20 Years since Low -Life.What do you remeber from when it came out?.

I think I said Holy Sheet!!

This is the best album I've ever heard.

I put it on today and say the same thing.

e C K o H (The Symbiont)

i was 23 a\t the time,i remember being suprised that they was on the cover,not because they hadnt done it before but because they clearly where/are ugly bastards and the pics would have done em no favours. as for the album i was quite pleased,love vigilantes,sub-culture ,this time of night all very good,i was appalled at face up it was a washed out produced to death murder of an exellent live song. all in all not bad.

Twenty years ago. That album was so special to me back then, still is. I was a very moody teenager, New Order sort of sang about the feelings I had at the time, which where pretty miserable. The last track 'face up' really hit a note with me, reminded me of my first love at school.

Twenty years ago. That album was so special to me back then, still is. I was a very moody teenager, New Order sort of sang about the feelings I had at the time, which where pretty miserable. The last track 'face up' really hit a note with me, reminded me of my first love at school.

i wasent born lol

i need to add my 2cents...

i was 16, listened to the cassette on a walkman for days straight... it was my first new order lp. i can't even remember why or how i bought it, cause i knew nothing about them, didn't even know they had been joy division... prior to hearing it, i was mainly a new wave, prince, frankie, etc type of kid... it was the lp that honestly made me realize music is more than just consumer pop, but a possibility into art...

lowlife caught me just right. i still love it.

changed my life forever.

Yeah that whole era was so special.Although i didn`t see them live the year or so up to the release was great.I remember going into town on the day of releaese one rainy lunch hour and getting my hands on that tracing paper cover and the silver TPK 12" sleeve.All i could do for the rest of the afternnoon at work was hold and look at the bloody things without being able to listen to them til i got home.

20 fecking years.

Thats a long time..A superb album which was even better live.

Fav mems/experience of Low-Life

1..Sunrise..Fac51,PH how low can you go

2..Love Vig..Intro

3..TPK..Remember AR twiddling with the kit at midnight before they came on at Leeds Tiffs..We got a sneak preview of the opening,then we just knew it would kick off one of the best gigs ever.

Bought it on the day of release. Wish I could remember what shop, probably in Harrow or Edgware after college.

Happy memories of a great album.

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

Gnu Odor wrote: Hmm...I was 17. I remember that I took $100 out of the college money I'd earned bagging groceries and bought a used Roland RS-202 String Machine out of the classifieds and taught myself to play "The Perfect Kiss."

I also remember thinking a lot, "Should I put on Low-Life or PC&L?" since PC&L was released on Qwest in the U.S. that year.

P.S. Mr Jarvis, do you have a salacious Ana M story to share? Agent Wood suggested you might...

Nice memories, folks, but could we hear this "salcious story", please?

sorry, boys. nothing to share. he just went on and on like a schoolboy about how much he fancied her. i was just taking the piss more than anything! ;)

20 years ago in 1985, I was nine years old...not much into music except the top 40 80's stuff. My first recollection of Low life was hearing Love Vigilantes, circa 1986, playing from my elder sisters bedroom and thinking how interesting/sad a story was told through that song. Someting totally different from the WHAM! that was on MTV.

Two years later I was formally re-introduced to New Order via Substance, and really enjoyed TF and BLT. What really grabbed me was the video for True faith..this is when I started developing my taste for music...I was all over the place...listening to the Beasties boys 1st album...along-side Substance...along side Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam (the 1st music cassette I ever bought)

The rest, as they say is history. Round and Round made me a fanataic...after which I went and bought their back catalogue on vinyl. Highschoool weekends consisted of going to Queen Street record stores and picking up 7"s and 12", imports, and I remember specifically being teased by my DM, Cure friends about the sillyness of "World in Motion". Heck..they just didn't get it...New Order didn't give a F*&k. They were taking the piss, and something about liking the band made me feel like I was in on a secret...a bit more smarter than the others. It was all about ME and related to ME..the voice, the music, the bass, the 'non image', the packaging...the fusion of low and high art, the notion of perfect imperfection.

Low Life is my Fav New Order Album..and what makes the CD more valuable to me is getting it signed by Hooky.

Most memorable lyric from the album: "We had a party in our hotel last night, It ended up in an awful fight"

CHeers.

nancyo wrote: and my new favorite band was the Jesus and Mary Chain.

On the same day i went to Readings in Glenferrie Rd to buy Low-Life i also bought a copy of Psychocandy, both great albums.

My god... 20 years... Where have they gone?

I was 13... Perhaps I heard "Blue Monday" years before, but I didn't care about New Order back then (even though I was interested in electronic music). 1985 was the year when I became fan of the Simple Minds (sigh)...

I would have been 9 and I didn't even know New Order existed. I have absolutely no recollection of even having heard any of their music back then. I was far too interested in Duran Duran and the likes at that point!!!

And I've got the nerve to call myself a New Order fan

It was my second NO album, I was 16 coming up 17, on a YTS, (that was Thatcher speak for slave labour), my boss loved No aswell so we played it at work more than most people appreciated, saw NO live a Preston Guild Hall that year where they also played AIIWIW, State of the nation and something else from brotherhood which I can't remember wothout getting my tape out, but I remember the deep synth intro to Sunrise made my balls rattle in the most satisfying way, Subculture was played on Granada reports quite a bit from what I remember.

Still love that album, glad they still do love vigilantes live.

I was hoping that my 100th post would not just be a stupid put down of someone so I'm glad I found this thread.

I would have been 8 months old

I think Low-Life is the most 'defining' new order album. My only complaint with it, is that is has the shorter version of the perfect kiss. Not that I don't like it but the 12inch is miles better. I think it's their most varied album it has depressive moments (subculture, elegia), angst (sunrise), and upbeat (face up) along with love vigalanties, unlike anything else they've done. It's also my favourite sleeve of theirs.

It seems alot of us were 16 or 17 in 1984.

I was barely two...my parents were listening to a lot of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Madonna around that time, no New Order sadly.

Rocket Mick wrote:

MYOB wrote: I wasn't born.

BEFORE LIFE?

Neither was I. But I did arrive just in time for Brotherhood.

I turned 17 in March of '85 and remember seeing the video for "A Perfect Kiss" come on channel 17 all the time - then on a vacation to L.A. I bought the Low Life cassette at a swap meat (flea market in east coast lingo) - I played it over and over again loudly anywhere I was in public (poolsides?) as well as in private just to annoy people and take in the music.

Well guys, I never even existed back then, I wasn't even planned for existence. 20 years later though, i'm listening to NO pretty much every day.

oi remember, oi were twelve and i would listen to the thompson twins and "thriller" oh and that duran duran "arena" and then them pet shop boys

It was the first album I looked forward to after starting to listen to them. Low-Life cemented them as an all time favourite due to the fact that it was so varied (stylistically) yet consistant (quality-wise). I was introduced to them by a friend in 1984 because I liked Blue Monday. He said they had much more to offer than BM but I only liked the singles and a few cuts off the 1st two LP's. I've grown to appreciate Movement and PCL (especially) but Low-Life is untouchable.

1985: I was a tremendous Duran Duran fan, and they were the biggest thing since sliced bread then. Live Aid came out that summer also I believe, and I watched it all day from my job at a rectory (Holy Cross Church) in Hell's Kitchen, NYC (Queen and Dire Straits were the best performances IMO!). Sting just launched his solo career apart from The Police also around that time. Madonna also launched her first major world tour. I didn't discover JD/NO until 1987.