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New Order - Substance (1990)

Album details

Label: Qwest / Wea    Ref#: ?-0278
Date: 10/25/1990   Category:  
Length: 0:00    
Format: CD    
Audio: Stereo    
Genre:      

Notes/Reviews

It's a simple concept--the first dozen singles by New Order collected, a couple of them rerecorded--but it's also a totally entertaining seven-year history of the band that married British post-punk alienation to the relentless hedonism of the dance floor. The band's hits were always deeply unconventional (like the haunting "Blue Monday," essentially a seven-minute drum machine test with a short lyric that alluded to the Falklands War), but they were brilliant productions, layering dozens of electronic countermelodies and percussion tricks over Barney Sumner's uncertain warble and Peter Hook's lead bass parts. Though they're audio snapshots of the dance beats of their time, they've held up both as club classics and as idiosyncratic rock songs. --Douglas Wolk

Songs/Tracks

1.   Ceremony  
2.   Everything's Gone Green  
3.   Temptation  
4.   Blue Monday  
5.   Confusion  
6.   Thieves Like Us  
7.   Perfect Kiss  
8.   Subculture  
9.   Shellshock  
10.   State of the Nation  
11.   Bizarre Love Triangle  
12.   True Faith  
13.   In a Lonely Place  
14.   Procession  
15.   Mesh  
16.   Hurt  
17.   The Beach  
18.   Confusion Instrumental  
19.   Lonesome Tonight  
20.   Murder  
21.   Thieves Like Us Instrumental  
22.   Kiss of Death  
23.   Shame of the Nation  
24.   1963  

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