Get Ready vs Waiting For The Sirens' Call

I disagree with this kind of question and here's why...

What do you prefer: driving or walking?

Well, if you're going a long way and it's raining - driving is the answer.

If it's a nice day and you're drunk - walking is best.

1-0 to wftsc,back of the net get ready is by far my least favourite NO album

WFTSC is the Worst new order effort(or lack of) to date. so Get ready wins by default

WFTSC is a great pop album, Get Ready is a better rock album. Both are superior to any other band's album. FACT

Get Ready includes Slow Jam, one of their all-time worst efforts. WFTSC includes Turn, one of their all-time best efforts, and contains nothing that approaches SJ in badness.

My vote goes to WFTSC.

Sirens is the sound of a band who have the confidence that they still have what it takes. Get Ready is the sound of a band putting their toe in the water to see if there were any sharks around. Besides Crystal, nothing off Get Ready will ever be revered in years to come (Primitive Notion maybe would have been if they'd learned to play it live).

WFTSC all the way for me.

I liked WFTSC better because everything sounded "fresh". There were some good songs on Get Ready, but the whole album itself was bland, in my opinion. Plus, Get Ready was a little too "rock" for my tastes. I mean, I know Joy Division is mostly rock and there are tons of "rockier" tunes that New Order have made. But the rock songs on Get Ready sounded like New Order wanted to sound like any other so-called "alternative" rock band. So, I like WFTSC better than Get Ready. On WFTSC, my favourite tracks are "Who's Joe?", "Hey now what you doing", "I told you so", "Morning Night and Day", "Dracula's Castle" and "GIAUE".

i think both albums have their faults. and those faults are some not so grand tracks... so i once combined the good tracks off of both onto one cd... made for a rather long album, and not an album that flowed too well... but it also was a new order album of recent material that i could listen to all the way through... anyway, wftsc had one or two more tracks. so wftsc wins. crystal is my favorite song off of either album, but wftsc is more consistent.

A bit of an unfair poll, as both have a lot to offer.

Hard to say, as each album has some bad eggs, but Get Ready has a few solid gems like Crystal, Primitive Notion, Someone Like You, and even 60 MPH. Meanwhile, WFTSC has WFTSC (best NO song since Here to Stay, perhaps better than anything on Get Ready), Turn, and Krafty. I'm personally going to have to lean towards Get Ready on this one.

My first reaction after hearing Get Ready was to think "Oh, was that it?"

My first reaction after hearing WFTSC was to put it on again.

Old Blue wrote: My first reaction after hearing Get Ready was to think "Oh, was that it?"

My first reaction after hearing WFTSC was to put it on again.

:D

Get Ready is definitively better.

I like WFTSC but is weaker than Get Ready there too many producers, song with lousy production, Ana Matronics ruined Jetstream, almost everything got wrong. I like the album but it is for sure the worst of all them and Get Ready is not so good as that.

In the middle are “Here to Stay” and I think that’s their best song in years and that is the way to go and “Guilt Is A Useless Emotion” (the only dance track on WFTSC) is not at the same level, although I think that. Stuart Price it’s a good producer but he did not done such a good work as the Chemical Bros with “Here to Stay”.

P.S. - Nick I couldn't vote in this poll

O.K.

After posting I can vote

WFTSC due in no small measure to Who's Joe, GIAUE and I Told You So, the best songs they have made since the Technique sessions

Get Ready is fine to throw on every now and then, but will definately be seen in hindsight as a stepping stone for WFTSC and the 2006 album

WFTSC by a mile. Not that GR is awful, but it's soiled by the presence of the fools Gillespie and Corgan. New Order simply don't need 'star' guests, especially not of this calibre. And Rock The Shack is tragically unworthy of a great band.

WFTSC was a MASSIVE surprise to me - I didn't think they had it in them to make an album as great (yes, great) again. The only track I have reservations about is GIAUE. Oh - maybe Jetstream too, but it's a brave effort at all-out total pop. I'm not sure why they felt they needed to do Jetstream, but the rest of the record is so great that I feel inclined to be generous towards it. From Who's Joe through to the end of Dracula's Castle is practically perfect, and Turn and Working Overtime are a great way to end.

I did not vote. Still too soon to have a definitive opinion.

It's easy. I still have WFTSC in my CD-changer since May.

On the contrary, I listened to Get Ready 5-10 times only right after it was released and I barely feel the urge to listen to it again. I selected some songs off that LP and listen to them within my CD collections.

Easy WFTSC. I decided a while back Turn & WFTSC are the two best songs they have ever made. I love every song on that CD. I even grew to love Draculas Castle. I think Guilt is the only song that is weak for me.

Turn live was amazing, I love the new ending and hope it apears on a future BBC session. And the Bass for WFTSC live is my favorite Bass of all songs.

Damn hard choice. Overall WFTSC. But Get Ready has that juggernaut of a tune called Crystal which quite possibly is one of the top 10 NO chunes of all time. Few songs come close to its power. Primitive Notion and Viscious Streak need to be mentioned as well, great songs. But the 1 2 3 punch of Who's Joe, Road to Ruin and WFTSC keep my ears happy long after Crystal faded. I'm not a big Krafty fan but I adore I Told You So and the rest of the lp. Really not a bum note on the lp. For me GR falls flat when the vocals start on Someone Like You. Slow Jam is ok but not near their best effort and Rock The Shack is too exploited joyu Division for me.

I think they are both essential New Order albums but Get Ready was hit and miss for me while WFTSC was an overall better album to me in terms of the songs themselves. It didn't flow together as well as Get Ready but for me there isn't a bad song on WFTSC. Get Ready had Run Wild, Slow Jam, and Turn My Way which I am not a fan of those tracks at all.

Spotnick wrote: It's amazing how all New Order fan is unique.. nobody like the same album/song... maybe that's why they are special to us...

you're right !!! I am still amazed by the fact that a lot of people prefer WFTSC to GR... I know the lattest best so it is still difficult for me to have a clear idea... because the first time I heard the both, I did not have the same feeling at all. I was so disappointed the first time I listened to WFTSC that it can only get better...

Get Ready really..

On the basis that Crystal pisses over the rest of both albums combined, and is just about the last great recorded NO track as far as I'm concerned.

WFTSC is not that bad; just none of the individual tracks touch me to the level of Crystal or a Temptation, BLT, Ceremony etc.

Here's to the next album trouncing them both. I will be pleasantly suprised if it does.

Every NO album produced 3 or 4 songs I absolutely loved and Get Ready didn't do that for me, only Crystal.

WFTSC does with wftsc, turn, guilt, and hey joe.