Your favourite "part" of a New Order Song??

Lots of contenders for this.

Many songs have individual brilliance whether that be musical, lyrical, bass, guitars, drums etc etc.

Examples:

Bizarre Love Triangle: "I feel fine and I feel good....i do admit to myself...we'll never see just what we're meant to be" & synthesisers in middle

Temptation: (my fave): "green eyes, blues eyes, grey eyes....never seen anyone wuite like you before"

1963: great intro

Regret: great intro

Vanishing Point: repeat bass and intro

WFTSC: last verse"how many times do i have to....what can i do just to make you see....so good for a man like, man like me"

True Faith: Opening lyrics " I feel so extraodinary"

Just to name a few!

Whats your fave new order song segment?? Mine is Temptation

The intro to Ceremony Hooky's bass on Age Of Consent The climax to Perfect Kiss Synths + melodica on Your Silent Face

There are a ton: The intro to Blue Monday. "The past is the present, the future is mine" part in Confusion. "Now I feel you've left me standing in a world that's so demanding" part in True Faith. The very last keyboard part(the last 10 seconds or so) in Here to Stay. The ending parts in Dracula's Castle and Dream Attack. The "la la la la la" parts in Paradise. "Volts from above hit the people down below" part in Temptation. The "you're much too young..." part in Fine Time. The long keyboard based part right before the last choruses on Guilt is a useless emotion. The last two lyrics in The Perfect Kiss.

There's more I'm sure, but that's just what I can think of for now.

whenever they do that major-minor chord shift on the synths when they're letting rip. Pure Gillian/Hooky moments. Love it.

Too many of them to mention.

the beginning of regret hooky's bass solo in let's go

too many bits to mention individually.

but what I really like about the order, is the instrumental break in the middle of most songs. I believe the professional term for that is a bridge. few other bands do it or do it as well as them.

John Sludden wrote: The intro to Ceremony Hooky's bass on Age Of Consent The climax to Perfect Kiss Synths + melodica on Your Silent Face

There you are

The 'I don't belong to no one' refrain in "Dream Attack". Great buildup both times: the first is cut short, and the second has that synth flourish before the guitar solo. Cool and emotive all at once.

Far too many to mention, but I do enjoy it when Barney adds in a little lyrical 'epilogue' after the last chorus in the best NO songs. It's not quite a verse, it's not really a chorus....but it adds an emotional weight in every case.

Examples include Ceremony ("Forever, watching love grow.."), Vanishing Point ("And he gave it away like in whistle down the wind..") and Regret (Just wait 'till tomorrow, I guess that's what they all say..")

Anyone else notice this? DepthCharge, I don't recall a lot from our drinking session ages ago, but I do recall discussing this at some point. CTB

The intro to Hurt, just as those drums crash in and Barney's nonsense lyrics begin.

the end of bizarre Dub triangle. Because after sitting thru a pretty ploddy, lumpy pettibone mix, out of nowhere, that bass just appears, SO loud, and SO lovely.

The fade out of fine time. But I think the ultimate has to be either the last movement of Here to Stay, I dunno, there's something about hearing Barney sing "we're here to stay" while hooky SLAUGHTERS his bass that just warms my blackened soul. OR, and I think this one has it by a nose........any of those mid 80's gigs where temptaion appears out of EGG.....the moment the Gills' ARP's change from "dugga da da da dugga da da" to "dugga dugga dugga dugga" is almost too much an when the top part comes in, that's me gone, on the floor claws outstretched and tesifying that NO are the greatest band in the entire universe of space and time.

Apart from that, the best thing is that roar followed by "hello we're nooo orda", then a larger cheer for that, then DRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG, as Hooky lets everyone know that they really ARE new order :)

"and they gave him away, like in 'whistle down the wind'..." (vanishing point)

"from a stolen pen, to a velvet glove..." (as it is, when it was)

Three-note synth at intro and bridge of 1963

Extremely high pitched bass plinks at the end of 1963

Closing bassline of Fine Time (listening to it now, it sounds very videogame-y)

Distorted guitar 'solo' at the end of SOTN

Syncopated drum rolls at end of Procession

The jangling guitar riff and bendy, slithering synth line of EGG.

The bass's cameo apperances in the bridge of Everyone Everywhere

The bassline that plays under the repeating arpeggios of the guitars near the finale of Ceremony. Goes roughly: 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-12-13-12--------------12--12--12 ------------------------------13--13-13-13---13--13--

the "cough" start

on Love Less (or is it all the way). fuck can't remember. nice cough though.

Still the intro to Round & Round

You caught me at a bad time so why dont you piss off

2:30 to 2:59 on Turn (album version).

All of the above! It's taken me ages to read this thread, cause ive been listening to as many of those bits as i could - brilliant stuff

I think my fave would be the extended intro on the 12" Temptation - where the guitar slowly builds up & up & up - and then drops to the synth & lyrics - clasic (& almost clasical)

Yes to many to mention but love hearing TPK live especially the middle bit when Mr hooks bass comes in it sounds like a plane comeing into land.good forum this sat in work reading all these posts and getting paid for it must go now got to have a piss in the sink im bursting.

Perfect Kiss-The quiet part with the frogs Thieves Like Us-Whole Intro All Day Long-Gillian's swirly keyboard after Bernards folky guitar bit Sunrise-The quiet mumbly bit The Him-I'm so tired, I'm so tired Age of consent-I lost you i lost you True Faith-Intro with the drums, opening lines, last verse Round & Round-The drum programming before the last chorus

The 10 10 10 10 10 10 8 8 8 8 8 intro to ceremony. A beautiful instrumental so simple even I can play it on guitar.

Five seconds into true faith when all hell is let loose.

The synthesisers in your silent face

The riff in Leave me alone

The piano part before the first verse of vanishing point.

Hooky's bass part and the chorus of BLT

The opening of Perfect kiss and/or Kiss of death

FINE TIME - 'you got a lot of technique'

SPOOKY - introduction. Best bit of the song by miles!

Chris Nash wrote: Two thirds through 'Sunrise' where the absolute mayhem starts...

I'll agree with that!

There are oh so many. And surely no other band on the planet can touch NO for music that makes your hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Angel Dust is one I can think of, at top of my head. After Barneys finished singing, it goes into an assault on the senses. The violins building up, then the fantastic drum roll (and my favourite of Steves), then the guitar and xylophone duplicating the same melody, the "Woooooah hoooooah hoooooohs", then the fenetic guitar solo and thrashing bass. Awesome.

"Patiently you wait for me"...3:38 in Special. Does it for me every time.

Too many to count, but...

One old : Ceremony at around 2'57 (on the Gillian version) after the first 'watching forever' there's a split second of calm then Hooky's bass shifts up into the full melody.

One new : WFTSC. at 3'03, after the second chorus, Hooky goes back to the sublime verse bassline and simultaneously the synths come in - the moment that NO reminded me that they're still truly great.

Far too many,but here are some edited highlights:

Hooky's bassline after the second chorus on Ceremony always gets me (especially the live version on the Retro boxset)

The fadeout on BLT (the 94 version highlights it further)

The middle eight on Krafty

Too many to mention but here goes:

1963 - 'There are too many ways that you can kill someone, Like a love affair, When the love has gone.'

The Perfect Kiss - when the bass kicks in near the start

Ceremony - The bass at the start. Sounds like church bells ringing out

Love Vigilantes - The bit with the hand/mouth keyboard thing at the start

True Faith - 'I feel so extraordinary....'

This Time of Night - Piano/Keyboard break in middle of song

Oh yes. The bit in Fine Time when Barney sings - 'Baby, you know I've made a lot of cool chicks, But I haven't met a girl with all her own teeth.'