New Order 'Mixes'

I have every Joy Division and New Order album and singles that were not on albums, but I have never purchased any of the 'mixes' that I frequently read about in this forum, mainly because I was not really impressed with The Beach (Blue Monday B-side) and the the extra mixes on Confusion. I would be grateful if this forum could advise me of any 'mixes' they think no New Order listener should be without, and are these 'mixes' better than the original recording?

Originally posted by Henry Chinaski I have every Joy Division and New Order album and singles that were not on albums, but I have never purchased any of the 'mixes' that I frequently read about in this forum, mainly because I was not really impressed with The Beach (Blue Monday B-side) and the the extra mixes on Confusion.I would be grateful if this forum could advise me of any 'mixes' they think no New Order listener should be without, and are these 'mixes' better than the original recording?

Check your e-mail HENRY!:D

Originally posted by Henry Chinaski I have every Joy Division and New Order album and singles that were not on albums, but I have never purchased any of the 'mixes' that I frequently read about in this forum, mainly because I was not really impressed with The Beach (Blue Monday B-side) and the the extra mixes on Confusion.I would be grateful if this forum could advise me of any 'mixes' they think no New Order listener should be without, and are these 'mixes' better than the original recording?

I don't think I've found any mixes that are better than the originals. I'd have to really do some digging. As far as which mixes you shouldn't be without, well, that is a personal decision and probably differs from fan to fan. A few mixes that I like are: World (Perfecto Radio Edit), Ruined in a Day (Reunited in a Day remix), Touched by the Hand of God (Biff & Memphis remix), 1963 (Arthur Baker Remix), Blue Monday '95 (Brain mix), True Faith (Shep Pettibone 12" mix), Round & Round (Detroit mix), and the Confusion remixes from FAC 93 (like Con-om-fus-ars-ion mix). Those are some of my faves.

Just avoid the Bogle Mix of "Ruined in a Day". I downloaded that a few weeks ago and had to change my underwear shortly after listening to it.

i find it hard to understand why some people don't seem to understand the reason behind the mixes, and you would think that a New Order fan would be somewhat open-minded anyway (i woulda thought, but lots of people like to pidgeon-hole themselves).
New order become famous for their 80s classic left field dancefloor tracks, like Everything'e Gone Green, Temptation, Blue Monday/ The Beach, Confusion, Perfect Kiss... and wanting to experiment further, and get involved with the cool things going on... they worked with Arthur Baker in 1983, and a very funny remix/remake of Sub-Culture in 85, and had a huge dancefloor hit with the Shep Pettibone's remix of Bizarre Love Triangle in 86. NO repeated that success with another classic dancefloor remix of True Faith at the end of 87.

In 88 they had another cool single in Touched By the hand of God, and then tried to make Blue Monday even bigger by redoing BM in 88. the 7" is a great edit/remake, and the 12" should have been on Retro, redone witha sense of hunour.

By the end of 88, the Acid house scene had started to blow up worldwide, and New order certainly knew of it, but was still more of an old school band (the concept of a dance band was becoming archaic). from here on to the present, New Order has had all their singles remixed by cool, often cutting edge at the time dance floor producers. the dance floor scene has pretty much left New order behind in the 90s, so NO needs the remixers to get any play on most dancefloors. most DJs in the USA don't play tracks with vocals anyway (unless they are from divas). some of the 90s and Get Ready mixes use very little of the original NO material... there was overkill in 1995 when New order commissioned over a dozen remixes, and not everybody took the remixes very seriously.

You don't have to like them all, nor keep buying every one of the singles, New Order maybe should go back to a little more quality than quanity, but they need the remixes to dream of hitting the dancefloor charts. i don't know why they even bother worrying about the charts anymore, but that is their problem, they should be reinforcing their indie roots but... i guess its a hold onto the past ego- type thing... prolly Barney.