Most NO Soundalike?
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Which spin off LP sounds most like NO?
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Electronic- Electronic. 10 (22%)
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Raise The Pressure- Electronic. 3 (7%)
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Twisted Tenderness- Electronic. 1 (2%)
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The Other Two & You- TO2. 2 (4%)
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Superhighways- TO2. 1 (2%)
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One True Passion v.2- Revenge. 0 (0%)
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Music for Pleasure- Monaco. 26 (57%)
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Monaco- Monaco. 3 (7%)
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Craig W wrote: For me it's Raise The Pressure...
That's not good...as that album ranks fairly low with respect to the side project efforts.
I assume we're talking about present-day (post '98) New Order?
I chose 'Twisted Tenderness', as something like Hey Now What You're Doing could appear on there and not be too out of place. But I'm still not altogether happy with my answer, the latter Electronic albums don't do very much for me, though some of the b-side tracks are ok.
Music For Pleasure is the clear winner here; both the album and Pottsy's vocals got flak for sounding too much like New Order and Barney at the time. There's nothing on RTP that sounds as New Order-ey as Wdywfm? or Shine is there?
RTP is very Techniquey to me.
Although on reflection I think I'd agree that MFP captures the NO sound more fully... although the oasisish sound on some of this tracks negates some of this...
Depends what you mean.
Twisted Tenderness sounds *exactly* like Get Ready, but without Hooky.
Obviously the Monaco albums will sound more "new order" due to Hooky, and the fact Pottsy is close to Bernard's register.
MFP was the first thing to truly fool me into thinking it was a NO album. Especially WDYWFM! First time I heard it I was emailing a friend of mine in England to see if the band had gotten back together. 
It's a very nice transition from Republic to MFP, in my opinion. TOT&Y seemed to work better when I thought of it as a post-Technique/pre-Republic output, much like with Electronic's first album. Which makes sense given when things were written and recorded. :p
M4P.
I lost my copy in my divorce a coupla years ago & got a new one as a pressie this Christmas - it's been in the car CD ever since, great album.
Raise The Pressure is a fucking class slab...
but Monaco is probably the most New Order sounding stuff out there, since Electronic lacks Hooky's bass...and Pottsy did sound a wee bit like Bernard...
Id have to say any of the Electonic trio of albums. The singer is a dead ringer for Barney out of New Order. Has anyone else noticed this? He also sounds abit like him.
[lost in benidorm...] ['sunshine'] wrote: For some reason, for me, it's TO2&You. 'Nuff said.
For some reason too, probably the same reason (?), I second the motion.
The Other Two And You!
Indeed!
