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Anyone agree? the tracklisting should've been more like this:
Of course the US one would have some different tracks....
It was quite cack in retrospect, but the track listing you gave wouldn't fit on 1 CD. It would also have been even more of a swiz if it included Substance versions as well, because they had already come out on a greatest hits.
It does feature a really dire version of 1963..but I quite liked the updated True Faith and Round and Round.
I do have a soft spot for it though, as it's the first New Order Album I ever owned
I plan for my best of to be released on 14 edison cylinders, so the tracks would fit on. I forgot about 1963. i should be shot.
Blue Monday 88 should be included 'cos it did very well in the charts. Even if it is a bit crap...
should have temptation 7" - unavailable on cd afaik don't forget that these cd's were on london & so they have the poxy 7" edits not the full versions like on factorys best of...
That's the old debate. I mean, if you call it a 'Best of', you have to get the best songs. If you want the commercial successes, you have to call it 'greatest hits'.
I would include Spooky
Why?
Cuzz everytime I think of New Order videos, that guy dancing with the paper bag on his head always come to mind
(shudder)
no smilie can express my fear of that man
For commercial success you'd put on all the tracks that did well in the charts, to please the fans you'd put on stuff they like that didn't do so well. i think with 'the best of' they tried for somewhere in the middle by including blue monday 88 but also vanishing point. I don't think they pulled it off.
My personal best of is as follows:
1.Ceremony (Original Version) 2.Everything's Gone Green 3.Procession 4.Temptation 87 5.Sunrise 6.The Perfect Kiss (Fac 123) 7.Bizarre Love Triangle (Album Version) 8.True Faith 9.1963 10.Round & Round (Extended) 11.World (Perfecto Mix) 12.Ruined In A Day (Reunited Mix) 13.Regret (Fire Island Mix)
It fits snugly onto an 80 min. cd or minidisc and captures perfectly the essence of New Order, from the early rawness to the sleek club mixes at the end. 
Yours wouldn't be my personal tracklisting, Muffy, but I have to say it's the best I've encountered so far.
Originally posted by The Keeper Of The Major Key what about Blue Monday?
Blue Monday is a great record, but there are so many great NO songs it does'nt make it onto my list. Maybe if it were a double!
I mean, I recognize it's a very good song but, compare to all the other NO splendors, 'True Faith' isn't as exciting by far, except maybe for the live version they pay since 1998.
And, let me remind you that song was co-written by Stephen Hague.
Originally posted by Geoff The Klump I will look like an heretic here but I find 'True Faith' a little boring...
SEND FOR THE EXECUTIONER!!!!!!! KLUMPY, HOW COULD YOU?????
Originally posted by Muffy > Originally posted by Geoff The Klump> I will look like an heretic here but I find 'True Faith' a little boring...
SEND FOR THE EXECUTIONER!!!!!!! KLUMPY, HOW COULD YOU?????
The lyrics are beautiful, for a change, but musically, it's not very captivating I think...
Ignoring the True Faith heresy displayed earlier by Geoff the Klump, actually, I won't.
It's an amazing song and easily one of NO's best. I remember hearing True Faith and Blue Monday played back to back on Radio 1 and from that moment on, I was a slave to the bass-heavy Mancunian music making machine. The next day I was out purchasing Substance at HMV (£6.99 on cassette in a sale - the gods were smiling for the poor stoodent I was back then) and the rest is history/boredom for anyone I talk music to. Aye, so anyway, I won't hear a word against this song. It's a classic.
Oh as for the main thread, The (Best Of) album is indeed a decent album but a poor selection by the tits at London Records. Pointless updates by Stephen Hague (what did he change for the aforementioned True Faith?) and in no way a best of. More like a "New Order may never make another record again, so here's a compilation album of their stuff after the Substance album but there's not enough to fill an album so lets add a few remixes" album.
To have a real best of New Order you would really have to have a box set, or at the very least, 2 CD's of about 30 songs (still not enough). One of the best things about New Order was the original idea of albums and singles being separate so any Best of has to have 1963 (original) Cerememony, Your Silent Face etc. God this is getting boring for me so feck knows what it’s like for you, therfore I’ll shut me mouth.
In summary. Yes, it's cack. (unless you’ve never heard New Order before in which case it's an OK introduction.)
It depends muffy, if it's my fave NO tracks compilation or the definitive NO compilation.
So, for the second one, it would go like this :
Oops, and I forgot to put Elegia. I don't know for how long it would run but I think you would have all the great NO defining moments, to which you should also add 'World In Motion'.
Again, these are not all of my favorite NO songs, but if I wanted to show what New Order have been about over the past 20 years.
For the other tracklisting, I'm, afraid I couldnn't reduce to a short list of songs.
That's not a bad list Geoff, a bit over the 80 minutes I suspect, but it does cover the key moments.
Originally posted by Geoff The Klump As you can see, Muffy, I can make a difference between personal faves and key moments.
Have a bash at your faves cd list then, but no more than 80 minutes mind!
Here's my CD of favourites, though it would surely appeal to both the die hard and the casual observer?:
Ceremony (original 12" version) Procession Dreams Never End Temptation (original 12" version) Your Silent Face Age of Consent Ecstasy Confusion (original 12" version) Thieves Like Us The Perfect Kiss (original 12" version) Elegia Sooner Than You Think Sunrise Bizarre Love Triangle (album version) As It Is When It Was Don't Do It Vanishing Point Dream Attack Regret Crystal
Ceremony Temptation (1982) Blue Monday (1983) Confusion (1983) Fine Time Regret Vicious Streak True Faith Hurt Bizarre Love Triangle Perfect Kiss Age of Consent TBTHOG 1963 Cries and Whispers Crystal Everything's Gone Green
Ok, Muffy, here's a try at my face songs 80 minutes, considering it will be an approximation (don't want to check all the lenghts of the songs)
1.Ceremony 2.Everything's Gone Green 3.Temptation (Substance Version) 4.Blue Monday 5.Age Of Consent 6.Your Silent Face 7.Leave Me Tonight 8.Lonesome Tonight 9.Love Vigilantes 10.Subculture (album version) 11.Bizarre Love Triangle (12") 12.As It Is When It Was 13.Way Of Life 14.Loveless 15.Run 16.Regret 17.Turn My Way 18.Run Wild
It's approximately 80 minutes (that might look longer but bare in mind there's a lot of short songs)
Should have make the list too : The Perfect Kiss, All Day Long, Round & Round, Mr.Disco, Vanishing Point, Crystal.
And also The Village, Procession, Elegia, Face-Up, Every Little Counts, All The Way, Dream Attack, World, Close Range, Primitive Notion.
But hey, you asked for my 80 minutes, so here they are...
It's damn hard to do is'nt it Geoff. Narrowing it down to 80 minutes is very difficult indeed.
Originally posted by Seb Briggs [
It does feature a really dire version of 1963..but I quite liked the updated True Faith and Round and Round.
I do have a soft spot for it though, as it's the first New Order Album I ever owned
Yeah- why did they have to edit the track in such a fuckin' shitty way...did it no justice AT ALL!
