The Highs and the Lows of NewOrder

State what you consider to be NewOrders 3 top times and NewOrders 3 low times...

I'll get the ball rolling although this list may be subject to change without prior notification ;)

TOP

1. Playing around with the synth that created BM
2. Going to Ibiza
3. Barney and Hookys stage banter

LOW

1. The Republic era
2. Recent set lists
3. Billy Corgan singing on a neworder record.

Originally posted by Inta-Don State what you consider to be NewOrders 3 top times and NewOrders 3 low times...

I'll get the ball rolling although this list may be subject to change without prior notification ;)

TOP

1. Playing around with the synth that created BM
2. Going to Ibiza
3. Barney and Hookys stage banter

LOW

1. The Republic era
2. Recent set lists
3. Billy Corgan singing on a neworder record.

HIGHS

1. going to New York
2. taking acid everyday when recording PC&L.
3. the comeback

LOWS

1. signing to London
2. SOTN
3. becoming more professional

highs... technique reading 98 barneys dancing

lows... republic going AWOL for so long meeting ROCKET MICK

Shitt.. of course Barneys dancing! however i think it is almost cancelled out after the horrendous gurning (spell?) he used to do in the late 80's early 90's

Meeting the top bunch of Nooliners although not a high point in the bands history has been a great boost to my neworder addiction :D

Highs

1. Blue Monday
2. Going to Ibiza
3. Low-life and Technique

Lows

1. Ian dying
2. World in Motion
3. Shellshock-er

From way out here on the upper left coast of the US of A, the view from me looks this way.....

Top 3

1. Blue Monday

2. US tour with the Bunnymen and Pil

3. Reading 98

Bottom 3

1. World in Motion

2. Republic

3. Rob Gretton's death

Originally posted by Ricardo Fernandes It's amazing how nobody here says "Movement" was a low point. Am I the only one who dislikes this album?

Yes :p

Movement's one of those albums that can't really be judged as a New Order album so much as a post-Joy Division album. What I mean is, Movement's kind of like the first few gigs after Ian died, just getting back on stage and seeing if they could indeed carry on. So I don't slight Movement at all. It's flawed, to be sure, but it captures their mood at the moment. If Blue Monday had come right out of the pipe after Ian's death, it wouldn't have made any sense (going from Goth to Dance). At least with Movement, you get a sense that they're trying the usual stuff first without Ian, then expanding in order to not repeat themselves.

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 > Originally posted by Ricardo Fernandes> It's amazing how nobody here says "Movement" was a low point. Am I the only one who dislikes this album?

Yes :p

Movement's one of those albums that can't really be judged as a New Order album so much as a post-Joy Division album. What I mean is, Movement's kind of like the first few gigs after Ian died, just getting back on stage and seeing if they could indeed carry on. So I don't slight Movement at all. It's flawed, to be sure, but it captures their mood at the moment. If Blue Monday had come right out of the pipe after Ian's death, it wouldn't have made any sense (going from Goth to Dance). At least with Movement, you get a sense that they're trying the usual stuff first without Ian, then expanding in order to not repeat themselves.

i,m with you on that one TABOO... to me MOVEMENT is a kind of transitional thing..

Originally posted by Ricardo Fernandes It's amazing how nobody here says "Movement" was a low point. Am I the only one who dislikes this album?

Have to agree 'Movement' was a poor LP and they should have waited till they had better songs. High points: Reading 89' and slagging The Mission' off The change of direction in the sound of music (Temptation etc..) Keeping it together and still putting out great music' Low points: The same set-lists.....come on' The demise of Factory. Comming from Manchester & supporting Utd....lol

Originally posted by Ricardo&nbspFernandes It's amazing how nobody here says "Movement" was a low point. Am I the only one who dislikes this album?

Yes, you are the one Ricardo :) "Movement" is almost a perfect album, even better than "Brotherhood" IMHO.

High: 1981-1985 1989 Brutal & GR era

Low: 1994-95 re releases.

Originally posted by Ricardo Fernandes It's amazing how nobody here says "Movement" was a low point. Am I the only one who dislikes this album?

well, you can't slag them off that much for making movement. it was what, a year after curtis died and they managed to put together a record. i think that's pretty gutsy and difficult thing to do, and it wasn't a complete bomb either! kudos for NO going on with movement.

Werent some of the songs on Movement recorded or written when Ian was alive and they were still JoyDivision though??

still i agree its a dark and powerful album - hard to label as NewOrder nowdays though more an interim phaze in the bands history.

Highs:

1 - "Low Life". Enough said 3 - Their peak period of 1984-1989 2 - When they used to release stand alone singles without cynically (or, letting their record company) lifting them off albums. There was a time, remember, when a new single from New Order was regarded as a bit of an event.

Lows:

1 - The day they discovered the use of female backing vocalists. Who do they think they are? Spandau fooking Ballet?? 2 - "Shellshock" / "State (Shame) Of The Nation" =3 - Republic-era singles and remixes =3 - The Rest Of New Order. All of it. =3 - I don't really like seeing them live butchering their classic canon with such shameless lack of dignity (e.g. whooping on Joy Division songs - really, I ask you!) =3 - "Someone Like You" and its 400 remixes. :\puke: