NewOrder purists how obsessed are you..?

Ok...I'm really glad that I am buried deep in this thread because this is really bad....I've done just about everything on this thread but here is my top OCD habit with regard to NO....

I have, for the past 6 and 1/2 years or so been playing backward (on a daily/weekly basis...more about this in a moment) through the combined Electronic and New Order catalouge (I haven't gotten to JD yet!!)

Ok this is how it works...lets say I just get Retro. On day one (say Sunday) I will start by listening to the first track on POP and play forward (when I have a chance, mostly in my car and a little at home) on the boxset until 12 midnight (the beginning of day 2 of the week) at which time I have to go back to song 2 on Retro Pop and play from there forward.

Every week I move up one song...so Sunday of the 2nd week I would start with song 2 on pop and run through starting with song 8 by saturday. The next week I'd start with song 3 on POP on Sunday and work forward. In this manner I get through listening to roughly 52 songs per year.

How do I play through the back catalogue as new material comes out...very simply...the newest item that I get gets started on the Saturday of that week and drops into the rotation. Once the new item has worked its way through the rotation I go back to where I left off before...

Yes it even gets more complicated when you take into account live material etc...and the placeholding has gotten quite complicated over the past year and a half with all of the new material :)

OK so how nuts do you think I am now????

so far the farthest back I've gotten is to the album version of Republic...and yes I've already done the singles and all the attendant mixes from this one....

I can also say that I play NO for other people every chance I get...

My younger brother and many of his friends now own many NO items thanks to my relentless and slavish playing of NO as a teen around them in their formative years(muuhhhahhah)

At a strip club one time several years ago...one of the girls there asked me what music I liked...I ran to my car and got the Regret cd single and brought it back in.

She danced to Regret (Fire Island Mix) and got a damn good tip for that I can tell you. She offered me 5 bucks for the CD and said that she really liked it...I gave it to her for free of course.

I often have NO blaring out of my BMW 7 series as I cruise around...I figure that even subconscious exposure to NO can be healthy for anyone.

A girl I was dating about 2 years ago (she was 19 then..yeah I know I'm a perv ok) was forced to listen to the Regret single when she woke up at my house (thats where I was in the rotation at the time...see the above thread) every morning. She said that she couldn't get the song out of her head and I hear (from friends of course) that she ran out and bought a whole bunch of NO items after that....was it Regret or me? (probably Regret)

I dont know how many kids who are into Orgy I've pulled aside to play them the original BM and many like it better than the cover!!

Last part of this for now...I'm really embarassing myself...

I am getting married in 2 months and many of the songs I'm submitting are from NO. I have to admit its kinda hard to fit the music in to the more cheesy/romantic elements of the wedding...but I'm giving it a go.

My plan (before the Dot Com boom went bust) was to hire NO to perfom at my wedding. I had (on paper at least) enough to pay what that guy in Dallas is rumored to have offered them to play for his Daugher. I figured that I would even be willing to move the wedding to Manchester to make this happen and that they might cut me a break because I'm a true fan and not just trying to "buy" them. They wouldn't even have to actually play at the wedding...they could just do a private concert the day before or after....

Needless to say my master plan failed along with my reason in the slaughter of 2000....

Used to be tin pot crazy about NO in my youth. But as we get older priorities change and we see the world a little differently. Daughters, mortages and in-laws.....Still, NO are entwined in my teenage/early 20's memories, and always will be.

DM

I've been obsessed about NO, the Jam, the Who, PSB, Electronic and some others to stop what I'm doing in a store to go watch the TVs in the a/v section if I've heard something.

I'm not embarassed or ashamed to do it or admit to it, either!

:D:D:D:D:D:D anita

I also play my music at work all the time. Jam, PSB, Style Council, NO, JD, Electronic, Who, Roxy Music, Clash, Kate Bush, Monty Python...

It's never too loud but, unfortunately, my singing is.

:D:D:D:D:D anita...I'M A LUMBERJACK AND I'M OK

Tottally (if you know what I mean).

Did put that blue monday remix cd on repeat for the entire shift one night,the staff were pulling their hair out.You know what it's like power corrupts.Obviously didn't succeed in converting them to the order.

I visit this website every day. And so do you lot, isn't that bad enough?:)

I enjoyed this thread quite a bit...:) Its nice to know that there are other new order fanatics out there besides me...if there is one thing my friends typically associate with me besides being absolutely insane, its my obsession with the order. And to all those people out there who feel differently

Dave

Originally posted by Gilbert O'Gillian I visit this website every day. And so do you lot, isn't that bad enough?:)

a salient point,methinks.

I keep a record on an Excel spreadsheet of what songs are played and on what station. I know, very sad.

Originally posted by Ahmad Daizli I keep a record on an Excel spreadsheet of what songs are played and on what station. I know, very sad.

That's bad...but oh well. If it floats your boat Ahmad. But I do honestly try and convert all that I see and meet...I have a few converts under my belt. Shit, even my Mother is a member of this site...claiming that her "...Punk children listen to NO so much that she just had to give in..." (I think that's what her profile says). So, the obsession runs in the family!! From Japan to California...we're speading across the Pacific like a disease!!!!!

Originally posted by Hydrapelican I can also say that I play NO for other people every chance I get...At a strip club one time several years ago...one of the girls there asked me what music I liked...I ran to my car and got the Regret cd single and brought it back in.She danced to Regret (Fire Island Mix) and got a damn good tip for that I can tell you. She offered me 5 bucks for the CD and said that she really liked it...I gave it to her for free of course.

You missed an excellent opportunity to claim that you had got money off a strip dancer (you need not say the reason why!)

Originally posted by Hydrapelican

"At a strip club one time several years ago...one of the girls there asked me what music I liked...I ran to my car and got the Regret cd single and brought it back in.

She danced to Regret (Fire Island Mix) and got a damn good tip for that I can tell you. She offered me 5 bucks for the CD and said that she really liked it...I gave it to her for free of course."

I always said the Weatherall mix was the one. You'd have got an extra 5 minutes on your dance.

I've told this before, but here's the lengths I'm prepared to go regarding my musical obsessions: my son is called Pedro, wich is portuguese for Peter. Of course he was named after that Viking Rock God, Lord Peter of Hook! I must confess, though, that my first choice was Bernardo (self-explanatory, really!), but my missus firmly refused...

Originally posted by Hank Wiseass© I always said the Weatherall mix was the one. You'd have got an extra 5 minutes on your dance.

Superb!!

Originally posted by JE SUIS EGG I've told this before, but here's the lengths I'm prepared to go regarding my musical obsessions:my son is called Pedro, wich is portuguese for Peter.Of course he was named after that Viking Rock God, Lord Peter of Hook!I must confess, though, that my first choice was Bernardo (self-explanatory, really!), but my missus firmly refused...

My hamster's called Barney :)

My social worker is called GILLIAN...does this count?:D

I moved to Macclesfield in 1988 and lived in the same street as Stephen & Gillian (the "neighbours" bit was an accident I have to admit)

Originally posted by FourFortyFive I moved to Macclesfield in 1988 and lived in the same street as Stephen & Gillian (the "neighbours" bit was an accident I have to admit)

That takes some beating !!

when i was playing 'legend of zelda: oracle of ages' on my gameboy, there's a part where you're asked to name the baby in the village. i named it 'hooky'.

I became very agitated in work before, friend shows me a featured review on Retro in q magazine and says you can read in a minute. It took him two hours to finish reading all the crap about Nirvana. That's it.

I have just read all 5 pages of this thread and I'm sad to say, I have you all beat!

For the last 6 years, I have been trying to break into the radio industry. Every demo tape I have ever made or sent out to potential employers has had at least one new order track in my "demo show".
And 6 years later I'm still the world's most unemployable radio dj! www.angelfire.com/ks3/unempolyable\_radio\_d Have a listen to demo # 1 and tell me if you can name that first track in full...

Originally posted by Budvar Huber

Originally posted by Hydrapelican I can also say that I play NO for other people every chance I get...

At a strip club one time several years ago...one of the girls there asked me what music I liked...I ran to my car and got the Regret cd single and brought it back in.

She danced to Regret (Fire Island Mix) and got a damn good tip for that I can tell you. She offered me 5 bucks for the CD and said that she really liked it...I gave it to her for free of course.

You missed an excellent opportunity to claim that you had got money off a strip dancer (you need not say the reason why!)

Nothings ever completely free now is it

Originally posted by Hank Wiseass© Originally posted by Hydrapelican"At a strip club one time several years ago...one of the girls there asked me what music I liked...I ran to my car and got the Regret cd single and brought it back in.She danced to Regret (Fire Island Mix) and got a damn good tip for that I can tell you. She offered me 5 bucks for the CD and said that she really liked it...I gave it to her for free of course."I always said the Weatherall mix was the one. You'd have got an extra 5 minutes on your dance.

Good point...but then I would have had to offer her a much more valuable cd...

Ok so today the topic header in my email to one of our biggest customers was "New Order..."

I'm even slipping the name into the subconscious of the the business world....

:D