WFTSC, best since Technique?

Get ready is the best album No have done in my eyes i liked some of the songs off WFTSC but GR as got more classic tracks.

I like all their albums . . . why all this conflict man? :D

why all this conflict man?

No shit. What's with all the hurt?

Now ... let's go beat up some Depeche fans!

Voted yes - classic track in Whos Joe

LE Roberts wrote:

No shit. What's with all the hurt?

Now ... let's go beat up some Depeche fans!

I'd say yes!

My order of post Technique love is:

1.WFTSC 2.GR 3.Republic

Spotnick wrote: Ok, so I'll have to be one of those who will defend his "yes" then

While I enjoyed pretty much Get Ready, who has one of my favorite New Order tracks in Turn My Way (despite what some of you might think of the track ), I believe WFTSC is a best overall album.

While there are songs on Get Ready that I could pass, like Rock The Shack and Run Wild, beside Working Overtime which doesn't do it for me, I enjoy all the rest, yes, even Jetstream.

And for Republic, my first album as a fan, there were Chemical and Liar.

But to be honest here... I'm not convinced yet there is any New Order album I like more than another, they all are good to me, with each their weakness, but it's tough to rank them, after Low Life, because album before 1985, it's half-and-half for me.. I like 50% of what's on them.

Technique on the other hand, I don't like Fine Time and Guilty Partner, but the rest is pure joy...

Seems there are always 2 songs on each album I like less than all the others after all ;)

It's so hard comparing them all-

Republic was shoe gazing synth, GR was Rocking The Shack and WFTSC is a smogarsbord of pop/dance/rock- could even have been a greatest hits collection for some bands!

I've just gone for 'yes' and made it 47 against 46. Much as I love Primitive Notion and Crystal, overall I prefer WFTSC to Get Ready.

Not as good as Technique though.

I'll say yes to WFTSC but evry albumn that they've done is fairly reflective of the music at the time.

My Theory...

Technique / AcidHouse - '89ish Republic / Shoegazery GutarPop - '92ish Get Ready / Post Grunge (70's Guitar Revival) - 2000ish WFTSC / there really is no obvious scene right now except for crossovers and genre mixing... thus WFTSC

Thus my vote might be flawed since WFTSC is the most relevant and reflective of music right now.

ROCKET MICK wrote: NO i like REPUBLIC better than WFTSC!

Well, Republic does sound more like a PSB album.

This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:

ROCKET MICK wrote: NO i like REPUBLIC better than WFTSC!

Well, Republic does sound more like a PSB album.

Any in particular? Cant hear it myself.

I know Technique is everyone's favorite, and although I love the album to death, it's not thier highlighting moment in my eyes....Substance is. But regardless, I think WFTSC is the best DIRECTION NO has had since Tech, but GR and Rep are stronger albums. Which is better??? I can't say, kind of like apples to oranges. I'm waiting for the next release, hopefully it has the same direction as WFTSC and is a stronger album.

Best albums, in order:

1. Substance - What else can be said? Two and half hours of genius material.

2. Technique - Their use of sequencers sounds heavenly at this point. The production was astounding for the time. Probably Saville's best cover.

3. Power... - New Order, but still experimental and using unusual song structures and inane lyrics. Totally unique.

4. Waiting for... - A collection of brilliant songs matched with 1st class production they deserved.

5. Movement - funeral music, but Martin Hannet's production is a world in itself. I like heavy, melancholy music but this one is too much - so depressing.

6. Get Ready - eh, it's alright. Don't like the production.

7. Brotherhood - Great songs, poor production. Some of their best guitar work.

8. Low-Life - Maybe I';ve just listened to this too much. Sounds too minimal and dry and 'same-y'.

9. Republic - the production is very flat and plastic-sounding, though it's really not as bad as made out to be. It is a good album.

It's all about the production...though they really have never made an album that was less then great.

For me, Technique is the best, followed by Low-Life, PC&L, and WFTSC. Technique has alternated between highly technical sounds with acoustic. WFTSC is more a retrospective for me, and more electronically oriented. Still, WFTSC is a good album.

I spun WFTSC the other night because my family was getting tired of the bootlegs I had been airing. Forgot what a great lp it is. I rank it their best since Low-Life. Its first two tracks hit hard with power. The title track is perhaps one of their top ten ever. I quite like ITYS. MNaD and Dracula's Castle are the weak points but Turn picks it back up. Guilt and Jet Stream are nice dance tracks.

I vote Yes! Still love this album.

Yes I think it is. WFTSC is better than Republic is better than Get Ready. However, the artwork on Republic is superb. I have a couple of huge posters from the album in the loft somewhere. I wonder how much I could get for them on ebay?...........

I voted 'No' because I rate 'Get Ready' the best since Technique

I really think that power, corruption, and lies is the best new order album....

Take Crystal ,Turn My Way ,Vicious Streak and Primitive Notion from Get Ready .Then Who's Joe ,Waiting For The Siren's Call and Turn from WFTSC and there you have the best album since Technique