what is your favorite new order album of all time

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

1. LOW LIFE
2. Technique
3. PC & L
4. WFTSC
5. Brotherhood
6. Republic
7. Get Ready
8. 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.

sirens - at the moment...

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!!!!!

Movement has always been my favorite. Three words: Doubts Even Here.

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:

1. brotherhood
2. technique
3. PCL
4. low-life
5. waiting for the sirens call
6. get ready
7. movement
8. 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