Search and Destroy : New Order

Not really fair, since it was never intended for proper release.

I'm listening right now, and if I let my guard down a little bit, it's actually rather--no! these melodies are awful! Gah!

Destroy: "Ruined In A Day", "Spooky", "World", as drab a series of singles as any past-it band have let slide out - and after "Regret", too!

Of these, "World" is the one I found to be saved by a remix. The Perfecto Edit perks this track right up and ended up being used for the video.

If it's not cheating to Search some non New Order tracks, then The title track of Electronic's Twisted Tenderness, the title track of The Other Two's Superhighways and Monaco's What Do You Want From Me are three of the best not-really-new-order new order songs ever.

Here To Stay was a better song than anyone could have ever expected from them at that stage in the game. It pisses all over anything from Get Ready, and that wasn't even a bad album.

Destroy: Fine Time. It almost ruins Technique. It's the only NO song I don't like.

Everything else is fabulous.

but the confusion instrumental is amazing and great!

GETTING ALONG FAMOUSLY

GWEN STEFANI has roped in NEW ORDER and ANDRE 3000 for her long-awaited solo album.

NME.COM has heard ‘Love Angel Music Baby’ (LAMB), which is released on November 22 through Interscope, and the record sees the No Doubt singer united with a host of famous friends.

New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook – who are hard at work on their own follow-up to 2001's ‘Get Ready’ – provide guitar and bass on the track ‘Real Thing’, which was co-written by Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera / Pink) and produced by Nellee Hooper (Bjork / Massive Attack).

destroy: fine time (i just can't stand this track. it really isn't funny!)

Linda Perry?!? Say it isn't so...

(Fine Time is indeed brilliant.)

Linda Perry, source of all that is bad and wrong and stinky and mean and horrible and terrible and yech. Sorry, am I not clear?

(nb do not do an image search for "bizarro" if you are at work and you don't have Google Safe Search turned on... EW)

And yeah, "Fine Time" is incredibly brilliant. I didn't know that was even in question.

Oh, and I hated... HA-HATED 'Fine Time' when I first heard it. Now I love it.

There is actually quite a lot of NO that's not all that hot. But when they get it right...Oooh, boy!!!!

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Okay, so update based on Waiting -- I'd include "Guilt is a Useless Emotion," "Krafty" and the title track as definite searches now.

General question, meanwhile -- picked up the 81 NYC/Reading 98 DVD yesterday at last, and noticed there was a Finsbury Park 2002 DVD as well. That any good? And besides that and NewOrderStory, are those the only current official DVDs?

Whoa, this is new to me -- what is this exactly?

The cover is one of Saville's most beautiful:
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Really didn't like New Order Story much at all. Too slick, even downright stupid at times.