Most sublime use of electronics?

What do you think is NO's best use of electronic music technology? Song, album, phase of career...?

Everyone's going to have different opinions so I didn't make this a poll. :D

I think Your Silent Face and Thieves Like Us are some of the most heartfelt, human electronic songs ever made. Up there with most of Kraftwerk's stuff. But I don't overlook Blue Monday as having revolutionized the way synth music was made.

I think a lot of folk will probably plump for the Technique era as NO at their most blissful best.

I agree with Lady21 : anything around 1983 was the most revolutionary, although to me The Perfect Kiss remains the most complete use of electronic gadgetry (that, and the opening sequence to This Time of Night before Steve goes back to the drum kit !)

Probably Liar :D

I'm going to have to cheat and go with a JD song... Decades. I just really love what they do with that song.

Everything's Gone Green, Video 5 8 6, Blue Monday.

Technique.

Your Silent face for sure, followed by Procession and EGG

fine time

you may not like it, but it's got a lot stuff going on! try doing a cover of this song, with all it's samples(?), sequences and weird noises and timing and rhythm.

i think late 80s early 90s, new order were at their most complex with their electronic music...or at least it sounds complex. might have been very easy to play.

perfect kiss

it's almost like electronic orchestrial music

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin okay...after further review...I have to go with the entire US release of PC&L...just listened to the whole thing through...and are you sure this disc is 20 years old???surely many bands today would love to put something out as good as this?!?!?!?!

Thats just another reason why i only listen to new order. Like you say many bands today would be lucky to put out a sound like this. New order 20 years ahead of the rest....

Technique era because of:

Run2 (extended) Round & Round (extended 12") Dream Attack Vanishing Point (instrumental)

Cannot ignore EGG or TPK though.

Blisstonia ...

The extended dance BLT mix wins hands down, and then the ending of Round And Round is one of the best 30 seconds in electronic music history period.

I agree about the ending of Round and Round, Wolf. I'm pissed because they use the single version of R&R on International instead of the album version

I only bought the thing for the DVD!

As far as sublime electronics, "This Time of Night" is great to communicate extreme bitterness and "All Day Long" for that heavenly, uplifting feel (despite the lyrics)

Well I could easily list about 40 songs with stunning use of electronics - most of them well ahead of their time - but for me there are 2 which stand out well above the rest and that's The Perfect Kiss and All Day Long. It must have taken ages to work those out in the studio. You can hardly say they knocked those up in half an hour. I wonder how many trial versions of those two are on tape hidden away somewhere, probably in Hooky's shed.