There are the finalists (they all got at least 10 votes), World In Motion and Such A Good Thing almost made the list.
Sorry if you think no song here diserve this title, but I had to select the best of the last round...!
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The Worst New Order Song: Top 5
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What's the worst ever New Order song?
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Chemical 20 (18%)
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Rock The Shack 27 (24%)
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State of the Nation 30 (26%)
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Shellshock 14 (12%)
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We All Stand 23 (20%)
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Seeing as WIM never made the cut I'll go for Shellshock which actually made me cringe the first time I heard it. Unbelievably it was then followed by the almost equally poor SOTN.
Originally posted by Elázaro Moses Mokrabe State of Nation worst song?You're crazy!!!
Yes I am crazy = me voting for SOTN as worst song
"State of the Nation" makes me wonder what they were thinking. Sometimes it makes me want to cry, but mostly, it's just vomitous.
I can see why some of those other songs might be hated, but honestly, what's so especially bad about "Chemical"? It's not their best song, but I don't think it's as atrocious as "Liar".
Its a tough one but I can't bring myself to vote. I always thought that SOTN and Shellshock were always quite good live.
I am abstaining, and shall make an impassioned plea to my fellow travellers across the world to do likewise.
We All Stand, State of the Nation and Shellshock may not be everyone's favourite songs, but they were bloody good live, particularly We All Stand, which isn't done justice by the album version.
should't it be "BOTTOM 5", not "TOP 5"?
Chemical ... i'm not sure why everybody disses this track, because of the harsher techno noise part of it i guess, thats the only part of it i like... the song structure quickly waters down to the same formula that over half the songs on Republic share... Spooky does the same exact thing... I would have liked more of a harsher techno song to show some younger energy... i thought it stood out from the blander songs around it on Republic
Rock The Shack... i always get the impression that some people dislike this song only because of the guitars which seems like a stupid reason... the title seems so stupid because it seems kinda serious... like Barney saying "were going to switch gears now people, and really ROCK this shack! ... whooo!... let's ROCK THE SHACK... WHOOO!"
State of the Nation ... the lyrics seem juvenile and forced, and the female backing vocals are totally inappropiate and unenjoyable, but the song has some energy, they even used the bassline again... but it is well deserving of the title ... an inappropriate single with huge missteps
Shellshock... i'm sorry but this track is an utter cluttered trebly mess, with everything and everyone throwing something into the mix without any real style, with forced rushed lyrics (i can just imagine Barney saying at 4AM "c'mon... what the fuck rhymes with... ?!?!")... i guess it is kind of endearing in a Pug dog type of way, fun to sing along with
We All Stand ... the PC&L's version is kinda of a downer (and they are right, the peel session is much better), but they obviously found it interesting, give it points for at least experimenting and having fun... like 586 too on PC&L's
Also voted for SOTN of that lot; just listened to it today while driving around, and found myself fast forwarding the tape.
I'm not voting for any of them. Although the lyrics may sound like crap, I like all five of them musically.
cannot believe such a good thing didn´t make it. cannot believe state of the nation is leading this poll. cannot believe so many things.... my vote´s for chemical. by a mile!
I voted for State of The Nation as I do beleive it to be the worst new order track ever, Shellshock has better lyrics and if you take away the cheesy over the top 80s production it isnt that bad(Arrogants cover anyone??) Chemical isn't a bad track in my opinion and neither is rock the shack.
We All Stand, great live if PFD is anything to go by.
cheers ALEX
Shellshock is a good New Order song. Many bands would like to compose it...but New Order are not a normal band, I know.
SOTN has, more or less, the same problem. One fact only: SOTN is worst than Shellshock, specially in lyrics and backing vocals.
We all stand....the only bad song in an extraordinary album.
Rock the Shack...uff.
Chemical....more uff.
My vote goes DEFINITELY to ROCK THE SHACK.
This one's really hard. Dunno how Chemical ended up here - there's soooo worse tracks on Republic, surely?
We All Stand has a wonderful Peel version to rescue it.
State of the Nation was great for its time - that 'Shame of the Nation' thing that backed it was awful though. They played that side on Roundtable when this came out (it was a weekly review thing on Radio One) and I remember cringing as Elvis Costello and that bird he was married to from the Pogues absolutely SLATED it. I think they just introduced the track as 'Shame' and they all agreed it was (er, a shame).
Rock The Shack has been salvaged by a magnifcently moody Lamacq version and has generally been alright live.
Probably gonna have to go with Shellshock, but even that ain't all bad compared with some.
Where's that Subculture re-hash? Now that was truly awful!
I live in Australia and "state of the nation" was considered so bad that it was made a b-side to "bizarre love triangle", that's how bad it was(but i still like it).
I'm with all those who aren't voting. I dont think anyone should really complain about the lyrics too much as they have never been a strong point of New Order.
