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Now that most of you have given it a good seeing to, where does WFTSC rank among the eight studio albums?
I'll kick it off with:
Low Life PC&L Technique Brotherhood WFTSC Get Ready Republic Movement
Though in five minutes I'll have changed my mind.
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Still have the right to change my mind in a minute or two or five ;)
1.Brotherhood 2.WFTSC 3.Low Life
4.Technique 5.PC&L 6.Get Ready 7.Movement 8.Republic
maybe their best album
I go back and forth on Technique and Brotherhood as my favorite.
1002
1a Low Life
1b Technique
1c PC&L
4 Movement
5 Get Ready
6 Republic
7 Brotherhood
It's still too early for me to rank WFTSC, but it won't enter my top 3.
*WFTSC has yet to be heard in its entirty by me. It will be ranked accordingly in the early hours of April 12, 2005, MST. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Inversed.
(I'm still waiting,
waiting,
waiting for the sirens call ...)
OK, I see.
Interesting.
Aren't we the clever little monkey Old Blue?
Don't know that it's going to result in any wholesale changes of opinion though so let's plough on.
Where are your rankings?
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Although in my humble opinion their greatest songs were from the old days, there greatest albums as a whole have been the most recent offerings, they really sound great from start to finish...so here is my two cents (or pence for the brits).
I have high expectations for wftsc... :)
I have serious reservations about all this extremely anal ranking/scoring of albums that seems so popular these days, but seeing as moaning will have me labelled as a miserable cunt, here is the best-to-least-best truth of the matter:
PC&L - Technique - Low-Life - Brotherhood - WFTSC - Get Ready - Republic - Movement
BTW: lame old lovelorn sad-sack that I am, I really like Movement despite it's lowly ranking.
Basil Angelo wrote: Don't hold back!
Afraid I can't spill any beans as they're not mine to spill.
However if you get a bit resourceful, a bit MacGyver, you may nut it out.
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Technique Republic Power, Corruption & Lies Low-Life Waiting For The Sirens' Call Get Ready Movement Brotherhood
get ready technique brotherhood low-life republic p,c & l wftsc movement
i'm probably the only person that's insane enough to put get ready as number one... then again, it was the album that really got me into new order in the first place, so it will always have a special place in my mind.
Power Corruption & Lies Technique Low-Life Brotherhood Movement Waiting For A Sirens' Call Republic Get Ready
Technique (Joint 1st)Low-life (Joint 1st)Waiting For The Sirens' CallRepublicPower, Corruption & LiesBrotherhoodGet ReadyMovement
That's my ranking at the moment. I'm really enjoying the new LP because to my ears it seems to be their most consistently good one since Technique. I have very fond memories of Low-life with Face Up being one of my favourite NO tracks; it reminds me of sunny road trips when I was over in the States in the late nineties. Ace times 
I've never really cared much for Movement or Get Ready. Movement didn't really make an impact on me bar one or two tracks and Get Ready contains some of the worst songs of their career which ruins the overall LP for me. PC&L and Brotherhood suffer from inconsistency problems too, but to a much lesser degree than Movement and GR. They're genius albums too of course. Republic at number 3 I hear you say? Well it was my introductory New Order LP and in general I prefer PSB-like dance tracks to straight guitar rock any day. Some of the bands highest points (and artwork) is on that LP: Regret, Ruined in a day, Everyone Everywhere and Special. I even enjoy Times Change, it was something different at least and once you get past the duff lyrics the experimentation in the arrangement is quite interesting, but I know some people find it offensive 
Avalanche is dreamy/sublime and a nice finish to any LP.
Ally.
No, you are not the only one to chose Get Ready as the 1st... Today my "best-to-least-best" ranking will be:
Don't get me wrong: I've really enjoyed WFTSC as I've enjoyed Republic, but Regret is one of those perfect/classic NO tracks that unfortunately lacks in WFTSC.
Lowlife.
Technique.
Brotherhood.
Power,Corruption and Lies.
Waiting For The Sirens Call.
Movement. Get Ready. Republic.
The bottom 3 are all level pegging,not really keen on putting the albums in 1 to 8.
