Dunno why I started this poll really.
Personally love the melancholy vibe Dracula carries and as for Jetstream it's so fookin cheesy that it rocks. Always puts a big smile on my face :)
Just thought I'd let you lot know. 
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Jetstream 13 (24%)
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Dracula's Castle 42 (76%)
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If only jetstream had lyrics, everyone would be happier. The stuff he sings is obviously just a glitch in his tardoprompter.
i voted for it BTW, cos lyrical vacum aside, it's perfect pop, and has some truly beautiful production.
I never thought I'd see the day when New Order, the band with some of the greatest song titles ever (e.g.'Dream Attack', 'As it is', 'Elegia', 'True Faith', 'Age of Consent'), named a track 'Dracula's Castle' 
That said, musically it is a grower and Barney's lyrics are so appallingly bad that you just can't but help loving it.
Dracula's Castle is a better song, but both are instantly disposable NO-by-numbers shitstreams that wouldn't have got a job as Electronic B-sides. Have they really got another seven already finished for the next album, or has the quality control department all fucked off early?
oldmonkey wrote: Dracula's Castle is a better song, but both are instantly disposable NO-by-numbers shitstreams that wouldn't have got a job as Electronic B-sides. Have they really got another seven already finished for the next album, or has the quality control department all fucked off early?
This is a concern for the next album..But I prefer not to be pesimistic for now.Fingers Crossed,they kept some rip-snorters back for the next album..
I like "Dracula's Castle" much better. I especially like the lyrics, the song itself and Bernard's voice in it. And, I love the ending to the song as well.
Jetstream is actually quite a peppy little tune...like the one with banjos even better...
The boys are just about in the ripe stage and if they string it out right can add another 10 years to the career..
Might even replace "Blue Monday" for the peppy, cheazy...can we even see Barney and Hooky in Vegas in about ten years playing it in a joint on the strip
what a choice. dracula has grown on me. Jetstream well it sounds alot like one of those madonna songs shergs brought around. you can dance to it but.
J-E-T; you are sooo good for me!
If the Techniquey bits in the bridge over Dracula's Castle had been peppered over the song a bit more it would have been way better...
Dracula's Castle loses a point for it's title.
It also loses a point for the terrible title being used in the lyrics.
In spite of these deficiencies, I prefer it to Jetstream.
The Richard X Remix of Jetstream, however, cannot be denied.
J-E-T reminds me of a rather drunken night in Barca, me, JG and the Pompey Two wandering through a deserted marina around 4am singing said tune at the top of our lungs, with various alternative choruses and lyrics. That's what most music means to me: memories. Not saying it's a brilliant track (although the Richard X mix is class) but I don't think it's the stinker many suggest.
Oh, and Ana Matronic. You so would. 
Dracula's Castle doesn't push any buttons for me at all. I don't 'listen' to a lot of New Order so don't think I've even heard this one since shortly after the album's release. I think it's New Order by numbers.
I actually like both quite a bit.
I gave the nod to DC, it's musically great and reminds of the Brotherhood era. However, Jetstream is a fun pop song and my five-year-old son loves it to death.
Dracula's Castle Vs Jetstream?
It's like comparing white dog turd with green baby shite.
If I have to vote (which I won't) then I would have to say Jissimstream, only because me little 4-year-old lad knows all the lyrics.
I like both songs, although I prefer Dracula's Castle for it's melancholy mood. Jetstream is still a good pop tune, though.
To me DC is the best track on the album. Forget the lyrics when was the last lyrically good song from NO? It has the best bassline and vocal melodies that work together since Dream Attack on Technique - have another listen! Jetstream - to those of you who like it, I'm sorry but it sucks like an electrolux.
dracula's castle is the lesser of 2 evils for me. jetstream is the work NO song ever by far. DC is filler, not terrible(well maybe the lyrics)but not a memorable song either
Steve Lea wrote: To me DC is the best track on the album. Forget the lyrics when was the last lyrically good song from NO? It has the best bassline and vocal melodies that work together since Dream Attack on Technique - have another listen! Jetstream - to those of you who like it, I'm sorry but it sucks like an electrolux.
Had another listen to DC, and still crap.
As for the suction power of an Electrolux, it is far more preferable, in certain instances, than listening to Jetstream 
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Well if somebody had come to me back in 1985 just after TPK came out and said that in twenty years they'd put their name to Jetstream I think I'd be writing to the Depeche Mode site today having abandoned all hope with NO. Jetstream is that f'ing bad. If they'd given me a sneak preview of DC however I think I'd have stuck it out with them.
DC for me, for the vocal melodies and the music & mood it sets overall. I must admit I don't like the title at all though, but hey.. they wrote the song, they can call it whatever they want.
JS has a catchy chorus but everytime I hear that song, I'm thinking like it'd be a commercial for JETblue air.
