Originally posted by Spotnick Well, the easy answer would be "all of the above and more", but this would be cheating..There must be ONE thing that hooked you to New Order and is the main reason why you like the band.Which reminds me, Billy Corgan copies New Order on that level too... there isn't many boy bands with one girl in the group! Except you can't compare D'Arcy with Hooky...For me, it was the melody at first that made me notice the band, but it was Hooky's bass that made me a fan.....
The Pumpkins may be my favorite band, but you can barely hear D'arcy live, and she didn't even record the bass parts for Siamese Dream. So, basically, she, like James Iha, has very little to do with SP's sound. Hooky, however, dominates New Order's sound; that's probably why most of Republic sounded so cold - it needed that bass. New Order, unlike the Pumpkins, seems like more of a unit, with everyone adding their touches to the sound - Hooky's bass, Barney's voice, Steve's drums, and Gillian's synths/programming and guitars. The Pumpkins, in my opinion, have far better lyrics than NO, Billy Corgan - in their first 3 albums - does some really amazing guitar solos, and Jimmy Chamberlin - when I saw SP live - provides the base for SP's sound. However, two members don't do much, other than standing on stage, and Corgan's live vocals are often out of tune, when the band isn't performing for some TV program.
