NEWORDERONLINE ULTIMATE POLL: Best New Order song?

Zero votes for Love Vigilantes! who said that the Retro Box was missing out on a classic! ZERO. they knew what they were doing on Retro when they put Everyone everywhere instead!

**meant to be sarcasm**

had to go with perfect kiss. classic. :D

One vote for Love Vigilantes.

Difficult list to choose from, but I'd have to choose TEMPTATION. I remember purchasing 'The Best of' album when I was 14 & I loved it, but the main reason why I have continued to follow New Order & believe them to be the greatest band of all time was when I heard TEMPTAION on a Q album compilation back in 1998. It's a superb song that never seemed to make it on the 'Best of' Album or the recent 'International Greatest Hits'album. There are so many New Order tracks that are superb, but TEMPTATION definetly stands out for me. SPREAD THE WORD OF NEW ORDER!

Originally posted by Spotnick bug or did Temptation suddenly got a edge over everything else?I think I will end up doing the "worst" song poll someday... ;)

Actually its interesting as im sure that had songs like Primitive Notion,WIM, LV been omitted and songs such as All the Way, Sooner Than You Think, Paradise, Special, FaceUp, Sunrise and Round&Round been included then they would have almost certainly picked up more votes...

Just goes to show what a fickle lot we are

regret. but if 1963 or Everything's Gone Green had been on the list, it could have as easily been one of those two.

for me it has to be 5-8-6. the peel session version has the edge. smashin' toon.

Despite Dream Attack and Perfect Kiss being right up there - both make me feel like I'm floating somewhere about 10 feet off the ground - I had to give it to Temptation.

I'll never forget leaving G-Mex at the end of the Festival Of The Tenth Summer, in 1986, with hoardes of people humming "oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo" in unison. It was the song I played on my way home in the car after being made redundant in 1982, and it's as uplifting now as it was then. Sheer bloody brilliance.

Oh, and "1963" is not only New Order's best B-Side, it's THE best B-side ever!

Oh but of course, poll after poll tells us: Bohemian Rhapsody is the greatest song of all time.. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haa hha ha haha h ha aa g hhaha ah ha........

Originally posted by Redlester Sheer bloody brilliance.

There's a Fall fan in there-uh !

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes There's a Fall fan in there-uh !

Oh absolutely...five wacky English proletariat idiots indeed :)

best new order song:

regret

HN

I voted for True Faith, as the quintessential New Order song. However, I think World should have been one of the choices. Call me crazy, but I like Republic a lot.

just to clarify, i voted for Dream Attack, my "favorite" new order song...NOT what i believe is their "best" or "most influential" moment but my personal favorite....the original question was what is your favorite song, not what was New Orders best...am i the only one who made this distinction?

It's hard when you have to pick one. Where's State of the nation, where's Subculture? Probably a lot of work but can't you prepare an open poll? Let everybody pick his/hers three favorite songs and see what hapens. Just a matter of counting.

Anyway, while Crystal provided my first orgasm in I guess five years I'll go for The Perfect Kiss. The 12inch is far over the top but it's the song I can play on an on an on.

Originally posted by Long Time Listener I think World should have been one of the choices. Call me crazy, but I like Republic a lot.

Me too.

But Leave Me Alone is their best song.

Yes, the Pendleton fault. Pendleton, an area of Salford which has a geological faultline running through it and prone to earthquakes.However,according to the headmaster of Barney and Hookys school it also signified a psychological defect common to the citizens of Salford in that they suffered from a debilitating sense of low esteem.We were never good enough.We couldnt compete.You can see how long it takes to throw off such an attitude but perhaps we have all moved on now.

I'm still thinkin on this..... to me its two different things: best song and favorite song. their best song is what i would want to play for someone to represent what NO is all about. it would also have the perfect combination of recording quality, production, writing (both lyrically and musically), etc my FAV song would not necessarily have all or any of the above qualities, but just the one i would have to have on a desert island somewhere. jurys still out on this one....

Still mulling this one over. I've eliminated twelve (I think) from contention. At the moment it's between Dreams Never End, Age Of Consent, The Perfect Kiss and True Faith.

But the likes of Ceremony, Temptation, Thieves and Dream Attack are lurking waiting to counter attack...

The problem is, I'd feel so dirty voting for one at the expense of the others. The songs listed above are all pretty much perfect (occasionally dodgy vocals or lyrics apart) - how can one vote against perfection?

I'll probably end up abstaining.

Hard to decide but... Vanashing Point

Originally posted by Biznotic Love Trapazoid just to clarify, i voted for Dream Attack, my "favorite" new order song...NOT what i believe is their "best" or "most influential" moment but my personal favorite....the original question was what is your favorite song, not what was New Orders best...am i the only one who made this distinction?

good call, I voted for Thieves because I love it...but I by no means think that its the best, it sums up lots of things that I love about the band but if you want to get all technically perfect about things... then I think True Faith is probably the "best"...but lets not start that poll just yet...;-)

and how come no votes for World in Motion (tee hee hee) I almost feel like voting for it just to be nice...what were they thinking? thats what happens when you let the drummer write the song, they're at the back for a reason...

Originally posted by erwin van steen Where's State of the nation, where's Subculture?

It's a BEST OF poll !!!! ;)

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes > Originally posted by erwin van steen> Where's State of the nation, where's Subculture?

It's a BEST OF poll !!!! ;)

This one is simple :)

Ceremony

7" 12"

• Joy Division demo tape from Heart & Soul

Still owning me after many years

Ceremony, as it's the most beautiful, melancholy, uplifting song and it's the link between JD & NO. Only the original mind, the re-recorded version's a travesty.

Aaaaaargh! Excuse the sexism, but this is like asking Hugh Hefner to name his favourite Playmate after all those years lolling round in his jim-jams lapping up the attention (i.e bloody difficult). However, coming from the home of the last Olympic Games, I would award the medals thus:

GOLD- TRUE FAITH (surely a gift from the gods; perfect in every sense) SILVER- TEMPTATION (the Substance version thanks; just a staggeringly amazing tune that would've won gold in any other lifetime, but for TF) BRONZE- THE PERFECT KISS (once again, the Substance version; any other abbreviated version is a criminal injustice to this towering aural journey that takes control of your body, mind and soul for seven minutes or so). Honourable mentions to Age of Consent, Crystal, Regret, Thieves Like Us, Ceremony, Dream Attack & Your Silent Face. Thankyou for the chance to participate and enjoy the jockeying for positions between these gems (although where was Mr.Disco?) DAVID ROWLANDS Sydney, Australia

It would have been very interesting to see what the best song of all time would have been between ALL NEW ORDER SONGS, but that would be a bit over-the-top.

There are a lot of less known album tracks that are just as good as a lot of the singles (Im not gonna say which as I would like to avoid any kind of controversy on this topic) which would have performed well in this poll, but all's not lost as the list does contain most of NEW ORDER's greatest songs, although every song they have done is great!

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