This Time of Night vs. The Perfect Kiss

14 Dec 2004, 23:54

Although TPK is almost perfect, it needs the entire 9+ minute production complete with the Hooky intro and Barney's speed-induced guitar work, and the cowbell. The edits ruin it as well :nonono:

This Time of Night is a stately, ice-cold track made using the same equipment, probably around the same time. Barney's vocals are more sublte but still emotive at the same time. A class, quality song. It's a tragedy they never performed it live again after Darien Lakes '87 :nono:

So for me it's This Time of Night by a (quarter) mile, both are great tracks, but TTON does it every time.

Thoughts?

15 Dec 2004, 19:58

The two best tracks off their best album (well, Sunrise comes close too). Had to go with TPK of course, even though the album edit is an abortion. TTON comes close though.

16 Dec 2004, 00:00

TPK. Especially after the singing is over and Hooky and Barney can jam away.

TTON is a whiney little bitch but I still love it.

16 Dec 2004, 10:58

TPK for me. TTON is a big favourite of mine as well, but if Barney's voice had any more pathetic qualities it would be pretty close to the Duran Duran sector. :ignore:

19 Dec 2004, 02:58

TPK 12" for me. 'This Time Of Night' is a great track,but TPK is possibly their best single-if not then certainly in the top 3.

21 Dec 2004, 01:39

This time of night - anytime. Barney sounding pathetic, how sexy! :love2:

21 Dec 2004, 08:36

OI!! :eek: This is a good one!! Really gotta think about this one...OK, not really, but I wanted to give the runner up a little boost.

Hadta go with TPK. And to reittereate what everyone else said so well....Only if it's the full on epic version though.

TTON I don't think Barney comes across as whiney...more like Impassioned!!!

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27 Dec 2004, 10:22

The PERFECT KISS

14 Jan 2005, 19:06

This Time of Night. Great road music. When I was travelling to Dallas for a Wiggles concert, I never got tired of it (but my two-year old did!) :cry:

25 Feb 2005, 05:40

This Time Of Night, by a LONG way - its a class song one of my favourites.

TPK on the other hand cant stand up to that (or Sunrise) having said that; if you could dump the album edit of TPK from the 12" & give me the REST of it on a loop then we would have a fair fight. Once the singing ends (no offence Barney) TPK is really brilliant (godlike bass; godlike everything)

27 Feb 2005, 14:06

TPK!!!

every time!!!

28 Feb 2005, 00:56

Are those are our IP addresses in the bottom right of our posts? :skeptic:

28 Feb 2005, 02:24

Yep and Jeff's got 69 in it. :evil4:

28 Feb 2005, 02:34

I prefer the "Iv'e got a cock like the M1 " version

28 Feb 2005, 03:28

Hi... well, for me The Perfect Kiss is untouchable, sorry . But the 12' version, of course, not that edited mess from the album, lol. Off the album version I only like those few secs of the intro that can also be heard on the Kiss Of Death

This Time Of Night is brilliant, genius and all, but it is not TPK

There goes my first post ever.........

28 Feb 2005, 11:53

NObabe wrote: Yep and Jeff's got 69 in it.

Leave it to YOU to notice!!! :nod:

4 Mar 2005, 14:12

This time of Night all the way

4 Mar 2005, 16:06

TPK is my favorite, & funny enough I was listening to the single today (plus the great kiss of death). Although TTON is a good track, its not one of my favorites off the album. I say Sunrise could compete if there was an extended version ( I would love to here the instrumental, does anyone know how good it is?). Besides, you can't beat Hooky's awesome bass on TPK, & the video is just classic, I love the whole vibe it has.

5 Mar 2005, 00:12

The perfect kiss does drag on a bit

13 Apr 2005, 00:31

TPK, although This Time of Night is one of New Order's best tracks of any era.

23 Nov 2005, 08:36

Both :evil4:

23 Nov 2005, 14:58

Say...

The perfect kiss (album version) 0 - This time of night 1 The perfect kiss (long version) 1 - This time of night 0,99

26 Nov 2005, 05:39

This is tough. After playing both tracks again and again, I have voted This Time of Night. Along with Sunrise, this song is my favourite off Lowlife.

26 Nov 2005, 11:45

This time of night..just, TPK is a classic but the frog chorus just edges it into second place :) .

26 Nov 2005, 14:16

fitz wrote: This time of night..just, TPK is a classic but the frog chorus just edges it into second place :) .

non, the frog chorus are the lyrics we understand the best here. I cannot let you tell that... erm...

30 Nov 2005, 05:01

Although I love both songs, I voted for "The Perfect Kiss". :love:

30 Nov 2005, 05:09

defo both outstanding, but in a different way

but for me on Low-life, gotta be THIS TIME OF NIGHT.

Low-Life is without any shadow of a doubt THE best album. imo

30 Nov 2005, 07:41

Im not going to vote as i like both off these songs :\ohwell:

19 Dec 2005, 14:38

Always prefered This Time Of Night to be honest.Especially when I was queuing up outside The Hacienda for their '84 LowLife Tour,listening to them soundchecking it inside.

20 Dec 2005, 13:39

This Time of Night!

Defo!!!!!!

:hat:

19 May 2006, 05:33

TPK by far!! :nod:

2 Aug 2006, 23:47

shit this is how people get thousands of posts!

3 Aug 2006, 16:10

krisna wrote: shit this is how people get thousands of posts!

haha posts mean prizes!

I'd go for TPK. Never really fancied TTON on record, but it sounds great live! TPK though, doubt much can touch it

6 Nov 2006, 05:04

k-dog (krisna) wrote: shit this is how people get thousands of posts!

And another post for me, trying to reach 100 today!

TPK every time!

6 Nov 2006, 12:11

As in taken from Low-Life? This Time Of Night,TPK is one of my favs but the edit doesn't do it justice.

6 Nov 2006, 13:46

(47/692) that's 0.07 votes a day. TToN

14 Nov 2006, 10:56

bored???

15 Nov 2006, 00:55

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: bored???

Shitless!

15 Nov 2006, 00:57

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: bored???

Shitless!

15 Nov 2006, 00:58

Doubled up? Oh well... :shrug:

17 Nov 2006, 23:10

TPK

21 Jan 2007, 20:37

Three words: The. Perfect. Kiss.

[...that and, I've never heard the 12" TPK! *pout* I'm more familiar with the 8-minute version *guessing that's the single version?* and the video version *which is the BEST!!* but I've never heard the 12". Or maybe I had but never noticed? Help!!]

21 Jan 2007, 23:41

I absolutely love both songs, but Perfect Kiss had to beat This Time of Night for me. Especially the extended version off of Substance-in my opinion that version is so much better than the shorter version off of Low-Life and International. Perfect Kiss seems so much more intricate and intense, although This Time of Night really moves me also. Perfect Kiss is definitely in my top 5 New Order songs-so dancy, so intense and intricate. I love how fast-paced it is-especially towards the end after the singing is done. I must confess that I really don't like the video version of the song nearly as much as the studio versions. This Time of Night is really a very cool, very new wavy song packed full of emotion and almost has as much cool danceability as Perfect Kiss. Perfect Kiss is a 10 on a scale of 1-10 for me. This Time of Night ended up scoring a 9.

22 Jan 2007, 03:57

StarKnight Sunshine wrote: Three words: The. Perfect. Kiss.

[...that and, I've never heard the 12" TPK! *pout* I'm more familiar with the 8-minute version *guessing that's the single version?* and the video version *which is the BEST!!* but I've never heard the 12". Or maybe I had but never noticed? Help!!]

The 8 minute version,is the 12" version-albeit with nearly a minute edited out to fit on the Substance CD. Thats the original one,the way it was written. The version on Low-Life is an edit which for most people completely ruins it.

Never understood why the full mix wasn't on lowlife...

22 Jan 2007, 16:45

Steve One wrote:

StarKnight Sunshine wrote: Three words: The. Perfect. Kiss.

[...that and, I've never heard the 12" TPK! *pout* I'm more familiar with the 8-minute version *guessing that's the single version?* and the video version *which is the BEST!!* but I've never heard the 12". Or maybe I had but never noticed? Help!!]

The 8 minute version,is the 12" version-albeit with nearly a minute edited out to fit on the Substance CD. Thats the original one,the way it was written. The version on Low-Life is an edit which for most people completely ruins it.

Never understood why the full mix wasn't on lowlife...

Coolness, Steve! Thank you many times a plenty for the explanation on what is, hands down, my favorite New Order song of all time. *grin*

Yep, I love the 'Substance' version [that should've SOOO been a single... :shrug: ], and even more the 9:21 video. Classic. And the video is my favorite video of all time, too.

23 Jan 2007, 08:22

Your welcome. We love new members here! :clap:

23 Jan 2007, 13:34

Jennifer--StarKnight 1: Sunshine wrote: Three words: The. Perfect. Kiss.

[...that and, I've never heard the 12" TPK! *pout* I'm more familiar with the 8-minute version *guessing that's the single version?* and the video version *which is the BEST!!* but I've never heard the 12". Or maybe I had but never noticed? Help!!]

The nearly 9 minute one is the 12" version. The 8 min one is edited to fit Substance.

The 7" edit version is about 4 mins and the Low Life album version that a lot of people are mentioning on this thread is just under 5 mins

Class song, but none of the versions are as great as This Time of Night (A song that doesn't need 20 different edits) :nod:

23 Jan 2007, 13:37

:uhoh:

Ahh, you beat me to it, Steve.

Maybe I should have finished reading the thread before I replied :\ohwell:

23 Jan 2007, 13:42

The perfect kiss

23 Jan 2007, 16:04

Really, I do appreciate all the explanations going on! Thank you all very much!! *hugs*

23 Jan 2007, 18:26

The Perfect Kiss.....absolutely! :bow:

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