It's been 2 years already!

Originally posted by Who is this man that follows me? > Originally posted by Tristan Jayol> > > > Originally posted by TemptationStockport> > bloody hell - 2 years?! > > > > i hope something comes soon, i really do.> > > > yeah, hooky's solo is a monster! lol... i don't think we'll be waiting long, there's a lot of activity with the release of the dvd in america and so on. > > > > a sign? :)>

It better be, all the groups that have released music these past couple of years are really crap except Interpol and the Chili Peppers And Zwan. It took me a while to get their album, but the guitars and drums on it are absolutely amazing. Billy Corgan really hasn't played that well as on Zwan's first album since Gish, SP's first album.

i can't stand that zwan album. billy needs more kevin shields, less kiss, and someone should tell jimmy that a complex drum fill every four bars gets really annoying.

I enjoyed the single version immensely, it took me a while to appreciate the intro for the album version. But it is a top-notch song, classic "new" New Order

I actually got to hear Get Ready prior to its release (yeah, I know, big whup!). As I've mentioned before, my cuz worked at the college radio station, and I'd come along for the ride whenever I could. One night we were going through the "new discs" when either he or I (can't remember, makes the story better for me to claim it) came across a promo copy. We popped it in to the CD player in the "lounge" area outside the radio booth, and I listened to it pretty much all the way through and he would pop in between segements on the air to listen as well. I think we may have even played a song or two on the air that night, we were certainly the only radio show on the station to make a point of playing tracks later on. Good times

Predictably the first Zwan band member has already jumped ship, with rumours of a second one leaving soon...Billy Corgan, dictator extraordinaire

CRYSTAL and GET READY came along right on schedule 2 years ago as I was going through a bad personal trauma. Hadn't heard any NEW New Order in so long and there they (and Barney) were, describing my life in those sometimes stupid-sounding lyrics. I guess you have to be there...or a NO fan.

I remember hearing Crystal on the radio during New Years Eve 2001 and thinking it was fooking awesome, and I didn't really back down from that until I happened to have seen the video for the Club Mix (Digweed&Muir Mix). What an utter botched piece of rubbish. Makes the remixes on the (rest of) seem excellent. Almost spoiled the song for me.

Originally posted by Push Predictably the first Zwan band member has already jumped ship, with rumours of a second one leaving soon...Billy Corgan, dictator extraordinaire

Yeah, but when he isn't being a dictator, we get something so polished and synthetic-sounding like Machina I. When he is (or was), we get something like Siamese Dream. When everyone in SP actually coorperated and he pulled some good solos, we got Gish. But this has absolutely nothing to do with NO and Crystal, aside from the fact that Barney never played dictator in the band, and rightfully shouldn't have.

Originally posted by Sean Taugher > Originally posted by Who is this man that follows me?> > > > Originally posted by Tristan Jayol> > > > > > > Originally posted by TemptationStockport> > > bloody hell - 2 years?! > > > > > > i hope something comes soon, i really do.> > > > > > yeah, hooky's solo is a monster! lol... i don't think we'll be waiting long, there's a lot of activity with the release of the dvd in america and so on. > > > > > > a sign? :)> > >

It better be, all the groups that have released music these past couple of years are really crap except Interpol and the Chili Peppers And Zwan. It took me a while to get their album, but the guitars and drums on it are absolutely amazing. Billy Corgan really hasn't played that well as on Zwan's first album since Gish, SP's first album.

i can't stand that zwan album. billy needs more kevin shields, less kiss, and someone should tell jimmy that a complex drum fill every four bars gets really annoying.

He needs hair

Originally posted by Spotnick Crystal was released on August 13th 2001.Share your thoughts, what do you think of it now, has your opinion changed since then?

No, still a great song (or comeback single, whatever) love listening to it still. Two years, bugger me.

As an aside, is Hooky's bass the most (perhaps only) distinctive noise in music (ignoring vocalists - just instruments). I can't think of anybody else who you can pick out on a record when you don't know it's them. He doesn't even have anybody who can mimic him well.

There are very few instrumentalists as disctintive as Hooky. I'm almost certain he's the most disctintive bassist... Vini Reilly springs to mind as another possible nomination for "most distinctive instrumentalist".

Oh yes, and Crystal? First heard it on a quiet car radio coming back from the Trossachs, on the Chris Moyles show. Always difficult to tell the quality in such circumstances. With the car engine drowning out the bass, the bit that stood out the most was the "Oooh! Heeey!" bits. I reserved judgement. Loved it by the time I'd heard it five times, still think it's the best off Get Ready. New Order All-Time Top Ten contender on good days.

well, i was just listening to it in the car on the way back from kinko's about an hour ago, as i returned from a massive photocopying session, and i was groovin' like 'soul train' in my car. for a few moments there, i was dawn zee. that says it all right there....