Electronic 1 vs. Raise The Pressure

My vote goes to the first album. Saying that, though, if you tried to take either of them away from me you'd have a fight on your hands! (BTW, TT is actually my favourite out of the three.)

Electronic 1 for me,i just recently bought the first album on cassette at a car boot sale for 50p what a bargain

RTP is great. I never really cared for TT. It just didn't ever seem to get off the ground. Vivid is good, warning sign great but the rest is not good to me.

strange choices my friend.

The debut is 7 billion times better than Raise The Pressure. I cant get what people are saying about more guitar on RTP?

Come on guys, what on RTP matches the wah-wah of Idiot Country, the acoustic guitar of Tighten Up and Get the Message, or the work on Feel Every Beat??

For You is the best guitar track on RTP but no classic (maybe in 100 years people will say its a classic though). Theres too many other bland dolly-birds-round-handbags naff house tunes on there for my liking.

The debut shows Barney was right to break from the chains of New Order and strike out in his own right (ok so he had Marr on board).

RTP is too much going through the motions and has samey songs. The lyrics are appalling and repetive. Plus the final track (Time Can Tell) is the worse thing Barney has ever done.....ever (sounds like a boy band song).

Update: My CD of RTP has been nicked :(

I prefer Second Coming.

Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah.... deep breath... woah woah woah woah woah.

E1 gets my vote. It came out when dance and hip hop were my favorite genres, so this album had everything for me. "Reality" is still a wonderful song. Also, the singles had great remixes.

While Raise the pressure was good album (Forbidden city, Out of my league..), I still prefer the debut.

The instrumentation (mostly electronics) had a bigger impact on me than RTP. Plus, I thought the arrangements seemed to have a bit more 'magic' to them - Soviet, Getting away with it and especially the ending on Some distant memory. _

Edward

Electronic was a good album, with some great tracks, but some not as great too. I think Raise the Pressure is definitely better. Each song is a great dance tune which lives up to the group's name of "Electronic".

Hard choice, both are good.

Raise the pressure

electronic one is it. RTP just sound too dated. A couple of good songs but that's it.

Electronic is of course top class. Still, I have been listening more to Raise the Pressure recently and there is really more to the album than I found first when I was listening to it when it came out. I found it a bit cheesy at the time of release but there is more depth to many of the songs and it is one of these rare albums that gets better with every listening. Many of the last tracks of the album are especially growing on me.
Shame how badly it was received, but then again it was not promoted at all. - I saw the album on sale in Denmark with a sticker on it that it featured Johnny Marr. ..No mention of Barney. RTP sold 100,000 copies against 1 million for the debut. Not good when you think about the amount of time the duo invested in the follow up.

Even though I knew who was what, when I first heard Disappointed, I was like "PSB broke up, Chris got shunted off while Neil got some great record deal.".. I was a kid, I was silly.

So for a good while, even though I knew it was just a side project for all concerned (roughly), I was firmly convinced that the Electronic album was like.. too PSB, even though I was a big PSB fan.

Over the years, I rocked that album a lot, regardless. Then RTP came, and I went ahead and bought it despite the dreaded sophomore album syndrome always beleaguered in the press.

After a few years of listening to the first album, RTP was a welcome sign of change. More polished, more focused, and better blended, IMO.

Listened through the track listings again tonight, and still wind up prefering RTP over E(1). May have a lot to do with the fact I listened and over listened to E(1) through my preadolescence, and it has become dated and jaded.

(Even if I still love GTM, SDM, FEB and Idiot Country)

More songs off RTP made my "Could listen indefinitely" list.

Time Can Tell, though slick, was a quick fave, as was Until the End of Time. The rest of the album soon followed. It was a nice interlude between NO's Republic and Monaco's M4P.