The absolute PERFECT New Order best-of

Something tells me this has been raised before, but i'm gonna go ahead with my query: What tracks would be absolutely essential for your own NO best of?

I have a list (of course): First disc (1981-1985)

1. Dreams Never End
2. ICB
3. Procession
4. Temptation
5. EGG
6. AOC
7. Blue Monday
8. Leave Me Alone
9. The Village
10. Thieves Like Us
11. Confusion
12. Love Vigilantes
13. Perfect Kiss
14. Face Up
15. Elegia

Second disc (1986-2001)

1. Wierdo
2. Paradise
3. BLT
4. As It Is When It Was
5. Every Little Counts
6. True Faith
7. 1963
8. Fine Time
9. Round and Round
10. Regret
11. Chemical
12. Turn My Way
13. Vicious Streak
14. Primitive Notion
15. Crystal

:D

These are in a rough release order rather than a tracklisting

Ceremony In A Lonely Place EGG Procession Chosen Time Temptation Age of Consent Leave Me Alone 586 Ultraviolence We All Stand Thieves Like Us Lonesome Tonight Perfect Kiss Sunrise Sooner Than You Think Broken Promise Angel Dust As It Is When It Was BLT Let's Go 1963 True Faith Touched By The Hand of God Guilty Partner Run Mr Disco Dream Attack Vanishing Point Regret Ruined In A Day World (The Price of Love) Everyone Everywhere Crystal Vicious Streak 60 mph Primitive Notion

All on random play. Big CD but fuck it who cares ?

Shit, I forgot Ceremony! oh well, put that at the top then.

alright...my Best-Of, in no particular order... :

• Ceremony
• Thieves Like Us
• Lonesome Tonight
• Bizarre Love Triangle
• True Faith
• 1963
• Your Silent Face
• Paradise
• Don't do it
• Dream Attack
• Vanishing Point
• Regret
• Special
• Crystal
• 60 mph (David Kahne Mix)
• Primitive Notion
• Behind Closed Doors

cheers. :D

And the ones that I definitely wouldn't include are :

S... J.. All Day Long Confusion Truth Blue Monday Close Range Weirdo Fine Time

But Truth is a load of shit !!

Yeah, I haven't liked Truth much since catching the Taras Shevchenko performance (poor Barney!)

A triple cd would be pushing it for me, if they were actually decide to do the Best of route again....

Oh come on ! It's a half-finished thing that doesn't ever go anywhere. It sounds like the sort of thing Joy Division would have rejected, but New Order didn't have the Curtis quality control button. Mind you, most of Movement sounds like that ! Certain Movemnet songs nick bits from Joy Division so blatantly - ie Chosen Time's drum pattern is identical to These Days, most of the ICB bass is the same as Dead Souls (debut of ICB at Rotterdam I was convinced it was Dead Souls for about a minute, as were most of the audience !)

I actually made one of these last year. I couldn't put everything I wanted on it but here's the way it stands (it's a single disc):

1. Blue Monday
2. Confusion
3. Thieves Like Us
4. Face Up
5. Broken Promise
6. Shellshock
7. BLT
8. True Faith (my favourite NO song ever!)
9. Dream Attack
10. Everyone Everywhere
11. Special
12. Regret

Here's my compilation ;about one and a half CD I think: Ceremony Procession Temptation Age Of Consent Your Silent Face Leave Me Alone Thieves Like Us Lonesome Tonight Love Vigilantes Perfect Kiss (12”) Face Up Sooner Than You Think Sub-Culture (Album Version) Weirdo BLT (Album version) All Day Long True Faith 1963 All The Way Run Regret Everyone Everywhere Crystal Primitive Notion Player In The League

Here's mine. I've kept mine similar to the official best of.

CD1

1. True Faith
2. BLT (substance)
3. 1963 (substance)
4. Regret
5. World
6. Dream Attack
7. Perfect Kiss (substance)
8. Shellshock (substance)
9. TLU
10. Vanishing Point
11. Mr Disco
12. TBTHOG
13. Blue Monday (substance)

CD2

1. Ceremony
2. Temptation
3. Dreams Never End
4. Procession
5. Leave Me Alone
6. 586
7. This Time of Night
8. Sub Culture (LL)
9. Angel Dust
10. Lets Go (Nothing for Me)
11. World in Motion
12. Crystal
13. Primitive Notion

Here is what is on my mp3 player for my New Order playlist...

Vicious Circle (Mike Haas mix) Crystal Someone Like You True Faith (peel '98) Fine Time Temptation '98 Thieves Like Us (Stolen Mix) Close range Everyone Everywhere Your Silent Face (2001 version) Special Ceremony Mesh Procession EGG Solitude Heart and Soul (Reading '98) Blue Monday Turn My Way Brutal World Paradise Regret Run Primitive Notion Sooner Than You Think 60 Miles An Hour Lonesome Tonight Round & Round Vanishing Point Isolation (Reading '98)

Sorry to spoil the party but can I ask you a little question Taboo?? How many times have you been resurrecting this particular thread and re-titling it just so that everybody is fooled into thinking they've not been here before? Reminds me a bit like those annoying [Christmas] compilations which have all the same tracks on them but repackaged with a different cover and track order each time its re-released each year. Time for some new ideas, me thinks. Hmmmm.

Originally posted by Shug BBT - how close are you and Marty - because your posts are very similar mate...honestly....Marty always slagged xmas comps in Room 101....any comps for that matterIS THAT YOU MARTY?

Exactly what I was thinking !!

No, No, and for a third time, NO, it ISN'T Marty!
So stop trying to be clever and oh-so-smart. I'm "close" because I - unlike you lot - have known the grumpy bastard as a bezzy mate for fifteen years - like I said earlier we used to produce fanzines together when he still lived here in Liverpool so we DO think and share many similar things, otherwise he wouldn't have told me about this message board in a fit of deranged enthusiasm when he emailed me with the soddin' details back in November from Amsterdam. And for the record, the "Treadmill" fanzine that we both used to do was fucking cool in that we both could rip to shreds anything that we felt was worthy of ridicule or contempt, so on that front alone we shared many similarities. And yes, I too hate Xmas compilations - and this frankly ridiculous obsession with lists and all that bollocks - but haven't you lot not noticed anything? Marty has posted a few "list" threads during his time here, but I haven't , simply because I find all these lists of best ofs incredibly tedious. I looks like Mart just has too much time on his hands - I've lost count of how many threads he's posted on here just slagging everything off. And I haven't even the time to read anyof them - just seeing the topic titles popping up here and there gives me a fair indication of what to expect from that almighty gob of his. (S'true - the bastard never stops talking in reality either). You should have seen some of our fanzine features, especially the one where I laid into Richard Ashcroft of [The] Verve back in 1992 - makes Mart's recent Anti-Jamie Oliver diatribes look positively congratulatory.
What's more, I'm only browsing here tonight because my girlfriend's got the kids with her family instead of me (another factor that explains my less-than-frequent postings), so I'm a bit bored, and feeling of a somewhat sadistic inclination, decided to log in and see what festive shite everyone's been spouting of late.

BTW, much as I admire the catankerous old sod that is Martin, I'm fucking outraged that you motley bunch can see fit to even accuse ME of actually being him under yet another pseudonym (I know all about his Gary Ritman thing - cos he soddin' well told me about it, OK? ). He's sad, but not THAT fucking sad, you know! That is incredibly misguided of you, and for that I hereby say : Fuck Off You Fishlipped Scandalmongering Twats!

Fuck me, you must be really missing him if you're all getting so worked up about people who you think may be impersonating him or vice versa!..... Get a soddin' life will ya??!!

You never learn do you, "Sherlock" ? So is Tim "Holmes" then? [ha ha ha] Stoppit Stoppit Stoppit, yer killing me!!
[laughs until his sides split]

Anyway, I'm off now to listen to a great Sonic Youth live CD bootleg I got last week from my missus. [here's a fact for yer - Marty fuckin' HATES Sonic Youth - he thinks they're overrated tuneless shite!]

"Snouts fer now, piggies....! "

Originally posted by Shug Easy tigerLet me see....that looked very much like a bit of a rant to me..what about you Timbo?Let's just say I'm

It was a rant OK, but I understood it, so it can't have been the Martian !

Well, It's very dificult to put the best trcks together because you know they are all very good. I think, the fan tracks are a lot diferent of the regular consumers. So that's my idea for the "Regular Version" to New Order listeners:

1. Ceremony
2. Temptation 1987
3. Blue Monday 12" Mix
4. Love Vigilantes
5. Perfect Kiss
6. Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Petibone Mix)
7. True Faith
8. Round & Round
9. Dream Atack
10. Regret
11. Crystal
12. 60 mph

Impossible to make my one (the best of) because it changes a lot with time.

it would be called

Age of Consent a box set like heart and soul and would have everything except World in Motion and Rock The Shack