New Order Live At Troxy CD

To lighten the mood a little, me and 'er indoors are expecting brat MK1 in May this year. She's at the stage where she's waiting to feel the baby moving inside her, but until today nothing had happened.

I've been playing the Troxy CD non-stop in the car and Stephen Morris is the wife's favourite drummer of all time. She's just emailed me to tell me that she thinks she felt the baby move and said "it was like stephen morris doing the badum tisch! after one of barney's jokes".

She knows me so well; if it aint New Order related I aint interested

Mine arrived damaged. Reported it last week and haven't heard back.

NotAMod wrote:

Was the jiffy bag damaged? If so, this could easily be Royal Mail's fault handling the package without due care. It does happen.

Just putting this kind of sleeve in a jiffy bag isn't sufficient packaging, you need to put in cardboard stiffeners as well, otherwise it will more often than not be bent even from normal wear and tear by the post. I'm not really surprised though, LHN made several cock ups when posting the Depeche Mode live discs the other year. They usually send replacement sleeves without making a fuss though.

arrived last weekend.

Got mine today without a blemish, but Disc 1 is missing do I even want to report it? It'd look wonderful next to my set of the original faulty remasters, Bad Lieutenant NY gig ticket, and Singles collection CD.

michael preda wrote: Got mine today without a blemish, but Disc 1 is missing do I even want to report it? It'd look wonderful next to my set of the original faulty remasters, Bad Lieutenant NY gig ticket, and Singles collection CD.

Maybe you got the clean "cunt" free version by mistake.

Got mine today, slight bit of creasing on the corner but nothing major. Both discs arrived, at least. Sounds lovely, except I would prefer if the (real) drums were crisper & louder!

Quite enjoy Barney's efforts at not saying the same thing at the start of each song - "Start the engine, Steve", "OK, go for it!" "Light the blue touchpaper", etc etc....and the slightly less imaginative "Start the drum machine, Steve"

Agree 100% that the 'packaging' is insufficient, especially for international postage.

CTB wrote: Quite enjoy Barney's efforts at not saying the same thing at the start of each song - "Start the engine, Steve", "OK, go for it!" "Light the blue touchpaper", etc etc....and the slightly less imaginative "Start the drum machine, Steve"

Just before, CEREMONY!

Just been listening again, it is a shame Hooky wasn't there, easily one of the better live recordings the band has produced.

Well, Sandbag finally answered the phone with "Send us a picture and we'll consider it." It's utter shit. They charged £20 for a CDR in a cardboard sleeve, rammed into a jiffy bag, creased to fuck, and looking like it's been sat at the bottom of a musty book shop bin for a year. What's so wrong with putting it between some protective cardboard or in a unbendable mailer? Or even in a regular plastic CD sleeve, so if it got broken, you could easily swap the contents out?

I don't mind them selling it in a crappy cardboard cover, I mind the cheap and rubbish jiffy bag and the creased cover, and the rubbish customer service I've had so far. I spent £20 on an ace sounding recording that looks like a piece of junk shop tat.

0_o wrote:

michael preda wrote: Got mine today without a blemish, but Disc 1 is missing do I even want to report it? It'd look wonderful next to my set of the original faulty remasters, Bad Lieutenant NY gig ticket, and Singles collection CD.

Maybe you got the clean "cunt" free version by mistake.

Mine must've been Linus's delivered on accident

blunt laser wrote: Just been listening again, it is a shame Hooky wasn't there, easily one of the better live recordings the band has produced.

Well, at long last Sandbag sent my replacement. It's still creased but only once, as opposed to 7 times..

eek, cost me $33. Guess thats nothing compared to $375 for Ultra

Sent them photos of mine as they requested and...

Silence.

Your silent face.

Damned postman! Nothing here yet!

patience julio , patience.

waiting for the.

Big Mouth Julio wrote: Damned postman! Nothing here yet!

Expect a disc missing or dented cover or both

I put my order in a day or two after they went on sale on the web and got my mp3 download immediately and the cd itself within a week. I cannot understand all the problems people are having. Unless they didn't anticipate demand?

Who yelled for "World In Motion"? Was it ironic?

0_o wrote: Who yelled for "World In Motion"? Was it ironic?

Who was yelling "Get your tits out" after True Faith?

cranelane wrote:

0_o wrote: Who yelled for "World In Motion"? Was it ironic?

Who was yelling "Get your tits out" after True Faith?

and did Barney oblige?

condemnation wrote:

johnny wrote:

everyoneverywhere wrote: I'm most disappointed with the mixing of Temptation, so muddy which is a damn shame because it's a great version

Yeah was thinking that myself the other night. Once i'd got over the relief that the recording wasn't made on a hand held recorder or a mobile phone on further listening Temptation is a bit... well not everything going on in the song stands out on its own, it clogs together into one big mush a bit. Still, glad to have the recording of the gig, can't complain

People are forgetting the fact that, it's just a gig on a 2CD, it's not really a live album. There is a big difference between the 2.

Just came across this post today - a big difference between a gig on a 2CD and a live album. What would this difference be exactly? How is this any less of a live album than, say the Glastonbury 87 release on Windsong?

0_o wrote: Who yelled for "World In Motion"? Was it ironic?

SHUG and NO

i got 2 tickets fo the first show at Brixton - cant rememnger, if i have tickets for the upstairs bit, its usually a free for all and can head downstauirs to my rightfull posisiton, getting battered in the front ... row......

Brian Hyphen wrote:

condemnation wrote:

johnny wrote:

everyoneverywhere wrote: I'm most disappointed with the mixing of Temptation, so muddy which is a damn shame because it's a great version

Yeah was thinking that myself the other night. Once i'd got over the relief that the recording wasn't made on a hand held recorder or a mobile phone on further listening Temptation is a bit... well not everything going on in the song stands out on its own, it clogs together into one big mush a bit. Still, glad to have the recording of the gig, can't complain

People are forgetting the fact that, it's just a gig on a 2CD, it's not really a live album. There is a big difference between the 2.

Just came across this post today - a big difference between a gig on a 2CD and a live album. What would this difference be exactly? How is this any less of a live album than, say the Glastonbury 87 release on Windsong?

live albums have post gig production/mixing, often from different gigs, ofen incomplete performances this is the whole shebang

hibster wrote:

Brian Hyphen wrote:

condemnation wrote:

johnny wrote:

everyoneverywhere wrote: I'm most disappointed with the mixing of Temptation, so muddy which is a damn shame because it's a great version

Yeah was thinking that myself the other night. Once i'd got over the relief that the recording wasn't made on a hand held recorder or a mobile phone on further listening Temptation is a bit... well not everything going on in the song stands out on its own, it clogs together into one big mush a bit. Still, glad to have the recording of the gig, can't complain

People are forgetting the fact that, it's just a gig on a 2CD, it's not really a live album. There is a big difference between the 2.

Just came across this post today - a big difference between a gig on a 2CD and a live album. What would this difference be exactly? How is this any less of a live album than, say the Glastonbury 87 release on Windsong?

live albums have post gig production/mixing, often from different gigs, ofen incomplete performances this is the whole shebang

I think it's very unlikely there's no post gig mixing on the Troxy CD, and there is certainly editing. So basically because the Windsong CD omitted three songs it's a live album and the Troxy CD isn't?

Brian Hyphen wrote:

hibster wrote:

Brian Hyphen wrote:

condemnation wrote:

johnny wrote:

everyoneverywhere wrote: I'm most disappointed with the mixing of Temptation, so muddy which is a damn shame because it's a great version

Yeah was thinking that myself the other night. Once i'd got over the relief that the recording wasn't made on a hand held recorder or a mobile phone on further listening Temptation is a bit... well not everything going on in the song stands out on its own, it clogs together into one big mush a bit. Still, glad to have the recording of the gig, can't complain

People are forgetting the fact that, it's just a gig on a 2CD, it's not really a live album. There is a big difference between the 2.

Just came across this post today - a big difference between a gig on a 2CD and a live album. What would this difference be exactly? How is this any less of a live album than, say the Glastonbury 87 release on Windsong?

live albums have post gig production/mixing, often from different gigs, ofen incomplete performances this is the whole shebang

I think it's very unlikely there's no post gig mixing on the Troxy CD, and there is certainly editing. So basically because the Windsong CD omitted three songs it's a live album and the Troxy CD isn't?

Just to clarify the difference between these recordings that you buy after the show, and a proper live album.

For example, the BBC CD was recorded on multitrack, and mixed and edited in the studio some time later. These other CDR products that are the latest rage, are mixed live in a mobile van on the day, straight as the gig happened into the computer, together with the audience mics. So, it is as it is, mistakes, whistling, leads being plugged in etc etc.

You can buy alot of them, right atfer the gigs on usb. It's equal to a soundbaord recording, but with the audience mics mixed in for atmosphere.