Is Sooner Than You Think (New Order) a reaction on How Soon Is Now (Smiths)?

I read this somewhere.

Yes

seriously?

runwild 1 wrote: I read this somewhere.

Where did you read this?

Rob Revilo wrote: seriously?

yes

I read it too 2 or 3 months ago here on nool. Someone posted that in "song pairs" thread ..........

...and 'Getting away with it' was written from Morrissey's perspective.

The first Low-Life song to debut.

The band has never commented on it to my knowledge, and if so it was probably just a bit of a laugh as so many New order titles were in the eighties.

That is one muthafcuking interesting theory - i never realised this until I just read it here. Could be onto something. I mean, yeah, the coincidence of the title and that - and coming after the Smiths song as well. Fuck, yeah, it's a good 'un.

Someone else told me years ago that the Hi-energy intro to Face Up was supposed to be New Order taking the piss out of then current chart faves Dead Or Alive - whose album Youthquake - let it be said - debuted in the top ten albums chart the same week as Low Life did - fact fans!

Face Up debuted live before the public over a year before Low Life was released.

runwild 1 wrote: I read this somewhere.

Call me spectacularly slow on the uptake, but it only occured to me yesterday that 'dreams never end' must be a retort to the 'guess the dreams always end' line from insight.

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runwild 1 wrote: I read this somewhere.

Call me spectacularly slow on the uptake, but it only occured to me yesterday that 'dreams never end' must be a retort to the 'guess the dreams always end' line from insight.

And Movement as a fitting rejoinder to Still.

And "Still" was so called because Factory wanted to answer the bootleggers who were so keen to profit from the demise of JD by releasing "their own bootleg" - a collection of out-takes and live tracks with bits missing and incorrect tracklistings. Illegal spirit producers use a still......

I'll wager that not a lot of people know Brotherhood was so named after a caustic Andrew Eldritch (at the time calling himself The Sisterhood after the demise of the Sisters of Mercy) comment about New Order.