Ha. Once I saw some dudes at the airport who were clearly in some kind of band. I asked what the name was and guy told me, in heavy French accent, "Rock and Roll"
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Great news on the reissue. I have the original CD which I suspect was mastered from vinyl, and was looking into ordering the previous remastered version with the black cover from the uk. Glad I waited.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
I have absolutely no words...
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17564/reviews/4146274
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 8 April 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
the irony of accusing the re-issue of being "lazily tossed-off" is delicious.
― Neil S, Monday, 8 April 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
Haha.
The second disc is pretty bad though. Alternate versions of songs that came out almost a decade later?
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 8 April 2013 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
On the other hand I wanted remastered opy of Second to None.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
I initially thought the Twisted Tenderness demos might have been recorded at the time of the 1st lp and then finished 10 years later
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 8 April 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
If you want to goI just can't say no
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
Reviving because it's been, you know, a year since the last time.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 March 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
Bought this on vinyl a couple months ago. It's still one of my favorite albums. Kind if wish they had release it in the US on vinyl so I could have Getting Away With It on there as well.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Phone posting leads to some shady errors.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
I hope the new stuff from New Order incorporates the sweet synth basslines on display in Try All You Want and Some Distant Memory.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
better to live than to know
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 March 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
surprised Sumner and Marr haven't signed up to perform the album live at some festival.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 March 2014 08:49 (ten years ago) link
do you want to see Bernard dancing?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 March 2014 12:21 (ten years ago) link
I have the sudden urge to listen to this again because it is so springlike, but I no longer seem to own this album! How did that happen?
― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Friday, 14 March 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
Surprised Sumner hasn't signed up to perform the album with Cunningham and Chapman, minus Marr.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 March 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
are these two estranged then? Anyway BB OTM - this album has such a fresh and sunny Spring feeling.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 March 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
https://imtransfer.shapeservices.net/uploads/8227139480887496356/Image.jpg
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 March 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
I suddenly want to get a vinyl copy of this really badly. Sadly it's really hard to do a search for it on eBay. It does look like some copies with Getting Away With it on it came out. The album wouldn't seem right without it.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
This and Technique are Sumner's peak.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 14 March 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Looks like the versions with Getting Away With It leave off Gangster for some reason.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 March 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Really? They need to reissue this on vinyl with both those songs on as soon as possible then.
Think if I included this with all the New Order albums I'd rate only Technique and Low-Life higher. All three of them would be 10/10.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 15 March 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
It does look like some copies with Getting Away With it on it came out. The album wouldn't seem right without it.
The album wouldn't seem right with it.
― Charles, hatless (sic), Saturday, 15 March 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
The only version I've ever owned has it on there and as it's one of my favourite songs of all time I'd really miss it, even if it shouldn't be on there. It's the exact same situation as Virginia Plain on the first Roxy Music album.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 15 March 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah the original Uk vinyl and CD issue never had it on. same kinda deal as the re-issues of Meat Is Murder that have How Soon Is Now on them.
― piscesx, Saturday, 15 March 2014 05:55 (ten years ago) link
tighten up has the lovely creamy left-over-smiths guitar riff
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:35 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Saturday, 15 March 2014 06:33 (ten years ago) link
^ this is what i feel
I absolutely love some distant memory. I guess because it could so easily fit on technique..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 17 March 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
ILM's love of Some Distant Memory is what made me feel right at home when I stumbled here. That oboe solo outro still kills me after all these years
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 17 March 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
"getting way with it" is my least favourite track here. i don't like the strings on it, and in a way the song does not evolve after the good start. it just meanders around without a clear destination. it is still better than 95% of the music around but on this gorgeous album it is the stinker. my fave is definitely "feel every beat" which didn't fare too well in the poll. how it slowly builds up and gets better and better. and turns into a monster groove. that keyboard line soaked in reverb which reminds so much of matt johnson's "soul mining" cd. it is so incredibly light and airy. irresistible dance pop at its finest.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 17 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
"getting away with it", of course.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 17 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
getting away with it, yes. ok, i've not seen a pic of bernie since the mid 90s and was just confronted with the youtube spectacle of something from last year. i do hope he is well.
― into the aerosmith, over the sea (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx)
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
BETTER TO LIVE THAN TO KNOW
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Hehehehe... funny that this got bumped given that I'm currently up to the part in Chapter and Verse where Sumner and Marr are trying to promote this record while nursing killer hangovers.
(Although I haven't yet stopped laughing at the part where Ian Curtis brings a French journalist to Joy Division's rehearsal room for an interview to be greeted with the sight of a room full of miners watching a porno)
― Turrican, Monday, 23 May 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Better to live than to know.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 02:46 (seven years ago) link
I put this NO play list together that includes Electronic tracks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Whenever "Getting Away With It" pops into my head, I end up immediately singing the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way." Am I the only one who does this? I mean, the chorus is almost identical, even down to the slight variation (C instead of A on the Electronic song, not sure about the Furs) of the second note the second time they sing the hook (compare the second "all my life" to "I follow")
sorry, that was nerdy, but if ever there was a forum on which to express such a thing, it is here Would have voted "Patience Of A Saint" but missed the poll
― Wimmels, Sunday, 15 January 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Can't believe I never noticed that similarity between the songs before. From now on, I'm sure my brain will make the substitution
― Vinnie, Sunday, 15 January 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
more is less and you're repressed!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
thread prompted me to play the associated singles from the first album. I like all the non-album tracks, but especially enjoy when Free Will gets about 2mins in and it sounds like the song starts again: https://youtu.be/VD6-bMRJJZY?t=132
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 16 January 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I love the B-sides, especially this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH4u1kMCvmo
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, agree with Second to None. It seems like it could have easily fit on the album.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
Oh wow didn't know there was anything beyond the album from that era
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
They excelled at instrumentals. This one has had a long life as bumper music:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lean+to+the+inside+electronic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLpxZ_fGwY
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Turning Point and Lucky Bag are my b-sides of choice right now.
― badg, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
"Getting Away With It" was one of the last songs to be released during the 80's and made for a perfect closure to the decade. Also because of that timing it came out around Christmas so I forever associate it with the holidays.
Is there another comparable song that closes out a particular era of time so well? Maybe "Good Times" by Chic?
― yesca, Monday, 11 September 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
the end of “gangster” >>>>>
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 December 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link