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What's the most totally let down you;ve ever felt with New Order?
I sit here expecting to read 14000 posts about WIFM or pishstream.
For me it's the backing tapes. All my NO loving life I've adored the fact that they are the band who don't mime, then suddenly they are miming on TOTP, and then the greatest disgrace of all, prerecorded music at concerts. It sounds crap, reduces them to the lowly level of other ORDINARY bands, and more than that it's a con.
Keep music live keep machines live
when phil pretends he's actually playing the keyboards - its really embarrasing - bring back gillian!
when i learned that they weren't coming to Oz in early 06, as this year they actually toured the world.
This years performance of Jetstream on the Jonathan Ross show
must rank as an all-time 'lowlight' surely!!! Although,
Hooky's 'wiving wegends' slogan on his bass cabs raised a
chuckle.
I have to agree with the miming but also such long holidays, I'd like an album at least every 2 years, at least 3 singles a year, and a tour of north west (England)cities, i.e. Preston. not too much to ask for.
Yeah, the years when they were taking a break from each other were disappointing - however necessary - but each time they got back it felt fantastic - like coming home for Christmas in fact. ;)
Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
Then watching the 511 DVD and noticing that tapes were being used for Blue Monday.
:angry2:
And the miming for 'Krafty' on TOTP.
Royser wrote: hearing Republic after being teased with Regret
Agreed! Regret is classic NO, that album is shite!
I've only ever played that album once in it's entirety, when I first bought it! I hate Ruined in a day with a passion.
Christopher Owens wrote: Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
Lowlife's my favourite!
They havent really! - I suppose the day I bought LowLife - I was having a BAD day & it didn't really perk me up enough! But then the fact that I can still vividly remember that day 20 years later . . .
I'm sure there's more, but the good times outweigh the bad.
NObabe wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote: Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
i'm scratchin me head over that one too. low life is boss. my most played one.
john kershaw wrote:
NObabe wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote: Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
i'm scratchin me head over that one too. low life is boss. my most played one.
He's just an aging goth, knows a shit 
I don't really look at it as disappointments, more a case of the typical inconsistency that has watermarked their career.
* seemingly endless and gratuitous remixes - why? * miming on TOTP etc after years of refusing to sell out - understanable but unpalatable all the same * backing tapes rather than sequencers - lazy * the need for Bernard to introduce every song these days - why? * over-reliance on "greatest hits" live - given the increasingly hardcore audience there is surely no need to pander to those who only know certain songs? We want to hear different stuff, not Blue Monday, True Faith and BLT!
But the main one is the compromising on the earlier policy of mixing the set up every night. The rationale behind this decision of theirs is well-documented and understandable if not appreciated, but it wouldn't really hurt them to learn 25 or so songs for a series of dates and really mix it up a bit. I think we'd all prefer a wider setlist variety, rather than living up to their name by playing the same 15 songs more often than not, with subtle changes like swapping tracks 1 and 2 over......
robert mellor wrote: This years performance of Jetstream on the Jonathan Ross show
must rank as an all-time 'lowlight' surely!!! Although,
Hooky's 'wiving wegends' slogan on his bass cabs raised a
chuckle.
oh yeah, i forgot that one, Barney's bad dancing reached new lows that night with his running around dance thing - it made me cringe with embarrasment
NO Regret wrote: WIFM?
Without doubt! Other than the rap and the playing for fcuking eng-er-land bit it's alright. It also spawned the "They only got to Number 1 cos it was an England song" 
I remember feeling 'crushed' by that Subculture re-hash and also disappointed by Fine Time (though I quickly learned to accept that one).
But, fcuk me, I was a mere stripling for both offerings.
Can't imagine getting 'disappointed' by anything a band may, or may not, do nowadays. Leave that one to the teenagers and their angst.
i agree FINE TIME was last when i first heard it. still skip it now.
YOUNG OFFENDER is another.
some of the vids like RUINED IN A DAY and 1963. CRAP!!
Christopher Owens wrote: Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
Taken entirely out of context. Technique was released nigh on four years after Low-Life, of course. When are you going to get round to listening to Movement one wonders?
NObabe wrote:
john kershaw wrote:
NObabe wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote: Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
i'm scratchin me head over that one too. low life is boss. my most played one.
He's just an aging goth, knows a shit
He listened to them in the wrong order obviously. Low life being mid 80's, technique being late 80's/dancy/ibiza time
Al Jarvis wrote: I remember feeling 'crushed' by that Subculture re-hash and also disappointed by Fine Time (though I quickly learned to accept that one).
But, fcuk me, I was a mere stripling for both offerings.
Can't imagine getting 'disappointed' by anything a band may, or may not, do nowadays. Leave that one to the teenagers and their angst.
You just caused a shudder of remembrance Al! Sub-culture was such a shock to the system, how they had taken a good live track and mutated it so badly. I never got Fine Time, still don't.
john kershaw wrote:
NObabe wrote:
john kershaw wrote:
NObabe wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote: Listening to LowLife after getting Technique.
i'm scratchin me head over that one too. low life is boss. my most played one.
He's just an aging goth, knows a shit
He listened to them in the wrong order obviously. Low life being mid 80's, technique being late 80's/dancy/ibiza time
An aging goth chosing Ibiza vibe over A MASTERPIECE, now that's silly!
"Get Ready" after waiting years for a comeback.It's not bad,and it's still got Crystal and 60 MPH,but it's not great. And apart from the great melodica on Turn My Way,am I the only one who thinks it's a fcuking camp-fire song?
