The ULTIMATE list - 'Official' results now in...

The votes have been cast, the excitement has escalated to previously unheard of proportions and now, finally, the Huntsman can reveal the overall winners of the OrderLine ‘Official’ greatest hits of New Order arbitrary survey for no practical purpose.

Some excellent decisions seem to have been made by the faithful here - seeing, of note, the hit song 'Regret' romping in at a hefty '9' individual votes - that’s more than ANY OTHER SONG (except 1)... Curiously, and most probably due to this being the only song anyone ever remembers from the dismal 'Movement' - 'Dreams Never End' ties with 'Regret' for most votes!!! - The ever popular 'Bizarre Love Triangle' from the 1986 'chart shy' album 'Brotherhood' re-affirms its position in our hearts... it might not be an indie grunge fest you’d pop on your stereogram to impress your most hardened mates, but its certainly a lovers melody buried deep in our souls for evermore... and now its official.

The dirty fight between 'Age of Consent', 'Leave Me Alone' and 'The Village' from the Corruption album was a toughly fought bout... with 'AOC' just eclipsing the others by '2' votes. I'm sure you'd agree with me that this was one of the most disappointing results. 'Crystal' and 'Turn My Feet' were offered little resistance for the 'Getting Things Ready' pole positions, not one single human vote for 'Rocking the Shithouse' fiasco (just for the records). 'Vanishing Point' and 'Dreaming about Attacks' confirmed what we already knew but were too frightened to admit... that 'Technique's' best songs are the ones that touch our heartstrings like angels with several finely tuned harps.

'True Fate' and 'Temptation' raised above all others to claim the most favoured single title, however, 'Ceremony' was a real genuine contender until the closing votes raced in from left-of-field and clinched it like a thief through the nightgown.

Well done everyone who voted... here is the 'Official' list for your efforts:

Movement Dreams Never End (9) Tie - Denial and Chosen Time at (3) votes each

Power, Corruption and Lies Your Silent Face (7) Age of Consent (6)

Low-Life Sunrise (5) Love Vigilantes (4)

Brotherhood Bizarre Love Triangle (7) All Day Long (4)

Technique Vanishing Point (6) Dream Attack (5)

Republic Regret (9) Special (5)

Get Ready Crystal (7) Turn My Way (6)

Singles Temptation (5) Ceremony (4)

I find the presence of 'All Day Long' quite a pleasant surprise...

Seems to be about what you'd expect-though I did think PK may get in on the LowLife section. Paradise/Weirdo criminally ignored I reckon.

Yes Huntsmule, you've surpassed even our wildest expectations with this one, not a bad list at all by anyones standards, though the ommission of the multiple orgasm that is The Perfect Kiss is a real shockarooney! It may be interesting to do the same with just the albums to see what the many and varied furry woodland creatures who gather at the Orderline watering hole deem to be the best. A top three per person I suggest, with the votes being assimilated by your good self once more. It may bring a surprise or two. I'll await the new thread with baited breath!

I agree, Huntsy, the absence of Leave Me A Loan is quite upsetting, especially after GR's dismal US chart position. The presence of Loaves of Violence is also disappointing. And how account for no TF, no Subbasement, no Prefect's Kiss? But apart from these childish nitpickings on my part (what do you expect from an eternal 12-year-old?) that was a very worthwhile exercise, H. Nice to see the correct results on GR.

When do you get up, Patsy ?! You seem to be a very early bird !

Klumpy, yes I get up at 5. Thank you for your efforts on getting me H's SF. I have just listened to it once, and my first reaction is quite positive. Obviously further listens are in order. I have not yet listened to your creation, but I will. Thanks again.

Well fellas there's little chance of me organising another best of list... doing that one was akin to working a full midnight shift at Jeff White's consumer superstore paradise of crisps with the assistant manager on my back for a pringles stack tumble that was almost no fault of my own. Muffboxer you'll have to take the mantle should you require further best of stats. - I is bushwacked.

I think 'El Jarvo hits the various nails square on the teat with his assessment that the Order should adopt our fave list for forthcoming gigs.. I mean, 'Age of Conquest' or 'Slow Jam Butties'? - is there any debating that? - good god no I hear you all shout you little munchkin chasers.

I think this hit list is a true belter... Throw Me a Bone was an annoying omission but you can't have everything in this life... I mean, despite the fact that the affluent wheelchair based texan tycoon 'Wheelchair Ronnie' managed to bag himself the ample chested Anne-Nicole Smith he kicked his own bucket far too early. He had money, a good set of titties but wasted himself far too early, persumably prior to a mammoth sex sesh where Ronnie was going to stick his nose up Annie's arse.

Oh well - I went of on a tangent there but its Friday so what the hey hey where the monkey nuts!!!

Sebbsy you little diamond.. thanks for the encouraging words on the Frisco tune, I'll print out your comments and pretend its proper fan mail and stick it on me fridge at home.

Hurrah for Special coming a very respectable second behind the unstoppable Regret!!

I think Special is simply exquisite.

No probs Huntsy, as I said I didn't want to go into great detail...I did notice it was 10 years old though..have you been continuing to do stuff since?

regarding Jarv's suggestion-which would of course be superb if they would do it...would you include any JD songs on their live set? I personally thought Transmission may well have been the highlight of their live show.

Originally posted by Huntsman Well fellas there's little chance of me organising another best of list... doing that one was akin to working a full midnight shift at Jeff White's consumer superstore paradise of crisps with the assistant manager on my back for a pringles stack tumble that was almost no fault of my own. Muffboxer you'll have to take the mantle should you require further best of stats. - I is bushwacked.

Ok Huntsy baby, but next week maybe, when the dust has settled on this one.

Briggsy, I agree - Transmission was like a choice racehorse in amongst a herd of below par pit ponies. It did stand out and the crowd cheered and threw sticks at each other. I didn't want to go down the JD route for Best Of discussions because so many worms would escape and scuttle up your trouser leg. There are about 8 Joy Division tracks I would dearly like to hear live but personally, their recent lacklustre version of Love Will Tear The Both of Us Wide Apart was tap water. After all, they're meant to be pionners of the synth and the bog standard 'String Preset 1' off a Toy Town synth for 50 quid was just lazy, and quite frankly, offensive to the good name of Joy Divisional. I fear Ian Curtains was most porbably turning around in his own gravy boat after hearing it.

So - provided they were to do 'good' versions, yes, let's bung in the JD classics.

The song of my own is very old Sebb, so apologies. I have been writing over the last 5 years solely on my own and intend to record again after I've built my own home studio which currently sits on top of my girlfriends head.

Patty if you've downloaded it please don't listen to it on a tin-pan PC speaker system otherwise I will have to shoot myself.

Huntsty, I don't know how you'll feel about this but the one comment I'd like to make about your superb tune was it reminded me of 'Electronic' musically. DO you think this is fair?

JD songs that I'd like to hear live would be

Transmission (again) Shes lost control Interzone 24 Hours Isolation Dead Souls

probably fairly obvious choices but...

Huntsy, how am I going to listen to it if I don't listen to it that way? You're not going to suggest that I somehow put it on a CD? That is so far beyond my capabilites that you might as well ask me to hop in my submarine and cross the ocean.

I type this with great trepadation, which is dificult enough without having to affect a Geordie accent,As one of the web's most inept users, I'd appreciate if someone(all parties permitting) would send me Huntsy's and Klumpsy's tunes,I can only here 27 seconds on Geoffs link :confued: .I am willing to reciprocate with one of my own entitlded as all my compositions are 'Is My Hair Flame Retardent'Though as great patience is required ,due to my ineptness, a snail mail C.D. which I can burn all by my self may have to do.
P.S. just so you don't have to click on my link I'm on IANSHIMMIN68@AOL.COM

Huntsy, Geoff, how about you guys posting a link so that we all can get our mits on these tasty morsels of yours?

For my song, you must not click with the left but with the right button of your mouse so that you can dowload it...

http://www.planetinternet.be/fr/chroniques/pourqui/_mp3/doberman.html

If it's still doesn't work, tell me...

Originally posted by Geoff The Klump For my song, you must not click with the left but with the right button of your mouse so that you can dowload it...http://www.planetinternet.be/fr/chroniques/pourqui/_mp3/doberman.htmlIf it's still doesn't work, tell me...

It' not working Geoff but i have to head back to the grindstone for now, i'll try it again later, but thanks.

Originally posted by Geoff The Klump For my song, you must not click with the left but with the right button of your mouse so that you can dowload it...http://www.planetinternet.be/fr/chroniques/pourqui/_mp3/doberman.htmlIf it's still doesn't work, tell me...

CHEERS KLUMPY,THE RIGHT CLICKING OPTIOM SEEMS TO BE WORKING I'VE GOT 17% AS I TYPE.

Originally posted by Geoff The Klump For my song, you must not click with the left but with the right button of your mouse so that you can dowload it...http://www.planetinternet.be/fr/chroniques/pourqui/_mp3/doberman.htmlIf it's still doesn't work, tell me...

CHEERS KLUMPY,THE RIGHT CLICKING OPTION SEEMS TO BE WORKING I'VE GOT 17% AS I TYPE.

... Fuck it!

Content of website now withdrawn by the Huntsmule.

Get your arses here.

If you can't download the bastard off this (as my programming skills are akin to a pissed-up badger operating a heavy goods vehicle, on its own, with boxing gloves on)... then the Buster has shot it here with his own hit 'Not Unlike a Doberman'.

http://www.planetinternet.be/fr/chroniques/pourqui/\_mp3/indexpat.html

Pastie my doubts that you were listening to my hard efforts through a tin can have now been realized. I knew this was a bad idea. Charge that submarine to full and head over to the northern reaches of Eggland.

Sebbsy I spent about 3 solid weeks mixing that song so it sounded hard edged, gritty and utterly morbid.... to say that it sounds like 'Electronic' is nothing short of blasphemy and I have taken the liberty of stocking up the Huntsman's Bedford Rascal with a wide and varied range of high explosives and illegal weaponry obtained by the head of the Taliban 'John'. Expect smoke and a whole lotta gunfire down your road very soon... I'll beep my horn to let you know when I'm coming.

Christ, sorry huntsy! When I say Electronic I did mean the first album in the least-the guitar sections reminded me of Idiot Country a little. I meant particuarly in the synth/guitar ratio rather than the actual production...

You realise by giving your song away, you are forever losing your unknown persona...

Huntsy, take heart. When I first started listening to New Ardor, the mechanism was a portable cassette player, with sound quality not that different from a tin can, and that didn't deter me. But anyway, I'll get my submarine out of drydock.

Klumpy,prior to today I'd never been to Belgium, today I think I went there,I also think I could smell edelweiss even though I know it's usually found in alpine regions and Belgium is a low-land country

Never fear Sebbsy, my real persona is still well under wraps... I rarely use my real name 'Salt Seller' - when it comes to music, I also had to initiate a pseudo-name. Interestingly, the various Walter-Mitty creations are all loosely, very loosely, based on my real name which is 'Harry Pepper Salts Junior the IIIrd'

Well, Ian, is it the Doberman song that does that to you ?

I'm a bit scared...

Erm...

:)

Thats good to know Huntsy-I thought you may have been rumbled.

Originally posted by Geoff The Klump Well, Ian, is it the Doberman song that does that to you ?I'm a bit scared...Erm...:)

My confusion stems from your ability to seemingly transform me from one contrasting geographical area of Europe to another ...a la Kraftwerk's-Trans Europe Express or actually riding in the Tour de France at light speed, leaving Clancy Strongarms trailing like a snail with frog's legs in my wake.

I agree with Jarvo on the JD thing as I was 11 at the time. Ok, let's keep 'Transmisssion' in the set at it hasn't been played as much as the other JD songs and give us Age Of Consent, Perfect Kiss, Vanishing Point, Subculture, Leave Me Alone...

Originally posted by Allen Jarvis > Originally posted by Seb Briggs> regarding Jarv's suggestion-which would of course be superb if they would do it...would you include any JD songs on their live set? I personally thought Transmission may well have been the highlight of their live show.

Seb, Jarvo's acceptable, but plain "Jarv" just sounds 'wrong' to me. Please abstain, there's a good chap!

Have we bought Greenacre off you yet? Watch. This. Space. 300K I heard. You must be strapped for cash.

Sorry mate...I imagine thats probably like when people call me Zeb, Sam or 'Briggsy'. All of which make me feel ill.

I heard Luton were apparently after Greenacre-though why would he stay in the third division if he was to move..can't see it. I think we turned down £500,000 for him during the summer so I doubt it. NExt saturday Mansfield vs Luton I believe...

I think the whole playing JD is a bit of agimmick to be honest

Originally posted by Ian Shimmin > b]My confusion stems from your ability to seemingly transform me from one contrasting geographical area of Europe to another ...a la Kraftwerk's-Trans Europe Express or actually riding in the Tour de France at light speed, leaving Clancy Strongarms trailing like a snail with frog's legs in my wake.

Do I really have that ability ? Now that's weird...

Well, at least I do have an ability...

Originally posted by Huntsman ... Fuck it!Content of website now withdrawn by the Huntsmule.Get your arses here.If you can't download the bastard off this (as my programming skills are akin to a pissed-up badger operating a heavy goods vehicle, on its own, with boxing gloves on)... then the Buster has shot it here with his own hit 'Not Unlike a Doberman'.planetinternet.be/fr/chroniques/pourqui/_mp3/indexpat.htmlPastie my doubts that you were listening to my hard efforts through a tin can have now been realized. I knew this was a bad idea. Charge that submarine to full and head over to the northern reaches of Eggland.Sebbsy I spent about 3 solid weeks mixing that song so it sounded hard edged, gritty and utterly morbid.... to say that it sounds like 'Electronic' is nothing short of blasphemy and I have taken the liberty of stocking up the Huntsman's Bedford Rascal with a wide and varied range of high explosives and illegal weaponry obtained by the head of the Taliban 'John'. Expect smoke and a whole lotta gunfire down your road very soon... I'll beep my horn to let you know when I'm coming.

I'm only fixing the hyperlink to make it easier for me to connect.

Originally posted by Allen Jarvis > Originally posted by Seb Briggs> regarding Jarv's suggestion-which would of course be superb if they would do it...would you include any JD songs on their live set? I personally thought Transmission may well have been the highlight of their live show.

Seb, Jarvo's acceptable, but plain "Jarv" just sounds 'wrong' to me. Please abstain, there's a good chap!

easy there crouch end tiger - watch out for hidden dragons.