New Order's best instrumental

Shit, Skullcrusher! Must have been tired when I made the poll.

Twist-Kiss of Death doesnt count, its got vocals all over it!

Don´t do It - genious instrumental song

"lleh ni skcoc skcus rehtom ruoy!"

didn't vote.

KISS of DEATH. when the birds go aaahh...aaahh...aaaagh...

Please read this justification:

Yes, I have MANY MANY classic club records that were released in 1989, but they don't sound like 'MTO' man.

I'll play the short version....Mix it out of something with a straight 4/4 beat. When that first tinkering melody comes in and then the high hats...and then that first snare on 'MTO' comes in, it's a winner to me. The main melody is TOTAL New Order circa-1989. Then I mix the short version into the (Minus Mix) and then I go into something else, like E-Zee Possee 'Everything Starts With An 'E'.

Yeah, there are club records from '89 [like the world-famous 'Sueno Latino' (Winter Version) or 'Pacific' (909)] that are BETTER...yes, better than 'MTO' - but 'MTO' tells about a side of New Order I just wish the band had explored more into the early-90s - and they didn't.

That's why it's my favorite instrumental.

Church of the KLF wrote: "lleh ni skcoc skcus rehtom ruoy!"

get me a mirror!!

i really love don't do it but at the end i went for elegia. our kid loves that one and it brings back some great memories.

MTO wrote: Please read this justification:

Yes, I have MANY MANY classic club records that were released in 1989, but they don't sound like 'MTO' man.

I'll play the short version....Mix it out of something with a straight 4/4 beat. When that first tinkering melody comes in and then the high hats...and then that first snare on 'MTO' comes in, it's a winner to me. The main melody is TOTAL New Order circa-1989. Then I mix the short version into the (Minus Mix) and then I go into something else, like E-Zee Possee 'Everything Starts With An 'E'.

Yeah, there are club records from '89 [like the world-famous 'Sueno Latino' (Winter Version) or 'Pacific' (909)] that are BETTER...yes, better than 'MTO' - but 'MTO' tells about a side of New Order I just wish the band had explored more into the early-90s - and they didn't.

That's why it's my favorite instrumental.

Wow! I'd love to hear THAT mix! Always preferred the short mix of MTO to the club mix,and E-ZEE POSSE always takes me back to when I started DJ-ing in 1990.

Dude, even though I am only 27, I am a whore for the old-school. I come from Jacksonville, Florida USA which isn't exactly a cosmopolitan city.

When I was in my teens, scooping up all these weird UK house & techno 12"s made me feel like I was in another world, that there were people 5000 miles away who were on the same vibe as me. That kind of thinking always made me believe New Order was just one album away from being the Rolling Stones.

Even when dance music exploded in the US around 1997-1999, I thought club culture was gonna bring artists like Underworld and Sasha to the Billboard Top 10. Of course, it didn't, and now, in 2005, people are raving about gay-ass 70s rip-off bands like The Killers and Franz Ferdinand and I'm back where I was in 1991: listening to weird UK progressive house and trance 12"s.

avalanche by a mile for me, i just love how the rythym of the song just keeps hinting at bursting over and changing tempo but never does.

holy crap MTO. its like we share the same brain. even tho new order has always been like religion to me, i started to dwelve in UK dance music as soon as i heard faithless' "insomnia". changed everything. then discovered underworld, re-discovered moby, started to hate bt. got exposed to all the various dj's and production outfits, then i would scour the virgin megastore in vancouver for the overpriced import cd and vinyl singles for that matt darey or ferry corsten mix. it all came down to digweed/sasha, van dyk and james holden, sprinkled with some trance cheese here and there. but if it wasnt for new order, none of these heads would have rolled. the first thing i said when i met paul van dyk and bt, was thank god for new order, eh? they both agreed. paul did the remix for spooky and bt's track 'nectar' from 'escm' is a blatant tribute to new order.

i'll go for Thieves Like Us

Thieves Like Us - beauty.

One of the first 7 inches I ever bought when I was about 7 or 8 was Shellshock with the Instrumental Edit of TLU onthe B side - blew me away then as well.

Video 586 edit, then Avalanche, then Saville.

Sorry if I'm being a complete muppet, but I've just looked at the song browser and there are no excerpts of salvation - hence can't listen to Skullcrasher, Let's Go (instrumental - I have the orig from 1963). I also didn't buy the singles for Fine Time and Run2 so don't have MTO and Don't Do It.

If anyone can see their way to help me out with these requests I'll be eternally grateful!

mysilentface, we DO share the same brain! lol* Unfortunately for me, I could use a friend like you here in my Florida hometown, where everyone is up their own ass listening to DJ Icey and Baby Anne and other soulless funky breaks "artists".

That's funny what you say about BT, because ever since 'Ima', I thought "This guy is too grandiose, too over the top." and I never cared for his flamoyant style. When it rubbed off on Sasha's '96 single 'Be As One', I was starting to worry (didn't that song date horribly?). I think BT's best cut is 'Godspeed' but even I don't own that 12". The only thing of his I'll play is his Mike Oldfield remixes of 'Let There Be Light' done in 1995. Those, I like.

Van Dyk is great. His label is great and I like his new single 'The Other Side'.

E-mail me sometime and maybe we can talk about some 'music theory' - lol*

Best & Marsh it has to be. Back in 88/89 NO were popping up on all kinds of soundtracks inc an instrumental version of 'Vanishing Point' (available on 'Round & Round' cd) which was the theme tune to 'Making Out' and was fooking brilliant.

For those who never saw MO, it starred Keith Allen as a factory owner who went mental and dressed as a giant chicken , Margi Clarke as Margi Clarke, and another woman (who almost married Fred Elliot in Corrie a few years back) who married a ManU player in the show. The show was fookin cool, completely mental, and brilliantly written.

Pretty much sums up NO at the time.

Elegia (the best version is the one in retro's 5th disk)

I actually liked Avalanche, but I doubt anyone else does.

OH! Wait, ok, Evil Dust is my fave.

Also may as well mention Salvation Theme, Skullcrusher and Sputnik. And there's a track just called Theme isn't there? It's not too bad.

Oh, right, and out of the options I voted Elegia.

Don't Do It.

White lines that is.

Salvation Theme

Vicious Circle

Elegia...since I haven't heard the Saville soundtrack :(

I was always wondering where that fake "Player in the League" came from...now I can properly label my mp3.

Right on, Nicos, Free Will is the best of the side projects and perhaps better than any NO instrumental.

twist wrote: Right on, Nicos, Free Will is the best of the side projects and perhaps better than any NO instrumental.

Free Will is an excellent track indeed. "6 o'clock and empty". I love that sample.

Spotnick wrote: Don't do it is just purely awesome, but if we could pick from side projects, I'd probably pick Electronic's Free Will.

But I must admit that the Saville soundtrack is awesome background music.

However votes for Prime 586 (or Video 586) must visit his doctor.. did anybody actually managed to listen to this IN FULL?

Not heard the full version, but the edit version on one of the 'Cool as Ice' discs is excellent- I've even got my 6 year old and my mate's 8 year old bopping their heads to it!