TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF GOD

1. The synth noise bit after he sings 'Touched'
2. new live version. 3.Can't really be done with it, haven't listened to it for ages. IMO, one of the only NO tracks that really shows it's age. thumbs down from me.
3. Around 35%.
4. Everytime me missus gets 'that' look in her eye.

This is my first time on doing this song review thingy, so please bear with me ;)

Ok..

1. The lyrics and its one of my favourite vocals by good ole Barney.
2. There ain't a worst bit really.
3. Love it cause it was when I was first getting into New Order, it was one of the first songs to really 'grab me' as it were, and I'm still not bored with it. Video still makes me giggle too :D
4. 95%
5. I'm always being scared - I'm rubbish 2 incidents that spring to mind are when my ex-housemate's psycho girlfriend came into my bedroom and threatened to kill me, and when I accepted a lift home from a club with a gang of mates. Car was so overcrowded one mate travelled in the boot, but then I got really scared when the driver sat himself in the passenger seat and wondered where the steering wheel had gone The things we do when we've had a few shandies

<<1. Best Bit - " I was TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHEEEEEEEEED" WHOOOOOO!!!! & Gillian living out her fetish fantasy in the video!

2. Worst Bit - Barney doesnt scream as wildly as he used to :(

3. Why u love or hate it - i love it, so much in fact i dedicated a thread to it not so long ago :D powerful, great words, great bass, great singalone tune.

4. Percentage rating - oooh.. gotta be pushing for the 90's say 87%

5. The most scared you have ever been - when i very nearly fell off the top of a 22story towerblock... i fuckin shit myself

1- The band looking like Motley Crue doing Spinal Tap in the video is always the thing that makes me laugh the most about this one! Gillian playing her cheesy 80's keyboard guitar in those thigh-high kinky booties was a strange turn-on to say the least!!! Fuckin hilarious! 2 - The drum sound (can't tell here if it's drum machine or live drums) was a bit superficial and tinny-sounding - not enough bollocks... 3 - It's one of their better songs IMHO - "True faith" was just too blatantly chart-friendly for my liking (and that stupid video sucked too) and even though I didn't reckon much of this one on first listen, it became as they say in the game.. "a grower"... 4 - 78% 5 - Had many close scrapes as a younger kid - especially with all the gang warfare that I used to somehow become embroiled with chiefly by virtue of a few of us - me and my mates in Newcastle at the time - being skinheads. One time I really thought I was going to die when I was about 16 or 17 and was riding pillion on a scooter driven by my mate Gordy from Wallsend. We were being rammed from behind by one of the other older biker lads who'd taken a huge exception to us riding through his street. Gordy was doing nearly 60 at this point and I could feel myself almost losing my grip as the bastard kept slamming his fookin Harley into us from behind...I was genuinely quite petrified of the prospect of not seeing the end of that day back then....thankfully a couple of years later I moved out of the area and put all that shit behind me.....a sadly inevitable part of growing up in a shithole I suppose...

Originally posted by ShugZV > Originally posted by And You Will Know Me By the Trail of Empty G&Ts> > > 5. when Ross first told Rachel how he felt about her on "Friends", a real nailbiter- still gets me even during the repeats ;) >

Brilliant Iain mate - fookin pissed mesel!!!!

Hope you didn't make too much of a mess, sir! The competition is pretty tough these days and I just don't have the stamina that Martin does. BTW, Martin

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...Iain, being the forum that this is...if you want it really badly, you must sing. ;)

like this: "express yrrrrselllf, it's one-oh-one..."

just like *that*. now, you give it a try.

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...Iain, being the forum that this is...if you want it really badly, you must sing. ;)

like this: "express yrrrrselllf, it's one-oh-one..."

just like *that*. now, you give it a try.

OK, J, here I go! (sung to the tune of Eddie Murphy's chant "I want the knife" in the Tibetan monastery in the movie "The Golden Child")

"I-I-I-I-I want room 101. Give g-g-give me room 101."

Oops, now I'm :o after singing in front of everyone.

Originally posted by Major Tarantino and i was...TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF GOD

<<1. Best Bit, 2. Worst Bit, 3. Why u love or hate it, 4. Percentage rating, 5. The most scared you have ever been>>

The song itself is so uplifting. The worst bit is that it didnt do better in the charts Love it for Gillians corset 85% The most scared was when some idiot tried to mug me with a machete in New Cross about 14 years ago. Didn't get a fucking penny though.

Very good one of New Orders best.

1. catchy, dancable
2. the very high "touched" vocal
3. pretty dated now, but catchy enough to get under one's skin. the vocals are a bit off. and the video is great stuff....especially Gillian.
4. 78%
5. almost drowning last summer....almost getting pulled over by the cops in the back of a truck back in high school while on various mind-altering substances...bad effects of some bad grass...whilst performing other youthful illegal activities not mentioned here

1. The way the Glasto 87 version starts, PLEASE have them bring this one back. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to program into their PowerMac G4...erm, I mean Emulator II... The lyrics, but I don't like Barney's vocals on the chorus, not his singing style at all. The video is amazing as well
2. A bit repetative, especially the 12"
3. One of my first "non USA radio" hit I've heard by them, instantly addictive, but has waned over time
4. 90%

Originally posted by Major Tarantino and i was...TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF GOD

<<1. Best Bit, 2. Worst Bit, 3. Why u love or hate it, 4. Percentage rating, 5. The most scared you have ever been>>

Hearing it in the Hacienda on a wednesday afternoon whilst Vini and Rob Gray got ready to soundcheck, Alan Erasmus put it on ? Memory inducer. Barfight in Brindisi, Italy, got punched in the throat

1. Best bit - That modulating synth melody in the choruses. Terrific!

2. Worst bit - The orchestral stabs are totally hokey (heck, they were hokey when the song came out), but they're kinda funny to me now.

3. Love/hate - When this was released, I felt that New Order will still on the decline (especially after the string of sell-out singles that started with "Shellshock"), and this just seemed to be further evidence that they were fast becoming irrelevant. Even if it was done for a soundtrack, it just felt...cheap. But that said, is was still New Order. The soft spot was already there. Nowadays, I even kinda dig it (I'd love to hear the 12" version again). But it'll never be anything more than a nice single to me.

4. Rating - I'll be generous. 70%.

5. The most scared I've ever been - Okay, this is a little lengthy.

A few years back, before I moved in with my boyfriend, I always would go to sleep with some music on. I didn't have a timer feature or anything on my stereo, so I'd just set the volume low, throw on a disc, and hope to conk out before it was over (usually worked). On occasion, though, I'd roll over on the remote control and wreak some kind of havoc (which would usually wake me up and force me to fumble with the damned thing in the dark). Anyhoo...

I was going through a big Beatles phase, particularly the "white" album. Both discs were in the changer for a few solid months. And one night I went through my usual routine. The volume was just a wee bit louder than usual, but not enough to get me out of bed to adjust it. It was the first really warm night of the season, and I was already sweaty and cranky. Screw it, i thought.

Well, at some point I must've rolled over on the remote and hit the "repeat" button. Specifically, during the musique concrete freakout that is "Revolution 9." Lord knows how many times the track played through, but...well, there's a section in there that has a really evil laugh in it alongside the swirling background music and snatches of dialogue. And it filtered its way into my subconscious, fucked around with my dreams, and I woke up convinced that the devil himself was in my room. I had a real sense of (oh, God, this is gonna make me sound like a total wingnut) a presence of evil in my bedroom. And it was watching me, or at least aware of me, and aware that I was aware of it. I was dripping sweat, and absolutely frozen - my hairs were standing on end. Fully fucking freaked out.

From then on, I switched to either Appalacian folk music or Brian Eno ONLY.

Al Jarvis wrote:

1. The original opening used to come in like a plane crashlanding in your living room. Remember Finsbury 87 when we were all pushed well back cos of problems with the stage then when the Order opened we this it was like a tidal wave of bodies unleashed on the stage again.
2. It's too 'toned down' now. Something's missing but I can't quite put a finger on it.

I remember getting into a ruck with a security twat because i wouldn't move back from the barrier when it started collapsing... the afore mentioned security twat had failed to notice hundreds of people pushing forward making it a bit difficult for me to move anywhere!!!

This song has been below 50% for me since i first heard it ?The video still gives me a giggle to this day though !

Knock off of Human Leauges Don't You Want Me Baby possbibly?

1. Intro
2. The end
3. Quintessential New Order
4. 99%
5. Waking up one morning and everyone has left

1.The lyrics, the sound of it, Bernard's voice 2.The video 3.The video isn't as horrible as say, "1963"'s video, but I just think the only people in this video that looked convincingly like rock stars were Gillian and Hooky. I couldn't see Steve very well, and no offence, but Bernard looks like a little boy playing dress-up in this video. 4.95.5%

1.The sequenced bass line 2.The 'now sounding a bit crappy' '80's bits,especially on the 12" 3.Much better live,as has a cracking Hooky bassline in it which was a major disappointment to me when it was left off for record,& the 'now sounding a .....'above.Also,the video.Funny at first.Not now.Tho' Gillian in that corset...'it's getting hot in herre...'! 4.70% 5.Blackpool's 'The Big One....I don't like heights....& the morning after the night before...:(

1. The beat's pretty good
2. Not much bad
3. The music video
4. 85%

[01] The Video! My second favorite New Order video next to TPK. [02] Gillian's boots in the video.:D [03] Same with # 1 [04] B [05} I witnessed a bank hold-up a little more than a decade ago. I was driving when I passed this bank when suddenly a car blocked the road and people fully armed with masks came out (I later learned/saw that some of the robbers were already inside prior to the blocking of the road) and poitned an armalite at the cars (I was in the front row). At first, I thought they were shooting a movie/film, hehehe.

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1. Best bit - the two verses are excellent
2. Worst bit- goes on a shade too long on the 12"
3. I kike it because it was another NO 12" not available on any album and another g8 NO single
4. 80%
5. Scared - writing on here in the fear of being ridiculed!! But last time I was really scared was too many mushrooms in Amsterdam with a girl I just started going out with, forgot my name, forgot who she was! Lucklily 6 years later still together with child, so scary moment really bonded us. Funnily enough never touched shrooms again until 2005 NO gig in Hyde Park and that was a brilliant day / night.

I like the video of this song very much

great song live.

i never knew it.

One of my favourite songs, guys... I just can't think of anything wrong about that.

one of their best songs (12" mix)

10/10