:birthday: TECHNIQUE - 2O THIS WEEK!
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It was (and is) so modern and sexy and beautiful and considered, and now, things are really, really shitty, and Barney's fat
Jesus fucking christ
Kin ell,soundtrack to my summer,1989,young n daft!
No matter what album i listen to,everything comes back to technique!
No matter what album i listen to,everything comes back to technique!
I concur! This album is 1989 for me.
No matter what album i listen to,everything comes back to technique!
that last year of a good decade...
I feel very old all of a sudden!
It's a fantastic album, probably the most consistent, though it doesn't contain any of my favorite tracks.
Yeah definately makes you feel old, 16 at the time, great years the mid to late 80's for albums and this was one of the best, my favoutire NO album apart from PC&L.
Jed Stephens wrote: I feel very old all of a sudden!
It's a fantastic album, probably the most consistent, though it doesn't contain any of my favorite tracks.
Ditto. None of the tracks on Technique are favourites of mine but I love the album as a whole. It's also one of the few New Order albums where I don't skip any tracks.
Brilliant album and it caught the mood of the time.
Wow that makes me feel old. They got the production spot-on on this album making it still sound fresh today
Such a great album. Does anyone remember the poster billboards? I think NewOrder where the 1st band in the UK to advertise their album on these huge billboards. I remember seeing one in Charlton (My home town) :)
as said before, i feel really old. and it DOES bring me back to the end of the '80s! my first NO concert was the technique tour.
Courtesy of Ally's thread; this is virtually Technique live (from '89).
http://mixingdesk.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-order-16th-june-1989-irvine-meadows.html
only ever heard the songs a couple of times live as they didt do many gigs u.k side in 89,, enjoyed thourghly though,,,
it takes years to find the nerve,, and not depend on anyone
Still sounds as excellent as it did when it first came out. Fine Time is said to be really dated, but that's the one track I never liked before and just started appreciating some years back.
I have to agree, it makes me feel ancient now!! Technique was the most cherished item in my collection.
I don't think I listened to another album for the first few months after buying it.
Eeee when I were a girl back in those halcyon days...
I'm off to check for more wrinkles and grey.
Fuck me,20 years...Gotta love 1989 tunage.Year of The Roses too
'Vanishing Point' and 'Run' remain timeless classics that I for one still play the bollocks off.
I remember when Technique came out I was initially disappointed. Startled by Fine Time, I considered it too "dancey" and wished it had gone more in the direction suggested by True Faith and 1963. But it soon grew on me and now contends with Low Life as my favorite Order album.
It's more consistent than some of their others both in terms of song quality and song style, but I can't agree that it lacks standout tracks - Vanishing Point is one of my absolute favorites, All the Way and Dream Attack have personal meaning, and even Fine Time has endeared itself to me. I agree that Hooky is mixed too low, but otherwise the production is flawless and has held up well - I consider it a gold standard when I'm judging other albums.
Hard to believe it's been 20 years. Rob Gretton may have said "never peak", but they didn't listen to him.
Before I get my arsed kicked here, and without wanting to sound like Homer Simpson who didn't listen to any new music because rock and roll achieved perfection back in 1977, 1989 was a fucking classic year for music, and now I'm beginning to think like Homer
Technique was absolute perfection, Depeche Mode released Personal Jesus - a great song, Nitzer Ebb released a couple of excellent singles remixed by Daniel Miller and William Orbit, The Shamen were actually good back then - Omega Amigo, and the Phorward album - great stuff.
Factor in loads of Belgian New Beat, French Kiss, Strings of life, the Roses and the Mondays being on TOTP, Madchester, 808 State, Berlin Wall coming down, a decent summer
The independent scene was really, really healthy, and from my cynical thirty-something perspective, I could actually cry and just how fucking shitty things have become.
Anyways, at least I can remember all this shit, and today's youth can go fuck themselves, because we had all this and erm... you didn't. So there
Emile Strunz wrote: Before I get my arsed kicked here, and without wanting to sound like Homer Simpson who didn't listen to any new music because rock and roll achieved perfection back in 1977, 1989 was a fucking classic year for music, and now I'm beginning to think like Homer
Technique was absolute perfection, Depeche Mode released Personal Jesus - a great song, Nitzer Ebb released a couple of excellent singles remixed by Daniel Miller and William Orbit, The Shamen were actually good back then - Omega Amigo, and the Phorward album - great stuff.
Factor in loads of Belgian New Beat, French Kiss, Strings of life, the Roses and the Mondays being on TOTP, Madchester, 808 State, Berlin Wall coming down, a decent summer
The independent scene was really, really healthy, and from my cynical thirty-something perspective, I could actually cry and just how fucking shitty things have become.
Anyways, at least I can remember all this shit, and today's youth can go fuck themselves, because we had all this and erm... you didn't. So there
Well said
Fucking great album, just listened to the cd agian(does anybody still listen to these things?) the other night in my car while driving home from work...brilliant piece of work (and i still know the lyrics after all those years
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Other than perhaps Fine Time, the album has worn the years very very well. A friend of mine heard Vanishing Point when it came up randomly on my Ipod and he has since purchased the entire album.
Technique is the best.
Emile Strunz wrote: Before I get my arsed kicked here, and without wanting to sound like Homer Simpson who didn't listen to any new music because rock and roll achieved perfection back in 1977, 1989 was a fucking classic year for music, and now I'm beginning to think like Homer
Technique was absolute perfection, Depeche Mode released Personal Jesus - a great song, Nitzer Ebb released a couple of excellent singles remixed by Daniel Miller and William Orbit, The Shamen were actually good back then - Omega Amigo, and the Phorward album - great stuff.
Factor in loads of Belgian New Beat, French Kiss, Strings of life, the Roses and the Mondays being on TOTP, Madchester, 808 State, Berlin Wall coming down, a decent summer
The independent scene was really, really healthy, and from my cynical thirty-something perspective, I could actually cry and just how fucking shitty things have become.
Anyways, at least I can remember all this shit, and today's youth can go fuck themselves, because we had all this and erm... you didn't. So there
Abso-f***in-lutely! I was 16 when it came out and I think I've been stuck in 1989 ever since! And I aint moving!
George Irwell wrote:
Emile Strunz wrote: Before I get my arsed kicked here, and without wanting to sound like Homer Simpson who didn't listen to any new music because rock and roll achieved perfection back in 1977, 1989 was a fucking classic year for music, and now I'm beginning to think like Homer
Technique was absolute perfection, Depeche Mode released Personal Jesus - a great song, Nitzer Ebb released a couple of excellent singles remixed by Daniel Miller and William Orbit, The Shamen were actually good back then - Omega Amigo, and the Phorward album - great stuff.
Factor in loads of Belgian New Beat, French Kiss, Strings of life, the Roses and the Mondays being on TOTP, Madchester, 808 State, Berlin Wall coming down, a decent summer
The independent scene was really, really healthy, and from my cynical thirty-something perspective, I could actually cry and just how fucking shitty things have become.
Anyways, at least I can remember all this shit, and today's youth can go fuck themselves, because we had all this and erm... you didn't. So there
Abso-f***in-lutely! I was 16 when it came out and I think I've been stuck in 1989 ever since! And I aint moving!
Things were just more interesting back then - a bit patchy, not perfect, but just good. And you didn't have high street stores closing and everyone being fucking depressed.
The charts were a mixture of acid house, commercial pap, and great indie music before The Man co-opted everything in the pursuit of soulless lucre - no X-Factor, no NME-sponsored Return of the GUITAR, Sounds, Melody Maker, and the NME when it was good.
God, we've just about fucked everything. At least the planet's in good shape...
Fuck me, I STILL remember the thread when Blue Monday turned 20. 
Still, great album, still sounds ahead of it's time, even in 2009.
Hello
My first post after reading the forum on and off for several years.
Took out my vinyl copy of Technique for a listen today, first time in yonks. As I removed the record from the sleeve out popped a sticker which I'd long ago forgotten that I had. It says at the bottom "This sheet is free with w/e 4 Feb 89 issue of NME." I'd obviously placed it in the sleeve for safe keeping all those years ago. I wonder how many survive?
FEP313 wrote: Hello
My first post after reading the forum on and off for several years.
Took out my vinyl copy of Technique for a listen today, first time in yonks. As I removed the record from the sleeve out popped a sticker which I'd long ago forgotten that I had. It says at the bottom "This sheet is free with w/e 4 Feb 89 issue of NME." I'd obviously placed it in the sleeve for safe keeping all those years ago. I wonder how many survive?
well i got one of those somewhere too... totally forgot about it
