My favorite New Order album of all time is Republic , this is because this is the first album I ever bought of theirs after listening to regret on radio,I know people are going to think i am crazy but this one in my opinion is an incredible album it brings so many memories back to me.
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what is your favorite new order album of all time
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Today it is Low Life. Last week it was Brotherhood. Over the summer Technique will get a lot of hits, while the Call of the Sirens has been infiltrating my ears for a good while. My point is there is no definitive answer to your question. 
Low Life or Technique, although Republic gets a fair amont of play. Sirens is getting up there.
Any New Order playlist I make of course, its hard to pick an album! Otherwise, I'm begining to lean towards Sirens' Call somehow. It sounds so good as of today!
Wasimple wrote: Today it is Low Life. Last week it was Brotherhood. Over the summer Technique will get a lot of hits, while the Call of the Sirens has been infiltrating my ears for a good while. My point is there is no definitive answer to your question.
I'm with Wasimple on this at the mo' its WFTSC; technique is my summer album Get ready gets a lot of listens; PC&L; etc
OK - Substance
38 EE's wrote: Movement
I love Movement, too. I think it's one of their most cohesive albums, second in that department only to perhaps Technique. Hannett's production is great, and I really like a lot of the songwriting, too. It's very underrated!
Technique as a proper album but Substance as a compilation.
Technique is sublime. Its a great album to play in the summer, as the music is quite up and personally speaking I think it has Barneys best vocals to date. The synths are gorgeous, Hookys bass melodic, and the guitar work is very inspired, clean of distortion, shiny and using different effects to Brotherhoods lack of variety.
Theres not one duff track on the album. Its very house-dancy but with much more to it. It doesnt date and I can never get bored to listening to it. Its quite inspiring, very polished, the music gels perfectly, its very well produced and has my favourite album cover as well.
Substance is also a sublime album. And, I know Im in the minority big time here, I think the 3 S's - Shellshock, Subculture and State of The Nation are fantastic tracks. Ok so theyre a little dated now but the guitar solo at end of SOTN is one of their finest.
NO Regret wrote: And, I know Im in the minority big time here, I think the 3 S's - Shellshock, Subculture and State of The Nation are fantastic tracks.
There was a time (we'll call "before") when people would be put to the stake for this sort of admission!
Today's favourite is Sirens. Tomorrow's will probably be Sirens as well. Sunday's is anyone's guess (though the smart money is not on Brotherhood).
It is difficult to say what album is the best of all time. It is strange that most of their best singles are not found on regular albums (I don't count "Substance" as one).
Soo... Hmm... 
I think I love "Power, Corruption, Lies". It is a great link between Joy Division and New Order. "Age of consent" is great and "Your silent face" is my favourite N.O.-song of all time.
NO Regret wrote:
Technique is sublime. Its a great album to play in the summer, as the music is quite up and personally speaking I think it has Barneys best vocals to date. The synths are gorgeous, Hookys bass melodic, and the guitar work is very inspired, clean of distortion, shiny and using different effects to Brotherhoods lack of variety.
Theres not one duff track on the album. Its very house-dancy but with much more to it. It doesnt date and I can never get bored to listening to it. Its quite inspiring, very polished, the music gels perfectly, its very well produced
My thoughts exactly! Also, nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks it's a perfect summer album (I think someone else said that too). I always take it on my holidays. It's summer on a CD, pure and simple! :)
After Technique, my next favourite has to be Republic. Call me crazy if you like but it helped get me through college. I was always stressed, miserable and scared while I was there and it kind of "spoke" to me, teenybopperish as that sounds, because of that. It reminded me that I wasn't the only one feeling that way. If Technique's the summer, then Republic's the winter that follows.
Low-Life.
Though I'd rather listen to this current album more than any of the old ones. Certainly doesn't make it my favourite though.
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I like BROTHERHOOD but LOWLIFE has no low points to me
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Technique for me 
I think it will always be my favourite New Order album, and one of my all time favourites by anyone.
I'm loving WFTSC though and I would have this in my top 3 by NO. I honestly didn't think I would be saying that :)
Power, Corruption, and Lies is my favorite. New Order is the only group to which I own all of their albums (groups with more than 3 albums)
Power, Corruption + Lies
Age of Consent, The Village, 586, Your Silent Face + Leave Me Alone
Ye cannae get any better than this.
OK Rank them in order
- LOW LIFE
- Technique
- PC & L
- WFTSC
- Brotherhood
- Republic
- Get Ready
- Movement
Substance doesnt count on this or any other compilation
eCKo
Power Corruption and Lies
Despite having been into JD, and then Movement, this is album that, for me, sounded like nothing I'd ever heard when it came out, still doesn't. Sirens is moving up the list, it's a grower.
Why do people rate Brotherhood so highly? I just dont get it. The album is a mess. The guitars have bad effects, the bass is too high in the mix (did Hooky produce it?). You sense chaos and tension in the songs (is this the appeal?). Only BLT, SOTN and All Day Long sound professionally recorded and complete. Most of the others sound like demos and the vocals are extremely poor.
Harsh? Yes I probably am but the following album Technique is 100 times better. No exaggeration at all.
oldmonkey wrote:
NO Regret wrote: And, I know Im in the minority big time here, I think the 3 S's - Shellshock, Subculture and State of The Nation are fantastic tracks.
There was a time (we'll call "before") when people would be put to the stake for this sort of admission!
Today's favourite is Sirens. Tomorrow's will probably be Sirens as well. Sunday's is anyone's guess (though the smart money is not on Brotherhood).
I just thnk theyre well sung great songs. The intro to Shellshock is awesome. A very underated track IMO. And remember without State Of The Nation there may never have been Mr Disco...same baseline!!!!!
NO Regret wrote: Why do people rate Brotherhood so highly? I just dont get it. The album is a mess. The guitars have bad effects, the bass is too high in the mix (did Hooky produce it?). You sense chaos and tension in the songs (is this the appeal?). Only BLT, SOTN and All Day Long sound professionally recorded and complete. Most of the others sound like demos and the vocals are extremely poor.
Harsh? Yes I probably am but the following album Technique is 100 times better. No exaggeration at all.
YES!! Chaos and tension was always the appeal...I've always called their style perfectly chaotic.
Those other tracks although good were simplistic and don't take much to enjoy them.
Leave me alone is one the most perfectly chaotically tense tracks.
eKCo
brotherhood
i love the fact that hooky is so high in the mix on it. its where he should be. i like the mixture of acoustic and electronic songs. i like the chaos.
if i had to rank them:
- brotherhood
- technique
- PCL
- low-life
- waiting for the sirens call
- get ready
- movement
- republic
eCKOh wrote:
NO Regret wrote: Why do people rate Brotherhood so highly? I just dont get it. The album is a mess. The guitars have bad effects, the bass is too high in the mix (did Hooky produce it?). You sense chaos and tension in the songs (is this the appeal?). Only BLT, SOTN and All Day Long sound professionally recorded and complete. Most of the others sound like demos and the vocals are extremely poor.
Harsh? Yes I probably am but the following album Technique is 100 times better. No exaggeration at all.
YES!! Chaos and tension was always the appeal...I've always called their style perfectly chaotic.
Those other tracks although good were simplistic and don't take much to enjoy them.
Leave me alone is one the most perfectly chaotically tense tracks.
Fair point. But Leave Me Alone is off PC&L, which is sonically the other end of the spectrum compared with Brotherhood. Also I think Leave Me Alone is a very simple song (any guitar player can play it) but god is it fantastic.
eKCo
