If you could lose one song from an album...

If there's one song you wish the band didn't include on one of their albums, which is it?

Never saw the point of the TPK edit on Low Life. Seems out of place. Should have done a proper cut of Let's Go instead.

To be honest I can't think of anything that I would have liked remoived from an NO album. Ofcourse I would like the full version TPK on Low-Life, but that's just not New Order.

Hmmm... I can't really think of anything either. There aren't any songs I really hate and not too many that seem out of place.

Jetstream.

'Run Wild'. A bit too wimpy for my liking.

Julie wrote: 'Run Wild'. A bit too wimpy for my liking.

I concur.

But on top of the list it has to be I TOLD YOU SO. Eeww!

Oh and Jetstream is ace!!!!!

run wild, chemical, thieves like us (from substance. it's a greatest miss IMO).

Krafty. I don't like it and never will. Sorry!

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote: We All Stand, Ultraviolence or Ecstasy from Power, Corruption & Lies.

Rock The Shack or Slow Jam from Get Ready.

All the other albums have a consistent enough quality all the way through. As for the five songs I nominated above I wouldn't really care if I never heard any of them again, they're just rubbish to me. I even prefer the weaker moments on Republic and Jetstream above them

The three from PC&L turned a potentially flawless album into er, a flawed one. If you take them out PC&L works as a fantastic EP I reckon.

My tuppence anyway...

WHAT? "Ecstasy"'s excellent! :)

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote: We All Stand, Ultraviolence or Ecstasy from Power, Corruption & Lies.

Rock The Shack or Slow Jam from Get Ready.

All the other albums have a consistent enough quality all the way through. As for the five songs I nominated above I wouldn't really care if I never heard any of them again, they're just rubbish to me. I even prefer the weaker moments on Republic and Jetstream above them

The three from PC&L turned a potentially flawless album into er, a flawed one. If you take them out PC&L works as a fantastic EP I reckon.

My tuppence anyway...

Ah, I love Ultraviolence and Ecstacy. Wish New order were still capable of writing songs like that. Fair point on WAS.

Weirdo, Slow Jam and the tracks 6-9 from Republic. Also the edit of TPK; Let's Go should've been on Low Life either as an instrumental or with the 1985 vocal. It's great either way.

Starting with WFTSC, guilt is a useless emotion...

The Him Ecstacy Perfect Kiss Way Of Life Love Less Liar Run Wild Dracula's Castle

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote: Rock The Shack

oh, yeah. i forgot about that turd....

Run Wild- the worst new order song ever if you ask me.

Daver wrote: Jetstream.

Yup!

Now, why does it have to be restricted to just one track per album?

There is such a thing as creative licence you know! (better known as taking liberties).

I propose these:

Movement can stay as it is - as all the tracks are pretty much equal in terms of homogeneity - bar the opener of course which is in a league of its own.

PC & L could do without We All Stand cos it drags, frankly.

Low Life could do without SubCulture and Face Up. Too HI-NRG for my liking both of those.

Brotherhood is spoiled by the utterly hopeless Lou Reed track right at the end. And the CD version could also do without track 10.

Technique - no excisions, it's a masterpiece.

Republic - oh dear..... at least half of that album should not even exist (All of side two for starters!)

Fat Eddie can wave goodbye to Rock The Shack and Run Wild as they're both ultra-naff. Someone Like You is also a possible candidate for the chop cos it's gloopy.

WFTSC can jettison Jizzstream in a huge block of blue ice over Boatraceface's house so that he can have all the effluent as I'm sure he really loves that song with a passion. Along with that crappy UB40 / Ace Of Bass pisstake. Draculars Castle is a bit duff as well. I loved Working Overtime on first few listens but the novelty appeal seems to have worn off now - it's like that album's Rock The Shack. Lorraine absolutely hates that song and I can't bear her beating me up each time it comes on the stereo, so that one has to go.

:evil:

Then, with Get Ready, Run Wild...

I feel in the mainstream for once. Still astonished that I am the only one to have mentionned guilt is a useless emotion for WFTSC so far...

I find these the weakest tracks.

The Him ..humm

We all stand ..Really out of place compared to other tracks.

Sooner than you think ...Not bad, but the weakest on the album.

Angel Dust ....Bad

Guilty Partner ....Worse, the rotten egg on Technique

Chemical ....Could have been better.

Someone like you ...The worst in a long time. How they managed to work on this from rough idea to a complete song without stopping and throwing away?

Morning night and day ...Lyrics are terrible, just awful

The cut list: ICB Ecstasy Perfect Kiss edit (do it right, or don't fookin do it at all ) Broken Promise Loveless Spooky Run Wild Working Overtime

Yikes, possibly my "Worst Of" list right there...

Last time I listened to Republic, Spooky was the one...

the only thing I can do without is from Young Offender to Times Change on Republic. Everything else they've done is at least alright.

The Him Ecstasy Sooner Than You Think As It Was When It Was (I freakin' hate this song) * John Robie's awful remix of Subculture Guilty Partner Young Offender Rock The Shack Working Overtime

Some of these suggestions are mental. Sooner Than You Think for gods sake!

Wasim wrote: Some of these suggestions are mental. Sooner Than You Think for gods sake!

I'd still take an edit of The Perfect Kiss over that, but yeah, I feel the same way seeing things like Guilt Is A Useless Emotion, Way Of LIfe, Thieves Like Us (WTF???), and the original mix of Subculture listed.

Fair enough.

Get hold of the first Community album and listen to Kremlin's cover of STYT and you might change your mind about the song.

Movement: I'd prefer the entire album to be rerecorded. Would probably still suck ass, but the production would be competant this time.

PCL: Dump "We All Stand"

Low-Life: don't dump anything, just get rid of the truncated Perfect Kiss and include the full length version.

Brotherhood: Replace the poorly mixed version of BLT with the one of the three different single remixes. The sound quality for the last 45 seconds or so is reminscent of Sub-Culture in it's muddiness.

Technique: Fine Time could be dumped and I wouldn't shed a tear, you could add Best and Marsh or Don't Do it, two B-Sides I absolutely loved to fill in after Guilty Partner.

Republic: Dump both Chemical and Liar, Liar is their worst or second worst song ever, Chemical their worst or second worst song ever, can never decide, probably would go with Liar.

Get Ready: I can live with everything save the title 60mph. Does Barney understand that that's the speed old ladies drive at on the freeway? Stupidest title to any song ever as it really, really didn't seem to capture the point he was trying to get across.

WFTSC: The only song I skip every single Time I hear it is I told you so or whatever it's called, wouldn't miss its absence at all.

The Him We All Stand Subculture Broken Promise Round & Round Liar* Someone Like You* I Told You So*

One per album, but I'd only really like to see the starred ones go...

SHEDi xxx