ive recently forgotten how good this tune is i think its brilliant its alittle different but i love it atm
ehat do you guys think? i love to hear from you
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Lonesome Tonight, what do you think?
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Close to a Perfect New Order tune. mmm A set like a Berlin set with Lonesome tonite DNE Face Up ( yes Love that tune, has nothing to do with running into an ex-Flame-ish last night -of course.) and Thieves Like Us.
Both sides of Fac103 have gotten a lot of play on my turntable... probably more than any other 12". Both songs are among my absolute favorites.
A perfect New Order song.Great lyrics, great guitar,great bass from Hooky and some fab keyboards
Live version at Hac, july 83 is a favourite of mine too
Gotta agree with the praise above... All the classic NO guitar-based song elements, sounds great live too... 
SHEDi xxx
favorite live version from central london poly 85
...when u reached out in your sleep and you felt my big fat cock..!!!!!!
cuddles wrote: favorite live version from central london poly 85
...when u reached out in your sleep and you felt my big fat cock..!!!!!!
I've been trying to figure out the next verse -- something like "and you saw my naked..."
definetly in my top top 5. the thieves like us/murder/lonesome tonight single is probably their best all around single.
His Holiness, The Pope wrote: kicks the shit out of the A-side it was paired with
Pope. Churchy :\pimp3: 
Mentioned Thieves because was checking out the 84 and 85 Concert set lists. Be very nice to hear 586 played again. And Mr. Disco was only played live 88 through 89. There already are some t-rrific recordings of Procession, EGG, LMA . .
agree with all above, Lonesome Tonight is one of the best New Order songs....
the long outro especially, with Hook just totally Hookjestic...
regal, shakespearian, majestic, and utterly somber in the best way.
(but don't be hating Thieves Like Us... that 12" is clearly the one new order 12" you'd want on your desert island...)
edit p.s. All Day Long has a similar majestic ending, and is also one of their best songs in every way....
Old Blue wrote: Great song - great outro, always finishes too soon for my liking.
Yep,agreed The outro should last at least a week for me
The Thieves Like Us 12in is close to being the perfect record, a great a-side and a simply awesome b-side. Thankfully CDs hadn't been invented then, or the whole thing would have been swamped with largely mediocre remixes.
Boatraceface wrote:
Old Blue wrote: Great song - great outro, always finishes too soon for my liking.
Yep,agreed The outro should last at least a week for me
I'll 'third' that - the same goes for the outro to KW1...
Chris :D
Johnny wrote: A perfect New Order song.Great lyrics, great guitar,great bass from Hooky and some fab keyboards
Live version at Hac, july 83 is a favourite of mine too
Same here - Hooky's bass is immense from the first note of the intro.
Can you move back - there's people getting kneecapped at the front here...
Chris :D
Great, five minutes of that drumming and bass line would be enough, but then add Barney and Gillian and you've got a monster track. 
Fac33 wrote: The Thieves Like Us 12in is close to being the perfect record, a great a-side and a simply awesome b-side. Thankfully CDs hadn't been invented then, or the whole thing would have been swamped with largely mediocre remixes.
agree entirely... some remixes are evil!!!!
This track has always been my favourite.....
just a total beauty...
really simple but class
they gotta play it live again before they pack it in!
Sheer,absolute,effortless quality & a definate top 10 fave.Love it live too tho' definately underplayed,I always tried to track down the boots' when it was on the setlist
