New Order - Music Complete

I'm surprised it's not on youtube.

I'm really struggling to imagine what 'People On The High Line' would have sounded like with Hook on board. It sounds like the kind of track they couldn't have made with him, or if they had it would have sounded very different.

TOOTI

FROOTI

Stumbled across this thread tonight: as a fan since Power, Corruption, & Lies, I would say that there's one 10/10 song here in Tutti Frutti, which would have sat proudly on Technique. Plastic might be another great song if they had dispensed with its coda: most of the songs here would benefit from editing - for example, Nothing But A Fool could say everything it has to say in 3 or 4 minutes instead of 7. Still, as someone said above, when a band has been part of your life for decades, you're just glad that they made a new record with one great song on it.

'Tutti Frutti' has a great chorus, but I think the verses could have been better.

http://pitchfork.com/news/64491-new-order-announce-expanded-edition-of-music-complete/

Yep, here comes "Complete Music" - all the expanded versions from the big box.

looks like after they get this release out they're going to become realtors.

The 10-track EP of "Singularity" remixes that is now up on Spotify is a slog to listen to in one sitting, but the Errol Alkan Extended Mix and a couple of the other mixes that reframe the song as more of a pure synth/sequencer-driven track along the lines of "Plastic" are an improvement over the album mix, in my opinion.

The 10th track is a Tom Rowlands remix of "Tutti Frutti" that throws everything and the kitchen sink into the mix, but is pretty fun to listen to.

Tried this album again last night but couldn't get past the third track IIRC.

The running order for this album could be re-arranged in any conceivable way, and I still wouldn't be able to get past three tracks.

your loss
I feel like a sucker but caved in and impulse-bought the new extended version

Is that 'extended' as in extra songs, or as in average track-length now 12 minutes?

New Order - Music Complete

Extended versions are on the whole fantastic - loving this album more than ever ("Superheated" probably the only song I never warmed up to).

Really ended up loving the first four songs of this album and not really enjoying the rest. But wow, those first four were the most New Order-like compositions in 25 years.

Something I've noticed over time is the similarity of "Restless" to Technique's "Dream Attack". In fact, the more I've listened to it, the more it seems like "Restless" is an attempt to fix a problem that Bernard identified with "Dream Attack" in that he felt the song had "no chorus!"

I think it's most obvious after the second verse of the album version when the strumming and strings come in at 2:34

https://play.spotify.com/track/0tE2jOqAMQxLhWD1sKQxBS?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

(Including the Spotify link there because there doesn't seem to be a YouTube of the album version out there!)

"Dream Attack": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDXBPZoV2jw

screw you bernie dream attack is perfect

when did Sanders hate "Dream Attack"

I think "Dream Attack" is basically perfect too. I've grown to love "Restless" over time but probably not as much.

dream attack was one of the first new order songs I really loved

Dream Attack is still my favorite New Order song.

once again bernie is outvoted

I doubt I'm alone in saying part of what makes "Dream Attack" so good is that the chorus is so understated

I saw them live at Bilbao BBK last week, it was a really great set if only an hour long. They were doing interesting things with the older material, they seemed to have made it sound a lot more chunky than the recorded versions, and it was interesting that they kept to the more electronic side of their back-catalogue. The newer material was more faithfully rendered.

I'd like to know why they never play anything from Technique, and haven't since reuniting in 2001 (afaik?).

That's utterly baffling, I would have thought songs like Run and Love Less would be fixtures in a live set. I see they dragged out Round & Round once in 2012, noted as "first time since 1993". Maybe they hate that period of the band's history, or the lyrics are too related to Barney's divorce ... ?
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/new-order/2012/vector-arena-auckland-new-zealand-3def10b.html

Same for Republic, including Regret (at least on this tour)

Yeah, but no one considers Republic the best NO album, or even one of the best, save for Regret. Makes sense it would be ignored; I mean, nothing from Movement, either. But Technique is all killer, no filler.

They played "Regret" when I saw'em in March.

no one considers Republic the best NO album, or even one of the best,

At some time every album b/w 1982 and 1993, including Electronic, has been my favorite NO album.

On the 2013 tour they were playing Regret and World from Republic, which is nice. But yeah... nothing from Technique at all. I don't mind, I like Republic better anyway.

I would beg them to play a concert that was nothing but Movement and Technique

I saw Hooky doing the whole of Movement with The Light about 3 years ago, that was good in a slightly karaoke kind of way, and his voice was suffering by the end of the set

Saw them in Manchester Saturday and beforehand I was fantasising about a set of just Technique with an encore of Tutti Frutti. But yeah, no Technique at all. Your Silent Face was unexpected and good. Encore was just Decades and Love Will Tear Us Apart which was a bit of a buzz killer tbh. On a positive note it was some buzz they'd built up by that point to kill.

Would love to hear some first album Electronic songs mixed into a live show. It's the great lost New Order record under a different name. Anyone who needs a refresher course on who drives the creative of this band really need to go back and listen to the debut albums of Electronic and Revenge. God damn the Revenge stuff was embarrassing.

Johnny Marr played some Electronic on tour.

Bernard played Tighten Up on the Bad Luetinent tour.