Which side are you?

to the left.

early all the way.

Golden oldies no question.

CD1 .Deffo.

When I first got into New Order, the only songs that existed where those that are on side 1 (essentially the Substance singles), so I guess it's those songs I've heard the most, hence the choice of side 1! :)

i'm on my side

CD ONE at the moment is GETTING AWAY WITH IT.Reminds me of when i was in my fifties.:D

I prefer the old 78's also

78's were just a cynical attempt by the record companies to make everyone buy everything again that they already owned on wax cylinders. Wankers.

I wonder if we let Warner's marketing division see these results would they call the boys in for a suit confrontation and admit all the stuff they pushed the band into stank.

"it seems there's a sizable market for real New Order music, so you better make some"

81 - 87. How can you surpass Temptation, Ceremony, Bizarre Love Triangle, Thieves Like Us etc.

I don't have Singles yet. But I believe I'll go with disc 2. The disc 1 is practically Substance and I prefer the genuine Substance mixes.

But disc 2 is a nice anthology of the last 17 years: The Best Of and International are too dated to represent it. So Singles would be precious for me mostly for the disc 2. Yet I can't wait to have the original 7" Ceremony on CD, too. ;)

difficult to say... I prefer disc1 althought I enjoy more Substance versions...

The dark side. (Of the moon, that is)

1

CD1. There is no question about it.

1, although the 'subculture', 'shellshock', and 'state of the nation' trilogy is a sagging middle section. It's only more tolerable because they are the edited mixes. Having the original 'ceremony' and 'temptation' is a big boost, and I feel like the mastering on 'procession' is noticably better than on disc 2 of Substance. But unlike most disc 2s on best ofs, I actually pop Singles disc 2 in almost as often as disc 1.

have to go with early. classics.

It's a bit of a tough call, i could happily drop sub culture & shellshock from disc 1 and love run, regret, crystal, here to stay, WFTSC and turn.

Another point is that the edits are a bit anoying.

having bought substance on vinyl and tape I never got round to getting it on CD, now I can't play either of those so on the whole the singles CD is pretty good.

Sorry about rambling on, I'm a bit pissed.

Early...even if just because those are the tunes that made me discover New Order, just loads of good memories

I voted for CD 2, which contains more songs among my favourites than CD 1.

Jean-Philippe Ravier wrote: difficult to say... I prefer disc1 althought I enjoy more Substance versions...

Well, cowboy up! Choose Disc 2. ;)

The first one.

Well the 7" version of State of the Nation leaves out my favorite parts of the song, along with slicing up the order of the refrains for no particular reason at all, but the Shellshock edit is a lot better and stripped down compared to the cacophonous, obnoxious version on International.

Going to go with CD1, every song is a favorite and (almost) all in their best formats.

Well, there's "True Faith" on Disc 1 (my first New Order song)… But Disc 2, to be honest have a lot of good tracks on it…

I can't make my choice…

CD 1.

this votes going the way i thought it would.

Just like children;

CD1 somedays, CD2 others...