class.

Yep, that’s Factory for you

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I’ve got Unknown pleasures in one of those boxes. So that most iconic cover - I don’t have it

About to start Stephen’s 2nd part of his autobiography, although I get the sense he has chickened out, as apparently the book ends just before Hooky leaves in 2007.

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@rob.orch what are your 2 favourite NO songs (that aren’t Ceremony, BLT or Temptation and are on Spotify) please?

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On one of my first listens to Power, Corruption and Lies, I used the replay feature on Tim Burgess’s listening party website. It really added a lot. They’ve done a few other New Order albums and both Joy Division albums, too:

Time for the ol’ score!

3.99 New Order fall cruelly short of the 4 mark!

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Gloriously ridiculous of course

Nice little run of the cruelly underrated with them followed by Dylan and Kendrick just under 4.

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Springsteen, The Clash and Ramones should all be way higher too.

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Regret, as a first off reflex choice - the soundtrack to my first summer term at uni, the track they started their set with first time I saw them. Great remixes too.

I’m going to go rogue with my second choice though - there’s so many I absolutely adore and if I picked say, Thieves Like Us, I might change my mind tomorrow. So instead my second choice is Run Wild, a track Bernard wrote for his baby daughter (who must be 17 or 18 by now), which I used to sing to Jimbo at bedtime every night as a baby and is now on his bedtime playlist of less baby-ish lullabies (and as a consequence, probably the track of theirs I’ve listened to most of all)

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Done, thank you.

The full playlist is here

And now contains over 63 hours of music (that bit is fao of everyone not just Rob!)

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Thanks for the thread, I really enjoyed it and as I mention above somewhere and a few others have picked up on or pointed out also is the gem that is Thieves Like Us. So glad this track, that really has been off my radar for a good while - has sprung back to my attention.

I think the overall score for a collective of votes is decent and I’m kind of glad they didn’t beat Joy Division. Love 'em though. Good work everyone.

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Definitely

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I’d take everyone within 0.1 of 4.00 over everyone with 4.30 or above.

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Gutted I missed this one, as my 5 vote might have been enough to take them over 4…

I guess the sum total of votes must’ve been 634, so 3.987 average. 639/160 would be 3.99375, so no, still 3.99. I think…

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Just listening to Singularity from Music Complete for the first time.

Fucking good, innit?

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New Order is one of my favorite bands.
Definitely 5.
My favorite albums are Brotherhood and Technique.
They are undoubtedly influential, innovative and have such a big history.
But surprisingly they have never been truly successful commercially.
They deserve a lot more.
And actually their latest album Music Complete is quite decent.
I don’t listen to much of their stuff after Republic, but Get Ready and Music Complete are solid records.