temptation '82: why the hard-on?

Temptation in all it's formats is the best NO tune of all time IMHO.

It's best live.

I had a hard on and gave in to TEMPTATION in 1982,in fact that was the year that dr had his first "belly rub",ahh i remember it well.......

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call '82 the first love-nothing is ever as sweet or as wonderful. It is also a milestone in the evolution of the band and an entire genre of music.

tho to be told when I finally made my own NO mix tape-I used the single edit of the '87 version.

I once told a friend that the reason why it seems the 80s stuff may seem "better" is that at their 80s peak, NO made music that defined and set a standard for electronic/dance/pop music. Quite a standard indeed

I personally love all the versions but the shitty '87 version that killed the whole emotion of the song.

I was lucky to happen to stumble across the 7 inch version first...hooray for me...

I quickly picked up the 12 inch version and loved that one too but there's something about the original 7 inch that has an edge even above the 12 inch version.

It clearly is my favorite song of all time from anyone anywhere and will remain so when I die...I wanna be buried with the 7 inch next to my 7 inch...hahahaha

Overall the song just touches every emotion like no other song can or will ever.

I can't even put a smiley to describe the mood!!!

((((e))))

Aleph via Krafty wrote: whic

Best version, live or studio: Taras, Nov. 81...I get a "chill" moment when Barney, Hooky and Steve all start jamming at the same moment (3/4 way in) :D

Agree that the Taras version is the best. Theres something special about the song in its embryonic stage, it shows the group slowly finding its way. A bit like watching an old home movie of a toddlers first steps. To understand how good the 1982 versions were, you had to be a teenager in England at the time (I was 18). I remember about 1985 giving a lift in my car to some friends. Temptation was on my cassette deck. They both said they remembered it, loved it, used to dance to it but had no idea who it was or what it was called. That has always stuck in my mind.

lowlife wrote: fivehatessix got it spot on for me: "I prefer Bernard's deadpan delivery in the original, as well as the more distinguishable layers of early sequencer which are so evident. The sequencer solo in the 12" version where Hooky's bass comes still gives me goosebumps."

I remember being absolutely, totally stunned by it - it was the best thing I'd ever heard in my life, and still is.

seconded. Thought it was the best song I'd ever heard back then, and still love it. The '87 version is a bit too slick, and misses the sequencer solo of the 82 12"(or the 'beepy bit' as I used to call it).

Only recently got a record player again after a decade without, finally listened to the old 7" again, for the first time on a decent stereo, and for the first time noticed what sounded like Gillian on backing vocals (or a processed Barny) very low in the mix (singing 'up down turn around', if I remember rightly)thoughout what I previously thought were purely instrumental bits.

PS, wasn't moby's recent cover version a huge disappointment. Dull semi-acoustic female vocal slowed-down version, what an unoriginal way to cover NO. I was hoping for some sort of weirded out aphex twin or sonic youth style thing. Come to think of it, I'd like to hear one of those acts do a cover of it.

Although it was ahead of it's time in 1982, Barney's voice grates on me. He sounds like an Eton boy trying to impersonate Ian Curtis on the toilet, while suffering constipation.

Don't get me wrong, I love Temptation, but to me it was always EGG part II...

I've long thought that the first version of a song that you hear and like is the one you end up preferring, especially if another version takes a few years to arrive.

[edit - there's a downside to this, too. My wife spent most of the 1980s thinking Paul Young wrote LWTUA!]

That's what happened to me with Temptation - got the 12 inch first, with its beautiful marbled and embossed sleeve, then picked up the 7 inch after hearing a totally different take on the radio and wondering whether this was it...it was, and I love the way that the sleeve is part of the 12 inch sleeve...but the record played at 33rpm, which meant that the wide, loud grooves of the 12 inch always grabbed my attention first.

Yes, I made the "7 inch fading out, then 12 inch fading in" cassette, and I played that a lot on a succession of tape machines (you 'ad ter mek yer own compilations before Substance, tha knows) but that 12 inch version has always been the one for me.

A May 1982 issue of NME devoted a page just to raving about how brilliant Temptation is/was!!!! Does anyone have this NME feature.Im sure it was written by Paul Morley and was a brilliant read.

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As someone with Brown Eyes, I've always felt left out of the temptation thing. What a song though. My favourite live.

It's funny, in some ways, even though my all time faves are the early 'Taras' LIVE '81 and both original 12" and 7", I can't help but LOVE all versions (and the legion of Live ones either). MILESTONE CLASSIC along EGG and BM

digitalwaters wrote: 1987. Like 1963 in 1994.

94? Do tou mean the one to "the shite of" or that one of 95? Anyway, original is far more elegant than these two.