New Orders most aggressive song

Church of the KLF wrote: Live versions of BM can sound rather hostile and aggressive, as well. Take, for instance, my personal favorite:

21/02/87 @ The Red Parrot in Perth, Australia (from New-Order.net)

Oh, that's a cool one. I love the renditions of "BM" where Barney used to play guitar lines on top of the whole thing, the heavy feedback intro to the Oakland 1985 version comes to mind as particularly aggressive.

And "Broken Promise" was aggressive live as well.

Skullcrusher for mine. Am I the only one here who likes this little jam? A NO song you could fight to.

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Al Jarvis wrote: What do people mean by 'aggressive' here?! I mean, Krafty or Shellshock?! Eh?!

Agreed. For example, Let's Go is quite aggressive lyrically

The way Sunrise builds towards the end is pretty aggressive and how it just dwindles away to a final note at the end is superb.

As It Is When It Was gets heated and even now I've no idea of what Barney is saying near the end. He seems to be singing through gritted teeth and it conveys the aggression perfectly.

Such A Good Thing and The Happy One get my vote.

mil wrote: What the heck is skullcrusher? Was it a b side or something?

Mil, I'm happy to sort you out for some of the rarer stuff you may not have - drop me an email (if you still have my addy) and I'll introduce you to the dubious pleasures of Skullcrusher, Sputnik etc. CTB

Chemical wrote: The way Sunrise builds towards the end is pretty aggressive and how it just dwindles away to a final note at the end is superb.

As It Is When It Was gets heated and even now I've no idea of what Barney is saying near the end. He seems to be singing through gritted teeth and it conveys the aggression perfectly.

Good point about AIIWIW.

Any NO track with urgent choppy metallic guitar towards the climax can thus be considered "aggressive" really - Sunrise being the obvious example, plus, as others mentioned, Broken Promise (and a fair few of the guitar ones on Brotherhood for that matter - the delightfully fierce growling bass/drum heavy intro to Way Of Life being a brilliant example), Skullcrusher, some of the Movement stuff like The Him and Senses, the thrashy buzz-synth/percussion breakdown in The Perfect Kiss.....

Hurt just sounds really chaotic - as if the entire band were gleefully trashing the instruments the longer the song went on: listening to Barney whooping near the end (is this the first time he is doing this on record by any chance?) accompanied by the crashing electronic drums makes me giggle. My wife Lorraine absolutely hates that track though - she thinks it's a pile of shit. And I quote : "What are you playing that pile of crap again for? Turn it off! Gives me a bloody headache..!!"

Church of the KLF wrote:

Chemical wrote: The way Sunrise builds towards the end is pretty aggressive and how it just dwindles away to a final note at the end is superb.

As It Is When It Was gets heated and even now I've no idea of what Barney is saying near the end. He seems to be singing through gritted teeth and it conveys the aggression perfectly.

Good point about AIIWIW.

Yeah - he's probably dead pissed off that the mix and production is so fooking crap he can't hear himself singing....!!

Close Range or Rock the Shack

Round & Round

everything's gone green, angeldust/ evildust, sunrise, confusion, finetime... and so on...

Definately agree on Angel Dust.

Also would go for live version of Age Of Concent. Barney really lets rip in the chorus.

Agree with Age of Consent - the magnificent assault of the initial bass and drums

no-one mentions ultraviolence. is it too obvious?

Ok, shite, I forgot about The Him. Not sure how, it's one of my favorites. Does anyone think Way Of Life starts out agressive before the tune starts sounding like the rest of the song?

Songs that are not necessarily aggro but creepy in some respects;

Murder- Including the snippets from Clockwork Orange, Caligula and 2001- hark back a bit to JD's Atrocity Exhibition.

In A Lonely Place-not a song to put on while on your own with gale-force winds and rain pouring down outside- not to mention Ian's lyrics about hanging- bit close to the ultimate fate of IC to overlook.

Elegia- always reminds me a bit of the Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells bit used on The Exorcist.

Having said that about Elegia, it and the Electronic track Lean To The Inside have a Ennio Morricone sort of feel to them as well-Barney has said that once he bought(or was given)his first record player, the very first album he bought to play on it was an Ennio Morricone one...if you don't know who I'm talking about, fine...just think spaghetti westerns like The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and A Few Dollars More.

personally I find Fine Time to be an agressive song. There's just something about the beat in that song.