GangstaFam said:

i had fun with you guys at that show but i wouldn't say it's one of the best concerts i've ever seen, or really anything close to it. it wasn't dynamic at all, and they did seem to be phoning it in. i dug on the "OMFG I AM AT A NEW ORDER SHOW!!!" vibe and we got to see mo collins from mad tv in the lobby (or was that when i saw the pixies at the same venue?), but yeah...they looked ready to pack it in.

GangstaFam said:

honestly ever since it was released i've never ever been able to
remember the names of the tracks on republic

it's the only album by any artist that i have this problem with.

lately i've been listening a lot to this album and my fav song,
well non single song would be the one with the line


it was always special
it was like water down the drain
i'm intoxicated
everytime i hear your name


listened to that about 30 times last week and yet i can't begin
to think what it's called



probably "special" or something

Anx said:

I think you would've had a much different experience if you'd been on the floor dancing with us.

IstenSzek said:

that's the one.

GangstaFam said:

lol i just checked to be sure and now you've already posted affirmative



my fav new order album is probably still Technique but i also know that
is because it's the first one i got for myself on cd and listened to in
my room over and over and over and over again.

IstenSzek said:

A lot of folks think they reached their peak with that one.

I love it. But I love the 3 before it a lot more.

GangstaFam said:

i know. they're absolutely brilliant. and i know that they've got
material on them that's far better. it's just that sentiment of
my memories connected with Technique that make it my fav album of
theirs.

IstenSzek said:

It's certainly worthy.

Shapeshifter said:

Interesting take, you've made me want to dig it out and listen to it with fresh ears.

GangstaFam said:

Brotherhood is in my top couple of favorite albums ever, by anybody. It just feels so raw and rocky and dreamy and funny and depressed and mean all at the same time. I never get tired of listening to it. Everything else kind of paled in comparison next to it for me, even when it was damn good!

MendesCity said:

It might be my favorite too.

This is really upsetting to me. I've read all of the posts here about feeling it was time, etc., but they are one of my absolute favorites and I don't like thinking of them as part of the past.

I am thrilled to have seen them live- it was an exhilarating concert for my bro and I. I was excited by the news that there would be another album soon after the underrated Waiting for the Sirens' Call and that they were writing material for the Joy Division film. And now this.

Now playing: "Ceremony"

Now playing: "Love Vigilantes"

Moonbeam said:

It sucks. I know they broke up before, so it's not absolutely final.

GangstaFam said:

I wonder if they'll put out that album that was in the pipe.

"Ruined in a Day"

I didn't like their last one. Anx said I would warm up to it and I tried but I never did. I'm glad they are ending things when they feel it is right.

VoicesCarry said:

VoicesCarry said:

Hey VC!

Technique is my favorite New Order album - I would love a nice reiusse of it. I really don't think they put out a bad album, although I have to admit I didn't listen to the last 2 anywhere near as much as the earlier stuff.

I like all their 80's material, basically. Technique and Brotherhood were very strong albums. Nothing beats their 12''-ers from the period, though. Perfect Kiss, Bizarre Love Triangle and Blue Monday are three of the best 12'' records EVER.

yes, their 12" mixes were always stellar. I love "Sub-Culture", probably my favorite remix.

Also love "Murder"

GangstaFam said:

probably, but it still wouldn't have been about how great the show was - it would have been about how fun it was dancing with you guys.

VoicesCarry said:

there were two or three songs that i thought were salvageable, but yeah. they're dunzo.

I hope this doesnt sound totally messed up, but Im glad they decided to call it quits when they did. Like a lot of you guys are saying, it seemed like they were just going through the motions with"Waiting for the Seirens call". The songs sounded like weaker versions of tunes they previously recorded, and Berny's 2 string guitar lines were kinda uninspired. "Get Ready" was hot,though. Most fond New Order memory is driving to D.C to see them, Gene Loves Jezebel, and a few other bands at an outdoor venue. New Order came on after dark, and you never really saw them. Only their silouettes. But the music was so damn good! Fave albums:

Low Life
Brotherhood
Factus(ep)
Technique

GangstaFam said:

Come off it! Everyone Everwhere and Chemical wipe the floor with anything on those last two albums. Republic's a heartbroken album. Everything was falling apart around them when they made it - Factory Records, the Hacienda, the Manchester scene, Tony Wilson. It was their break-up album, and it would have been perfect if they'd left it there. You were dancing with tears in your eyes.

Granted, both their "comeback" had their moments, but they couldn't hold a candle to their predecessors in any conceivable way. They were following where once they'd blazed a trail. And following very very slowly. And then there were Barney's lyrics. This from Krafty: "I think the world is a wonderful place/With mountains, lakes and the human race". Barney was never The Bard of Salford,the lyrics plumbed depths of inanity matched only by the downward moving sludge that was the music. And Krafty was the lead-off single from "Sirens".

You should have seen them at Wembley last year, going through the motions, stiff as concrete puppets on steel cables, all their failings exposed. New Order gigs used to be celebrations. That fely like a wake. We left early too, right after Love Vigilantes. They played True Faith as their last encore. I wasn't sad to miss it.
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Shapeshifter said:

I guess we've just had vastly different New Order experiences.