New Order: Movement / Power, Corruption and Lies / Low- Life / Brotherhood / Technique . In between is some of the most casually amazing pop music ever made, but these two bookends- - . The interesting thing about . Following the suicide of Ian Curtis and subsequent retirement of the Joy Division moniker, New Order began as a band without a frontman; the trick of them is that they stayed that way, even after Sumner had become the regular vocalist. Sumner's often flat, affectless voice might be a familiar point of contact with New Order but it's rarely their focus. Their notoriously careless lyrics- - Sumner has generally made great play of how last- minute they are- - are a further sign of the group's discomfort with the way rock music tends to be lensed through its singer. So it's no surprise the 1. So if Sumner isn't a frontman, what is he? New Order - substance 1987. Substance 1987 is a 2 album compilation of 12' mixes of previous hits and their b sides. The singles 'Blue Monday', 'Shellshock' (from the pretty in pink movie). New Order: Blue Monday . I have Blue Monday (Fac73) on 12' vinyl. The label on the b-side. I say number 2 and Blue Monday first! ![]() Joy Division / Warsaw Gigography. You can buy Album Live At Bestival 2012 2013 - New Order. Iomoio / Mp3 Music Catalogue / N / New Order / Live At Bestival 2012 Cover: 150x150. Blue Monday (Cass Remix) 2003: 1: 192: $0.16. ![]() It's a song that uses soccer as a metaphor for raving and resistance- - ! In those terms, Sumner isn't a frontman, he's a target man: The striker whose job isn't just to score, it's to hold the ball so his teammates can move forward and into play. New Order's secret is their fluidity, their easy sharing of the spotlight. At any time in any song, any one of them might provide the hook- - the bright drama of Gillian Gilbert's keyboards, the giddy sequencing of Stephen Morris' percussion, Peter Hook's famously liquid basslines, or indeed Sumner's own guitar lines, as gorgeously full and melodic as his vocals are blank. But New Order really woke up to their own potential when they bought a nightclub and started making music that might fill it, and for this side of the story you need the second discs of these generous releases, filled with singles and 1. The deluxe reissue package can feel like the industry's last throw of the back catalogue dice- - hoover up all sorts of bits and bobs and use historical context as a figleaf to persuade people to buy the same record a third or fourth time. If New Order had never released singles, how would we remember them now? Perhaps authors of a solid body of pop work, dependable fixtures of the alternative scene whose success nobody could begrudge. These albums are often excellent, but of these five packages, the . The rhythmic experiments on Movement, for instance, make more sense when you hear them alongside the mechanoid funk of . The second disc here takes the bleak pressure off the original album, letting it breathe not as an awkward afterthought to Joy Division but as a group pushing that band's musical ideas further. Their most coherent and underappreciated record, it's still an uncomfortable listen, with tracks like . Power, Corruption and Lies exists in the shadow of two remarkable singles: . The first had established the band's emotional signature: a bittersweet rush of hard- won, inarticulate bliss. Many of their most glorious tracks- - . Power, Corruption and Lies works to reconcile these seminal records: It's a spiky take on synth- pop, with some of the group's giddiest music. The uninhibited tumbles of . A generally sympathetic re- mastering job can't disguise how clattery and sharp Low- Life sounds: Hailed at the time as New Order's first really great album, it's now the one that seems most time- bound thanks to its brash mid- 8. There's plenty of drama here, but the album's two stand- out tracks are best heard in their bonus- disc extended versions. At full 1. 8- minute stretch, . The bonus disc of Brotherhood has two more peerless 1. They sound, for the first time since Movement, like an indie band- - but a superb one: Four musicians at ease with each other and themselves, combining on tracks like . Instead they made arguably their best record. Past the red herring of . Each track, as it leads you into a fluid maze of melody, is a hug from a stranger you've known all your life. Technique is magnificent, but it has the weakest bonus disc of all- - listless B- sides and instrumentals, and merely functional remixes. Standard- bearers for club culture in the alternative world for most of the decade, New Order never really adapted to dance music's victory in the UK mainstream: They made more great records, but no more great 1. With their sound perfected, they also stopped surprising us: So even though this isn't all the records they made, these collectors' editions still feel like a complete story of this most accidental of bands.
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