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One thing I love about new order fans is they are about the most critical fans out there. They are are defintely not fair weathered.
This is was very difficult for me to come up with, and i dont think its been done before.
Turn round & round sub culture love vig special
Sunset? That's a new song?
Guilty Partner overrated? I think most people put it in the bottom 3 of Technique most the time.
i've always thought the perfect kiss is over rated by a long shot! as is guilt is a useless emotion...just cause it has a kinda cool title don't make it a good song
Thieves like us BLT (I like it a lot, but its still overrated) Regret (dito) Most of Lowlife (thats Love Vig, TPK, Sooner, Sub-culture & Face up, I'll take the other 3 any day)
Come on then 
I'll take the other 3 any day
I'll give you Sunrise on that, but disagree with the other two.
Spotnick wrote:
Guilty Partner overrated? I think most people put it in the bottom 3 of Technique most the time.
??? I don't, it's one of my favourites of Technique...
szwajkos technique wrote:
Turn round & round sub culture love vig special
Well, you're entitled to your opinion but I could hardly disagree more!
Turn is my favourite track on WFTSC. R&R is a good album track but a superb 12" Subculture 87 is overdone but try the Record Mirror version before dismissing the song out of hand. LV - Come off it! Special - Have you not listened to the lyrics - for once they tell a very important and sad story.
Each to their own eh?
Ah "The eporial old chestnut" as Barney would say:D
By now on here we should all know that everyone's entitled to their own opinion, just by arguing is not gonnae make people change their minds.
Some of the songs people think are overated are right up there with my favourites.
Sunrise, Love Vigilantes, TPK for starters!
Overrated? Hmmmm let me see.....
WIFM!
;)
LE Roberts wrote:
I'll take the other 3 any day
I'll give you Sunrise on that, but disagree with the other two.
You mean you dont like PFD???
As an aside - i'm just listening to sunrise & herself says "what are you listening to, is that the Cure"
NObabe wrote:
Patrick wrote:
GlasVegas wrote: Low Life.
Technique.
Republic :D
Track 1, certainly.
You mean you dont like PFD???
I mean I'll take Sunrise as an ace tune off Low-life, but I wouldn't take This Time of Night and Elegia over all of the other five songs. Love Vigilantes and TPK whips those tracks' ass.
TBTHOG 60 MPH Thieves 1963
Only these four for me. It's weird, I've became much more tired of hearing Touched live than Blue Monday. 60 MPH is a good track, just didn't think it was a single. On Thieves, I accidentally played Lonesome Tonight first, and loved that one from the start. As for 1963, that's one NO tune I've just never, ever found myself singing along with when its playing, or being one of those random tunes that I suddenly start singing aloud.
Turn - I agree with you here, although very popular with people from the new album, i'd much rather listen to Hey Now or Krafty.
Round & Round - Disagree, it's one of their best songs, and a highlight on Technique.
Sub-culture - Agree, but this isn't exactly overated is it? The original is quite shambolic, then they reworked it for Substance, and although more polished with better vocals, it sounds horrible. Not great, but the orginal is easy to listen to with me.
Love Vig - No way overrated, this deserves all the praise it gets, really nice song
Special - This isn't good at all in my opinion, isn't exactly overrated anyway is it?
My opinon on overrated NO songs? Hmmm. A while back I saw a thread where everyone was praising Lonesome Tonight. I just don't like the sound of it, rather boring, but maybe that's because I havn't given it a chance, but from a few listens, just not keen on the song.
Leave Me Alone - Again, I just don't like the sound of this one. To me, it just isn't them, it's kind of just dismal, and not exiting enough like some of the better NO songs.
There's quite a few off PCL I'm not keen on. Basically, I like most of Low-Life, Brotherhood is nice, and Technique is still probably the best album. But there all so different, so one minute I would like the relaxation and care free attitude of Brotherhood, but on a more serious note, i'd go and listen to Technique.
And of course, a lot of their best material is from the singles on Substance. Shell Shock, True Faith, 1963. All great classic NO songs in my opinion. I'd say I prefer the electric synth sound of NO over guitar work. Don't get me wrong, I love some of the guitar work also, but I think the group have been more succesful when using synth. And let's face it, their synth work does seem to be more succesful over guitar. Blue Monday (biggest selling 12 inch), WIM (although a bit of a joke, it still got to #1 and is what I call more of a synth track). True Faith, mainly synth apart from a bit of bass from Hooky, and a litte bit of light guitar work from Bernard at the end of the song. Bizarre Love Triangle, another favourite of mine. So it seems a lot of their best music is synth work, in my opinion anyway.
Most songs off of the 'Best Of album' are synth also, so I think that also says something.
hmmm....let's see...
in no particular order:
Crystal (never did get this one...avg at best)
Temptation (good song, but a bit overhyped IMHO)
Fine Time (hated it the first time I heard and still hate it today)
Run (2nd worst track off of Technique)
Confusion (not even sure this is rated high enough to be considered overrated)
have to admit that this list was hard to string together
