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Originally posted by AgentWood > Originally posted by Nick King> > > > Originally posted by Ronald Kirsch> > I thought the smurfs are from Belgium>
Dutch, surely? 
l8rs,
Nick ;)
belgian. and real. My mistake Peyo, the creator, is Belgian. Anyways, France is bound to invade Belgium one day, for the sole reason that french fries can legitimately be called French fries.
Interesting topic. I've wondered how other people have felt about this. If the internet had come around about six years earlier (at least in terms of mass availability and usage) then I would have been FAR FAR more involved in the New Order Forums. However like probably quite a few fans, I waited a long time, quite eagerly for the release of Republic, listening to New Order record after New Order record year after year after year over and over again and then Republic came out, and it was like the metaphorical Geraldo Empty Vault moment. A complete let down, made even worse by the release of a very good single a month preceeding the album release. By '94 I stopped the endless rotation of New Order records and moved on. New Order found it's way into my walkman and my car stereo as always from time to time, but nowhere even remotely as often as before. Technique, Substance, Low-Life and PCL remained treasured musical booty, but still booty that was stowed away most of the time while I searched for new interests, developing an interest in blues, in fifties jazz, in Johnny Cash, emmylou Harris and O' Brother where art thou, but no other country-ish music, and developing interests in the new bands that captured my fancy over the years.
New Order has always remained a treasure, but I also found treasures in Saint Etienne, Radiohead, The Orange Peels, Beatles records, Zeppelin, CCR, Creem, British Invasion stuff, Billie Holiday, The Zombies (my favorite relatively undiscovered british invasion band), Bob Marley, Matt Ward, old doo-wop, and even pre-break down Beach Boys records. There is cr@ploads and cr@ploads of brilliant music, and I'm gonna keep searching each and every day for the latest discovery that can transform my days.
New Order will always remain, MY BAND, my 1.) favorite band, but the days of me nearly keeping them on permanent rotation, of throwing on Age of Consent, or Thieves like Us, or 1963, or Run or whatever almost every day are over. I listen when I'm in the mood but not otherwise.
How have you dealt w/being a New Order fan in the nineties and now the 21st century?
Originally posted by The DoN what are you "supposed" to listen to when you get older then? is it a sheep following the herd syndrome or is there a scientific reason you should stop listening to certain types of music...
C'mon G.P. I'd love to know!!
This makes no sense to me at all--the band didn't stop writing music when they hit 40, or slap 'to be sold to under 40's only' stickers on their cds. 
ive said it before. im half pissed off i like new order so much. im 21 and up till 3 years ago i listened to everything- some shit, some good, now its just bloddy 65% new order, and a few token other bands. the only realease im looking forward to now is the sessions, im heading to glasto,and unlike any of my mates, a big downer on the front of my brain is that they arent there? what the fuck is wrong? i should be looking fowrard to prince as much as everyone else, free from this "fan" shit.
dont get me wrong, i wouldnt swap all those (3 )years of enjoyment for the "lack of variety", just wush i had a non new order mood every now and then (good mood - technique, bad mood -= closr, etc) 
Clockwork, that's just the trouble isn't it. Once one has discovered the Order and truely appreciates it, one comes to realise just how crap most other music is.
Originally posted by Ronald Kirsch Clockwork, that's just the trouble isn't it. Once one has discovered the Order and truely appreciates it, one comes to realise just how crap most other music is.
The words "hitting", "nail" and "head" come to mind. Well done, sir! 
I suppose there would be more support around here for the idea of growing out of JD than growing out of NO. After all, the depressing dirges of later JD stuff is generally seen as belonging to the young teenage angst years, right right? On the other hand, NO's poppy beats are more life-affirming and generally less serious than JD's music, so it can be the soundtrack to a long life of football, boozing, and everything in between. (NOTE: I personally forsee a relatively long life for myself filled with teenage angst and don't suppose I'll have fully left JD behind once I get to the age of a lot of you, so I'm just playing devil's advocate here.)
