Lonesome Tonight, what do you think? — Forum Archive

22 Jul 2006, 14:10

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

22 Jul 2006, 14:48

Sheer Class

22 Jul 2006, 14:53

Digital Mike wrote: Sheer Class

Agreed.

22 Jul 2006, 17:10

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.

22 Jul 2006, 17:19

kicks the shit out of the A-side it was paired with :smoking:

22 Jul 2006, 19:18

Used to hate it, now i think i think it's class :bow:

22 Jul 2006, 21:14

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.

23 Jul 2006, 01:36

Great song - great outro, always finishes too soon for my liking.

23 Jul 2006, 01:49

A perfect New Order song.Great lyrics, great guitar,great bass from Hooky and some fab keyboards :nod:

Live version at Hac, july 83 is a favourite of mine too

23 Jul 2006, 03:16

Probably the best b-side in the world.

Spooky! But Clever

23 Jul 2006, 07:15

definately the best b-side in the world!!

23 Jul 2006, 07:20

Gotta agree with the praise above... All the classic NO guitar-based song elements, sounds great live too...

SHEDi xxx

23 Jul 2006, 07:27

favorite live version from central london poly 85

...when u reached out in your sleep and you felt my big fat cock..!!!!!!

23 Jul 2006, 09:12

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..."

23 Jul 2006, 13:04

definetly in my top top 5. the thieves like us/murder/lonesome tonight single is probably their best all around single.

23 Jul 2006, 14:20

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: kicks the shit out of the A-side it was paired with

Pope. Churchy :\pimp3: :hat: 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 . .

23 Jul 2006, 21:11

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....

24 Jul 2006, 03:21

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

24 Jul 2006, 05:35

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.

24 Jul 2006, 08:44

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

24 Jul 2006, 08:47

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

24 Jul 2006, 09:52

Great song, always one of my favorites. would love to see it return to the setlist

24 Jul 2006, 10:57

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. :clap:

24 Jul 2006, 11:28

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!!!!

24 Jul 2006, 11:45

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!

24 Jul 2006, 11:58

in my NO top five

24 Jul 2006, 12:22

john dougherty wrote: in my NO top five

nearly in mine

24 Jul 2006, 17:10

Loooooooove this track. One of their best. Simple, majestic, heartbreaking.

26 Dec 2006, 15:38

One of my first loves....New Order song wise that is....

27 Dec 2006, 02:16

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 :clap: :clap: :clap:

27 Dec 2006, 06:41

Its christmas lads,not easter.

28 Dec 2006, 05:54

A classic NO tune :nod: Was Steve's drumming on it once described as an increasingly rare example of "freestyle"?.Whatever ,top song

28 Dec 2006, 09:16

amazing song

28 Dec 2006, 09:22

Well, NO didn't play many b-sides live, that was one of them.

This is probably the song that would benefit from a refresh, but it's a long I love when I'm melancholic (sp?)... with Leave Me Alone and a few like that.

kREMLIN did a marvellous version of it on Community 2.

28 Dec 2006, 12:47

I could have bought this on vinyl today (Thieves Like Us/Lonesome Tonight) but decided for Ceremony/In A Lonely Place (vinyl; 12"). Just found a new shop a few miles from my village selling some 80-ies vinyl stuff. They also had some Joy Division on vinyl so maybe I'll be back tomorrow.

28 Dec 2006, 16:02

Great bass riffs, Hooky was inspired... But that's not one of my favorites. Just a good song.

29 Dec 2006, 04:45

Class.

30 Dec 2006, 19:01

Said it before, but I love, love, love this one, when I first played the 12" vinyl, I mistakenly cued the needle to play the b-side first. Played it about 15 times in a row before I flipped the record over.

30 Dec 2006, 19:57

it's fucking fantastic...end of!!!

5 Jan 2007, 12:32

Definetly a classic NO song: it has everything a NO fan could dream of (stunning guitar and bass lines among other things). Sure one of my favorite NO tunes :love:

5 Jan 2007, 12:33

:music: I'm listening to it as we speak :clap:

5 Jan 2007, 14:39

twp wrote: I'm listening to it as we speak

Likewise. A beautiful, serene masterpiece.

6 Jan 2007, 08:37

A great tune - end of! Cheers!

6 Jan 2007, 09:10

Anthony Glampson wrote:

Spooky! But Clever

How they heck does that work?

6 Jan 2007, 09:19

Spotnick wrote: Well, NO didn't play many b-sides live, that was one of them.

That's not really true is it? If you take into account the fact that most b-sides have been remixes then those songs have been played live, if not the specific mix.

So we have IALP (#19 played 77 times?) , EGG (#10, played 103 times), Hurt (#31, played 53 times) and Lonesome Tonight (#50, played 29 times).

With the exception of the technique singles (none of the b-sides were played live), everything since then has been a remix of the single track, a previous single or the occasional gem (Lets Go #60 played 19 times).

Lonesome Tonight? Love it, still clearly remember them starting this at Reading '87 best bit of the evening and last time they played it. Fuckers.

6 Jan 2007, 09:22

song like NO other one. Fantastic lyrics!! :bow:

6 Jan 2007, 09:52

Andrés wrote: song like NO other one. Fantastic lyrics!!

Lucky guy :bow:

8 Jan 2007, 10:30

love it, one of those slow quirky yet classic no songs

edit

and leave me alone which im listening to at the moment. pure simple class

8 Jan 2007, 11:45

david ball wrote: love it, one of those slow quirky yet classic no songs

edit

and leave me alone which im listening to at the moment. pure simple class

Funny how people list the two together, both absolutely fantastic songs, and lonsome tonight is the song that got me into NO, once I heard hooky on that I couldn't get enough, bought everything I could (which wasn't much back then).

BTW dave, are you the david ball from soft cell and the grid?, or do you get pissed off with people asking you that?

8 Jan 2007, 16:10

[orange]Hang on a minute - is this the song that everyone loves? No one's got a bad word against this one!

And yes I love it too![/orange]

8 Jan 2007, 16:16

i preferred it to thieves like us and reckon that should of been released as a single instead

9 Jan 2007, 05:49

pumped full of drugs wrote:

Anthony Glampson wrote:

Spooky! But Clever

How they heck does that work?

have a think about the properties of the nine times table....

9 Jan 2007, 05:58

top tune, last heard it live with tim from the charlatans singing it with monaco at manchester uni