"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever"

I wrote this as a response to the Japanese version of Krafty [will Bernard introduce it as 'Klafty'?] - but it wouldn't submit on that thread so I'm opening it up. To me, this is another great addition to the pantheon of idiosyncratic, ill-advised new order moments. and as such makes complete sense. it's rare enough to be surprised by a band once or twice in a career but then the beauty of new order is their non-linear approach and their sense of the absurd. with that in mind, what do we think are their Top Ten StupidBrilliant Moments so far?

Sunkist The Hacienda Dry Bar Staying with Factory after 1987 self-production trust Pernod, asti spumante and orange juice

Singing Krispy in Japanese is brilliant.

Its not even an issue.

I only wished they'd done it sooner.

Sooner than we Think ... in Chinese.

splitting up and doing mediocre side projects.

Bay Watch!!!

1993-1998

WIM

Not releasing Vanishing Point as a single

Didnt they once play for a member or members of the royal family? i think it was in America. Bernard mentioned it when he appeared on startest years ago. Thats pretty daft in my opinion.

Well no one has mentioned the biggest and most obvious one yet...Savilles stupid Blue Monday sleeve!

Releasing albums with no single to support it????

Andy (Service Unavailable) wrote: splitting up and doing mediocre side projects.

just read the question again. and splitting up and doing mediocre side projects is definitely not stupidbrilliant, it's just stupid.

BIG DICK wrote: Releasing albums with no single to support it????

that's stupidbrilliant!

MYOB wrote:

Not releasing Vanishing Point as a single

That's just stupid...

I believe I did a similar thread some time back. Something about the biggest mistake the band has made. Too tired now to dig it up though. I think it was called "the only mistake."

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: I believe I did a similar thread some time back. Something about the biggest mistake the band has made. Too tired now to dig it up though. I think it was called "the only mistake."

Yeah, but this is not about mistakes. It's about stupidbrilliant moments.

The TBTHOG video - StupidBrilliant typified. Also, the Christmas flexi and its 'musical' contents, combined with the ludicrous price people are prepared to pay for this... CTB

EVERYTHING THEY`VE EVER DONE!

I could probably list 20 things, but that's why we love them.

I'll just mention one that bugs me. Dawn Zee.

Reinventing Isolation.

Almost completely abandoning their synth sound in Brotherhood. I hear alot of negative comments about that album but it will always be one of my faves. Damn I miss that album.

Rocky wrote: Almost completely abandoning their synth sound in Brotherhood. I hear alot of negative comments about that album but it will always be one of my faves. Damn I miss that album.

If you miss it, go and buy one.

Think im gonna