best New Order album?
So they have some fantastic singles, but are they just a singles band? Which are the best albums?
Tweet This
Share on Facebook- Relevant artist taggings:
- None
Thread not appearing correctly? Click here to rebuild | Report this
- Watch: Ben Folds does ChatRoulette piano improv, live!
- Alex Chilton tribute concert to go ahead at SXSW, read tributes
- Graham Coxon wants America cleared like an overgrown field, slates The Guardian
- Watch: Arctic Monkeys - 'My Propeller'
- Listen: Download Quack Quack - 'D Motherf^cker D'
- White Hills @ The Arts Organisation, Nottingham, 10/03/10
- Bloc Weekender, Butlins, Minehead, 12-14 March
- The Rings of Saturn on Your Fingers: Metric's Emily Haines on Mark Linkous
Last.fm
SoundCloud
MySpace
Friendster
RSS
I still think the Singles double CD is the best thing to get
But of their regular albums, Low-Life is probably their most consistent. That or Power, Corruption and Lies.
Substance is the best thing ever
Especially on vinyl
I fucking pressed enter instead of tab during that first post...
I bought Substance on vinyl for £3 a few months back
one of the best things i've picked up in a charity shop EVER!!
Power, Corruption & Lies
obv =classic. Movement is sorta half Joy Division, half NO, tis good. And the third one too (Low Life?) is good. After that, I dunno...lost interest.
Substance is brilliant...
but if we were talking about 'proper' albums, Technique is probably the one to go for.
PC&L
MVMNT. SBSTNC.
I quite like
'Get Ready' (shuffles away in embarassment)
Although there is no truly definitive answer. They are a fucking good singles band, throughout their career...but none of their albums are quite consistent enough to justify 'must-buy' status.
I agree
and I think Get Ready is a decent album. Any album with the brilliant Crystal on gets plus points in my book.
Get Ready is nothing to be embarrassed about
It ties with Technique for best New Order album, imo.
I really like 'Technique'
That's pretty damn consistant!
LOW LIFE
i reckon that really nailed it for the music of the time when it was released. It sees them really crossing the divide from JD to becoming New Order. It is raw and simple and the electronic sounds are great. I'm biased because of when I first heard it but i think it still holds up and is way better than the later stuff like true faith etc..
^^^
Low Life is definitely their peak ... I'm very fond of Brotherhood too
Technique is....
....pretty damn impressive and managed to get me through my O Grades (aye, thats a long time ago!)
Shit band live, though, apparently. I never saw them but apparently I never missed much!
I've heard that too, but they've been great every time I've seen them
seen them quite a few times, from Slough Fulcrum in 1985 (my first ever gig) to Primavera in 2005
low life is the best
of the bunch
They're all really good except
The last 3. Though 'Get Ready' was the best of these.
If you don't buy the albums, you'll miss out on 'Love vigilantes', 'Confusion', 'Age of consent', '5 8 6', etc.
My favourites are Brotherhood, Technique, Low-life and Substance though
Tech Nique
by a long margin, the most consistent set of songs which fit together best. worst aspect of the last 2 are the tedious 'collaborations' with the likes of scissor sisters and er... billy corgan which really should not have been permitted to happen.
Technique
Is the shizzle! They are all good though! And are probably the best manchester band ever but never really get the credit they deserve.
Another vote
for Technique. <3 Love Less.
New Order = total joke.
just wanted to get that off my chest.
thank you please.
gerroooffff
Away with you young sir! Go buy Technique! Buy the remastered version!
Hello Pete
he he, we already had this arguement on bookface :D
I hoped your profile would suggest that you liked shit music
But annoyingly it didn't. Though it did mention Fugazi, which is always a massive 'fail' in my book.
Seriously son, you're 19? And you're into some of the stuff on that list? You are waaaaayyyy ahead of me at that age musically. I still rated what the NME liked at that point in my life...
I've never listen to NME myself
I brought the melody maker till it sadly ended and then started reading Q lol
Not you and the 'fugazi are shit' thing again
You must be the only person ive ever heard of who thinks theyre crap!
why thank you.
i am indeed 19 and like all the music i have listed.
that may be cool, but it means you have pretty much zero friends in high school, ha. But fuck it, i have friends now in the real world, albeit, usually older than me, prob down to my taste. Most people my age have shite music taste nowadays, hence why i dont really bother with em.
p.s.
how can't you not like Fugazi?
whats not to love?
The guitar interplay alone is worth listening to
Technique
I love New Order, but I still get people fawning over 'Low Life', it bores the shit out of me. I'd also recommend 'Power Corruption & Lies' and 'Brotherhood'.
'Substance 1987' for the unitiated.
Just listening to Technique again now.
'Vanishing Point' is brilliant. I admit the last New Order album they made wasnt much kop. The lyrics were terrible but they have made some brillaint albums over time. NME likes alot of bands, doesnt stop me liking them. They are a music rag, they write about all kinds of bands.
Technique
by a considerable distance
Technique is the best.
vanishing point, dream attack, all the way...fantastic tunes.
after that id say: power, corruption
lowlife
brotherhood
get ready