Where would they be?

Ok so, where would new order be, if they never formed new order, would they just become lowlifes, like Wang Chung and ABC? Or do you think......well say what u think...

The lyrics are actually "Where have they been?"

God, listen to Decades, Spike.

I knew by the title the thread would be this question.

You'll never ever know, they could of made another album as JD and the album could of totally flopped and then made a series of terrible ones and just completely dissapear from the music scene altogether.

Or they could of gone on to be high succesful recognised as one of the legends known to almost everyone.

Truth is you'll never know.

All we do know is that due to the circumstances (ians death etc) the remaining members done a very good job at keeping everything going and for the most part New Order are a success, wouldnt you say?

i would say william shatner looks like krafty cheese

I quote Somethingawful.com's tongue-in-cheek music pundit Dr. David Thorpe:

"They only managed to squeeze out two albums before Ian Curtis bumped himself off, which surely only adds to their legend. Had they kept following the path they started down, they surely would have gone in the same direction as Bauhaus or The Cure and started making dreadful gothic synth-pop (as evidenced by the fact that the surviving members of Joy Division formed New Order). I hypothesize that if Ian Curtis had continued to live and exert his gothic influence over the band, they would have eventually sounded like Siouxie and the Banshees except with a terrible singer. I also hypothesize that Ian Curtis would now be fat."

I think they would probably be in exactly the same position that they are now, they are the same people (one exception obviously) they just changed their name, you may as well ask would Barney still be where he is if he had stuck to Bernard Dicken, it doesn't matter.

The real question is : could they have been elsewhere given Closer's gloomy tone ?

They would definitely have a weight on their shoulders.....!