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Personally, I don't think there is a bad song on Technique. I must admit I wasn't a big fan of Fine Time when I heard it for the first time but it did grow on me, especially when I saw the TOTP appearance featuring Bernards impersonation of Bez.
Had a soft spot for it ever since then.
Originally posted by Jordan L I remember buying Technique on its 1st day of release.
Same here. That's one tough poll. Voted Guilty Partner - not that it's a bad song, and is probably a better one than Fine Time when viewed in isolation, but I think it breaks the flow of the LP, particularly on vinyl.
in my yoof, i used to skip fine time - it didn't quite fit in with my teenage angst. don't mind it so much now, but voted for it on behalf of my former self
Technique is a supreme album...if I have to choose one, I'll pick Mr. Disco. I like it very much, but a poll is a poll.
Guilty Partner was a tremendous hit to me, and Technique was the first NO album I heard, still my favourite with Low-Life. A perfect ten...
Never been a great fan of FineTime, im just pleased its the first track cause it means i dont have to skip a track mid album :)
Originally posted by Snucker guilty partner...sugary crap pop song.
You think that's bad. You should have heard them play it live. :o
My vote goes to Fine Time but I don't actually hate anything on Technique - it's just about perfect!
while Fine Time is definitely not the best cut on Technique, i actually think its presence is very important, particularly as the opening track. in my opinion, it's the strangest, most discordant song on the album, and takes more risks than any of the others. in that sense, i think that it sets the tone for the album well; it immediately establishes a certain sound to the album and introduces the listener to many of the new techniques (no pun intended) used on the album (both in song-writing and particularly production). i think that it needs to be the album opener because it immediately posits that the record is different from anything the band had done previously.
Guilty Partner. IMHO one of the worst NO songs of all time. I always skip it Seriously, it must be filler.
Run amd Mr. Disco are me faves.
Originally posted by John Sludden > Originally posted by Snucker guilty partner...sugary crap pop song.
You think that's bad. You should have heard them play it live. :o
What song are you listening to? I read "sugary crap pop song" and wondered if this was a worst song on TECHNIQUE poll- OK, you didn't like something- but "Guilty Partner"? Described in that way? In what possible way is that song SUGARY???
Bleak, depressive, atypically Joy Division-like and driven in its expression of a sterile romance, but SUGARY?
I'm not aghast that you don't like the song; I just wonder exactly what song you're speaking of.
Fine Time and Round and Round. Originally it was guility partner, just as originally Loveless was my favorite song off the album, but within a few months Guilty Partner had won me over, while Fine Time and Round and Round had become irritating. To this day, 13 years after i first bought it, it remains my favorite New Order album, although today my favorite songs off of it are Run and Mr. Disco (with Loveless, and All the way right behind).
Very hard to vote on the worst song. One of many albums that I will listen through from start to finish. No vote here. Great album.
DEFINITELY Guilty Partner. everything else on the album is so much better.
and i must say - i have fallen completely and utterly in love with Fine Time in recent weeks.
Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin I couldln't pick one...does that make me a bad person???
not at all! it's an incredible album. :)
Originally posted by Spider In A Land Of Meat Fine Time???? Gee, I really like Fine Time!! My vote goes for Mr. Disco.
i love the camp of both!
I would have to say Love Less followed by All the Way, though not bad songs by any stretch of the imagination, they aren't as 'dancey' as the rest. This album has some fantastic dance tracks that were so fresh back in '89 at the time of all that Kevin Saunderson type techno stuff.
