Auteur Labels: Factory Records 1984

Various Artists | Auteur Labels: Factory Records 1984 Fifth volume in LTM's compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling releases on legendary Manchester independent label Factory in 1984. Founded in late 1978, early Factory releases were guided by the five original directors: Wilson, Erasmus, Saville, Hannett and Gretton. By 1984 producer Hannett had departed, and many Factory singles and albums were produced by all four members of New Order under the generic name Be Music. These reflected the influence of New York dance and electro music, though the label's Hacienda night club was not yet a conspicious success. Meanwhile the artier side of Factory remained evident in records by The Durutti Column and Thick Pigeon, and pop/rock in The Wake, Stockholm Monsters and New Order themselves. The 72 minute remastered CD features several rare edits and tracks, detailed liner notes by James Nice and archive images. The compilation series Auteur Labels profiles independent record labels with a unique and enduring sound, vision and often a design sensibility, often guided by one or two directors and concerned more with art than commerce. DUE OUT: JUNE 1 2009

tracklist 01 MARCEL KING Reach For Love (New York Remix) 02 NEW ORDER Lonesome Tonight (7" Edit) 03 THE WAKE Talk About The Past (7" Edit) 04 SECTION 25 Reflection 05 52ND STREET Can't Afford To Let You Go (Unorganised Mix) 06 QUANDO QUANGO Atom Rock (7" Edit) 07 RED TURNS TO Deep Sleep 08 SHARK VEGAS Pretenders Of Love 09 THICK PIGEON Hank 10 STOCKHOLM MONSTERS Terror 11 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Duet 12 KALIMA The Smiling Hour 13 SIMON TOPPING Chicas Del Mundo 14 ABECEDARIANS Smiling Monarchs 15 STREETLIFE No More Silence 16 LAVOLTA LAKOTA A Prayer

Respect to James Nice

Lonesome Tonight 7". First time on CD?

Old Blue wrote: Lonesome Tonight 7". First time on CD?

What would differentiate it from the one released on CD?

I don't think the 7" edit has been released on CD before - though I'm prepared to be corrected...

Old Blue wrote: I don't think the 7" edit has been released on CD before - though I'm prepared to be corrected...

If it's not Rhino behind it, we may be getting it.

Which begs the fucking question, why didn't London/Rhino get the ever-reliable and aptly-named Mr James Nice to sort this shit out first time around.

It's not as if we didn't suggest it.

Muppets!!

Sorry, I was referring to the obvious remasters in case you didn't know

Emile Strunz wrote: Which begs the fucking question, why didn't London/Rhino get the ever-reliable and aptly-named Mr James Nice to sort this shit out first time around.

It's not as if we didn't suggest it.

Muppets!!

Probably cause they get their kicks from our misery.

Who the bloody hell are Thick Pigeon?

Burt Reynolds wrote: Who the bloody hell are Thick Pigeon?

Weren't they produced by Steve & Gillian?

(About the only thing I know about them)! :)

However, the CD does look good, and, yup, if only James Nice had been involved with the remasters over Warners/Rhino. :)

Burt Reynolds wrote: Who the bloody hell are Thick Pigeon?

Stanton Miranda and Carter Burwell. Steve and Gillian produced them.

That is a great track listing, it really gives you a great overview of Factory Records. I'd buy for the Simon Topping & Shark Vegas tracks alone. I even dug out my copy of FACT US 17 to listen to Pretenders Of Love again, great song. Thick Pidgeon is a good band, but pretty much everything on Factory in the 1980's was interesting and/or good I think. I'll probably have to get my hands on that 7" version of Lonesome Tonight, I only own NO 12" singles and it's one of my favorite NO tunes.

Surf Western wrote: That is a great track listing, it really gives you a great overview of Factory Records. I'd buy for the Simon Topping & Shark Vegas tracks alone. I even dug out my copy of FACT US 17 to listen to Pretenders Of Love again, great song. Thick Pidgeon is a good band, but pretty much everything on Factory in the 1980's was interesting and/or good I think. I'll probably have to get my hands on that 7" version of Lonesome Tonight, I only own NO 12" singles and it's one of my favorite NO tunes.

Having spoken to Mr Nice in the past when purchasing Cool as Ice back in 2003 - LTM came across as almost a cottage industry, a label where if you picked the phone up to make an order, you got to speak to the main man, who in turn was quite happy to have a chat. Remind you of any Manchester label of the 80s?

What I'm really getting at is a reiteration of my original point - here we have someone who consistently demonstrated a respect for the Factory legacy, and the anal retentiveness of the fans, and who should have had some strategic management responsibility on the failed remasters project.

It still angers me that London could be so incompetent.

Emile Strunz wrote:

Surf Western wrote: That is a great track listing, it really gives you a great overview of Factory Records. I'd buy for the Simon Topping & Shark Vegas tracks alone. I even dug out my copy of FACT US 17 to listen to Pretenders Of Love again, great song. Thick Pidgeon is a good band, but pretty much everything on Factory in the 1980's was interesting and/or good I think. I'll probably have to get my hands on that 7" version of Lonesome Tonight, I only own NO 12" singles and it's one of my favorite NO tunes.

Having spoken to Mr Nice in the past when purchasing Cool as Ice back in 2003 - LTM came across as almost a cottage industry, a label where if you picked the phone up to make an order, you got to speak to the main man, who in turn was quite happy to have a chat. Remind you of any Manchester label of the 80s?

What I'm really getting at is a reiteration of my original point - here we have someone who consistently demonstrated a respect for the Factory legacy, and the anal retentiveness of the fans, and who should have had some strategic management responsibility on the failed remasters project.

It still angers me that London could be so incompetent.

I'll second that, the LTM website is a treasure trove of lost stuff 'n' shit. I particulary like his band biographies, this is a guy doing it for the love of the music and his product is so well put together.

Have been aware of this for a few weeks,altho' not the final tracklisting,I asked James about whether he could track down some of the more obscure Factory releases such as Abecedarians,which is a great track,& he mentioned there was a new Auteur release due,just concentrating on Factory stuff.Definately be purchasing

And good point about getting James involved in the Warner remasters,he did the liner notes for the Factory boxset,& did a great job as always

Yeah James Nice is a top man - I would have really liked him to have handled all the Joy Division / New Order remasters. Funnily enough I was discussing this very topic earlier in the week on the Steve Hoffman audio forums here is a what I wrote:

"A good spot on this LTM remaster - I have owned the 'Wake' disc for a while and never noticed it was a needledrop. However, you are quite right - in the booklet in small print it says "Due to the loss of the mastertapes...". On the whole I have lot of time for LTM they do a pretty good job of rereleasing Factory stuff - much better than Rhino ! I have nice sounding LTM discs by Stockholm Monsters, Crispy Ambulance and Section 25 (love "From the Hip").

A lot of Factory's mastertapes were lost when the label went bankrupt - Hooky salvaged some Joy Division masters from a skip (dumpster). Recently Oliver (Tony Wilson's son) reported finding some masters in his late father's attic (loft) - he is trying to repatriate these with the relevant bands (who knows maybe includes "The Wake").

On a different subject I recently scored a Factory CD copy of Cath Carroll's "England Made Me" album on eBay. What a fine sounding disc this is - possibly the best Factory disc I have heard. Great album as well - sunk without a trace on release as completely out of step with the music scene back in the day."

...although I have to say if I had a choice I get Steve Hoffman in to do the remasters - then we'd really be in for a treat! Seriously if any of you guys have never heard a Steve Hoffman DCC CD then do not hesitate to check them out - changed my whole perspective on the sound of CD.

If it wasn't for LTM a wealth of great music would just be forgotten. I myself own a nice collection of Factory releases, but due to various things I really love having a crisp sounding CD. I was thinking yesterday how nice would it have been for the JD/NO camp to have at least released the Westerworks demos with the recent remasters. I wonder if the 7" version of Lonesome Tonight is remaster that the guys at LTM handled?

Old Blue wrote: I don't think the 7" edit has been released on CD before - though I'm prepared to be corrected...

For those who were curious or Lonesome tonight, you could've checked this...

It seems Old Blue (and others) weren't prepared enough after all

note: this post was edited. please don't post mp3 links of a song that is about to be released

musicoloog wrote:

Old Blue wrote: I don't think the 7" edit has been released on CD before - though I'm prepared to be corrected...

For those who are curious or Lonesome tonight, check...

Erm, if it's just about to be released, isn't it bad to post a link to a downloaded MP3?

So here we are, praising James Nice for still caring enough to give us something good to buy, then some fuckwit pops up with an mp3.

I'm not hearing much of a noticeable difference. Some quick snips in timing.

Nick King wrote:

musicoloog wrote:

Old Blue wrote: I don't think the 7" edit has been released on CD before - though I'm prepared to be corrected...

For those who are curious or Lonesome tonight, check...

Erm, if it's just about to be released, isn't it bad to post a link to a downloaded MP3?

It's not bad to post a link, only if somebody else uses it...

Old Blue wrote: So here we are, praising James Nice for still caring enough to give us something good to buy, then some fuckwit pops up with an mp3.

James Nice is great!

Old Blue wrote: So here we are, praising James Nice for still caring enough to give us something good to buy, then some fuckwit pops up with an mp3.

[black]fuckwit[/black] refers to me? If so, just send a PM or find yourself a shoulder to cry on, instead of posting this very childish insult...

Nick King wrote:

Old Blue wrote: So here we are, praising James Nice for still caring enough to give us something good to buy, then some fuckwit pops up with an mp3.

...but curious enough to listen to it, right?

I first listened to it in 1984 when I got the vinyl promo.

Unless, of course, you genuinely DON'T understand what a stupid idea it is to post copyrighted material on this site. I mean, it's not like you've been told before or anything, is it...

note: this post was edited. please don't use that language, man. the link was already erased. peace!

musicoloog wrote:

Nick King wrote:

Old Blue wrote: So here we are, praising James Nice for still caring enough to give us something good to buy, then some fuckwit pops up with an mp3.

...but curious enough to listen to it, right?

Erm, no...

(Posting stuff that's just about to be released is out of order)

musicoloog wrote:

Nick King wrote:

musicoloog wrote:

Old Blue wrote: I don't think the 7" edit has been released on CD before - though I'm prepared to be corrected...

For those who are curious or Lonesome tonight, check...

Erm, if it's just about to be released, isn't it bad to post a link to a downloaded MP3?

It's not bad to post a link, only if somebody else uses it...

Sounds like the kind of weak argument a child pornographer would use in court...

Time to back-track i believe, sir.

I'll buy it. Think Mr Nice banks on the NO completists to help make these projects viable. Good bloke, still mans the LTM email desk too.

Hats off also for Tokoloshe Man and his gaggle of Google alerts. Always first with the breaking NO release news.

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