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#84

The best Joy Division album too (if we don’t count Substance)

#85

take it to the hot takes thread

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#86

Let’s not get carried away

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#87

Back at my parents and sorting through old stuff. Haven’t seen this for 26 years. Needs a wash I think .

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#88

They’re going all Aphex Twin with this live album title

#89

i like that Steve and Gillian weren’t on board with the sunglasses instruction

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#90

to be fair the title makes perfect sense as a formula

& what a cracker it is
they were some of the best shows i’ve ever seen
not just by them, but by anyone

only saw one in Manchester as was in new Zealand for all but the last show (& was jet lagged as hell for that) but the turin & 2 in Vienna the year after were similarly amazing.

brilliant brilliant live album

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#91

nice avatar mate, what single is that again?

#92

Yeah it’s great, that version of All Day Long is a stunner. If they kept touring the deep cuts like that I’d pay an arm and a leg to see them. Sadly they seem to have reverted to the standard ‘finish off with Temptation-True Faith-Blue Monday’ set since

#93

True Faith :+1:

#94

Great song, don’t get me wrong - and the live version they do is ace.
It’s more the predictability of the set list I’m getting at. They used to refuse to do Blue Monday in the early days.

#95

Should have clarified - @hibster2000’s avatar is the true faith single cover (or at least one of the versions of it).

Am not surprised they refused to play Blue Monday back when it was losing them money - they always seemed very down on it as something that was knocked up in no time. Never got to see them before 1998 and think it’s always been in the sets I’ve seen them play since. They’re more of a legacy band these days, despite the odd new album so are pretty much stuck now as having four or five tunes everyone expects to hear towards the end of their sets. That said, the setlist for the live album is pretty varied beyond that and the sets they toured after Music Complete came out had a good mix.

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#96

I prefer the other recent live album, NOMC15 - I guess given what the Liam Gillick concerts were meant to be, I would have preferred the arrangements to be more different from the originals. And Hey Joe is one of my least favourite NO tracks.

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#97

hey joe can do one
but almost the whole set was a surprise whereas could’ve written the nomc15 out for you beforehand

#98

refuse?
it was written so they could bugger off stage & leave it playing, the lazy gets!

it is their second most played song, slightly behind temptation & it is one year younger
(temptation first played 6/9/81 & blue Monday 25/11/82

#99

Fair enough - the choice of tunes was a surprise, but the arrangements (on the whole) weren’t, and I wanted to hear the differences. I dunno - maybe it worked better live.

#100

New Order related, the first Electronic album - which is fantastic - is being reissued in the new year.
https://store.rhino.co.uk/uk/electronic.html

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#101

Why would you buy it with that cover? That was the cover slapped on by Parlophone after Factory died, because the original design signed off by the band and the label wasn’t deemed readable enough. It always looked like the bargain bucket version of the album to me. I’m happy with my original Factory LP with the orange sleeve thanks.

Mind you, if they added a second disc with the Acid House tracks that they supposedly made (which presumably are like Lucky Bag), then I’d consider it.

#102

Still absolutely adore this album. But glad I have the original cover rather than this cheaper knock-off looking one.