Black Marble has some of that vibe

http://youtu.be/NqRi03ZKiiw

zombie no.one · April 30, 2020, 03:31:22 PM

I love Regret and True Faith (94 version) but apart from those 2 tracks not really a fan. synth led pop is not really my thing tbh

similar with Joy Division. Love Will Tear Us Apart is a great song, but a friend lent me an album (forget which one) and I couldn't get through it...too depressing. (even tho I love some depressing nusic like Nick Drake)

Zapranoth · April 30, 2020, 09:37:45 PM

I know their older albums pretty well, but only a couple of months ago I heard the song "the Siren's Call" on the radio one day. Hadn't heard it before, but about four bars into it I said "That's a New Order song I haven't heard before." That's a cool song. I haven't heard the rest of the album, and I'd fall more into the "like some singles but couldn't tell you about the whole albums" camp.

Temptation is one of the songs that takes me back to a particular time and place in my life -- college, late teens/ early 20's. And, Bizarre Love Triangle.