Some consider it one of the best albums ever. It's GOOD, but not as good as PCL, Low Life, Brotherhood, and Get Ready.
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Technique is overrated
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No Holiday wrote: Some consider it one of the best albums ever. It's GOOD, but not as good as PCL, Low Life, Brotherhood, and Get Ready.
Thank you for your time.
J
yeah...uhm...do you just like pissing in everyone's fishbowl???
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:
No Holiday wrote: Some consider it one of the best albums ever. It's GOOD, but not as good as PCL, Low Life, Brotherhood, and Get Ready.
Thank you for your time.
J
yeah...uhm...do you just like pissing in everyone's fishbowl???
I like pissing in yours, Texan.
J
No Holiday wrote: Some consider it one of the best albums ever. It's GOOD, but not as good as PCL, Low Life, Brotherhood, and Get Ready.
Thank you for your time.
J
Correct.
I think Technique is a bit overrated. Actually, i don't think NO ever had a masterpiece album. They were really a single's band ,with no other band being able to match their output from 82-87.
We all have our different opinions about various songs and albums, I suppose, but I personally think there is nothing in the New Order catalogue (so to speak) that is "overrated" or anything.
I love the album, actually.
No Holiday wrote: Some consider it one of the best albums ever. It's GOOD, but not as good as PCL, Low Life, Brotherhood, and Get Ready.
Thank you for your time.
J
No.
A lot of people say that then a few years later go back on it to say they think it's great. Wait a while, you'll probably change your mind when you least expect it.
I even said it once. 
Fookinell he's back! I do think that it is a little overrated, I agree, but not at the expense of some of the ones you list. It hasn't aged well, the drum sounds are very 1989/1990, and half the songs on it aren't all that great if truth be told. The good ones are very good though, Dream Attack, Vanishing Point being the two that spring immediately to mind.
All their albums have various flaws though, either around production, editing or just shit songs. Technique probably has the smoothest production of all the albums before Get Ready, but as I say it hasn't aged well and several of the songs were long gone from their repertoire by 1993.
No album is as good/bad as its made out to be. Its down to the individual really. I love OK Computer,others hate it. Kershy has a fondness for The Beautiful South and he's definitely on his own with that!
It's a nice enough album, but that's about it.
Really don't see what the fuss is all about personally.
New Order have definitely done better elsewhere. Even the middling likes of Bro'hood, Republic and Get Ready had standout tracks in BLT, Crystal and Regret.
But that's just my opinion. 
i always found side B to be superior to side A by a mile. is a class album, but not up there with PC&L or Low-Life
gerry jamieson wrote: fine time . always liked it though a bit muddy and overly fussy
I know it's not everyone's cup o'tea but definitely, these days, my fave on the album.
love less. thoughts on this album are biased as it was the first new-new order album i ever bought, having only got into them a year or 2 before. and this tune is no bad.
round and round. always one of my favs, remember the excitement of seeing them play live on totp's still sounds good to these old ears.
guilty partner. aye pretty good, like this one. (do you think i could get a job in reviews for the nme?)
run. always thought the guitars a bit too tinny but reminds me of buying the twelve inch after being to reading 89 to see them, one of the best covers i think, and reading is still about the best time i have seen them.
dream attack. guess what? aye its good. so to sum up, pretty good but its too locked into a time in my life that i cant really view it objectively. next week i will be reviewing the complete works of william shakespear. hope you can join me, until then goodbye.
Gerry, it's the NME on the phone. You've got the job, reviewing the new wave of Indonesian bands. You have to fly out to Singapore by noon today. Nice one 
