Good evening all
Complete novice to all of this forum lark, but a devoted veteran of the band for the last 23 years.
Long story with how this came about, and it bores me just to tell it, so I’ll spare you !
I’ve been looking through some of the past postings on the forum, and lots of interesting old threads which I feel gutted about missing as I have no intention of re-opening any of them and just hope that new threads will continue to be as interesting, thought provoking and with the merest hints of abuse as is already the precedence set !
I haven’t gone through all of the postings on the basis that my life will actually have ended before I’d have achieved this, so I hope that this question hasn’t been raised already. Apologies if so.
On my vinyl copy of the Salvation soundtrack, the sleeve and the label both list track 4 on the second side as Sputnik by New Order, which appears to be some sort of film score type thing comprised solely of atmospheric synth chimes and some congos in a most un-NO manner. Whereas it informs me that track 3 is Come On by Arthur Baker and this seems to consist of most of the NO trademarks (Hooky bass - well a close approximation of it anyway, Barney guitar and Gillian synth scales), albeit installed in a sort of throwaway instrumental. The fact that the sequenced bassline also bears a passing resemblance to Love Missile F1-11 (hence bearing some relevance to the title ?) convinces me that Crepescule kind of got it wrong at the printing stage. In similar vain to the Cries And Whispers/Mesh saga. That Factory influence is wide ranging !
I hope I’m right about this, because when I converted the NO contributions to MP3 a couple of years ago, I adopted the “Arthur Baker” track as the correct one. It may be throwaway but it sure sits easier in the NO discography than the film score.
Please someone confirm that I did right !
