POLL Will Tear Us Apart – ILM Artist Poll #86 - JOY DIVISION – New Order solo or other groups Poll (aka the Electronic poll) – a NEW ORDER (#37) supplement poll --- Results Thread

I've seen 808 State three times, every gig tremendous. "Spanish Heart" had the advantage of coming out at the same time as Electronic's debut and my discovering the New Order universe, therefore I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zEZAij6vGw

15. Tasty Fish
By: The Other Two
From: The Other Two & You
Released: 28 October 1993 (UK), 1 November 1994 (US)
105 Points, 3 Votes

Pleasant, inessential.

That video is so hilariously bad. But hopefully this means a top ten finish for "Selfish"!

i do like her voice. i know it really wasn't New Order's style but i would have thought they would let her sing on a b-side or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivUi8l0uMqA

14. For You
By: Electronic
From: Electronic
Single Released: September 16, 1996
116 Points, 3 Votes

damn there is no information about the video. i wanted to hear the story about the tank rolling over that camper.

i mean, you can't just rent a tank.

can we meet
on the street
maybe tomorrow?

oh damn:

For You is from Raise the Pressure.

Thanks for making me listen to Spanish Heart for the 1st time in 25 years. Such a fascinating mix of styles

One of Barnie's more delightful haiku:

I feel so good
when I look at you
I refuse to believe
there was ever a question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzWT5uio9uw

Try All You Want
By: Electronic
From: Electronic
Released: 28 May 1991
164 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One

when did Wiz change his name to W.I.Z.?

13.

i mean, you can't just rent a tank.

i don't think it's hard to acquire such decommissioned vehicles in the uk. iirc aphex twin owned a tank at one point. super furry animals did too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HETySgf-SYs

12. Forbidden City
By: Electronic
From: Raise the Pressure
Single Released: 24 June 1996
172 Points, 5 Votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49LBrMmJU4c

11. Selfish
By: The Other Two
From: The Other Two & You
Released: 28 October 1993 (UK), 1 November 1994 (US)
182 Points, 5 Votes

i will have images for Joy Division.

Top 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBeaaRk0jU

10. Idiot Country
By: Electronic
From: Electronic
Released: 28 May 1991
248 Points, 8 Votes (1 vote for "Idiot Country Two" (AKA ultimatum mix))

Selfish is the best St Etienne track never released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_ifR2qHlQ

9. Reality
By: Electronic
From: Electronic
Released: 28 May 1991
273 Points, 7 Votes

i thought there would be live videos for Electronic's deep cuts.

The acid house breakdown in the middle is glorious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5JxeDuoPI

8. Gangster
By: Electronic
275 Points, 7 Votes

"The Patience of a Saint" predated the album Electronic, having been written with Pet Shop Boys soon after their collaborating with singer Neil Tennant on "Getting Away with It" in 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wXQZNC1864

7. The Patience of a Saint
By: Electronic
326 Points, 9 Votes

did that in the wrong order, too many open windows.

"gangster" >>>>>> most songs

agree, it was my number four on this thing. i read somewhere where "Gangster" was written for an aborted Bernard Sumner solo album.

I'm trying to imagine Sumner sitting down, as he claims, to write a narrative. Sober.

Nothing in 1991 sounded like "The Patience of a Saint." It doesn't sound like PSB, it doesn't sound like New Order, and Sumner shows how much he learned as a vocalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NjRQJmeXA

6. Tighten Up
By: Electronic
346 Points, 9 Votes, 1 Number One

yay, finally another video. it was stale.

man "Tighten Up". When that programming and those acoustic guitars collide, I understand why the project was necesssary.

Writing in Melody Maker, Paul Lester described the song "Tighten Up" as "the devastating marriage of Smiths guitars and New Order technology that nervously excited fans the globe over were anticipating from Electronic. Imagine a sublime splicing of 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' and 'Dream Attack', then multiply by 12". In Vox Keith Cameron wrote: "'Tighten Up' gives Marr a chance to relive The Smiths' halcyon days with an exhilarating semi-acoustic dynamism".

Top 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0vXVUl2nE

5. Some Distant Memory
By: Electronic
352 Points, 8 Votes, 3 Number Ones

there were two black and white fan video's and i picked the best one.

^^^ this one is an entire universe

I really can't listen to this song too often, to me the apotheosis of Sumner as lyricist and vocal melodist and what he and Marr could do as arrangers.

And the garnishes after each verse: the chimes! Marr's flamenco solo! the oboe! And we can discuss the pizzicato synth strings.

interesting fact:

"Some Distant Memory" beat both "The Patience of a Saint" and "Tighten Up" despite getting one fewer vote. the three number ones is what pushed it over those and "Tighten Up" even got a number one vote too.

i was one of the "Some Distant Memory" number one vote. in the end it was a no doubter.

Over the yeras I've been astounded that so many of y'all agreed with me. Through the '90s and beyond I thought "Some Distant Memory" was my secret.

i hope people are having fun, i did drag this out a bit more than i anticipated doing.

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

4. Disappointed
By: Electronic
From: Songs from the "Cool World" Soundtrack
Released: June 22, 1992
366 Points, 9 Votes, 1 Number One

I did my ballot in such a rush that I nearly forgot to include "Disappointed". Such a jam

"Disappointed" was based on a piano riff by Marr's brother Ian; and worked up into a full backing-track by Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner. They decided to ask Neil Tennant to complete the song and he wrote the lyrics and vocal melody. Some of the words ("Disenchanted once more...") were partly inspired by Mylène Farmer's 1991 hit "Désenchantée".[2] Tennant travelled to Manchester to record the lead vocal and a few weeks later went to Paris to attend the final mix of the song by Stephen Hague.