Favorite song off Music Complete

I had to toss too, but Academic.

My favorite tracks to least favorite.

Unlearn this hatred. Tutti Frutti Nothing but a Fool Academic People on the High Line. Superheated Plastic Singularity Restless Stray Dog The Game.

Strange that Restless, the most NO sounding track on the lp IMHO is rated so low in this poll.

Andy wrote: Though clearly weighted in favour of tracks released earliest, here is a snapshot of their popularity in the US iTunes store:

1. Restless
2. Plastic
3. Tutti Frutti
4. Nothing but a Fool
5. Superheated
6. Singularity
7. People on the High Line
8. Academic
9. Stray Dog
10. Unlearn this Hatred
11. The Game

A week and a half later, there has been some shifts:

1. Restless
2. Plastic
3. Singularity
4. Superheated
5. Nothing but a Fool
6. Tutti Frutti
7. Academic
8. Stray Dog
9. People on the High Line
10. Unlearn this Hatred
11. The Game

No changes at the top or bottom but a big gain for Singularity. Meanwhile, Tutti Frutti and People on the High Line are slipping.

Fotzepolitic wrote: * Restless and Plastic are neck and neck really.I'm going on the popularity bars for each song and they're the same.Is there another more accurate way of seeing which is more popular?

I thought the iTunes popularity bar was based on sales. But the almost linear tail-off on the UK chart makes me wonder if it has listening data in there too (I'd expect a linear tail-off as people start an album but don't finish it for a lot of listening sessions). That gets over-emphasised when NO stick their singles at the front of the album, though!

Academic and Nothing But a Fool still joint number one after hundreds of plays - nothing will dislodge those two.

Singularity, Plastic and Restless come next.

Unlearn This Hatred

The Game

The rest are just sort of there and I must be the only person who doesn't particularly like Tutti Frutti, though the recent live performance was an improvement on the studio version.

PS: I never did like Fine Time and thought it did not have a place on the superb Technique - perhaps the silly voice on Tutti Frutti is bringing back memoires.

I thought it would be interesting to check and see how last.fm had the songs ranked. This is based on play data submitted by last.fm users (AudioScrobbler). I wasn't sure how many people actually use audioscrobbler these days. Here it is

http://www.last.fm/music/New+Order/Music+Complete

A huge discrepancy between Restless (8,636 plays) and the next song Singularity (27) plays with most of the rest not even registering.

Only 27 plays across all audioscrobbler users for Singularity? None scrobbled for Tutti Frutti at all? And the track lengths are wrong for nearly all the songs (seems someone must have scrobbled a preview and it's latched onto 30 second durations)

Jonathan wrote: I thought it would be interesting to check and see how last.fm had the songs ranked. This is based on play data submitted by last.fm users (AudioScrobbler). I wasn't sure how many people actually use audioscrobbler these days. Here it is

http://www.last.fm/music/New+Order/Music+Complete

A huge discrepancy between Restless (8,636 plays) and the next song Singularity (27) plays with most of the rest not even registering.

Only 27 plays across all audioscrobbler users for Singularity? None scrobbled for Tutti Frutti at all? And the track lengths are wrong for nearly all the songs (seems someone must have scrobbled a preview and it's latched onto 30 second durations)

Insufficient data.

Here in Sweden, where the album's been getting very good reviews but you would never know that "Restless" is a single, iTunes is showing:

PlasticTutti FruttiRestlessPeople on the high lineNothing but a foolSuperheatedAcademicSingularityStray DogUnlearn this hatredThe Game

Which is not what I would have guessed. But good to see NBAF getting some love despite its length.

....back on topic, my favourites to least favourite: SingularityNothing but a foolRestlessUnlearn this hatredTutti FruttiSuperheatedAcademicPlasticStray DogPeople on the high lineThe Game

Andy wrote:

Andy wrote: Though clearly weighted in favour of tracks released earliest, here is a snapshot of their popularity in the US iTunes store:

1. Restless
2. Plastic
3. Tutti Frutti
4. Nothing but a Fool
5. Superheated
6. Singularity
7. People on the High Line
8. Academic
9. Stray Dog
10. Unlearn this Hatred
11. The Game

A week and a half later, there has been some shifts:

1. Restless
2. Plastic
3. Singularity
4. Superheated
5. Nothing but a Fool
6. Tutti Frutti
7. Academic
8. Stray Dog
9. People on the High Line
10. Unlearn this Hatred
11. The Game

No changes at the top or bottom but a big gain for Singularity. Meanwhile, Tutti Frutti and People on the High Line are slipping.

It's been a couple of months since I last checked the U.S. iTunes popularity ranking:

1. Restless (still)
2. Plastic (again, no change - likely due to earlier availability of top 2)
3. Tutti Frutti
4. Singularity
5. Superheated
6. Nothing but a Fool (this and the 2 tracks above only losing ground to a resurgent Tutti Frutti)
7. Academic
8. Stray Dog
9. Unlearn this Hatred (swapped with People..)
10. People on the High Line (interesting to see this and Unlearn this Hatred losing out to the less dance oriented tracks)
11. The Game (never clambered out of the cellar. If only the far superior Extended Mix was available through this channel...)