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)

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

Appropriately huge. One of the most iconic sleeves OF ALL TIME. /kanye

Voted. Thanks to those who chimed in with standout tracks from the later albums. A couple of them made my ballot. I particularly liked Run Wild.

Feel like top 5 sleeves would have been more appropriate for this band than top 5 videos.

yeah, I voted but only went for 3 videos. Would have voted for top sleeves and top remixes!

Feel like top 5 sleeves would have been more appropriate for this band than top 5 videos.

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OTM

I bought the True Faith remix 12" because it was so pretty.

do we need to specify which mix we prefer of each sonq in question, or can we just you know say 'True Faith' or whatever?

One of the things that put me off about NO initially but I now love about them is the extent to which productions like "Face Up" have this glossy futurism as well as a flimsy, low budget quality -- often within the same song. When I hear Movement (which I am really liking), it makes me think that a big piece of the reason for that dynamic is their roots in Martin Hannett's thin, clangy productions, which a record like Low Life builds on with drum machines and synths that sound like they'd never even plugged in until the engineer pushed record in the studio.

Btw, where is Dan Selzer in this poll? I almost can't imagine ILM polling NO without him.

looking forward to seeing this in the top spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jG4Phsiuc

putting together my ballot i am struck by a couple of things, mainly that (a) i need to listen to brotherhood way more and (b) i hope i never hear republic again

(slightly unfair exaggeration)

i just can't believe how good Get Ready is. i have a new album by one of my all time favorite bands and i never knew about it.

i have listened to just about everything they have don within the last month or so. New Order are a great band.

done

ballot in. in the end i was surprised by how much i had to cut.

Really glad you've come to appreciate Get Ready. You'll need to track down the pre-mix version now. Wish I had voted for the 60 MaH video now. Forgot how much I enjoyed it.