Well, Huntsy, you've certainly been making up for lost time here. I can't keep up. I'm out of breath.
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NewOrder is positive music for a negative world.....
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I'm always extremely polite and careful with the unicorn. If its upset it flies away, that's why I use tea towels. By draping the cloth over the animal, it soothes it a little... when she's settled, I put a brush through her front bum and see what happens.
The cup is only used if the unicorn needs a beverage, usually the cup consists of bread.
I usually allow the smaller creatures to masturbate me. But I do prefer full intercourse, which is why the unicorn was built.
Well I for one think you're a thoroughly unpleasant and rude man Mr Huntsman, and shall be writing to my MP accordingly
Christ Huntsy, your heed's fucked up man!! Chaka Khan, unicorns, straightforward dirty sex must be such a drag for you!!
Originally posted by Huntsman ... its no use, I own the MP.
Is he downstairs in the basement..clad in rubber?
the MP was taken over several years ago. We used his mind for our tea.
Sex was a simple procedure, until, one night, winged serpants begged me to help them out on a particular escapade. I did help, and forever more am bound to climax only when the clock strikes twelve. As you can imagine, noon and midnight have become an important part of the day. Whilst others dine on shrimps, the Huntsman makes love to mythical beasts and small bread particles.
Its been a good day on the board... but the Huntsman has to tend to his light aircraft.
God's love to us all.
Actually I've found myself listening to anything BUT New Order, at least right after it happened. The songs I listened to in direct response to the bombing were God by John Lennon and Dear God by XTC. I have popped in the NO since (Temptation and Blue Monday particularly), but right away there was no NO being played. I did pop in some JD after a while, that was strangely soothing
Same here, if you are down pop on "Closer", If Decades doesn't put yer shit in perspective then... oh fuck! call the ambulance.
Originally posted by Huntsman I do admit the album has happy melodies, but listen to the lyrical content and the underlying messages are of despression, lost love and an almost unimaginable desire for baked snacks.
I'm fascinated by the fact that we, humans, can distinguish melodies as being "happy" or "sad". How does music have that effect on us? Why does it make us feel this way? I still don't have an answer to that and, I don't know if there's been research on that topic (most probably) but I'm trying to convince one of my friends who's studying psychology to make it her main topic of research.
And, you know, what you said about that is the key to why I love New Order, but also why I am a long-time fan of The Cure, the Pet Shop Boys and even Depeche Mode (although it doesn't apply the same way in their case I think). These bands have made their success by creating songs with happy melodies and sad lyrics, generating a VERY STRANGE FEELING. Some sort of duality that I still can't explain after all these years.
This is why I labelled these groups as making "smart pop".
Seb.
Originally posted by Huntsman a bit like governments not releasing the identities of known aliens who live and breed amongst us with no real discernible differences... except their unique blacks spots on the back of their fucking necks the bastards. We can take it, please, identify the fuckers... I won't harm them.
Would you, by any chance, really be Frank Spotnitz or Chris Carter?
(ignoring the not so veiled chemical references)
I feel so extraordinary Something's got a hold on me I get this feeling I'm in motion A sudden sense of liberty
But then again:
That's the price that we all pay Our valued destiny comes to nothing I can't tell you where we're going I guess there's just no way of knowing
The chances are we've gone too far You took my time and you took my money Now I feel you've left me standing In a world that's so demanding
Music, New Order and breaking down social and cultural barriers:
Somewhere else in Europe:
In some places they're stigmatized as a student band, and that is in some ways true, but Joy Division/New Order were and are still highly respected/acclaimed by different kinds of people. Even Joy Division were often played in so-called "ordinary radio programmes" in such places like Spain.
A footnote: - Like the Polish/Norwegian Depress' experimental folky punk, which managed to bring approx 10 000 people together(age barriers and social barriers wiped away) in Poland, I'll guess you can say New Order's music worked in the same kind of positive way in certain places, like in the south of Europe with "Blue Monday" played at most discoteques from 83 - 87, which introduced many people there into Joy Division. In a positive way that often ends in a communication like "two way conversation", instead of a communication like via internet that oftens is to an audience and often is like a "one way conversation"
Cheers!!
The masters are of course free to delete this if not accepted.
Originally posted by Huber (ignoring the not so veiled chemical references)I feel so extraordinarySomething's got a hold on meI get this feeling I'm in motionA sudden sense of libertyBut then again:That's the price that we all payOur valued destiny comes to nothingI can't tell you where we're goingI guess there's just no way of knowingThe chances are we've gone too farYou took my time and you took my moneyNow I feel you've left me standingIn a world that's so demanding
And your point was?
Do you find this happens all the time? A crucial point on day becomes a crime and I'm not the kind....oh sorry, just started singing again. The doctors think it's good for me to, helps offset the morphine....
"Get Ready" now at no.19, after weeks at the top (15,5,2,2) http://www.panorama.no/lister/UkensA.htm
In a fave list made by music journalists and DJ's.
Spiritualized at no.2!
The posted message could have been better regarding the "Music, New Order and breaking down social and cultural barriers:"
Comparing N.O. with the upspeedy, uplifting, optimistic, experimental punk from Depress was maybe a bit odd. The music is totally different and but to make it short, I'll guess it's maybe more true today to say that N.O. work positive in the same way/content - To be contemporary: -It's wider mix of people who follows N.O., from the age 15 to 50, and fans worldwide. So what we need now is a about a gigantic Peace festival in i.e Beirut with N.O., The Wedding Present, Yello, A Certain Ratio, Ofra Haza, Cabaret Voltaire and the rest of our faves?
Cheers!
Originally posted by Frode Nordmarken Even Joy Division were often played in so-called "ordinary radio programmes" in such places like Spain.
In fact, if I remember rightly, because I was indeed too young those days Blue Monday was played first in Spanish discos with Spanish DJ´s. Brit holidaymakers listened to it, discovered how fave it was and then bought it when they were back in Blighty. I think it was called the Benidorm Effect or Torremolinos effect or.... well, you get the gist of it.
Humberto, me old china, you've got things the wrong way round. Blue Monday was released here in March '83 and was a hit straight away. It susequently became a hit on the continent when people from dear old Blighty kept requesting it in the Euro Discos of the era, and then returned to the charts here in early summer as it was so huge in the clubs. I myself swapped a copy of Blue Monday with a Spanish DJ in Loret De Mar that summer for the original version of a song called Self Control by an Italian guy (I think) called RAF. That song went on to be a hit the following summer for an American singer called Laura Brannigan. 
