Low-Life's worst song

Originally posted by Al Jarvis Went with STYT, but really the Perfect Kiss on this one just ain't THE Perfect Kiss, now is it?! Should've gone with that one, but it's big brother's a classic so it's hard to vote it out. The edit is one of their worst though, imo. A late album filler, and nothing more.

Exactly why i voted for THE PERFECT EDIT!:D

i feel dirty picking one; the whole album is so incredible. it's NO's best, i'd say.

it's also hard trying to pick out a favorite. probably This Time of Night.

i love Face Up! i think it's loaded with amazing hooks and i think it's a fantastic song. i don't know if it should have been the album closer (i think This Time of Night would have been better), but i love the song.

faces down for me

my vote goes to Sooner Than You Think. the synth work on it is excellent and has an almost campy feel to it, but the song is the album's weakest, in my opinion.

Face Up gets my vote just ahead of Perfect Kiss (album edit). They are both good songs but the others are better.

Originally posted by Dufford Charleywood What is all this 'Negetive worst of shit..?Threre are no worst or shit songs on 'LOW-lIFE' and for those who voted 'Sunrise, Elegia...get real.....you obviously havent heard em play them live!!Enough said.

You shouldn't have to hear 'em live to know that this album is great from beginning to end. People voting for Sunrise are CRAZY, deaf, comatose, or all of the above - this album is one of the few perfect NO albums (like Technique). This poll BLOWS!

This was a toss-up between STYT and Face-up for me. My final tally goes to Face-up, though I feel it is a better song than STYT. Why did I vote for it then? False advertising is why! Everytime I here the opening to Face-up, it get emotionally ready for an awesome electronic tour-de-force, NO style. Then, just as it should get going, BAM!, power-pop, NO style. Pisses me off every time. By the time it gets to the end, I realize, hey this isn't such a bad song, but by them the damage is done.

What a crap poll!! two of my favourite songs are at the top Subculture should be streets ahead on this one...

And after all the fuss you made about Elegia on the bonus disc.. tsssssssk

What is the point of making everyone think which song the like the least ? They're all great, TPK isn't as good as the full version but it's still great, the thing they did with ih on The Best of is much worse, just cutting out the best bit. I didn' vote for any of the songs.

The fact that there is practically a four-way tie confirms what everyone knows: every track is excellent.

I voted for FACE-UP,should have gone for THE PERFECT KISS,love the song but hate the edit. Its that reason LOW-LIFE is number 2.

I always think SUMMER RAIN by Belinda Carlisle sounds like SOONER THAN YOU THINK.

Originally posted by anita I love the whole album so picking was very difficult.:D:D:D:D:Danita, shocked that people voted for Perfect Kiss :O

Originally posted by anita I love the whole album so picking was very difficult.:D:D:D:D:Danita, shocked that people voted for Perfect Kiss :O

JUST THE EDIT

WOW, actually i refused to vote in this poll! ;) it feels like an internal struggle just to pick a song that gets the title "worst song on album," none of it deserves that. the album's that good! just like PC&L, there's not one bad song on it.

if my life depended on it... mmmaybe "The Perfect Kiss" because of the edit? Or "Elegia" because its an instrumental? Or maybe "Subculture" because i like the track, but not as much as the others? see? even when my life depends on it, I still can't make a decision!

but i could NEVER EVER vote for "Sunrise" or "This Time of Night."

Originally posted by Marco Pleil "Sunrise"! i'd rather listen to The Cure's "A Forest"

haha! don't those opening synth lines sound awfully similar? also, ever notice "All The Way" nicks the bassline from "Just Like Heaven?" and "Crystal" has a bassline that's awfully similar to, again "A Forest?" :D

Interesting to see how heavily the disinterest is in the second half of the album. For me, the lowlight was Perfect Kiss, I like the song in its entirety, not scalpled in half. Other than that, every song is terrific. Sooner than you think, a song I originally wasn't interested in I now love, whereas the original version of Sub Culture which got me to by the album, no longer garners nearly as much interest on my side. Still, i dislike the version of Perfect Kiss the most.

Ive always love Sooner Than You Think, I think its the line which is forever relevant 'theres right and theres wrong theres good and theres bad theres an answer to this I wish I had'. Struck a chord when I first heard it and it still does now.

Cheers ALEX

I really love the finale to the song after Barney finishes singing the last lyric. It's complex, beautiful, interesting and unusual, doesn't really sound like anything I've ever heard. I have an old bootleg on record of them doing what I think was an early version of this in late '83 called, "Aleph." Very interesting.

I love the whole album and to pick the worst is very hard to do. But the edit of PK would get my vote

I was faced with the bizarre concept of voting my favourite New Order song in as the worst of the tracks on Low Life -I am of course another who votes for The Imperfect Edit as a miss. Quite why the full version never appeared is beyond me, even nearly 18 years after hearing the 4 minute version for the first time and feeling a little deflated : the whole album is only 35 minutes long or so (remember, this was in the days when "the law" said albums had to be around 40-45 minutes so you could fit them into one side of a C90 cassette....ahhh, them's was the days).

i don't like subculture! the short version of perfect kiss is even worst...

Originally posted by bong801 but i could NEVER EVER vote for "Sunrise" or "This Time of Night."

Well, I just did, cause I think those 2 songs are the worst of an album which tends to get too overrated. But hey, that's not to say I don't like the record! ;)

I vote for Sub-Culture, Barney's vocals suck, it's the worst newOrder song ever! If you don't believe me why did Peter Saville refuse to design a cover for it?

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by Martin Davies> I vote for Sub-Culture, Barney's vocals suck, it's the worst newOrder song ever! If you don't believe me why did Peter Saville refuse to design a cover for it?

Did he refuse to sign a cover for it? If he did it would've been for that 12" debacle then, and not the original Low-Life version, which personally I still think is a classic.

I agree with you Al

Sub-culture is a New Order pearl for me.

This is a poll, where is no correct answer, so I skip it :D

I wondered when someone else would mention the debacle of the Subculture 12"...