Oh, you've got green eyes Oh, you've got blue eyes Oh, you've got Poll eyes: NEW ORDER Artist poll #37 (voting ends May 26 Midnight Pacific)

the "Times Change" oboe would be my favorite thing were it not for the existence of the "Some Distant Memory" oboe solo.

Top three for dancing:
1. Crystal (so hedonistic)
2. Thieves Like Us (used to request this when I lived in Houston, it was good for dancing and drinking at the same time)
3. Bizarre Love Triangle because everyone would mob the floor when it came on

possibly the most underappreciated New Order single is "Guilt Is A Useless Emotion"

sounds like Haddaway in the best way

Ok

Face Up for happy
Thieves Like Us for romance/slow dancin
True Faith for memories/self-loathing

Temptation is #4 for being just the best to dance to

'Fine Time' comes with its own set of acieed house moves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVqzsVNGM7c

i'm not going to be happy with those three tomorrow

good thing this isn't the real poll

Totally forgot about Guilt Is A Useless Emotion, not sure what I would have pushed off my ballot to include it but it is a good track and one of the few dance numbers NO did late career.

what do we think of Lost Sirens? "Californian Grass" ain't bad.

It didn't excite me like I expected it to. I've heard rumors they were in the studio with the Chemical Brothers again and Bernard must have a cache of work he did with Stuart Price, so i'm really hoping the stuff they're working on now is more electronic than their post Republic work.

What about the Bad Lieutenant album? Was anybody still paying attention at that point?

(I liked it, by the way)

There were a few songs on it I liked but since I can't recall any of them by name, i'm not sure how much I really liked them.

Voted

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Californian Grass is the only late-period song that nearly made my list, but it ended up being #42 or something :\

OK, I've clearly been away too long and this is going to sound like the old fellow who doesn't get the internet but how are we submitting these? Email to Bee?

Opening post has all the deets.

Ahh, didn't get to end of post as was too excited making list. Thanks.

so i listened to Get Ready for the first time today. what i really remember about it is that he really didn't want to wash his car. lol. also that one song i swear is a Primal Scream song.

it was a good album, much better than i thought it would have been. not sure if any tracks will make it into the Top 40 however.

Well, Bee, you've seen my ballot, so you already know which tracks I recommend and how fond I am of that album.

I think it's a really good one. Tack on 'Here to Stay' and you have one of their best.

top five on Get Ready:

Crystal
60 MPH
Vicious Streak
Slow Jam
Someone Like You

fyi there are other awesome songs on this album besides these five, it's a really great album

My overpowering memory of "Someone Like You" is being out of my gourd in fall '02 in Chicago's Metro after a Sleater Kinney show, dancing with a lovely boy I picked up just before a busload of Koreans invaded the club.

How could you name Slow Jam, very easily the worst song in the New Order catalog, and not mention Primitive Notion, one of the best songs they've ever done.

Glad to see other people repping for Get Ready though.

I wanna live till I die
I wanna live to get high

What about Run Wild? That's always been one of my favourites on that album. Vicious Streak is one I don't think I rated that much at the time but love it now.

Run Wild is good but the alternate mix by Steve Osborne is better than the version on the album.

Primitive Notion, one of the best songs they've ever done.

Yes.

Seriously, anybody who loves Joy Division and not New Order (or vice versa) is made a fool by that song.

On the other hand, I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who hates 'Run Wild' with a passion.

I like every song on Get Ready so

Any love for 1963? It's going in my tracks ballot...

Top three, I would have thought..

won't be in my top 30, for some reason i've never warmed to it

Sorry was there a decision re. dubs/remixes? Want to vote of Regret and the Weatherall remix...

I'm thinking I really should listen to Get Ready again...

I'm glad we got to vote for 40 - Regret is the only post-80s song in my top 20 but I had room to get into the later stuff further down the ballot. The title track of Waiting for the Sirens' Call is their best reunion song imo.

The title track of Waiting for the Sirens' Call is their best reunion song imo.

― Deafening silence (DL)

I agree with this. I was kind of surprised how high I ended up putting it on my list but it's one of their most moving songs.

there're two Weatherall remixes of Regret

hah didn't know that. The one I'm familiar with is Regret (Sabres Slow 'n' Low mix).

voted! Thanks Bee OK, really looking forward to the run-down for this one.

1963 is high on my ballot, mostly for the '95 version on the Best Of. I didn't vote specifically for any remixes, but I think it blows the original out of the water.

I still vividly remember being in London as a teenager and finding out Substance there was a 2 cassette deal with all of the b-sides on it and how overjoyed I was to discover all of those songs

i bought a used cassette of the hits part of Substance in middle school and had no idea there was a 2nd disc for years

Substance on double vinyl was one of the first records I bought when I went to university 17 years ago, for the princely sum of £3. I still play it now.

My brother had/has the double CD, which I borrowed off him to tape the b-sides.

I can blame The Cure, New Order, Prince and Pet Shop Boys for causing me to gravitate towards bands' b-sides when I start really following them

The Smiths were good in that regard too.

I actually owned the "True Faith" 45, which came in its condensed Pettibone form and of course "1963"

I have that on a warped 12" with a nice big picture of a leaf on the cover:

http://www.niagara.edu/neworder/graphics/truefaith.jpg

sorry for hueg