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

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.

Although Electronic would enjoy three more Top 20 singles in the UK, "Disappointed" was the last major commercial success for the band on an international level, becoming a dance chart hit in America and reaching the Top 20 in Germany as well as #6 in Britain (their highest UK position).

Until the release of Get the Message - The Best of Electronic in 2006, the track was not available on an Electronic album release. However, since "Disappointed" was featured in the 1992 film Cool World, the song was available on the soundtrack album Songs from the Cool World. It was also featured on Now That's What I Call Music (NOW) 22, where it appeared as track 14.

haha, i did forget about it and i didn't vote for it.

I remember "Disappointed" getting play on my college station that summer as one of the last classic Brit alternative hits before Nirvana rewrote everything.

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

3. What Do You Want from Me?
By: Monaco
From: Music For Pleasure
Single Released: 24 February 1997
395 Points, 10 Votes, 1 Number One

i was wondering where this one would place. very surprised it ended up at number three, WOW.

here is the US video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhZKh0sXT1s

not on US YOutube:

The music video for the song features group members Peter Hook and David Potts entering a fancy casino along with many other glamorous people, including two women who appear to be with the both of them, plus two gothic-looking characters (male and female), a midget, and a glamorous-looking woman. As Potts plays roulette with a group of people, Hook plays his bass and sings beneath the glass table. Just before the chorus, Hook appears outside and Potts assists in singing the chorus from underneath the glass. Later on, two back-up singers also appear underneath the glass. At another table, a dealer hands Hook some cards. He sneaks a peek at them as he sings. When he wins, the midget, along with many other people, appear at the table. The midget jumps up and down, cheering. The band then appear in a white room performing the song and also at what appears to be the front of the casino. The guests continue to enjoy themselves and the glamorous looking woman who entered with the midget throws something away in the trash. The midget appears in another part of the casino playing the featured piano solo while the gothic-looking man sits with the gothic-looking woman. He gestures to her as if to say he needs to be excused and goes off with the glamorous-looking woman as his former date looks on. Later on, a man grabs a woman's behind and she shoos him away while the back-up singers sing in to a microphone in another part of the casino. A woman kisses the midget on the head and another man has a drink poured on him by a woman as the band continues to play in the white room. At the end, the four women featured in the video leave the hotel smiling and Hook and Potts follow them out.

i'm trying

my spacing sucked today, usually i'm a lot more uniformed.

are we ready?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7sVSSb2mU4

2. Get The Message
By: Electronic
From: Electronic
Single Released: April 15, 1991
652 Points, 16 Votes, 2 Number Ones

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

1. Getting Away with It
By: Electronic
From: Electronic
Single Released: December 4, 1989
753 Ppints, 17 Votes, 5 Number Ones

hope you had fun?

"Get the Message" -- god

Two music videos were made for "Getting Away with It". The first, directed by Chris Marker and produced by Michael Shamberg for European use in 1989, featured Sumner, Marr and Tennant in a studio environment miming to the single edit of the song. Additional footage of Marker's muse Catherine Belkhodja, strolling among peacocks through Paris Zoo and also singing to the track, was left out. The second, shot in 1990, was made for the US release. Sumner and Tennant appeared, alternately, against a series of coloured background, with artistic effects superimposed. Two women's faces are also panned in close-up.

other one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svz0USluN50