#205

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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#206

@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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#207

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:

#208

Time for the ol’ score!

#209

3.99 New Order fall cruelly short of the 4 mark!

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#210

Gloriously ridiculous of course

#211

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

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#212

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

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#213

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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#214

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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#215

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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#216

Definitely

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#217

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

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#218

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

#219

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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#220

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

Fucking good, innit?

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#221

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.

#222

Just walked home from night shift listening to Low Life on my bose headphones via Spotify. Enough brand checks.

Really hit me how good that albums sounds and that it’s 35 years old. For the first time I noticed just how taylor made it is for headphones and along with Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward those albums may have been produced with the personal stereo users in mind. The really flash STEREO seems almost too music but it felt oddly quaint and the album sure as hell holds up. 1985 was a year when masses had personal stereos for the first time. Although the personal stereo was about before this for a while it became an affordable product around 1984 I feel.

Quite stunning listening to Sunrise at the crack of dawn, tired in the dark cold gloom. Lets’s get this year behind us, not a musical note but the I feel at the hospital we are seeing developments now and it feels like we are getting on top on this crazy year.

Lets’s get back to celebrating live music when it returns. It means so much…

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#223

Voted 5 too. Low Life is an all timer record that you can just stick on at anytime and enjoy. Don’t have a huge amount to add but I also really rate that first The Other Two record that Gillian and Stephen (need to get a copy of his autobiography) put out, anyone else a fan?

Love Face Up, closes Low Life with a bit of joyful euphoria (Barney’s vocals getting better from the second verse on in this version)

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#224

This version of ‘Temptation’ live in Glasgow is making me a bit emotional remembering what gigs were like…